Technology Now and in the past

shoutcast77 SG

Well I don't have any of the original computers from the 70 and 80's,
but I am an avid user and collector of PC components from about 1990 to maybe 2000 or so. I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the new technology, not envious,. Look there are more viruses , more problems , and maufacturers rushing to push their products witht he competitors leave subpar quality to us. The olden day computers of the pentium 2 nad 3 genre wer emroe ruggard and don't spoil easily.

Here's my config

Pentium 733
512 MB SDRAM
Geforce 2 GTS
10GB HDD
Win2000
Creative SB Live

All running fine for the past 6 years! . The most funny thing is that, my comp is faster in doing applications than most P4 out there!

but rather sickened by the rate at which people upgrade. yes, it is good to keep up, but I have no plans to buy any new motherboard for at least a year maybe more. I do have some relatively older stuff, but I see no need for any PCI-E based motherboard, no Athlon 64, P 4, no newer sound cards, they are a waste of money. yes a p4 is faster than a first generation pentium but when the p4 is running XP and the p1 is running win95 i notice that the P4 from 5 to 10 or more seconds to open a file, what i think what is more important is what i call the "snap" factor
I also think that users these days don't appreciate former hardware, or computing from 8 years back.

How would we have got this far without it ? what is the matter with a 486, a Pentium, a P II ? they still run just fine, and can run certain software perfectly adequately than newer XP equipped comps

. You don't need a Athlon 64 just to surf the web and check e mail. Most of what people do with computers can be done with a 300 MHz machine and enough ram. I want to finish my rant by adding that the real age of development in computing has past, the real experimental times have been left behind. Now it's all hyped hardware and little appreciation for what computers are all about.

Comments welcomed.

sgboy2004 SG

would u buy a old P3 comp now? Mi rest mi case

Kawazoe SG

MUNERU VALIBA! Rolling Eyes

An0nym0us SG

What you said is quite true. By using old tech and os, there are bound to be unpatched vulnerabilities since m$ phased it out but i highly doubt hackers/virus writers would be bothered about old technology anymore so in a sense you are relatively safe lol. smart move. Cool

tomsss SG

I'm doing fine with my AMD Duron 750 as well... 512 SDRAM, 1 40GB and 1 20BG harddisks, GeForce4 card, SB Live and running Windows XP. Bought it off from an auction 4 years ago. I would say any cheap P3 system going for just around $300 is more than enough to keep up with technology like the internet.

alexkusu SG

Rolling Eyes

pipipopo SG

your computer cannot even install my copy of the elder scrolls IV:Oblivion Laughing

ndmmxiaomayi SG

The best OS from MS is Windows 3.x, when there is no such thing as GUI. Super secure, the only viruses that will hit it is probably boot sector viruses, when you forget to take out your diskette or thumb drive and it infects the system.

Windows 95 is just as secure, because almost nobody is using it already.

By the way, your 10GB might be gone soon. My specs not as good as yours, but good enough to run XP. Albeit slowly. Laughing

LazerLordz SG

I'm still running an
AMD Duron 900
512mb RAM
80GB HDD
Geforce 64mb MX440.

It was top of the line 4 years ago. Still works for me. Anyway, I've moved over to Mac.

ditzy SG

With the technology now, we can detect clones faster than ever before! Laughing

ndmmxiaomayi SG

All running fine for the past 6 years! . The most funny thing is that, my comp is faster in doing applications than most P4 out there!

but rather sickened by the rate at which people upgrade. yes, it is good to keep up, but I have no plans to buy any new motherboard for at least a year maybe more. I do have some relatively older stuff, but I see no need for any PCI-E based motherboard, no Athlon 64, P 4, no newer sound cards, they are a waste of money. yes a p4 is faster than a first generation pentium but when the p4 is running XP and the p1 is running win95 i notice that the P4 from 5 to 10 or more seconds to open a file, what i think what is more important is what i call the "snap" factor
I also think that users these days don't appreciate former hardware, or computing from 8 years back.

How would we have got this far without it ? what is the matter with a 486, a Pentium, a P II ? they still run just fine, and can run certain software perfectly adequately than newer XP equipped comps

. You don't need a Athlon 64 just to surf the web and check e mail. Most of what people do with computers can be done with a 300 MHz machine and enough ram. I want to finish my rant by adding that the real age of development in computing has past, the real experimental times have been left behind. Now it's all hyped hardware and little appreciation for what computers are all about

I can guarantee you that without Internet access, everything would be fast. I have an XP test machine using the bare minimum specs, no modem, 8GB of HDD, 128MB of SDRAM, P3, sound card and a graphics card. Everything is fast without that modem and ethernet card. Another machine has the same specs, but with Internet capability. It's running slow like tortoise.

pipipopo SG

sorry surf net check email to me is a norm and i will not giv credit to a computer even if it can do it..now even cellphone can handle emails and surf net so i wouldn't even be needing your old comp if i wanna do that....to me and to many other forumers here we use computer to play games online and offline, work in office and at home and we share information with our colleagues both locally and globally via LAN and the internet, artists even moved from the traditional ink and pen to modern software and hardware interfaces...defence/ business/ leisure and everything all uses processor hungry computers

i simply cannot stand facing an old and slow and beige colored comoputer let alone working with one!

SexyChin SG

My Powerbook still serving me well.

tranquilX SG

You're right... in some ways... for users who use their PC only to surf web, read email, run basic office application, a pentium 3 system would suffice..

however, most users do more than those stuffs... running multi-application at the same time, play games, downloading stuffs like videos, animes etc, running cpu-intensive task like encoding or editing video...

you certainly can't run today's games using a geforce2 card, or download videos into a 10GB HDD which obviously isn't enough...

so, in the end, it depends on what you use your computer for...

Ito_^ SG

i surf internet, listen music, watch drama, program using netbeans, edit graphics using fireworks, download bittorrent, speak on msn, running tomcat and mysql in the background, testing queries on mysql using query browser and admin tool at once.

how huh?

and ya i listen music and watch drama at same time. in a small window top right corner of screen.

pipipopo SG

its a good thing this topic is in chit chat...if its in IT tech support i sure flame the bolly burger lik hell.

u r not fit to comment on computer sand its evolution if reading emails and surfing the web is all u do with it...computers will be laughing at you saying 'hey noob why aren't you stressing out my processor? are you going to save money on hardware? or did you adjust your computer clock so that it is 50 years away from the year 200 to avoid the millenium bug!?'

oh yes btw is your computer 'millenium bug proof?'

shoutcast77 SG

yes somebody mentioned the old OS versions.They were secure and safe.

Now wif the newer technology, there are more viruses.
Also ,I feel it is too friendly now that users become dumb to troubleshoot even a simplle problem. Back 1990, the OS were not that much advanced and if it has a problem it was difficult to solve but it promted the user to sit down and troubleshoot. In the process learn more things about computers.

At present, any problem, people will just reinstall, backup on CD and then use bootable OS CD to reinstall. Too simple, aint it.... to the point that u don't know what is problem solving.

happyBABY SG

upgrade normally for graphical intense programs and games. surf web, email and typing abit of stuff, don't need a monster machine for that.

say it isn't so.

shoutcast77 SG

Tell u something else , AT TIMES WinXP RUN BETTER on old systems than a P4. why?

It is because, The OS has been optimised to run on the minimal system requirements and if yr old comp meets that, it will run just as it was intended to be.

But wait, again i think it has more to do wif the hardware, Older computers have a less complicated hardware for the OS to handle like example, AGP 4x ,SDRAM. This also plays a factor because the hardware addreressing by the OS on newer comps may possible take up more CPU cycles than older hardware.

THis what i called the SNAP FACTOR.

pipipopo SG

u only.....u mean wen u got prob u just format? everything...u idiot! there are ppl who dun do idiot stuff lik u do so pls dun just label everyone as the 'ppl' category u think is.

i do not know wen was the last time i format my computer and its running smooth like never before so i can say this statement you wrote is not true and just like the bollyburger flick its another illusion and imaginery thought in your mind which should be sent to IMH for formatting. u free u go troubleshoot your old comp lor.

there are ppl who go to space and since there's no gravity in space pens cannot be used properly...one group invested heavily both in money, efforts and R&D to product a pen that can be used in space while the other simply uses a pencil to get the same job done.

if your computer is old and slow and you find that u have to always check and adjust the clock to aviod the millennium bug blame not the old computer because i bet u hav not worked on a fast computer that can multitask all at the same time. anyway if u dun have jobs or hobbies that require such processing power den just STFU.

pls stick to your bolly topics...we like you the way u were Mr. Green