The Video Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Yeah, thank god for SSD's and improved boot times.
He went with '98 for the 20 year anniversary
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The 5 1/4 floppy drive was already super outdated by then though. I remember when I started gaming on PC around the end of the 486 era, pretty much nothing came on these anymore already and that was still MS DOS 6(or 5 whichever it was) and Window 3.0/3.1 times. Like it'd be good if you wanted to play pre 90s games back then but otherwise everything was on 3 1/2 disks, or were starting to be on CD-ROMs(thank god for this shit btw, fucking 20 or 32floppy disks games were so fucking annoying).
And yeah those damn load times. Having to reinstall 95/98 meant it was a whole day of fuckery with the constant reboots. I used to never turn my computers off because I didn't want to deal with these, but nowadays I just turn it off since it takes like 10secs to power up.
And yeah those damn load times. Having to reinstall 95/98 meant it was a whole day of fuckery with the constant reboots. I used to never turn my computers off because I didn't want to deal with these, but nowadays I just turn it off since it takes like 10secs to power up.
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My first job was in 1996 as IT administration/help desk/doitallguy. Had to set up new computers from scratch all the time for new projects. It was a two hour process, but I could do them in tandem and it would take around 4-5 hours to set up a room, with constantly running from computer to computer to click Next.
Then I found out about Norton Ghost, which could clone an image of a system to another system. It took about 5 minutes for that process to happen with the image on a CD. But I had to boot off of a 3.5” floppy disk. So that process added about another 5 minutes. Then I heard about bootable CDs, but we didn’t have the software to do it. In my research I figured out how to build my own CD image, modify it with a hex editor to be bootable, then burned it to CD.
From then on I’d have a whole room done in half an hour or less.
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We still use ghost to this day at my place of employ, although VDI rollout is going to replace a large chunk of that.
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Who didn't norton ghost their own systems in the 90's?
Man my ny high school was so old school, 95% of the computer labs were this IBM 5150
I was on the geek squad and kept them up to date, there is like a death room full of like hundreds of these, and i'd just take a broken one and fiddle with it to make it work. I had no idea what i was doing, but neither did any of the teachers, somehow i made one work, and that was that.
Then they got a entire super computer room, 30 486 dx100s
Pretty soon that became our geek squads own personal doom ipx early lan area.
Man my ny high school was so old school, 95% of the computer labs were this IBM 5150
I was on the geek squad and kept them up to date, there is like a death room full of like hundreds of these, and i'd just take a broken one and fiddle with it to make it work. I had no idea what i was doing, but neither did any of the teachers, somehow i made one work, and that was that.
Then they got a entire super computer room, 30 486 dx100s
Pretty soon that became our geek squads own personal doom ipx early lan area.
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Wake Up Man
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Who didn't norton ghost their own systems in the 90's?
Man my ny high school was so old school, 95% of the computer labs were this IBM 5150
I was on the geek squad and kept them up to date, there is like a death room full of like hundreds of these, and i'd just take a broken one and fiddle with it to make it work. I had no idea what i was doing, but neither did any of the teachers, somehow i made one work, and that was that.
Then they got a entire super computer room, 30 486 dx100s
Pretty soon that became our geek squads own personal doom ipx early lan area.
My last two years in high school, I took a block class called Computer Repair or someshit. The teacher was useless, we were left to figure shit out on our own, and yeah, we had a ton of old crap 8086/8088/286/386 systems (meanwhile the market is working with Pentium 200mhz systems). We'd get that shit donated by the truckload. Then we'd start taking that shit to the dumpster.
Probably one of the most unique memories I have, is trying to open an old Macintosh. We didn't have the retarded long ass special end screw driver. Nothing else was working. But hey, plastic can still melt. Soldering irons get pretty hot. It worked....
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