Comparing today's computer's to 1. NOTE: We’ve updated this article for the year 2. We were tasked with finding newspaper articles that demonstrated technology in various work spaces. Discovering a gem like this – especially after a decade and a half has gone by – is eye opening and mind boggling. Reading through it, I drifted back to my teenage years and recalled my earliest experiences with a PC: the excitement and surprise when reading through Compton’s Encyclopedia; playing DOOM and Wolfenstein with a newly installed sound card; and browsing a primitive Web 1. Internet on Netscape Navigator. These experiences would form the foundation for my future career in the online, interactive space. Home computing has come a very long way, and so I thought I’d share a few of the articles from that 1. A while back we detailed how to make your own Amazon Echo device using a Raspberry Pi, but if anything went wrong with it, you’d have to manually reboot the whole. NOTE: We’ve updated this article for the year 2015. It’s got original pics of ads and reviews from 1995 gaming magazines plus tons of new info, including what VR. To add a new location to the index, click on the Modify button. Any network drive or external hard drive will show up in the list of possible locations. The first article article, written by Paul De Groot and published in 1. Montreal Gazette, goes on to say. Dell was selling a top- of- the- line 4. MHz processor, eight megabytes of RAM and a 3. The single biggest difference is in the hard drive prices. Three hundred dollars got you 8. IBM cost more than $3,0. Single speed CD- ROMs sold for $6. Today, if you could buy this hardware, it would cost between 1. Here’s the autumn 1. Memory (RAM): We seem to have convinced most manufacturers to adopt eight megabytes as standard, compared with four megabytes in 1. Don’t buy less than eight. The difference in performance between an eight megabyte machine and a four- megabyte machine can be dramatic. Hard Drives: One- gigabyte hard drives are common this year, compared with the 4. The price difference between the two is only about $2. Monitors: In 1. 99. If you really need more monitor, go for a 1. Video: We’re into 2. The 2. 4- bit feature affects color depth – that is, the ability of the computer to display more than 2. A 2. 4- bit card can display up to 1. You needn’t go to 2. Sound cards: In 1. But there’s not much software which requires this: the sound of a plasma blaster in DOOM is not a musical instrument. Unless you’re serious about music, you might want to pass on wavetable sound for now. Modems: The 1. 4. I’d tend toward 2. CD- ROMs: In 1. 99. Boost your PC storage with WD Blue drives, the brand designed just for desktop and all-in-one PCs. The WD Blue family delivers data storage capacities up to 6 TB. The latest PC gaming hardware news, plus expert, trustworthy and unbiased buying guides. Well, the future is here. I’d like to say you don’t need to spend extra here, but I think software makers are already assuming people have quad- speed drives. Go for a quad if you can.”Here is a table to visualize how far we’ve come in 1. The Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) format, announced in January 2006 and defined in version 2.0 of the SD specification, supports cards with capacities up to 32.Why eOS Luna Over Windows 7? Windows always demanded constant tweaks, because it never behaved the way I expected or wanted it to. I spent hours browsing for apps and. Part. 19. 95 PC2. PCMemory. 8mb at $4. MB4 gigabytes is common. The report found a “new wave” of demographically distinct consumers is joining the ranks of computer users. CD- ROM drives, capable of offering users moving graphics, sound, and access to encyclopedias or games, are proliferating. More than half of new home computer purchases include CD- ROMS. Commercial on- line services such as Compuserve and America Online, connecting users to such diverse sources as world weather reports or car- buying guides, are rapidly being embraced. From the beginning of 1. June of 1. 99. 5, the number of Americans using online services jumped from 5 million to 1. Other interesting findings: Among all Americans, 1. Of the 1. 4 million regular on- line users, 5. Also, while women often lag behind men in technology use, not so with email. The poll found that 3. PC. Of those, 1. 5% have been bought in the past year (between 1. PC, which 2. 3% of people over 5. The percentage of men owning a computer is 4. The poll found 3. African American households doing so.”To compare with today’s numbers. Almost half of all adults own an i. Pod or other mp. 3 player —7. Game consoles are popular with all adults ages 1. Overall, 5% of adults own an e- book reader, and 4% own an i. Pad or other tablet computer. Note the decline of larger desktop machines in favor of portable devices like laptops, tablets, and smart phones. And here’s a graph that demonstrates the adoption of Internet usage for American adults spanning the years 1. The Nostalgic Geek. I remember my first computer well. There was no sound, no video card, and no CD- ROM. Later, we upgraded to 8. MB of RAM for $4. CD- ROM “multimedia package” for about $6. Now, I use a desktop, laptop and Blackberry (for work), i. Pod Touch, i. Pad 2, Play. Station 3, Nintendo Wii, and a couple of old server PCs. Plus, I use several cloud based applications for online storage. They’re all interconnected and used on a regular basis. My, how times have changed. And yes, I am a geek. Do you remember your first computer? How many computer gadgets do you use on a regular basis? References: 1 http: //pewinternet. Trend- Data/Internet- Adoption. Trend- Data/Device- Ownership. NOTE: We’ve updated this article for the year 2. How to clone IDE to a SATA for boot drive. Another FAST WORKING SOLUTION IDE Boot to SATA Boot for Windows XP users. I built a new machine, that worked perfectly with my original IDE drives- - then tried to install a new SATA 5. GB drive. Failure on many accounts- - even though I cloned the drive, it wouldn't boot and I got the dreaded . Whatever, just get a copy of this somehow. You will no longer be using Norton Ghost, nor will you want to any more. Acronis works, and works better. Machine wouldn't recognize the SATA drive for booting up, even after cloning the old drive to the new SATA with Acronis- originally. There are a few extra steps that I need to do- - and now you don't have to guess what they are for yourself, just keep reading...******DITCH GHOST 2. Ghost and it's driving you batty, ditch it. A) Ghost 2. 00. 3 is virtually useless with SATA drives INCLUDING having a SATA CD- RW plugged in- it crashes the system, and then you can't reboot because Ghost makes a Virtual Partition on your original IDE drive, and the VP partition which becomes the new . Newer versions of Ghost may work, but I've blown off Ghost entirely and found something that works the first time, easier, and that's that.****FIX YOUR ORIGINAL IDE DRIVE'S ABILITY TO BOOT UPFirst, once Ghost fails and you can't even re- boot into your original IDE drive, you have to fix that first. Here's what I did- - although some of you may not have a spare or friend's machine to do this- - I have a laptop that I used for this purpose.. B) If you can no longer boot up your original IDE drive (almost a certanty), take out the IDE drive, stick it in a portable USB drive case, plug into another computer, and then look at the drive in Administrative Tools from Control Panel, i. Tools/Disk Management (you know) and examine the drive. In Admin. Tools, right after your C Drive boot partition you will see two new blocks- a small VP (virtual Partition) and another mysterious larger partition the same size as your C Drive. CAREFULLY NOW- select the small VP partition (make sure it's highlighted) and DELETE IT. This will delete both this VP and the mystery partition, but leave your original C Drive Boot Partition Intact. THEN (and don't forget this) MARK THE ORIGINAL C DRIVE ACTIVE. This tells your machine . I left the SATA AHCI Modi disabled. This will allow you to boot from a CD disc as well as recognize your new SATA drive. B) When you set up your Bios/CMOS properly, you can look in Standard DMOS settings, and you should be able to see all of your drives, both IDE and SATA drives connected. You shouldn't need to install and additional 3rd party SATA drivers to do this, by now (2. SATA drives without extra work.*****MAKE YOUR NEW SATA DRIVE BOOTABLE INTO WINDOWS3) Okay, now that you've made all SATA drives accessible and fixed your original IDE boot up drive, now you must make your new SATA drive bootable into Windows. I don't know about you, but I still use Windows XP. I've seen Vista, and I don't want it or need it. XP works better and everything works with XP. Vista is a deformed baby, and avoid at all costs. If you have it and don't know any better, . Even two different brands of drives won't work without other procedures. This will take about 4. Take the dogs for a walk, take a nap, whatever. After you've got a basic working install of Windows on your new drive (and remember, you can't get this unless correct SATA options are chosen in the Bios/CMOS) then shut off the machine, and plug your original IDE drive back in. B) IMPORTANT> > > > Select BOOT UP MENU when you turn your machine back on, so you boot up into your original IDE boot drive partition not your new SATA drive Windows installation.********CLONING THE DRIVE FROM OLD IDE TO NEW SATAAcquire Acronis 1. True Image Home. Beg Borrow or Steal. It's only $5. 0 and if you've never paid for software you know how to get it, and you can download a trial version, or just fork out the $5. A) Using Acronis 1. CLONE tool, and Clone your old IDE Drive to your new SATA drive. By this, I mean duplicate the entire hard drive, and each partition. Acronis will allow you to custom size your new drives partitions, as it is likely a bigger drive, or at least different, from your original drive. During a CLONE DRIVE procedure, like Ghost 2. Acronis 1. 1 True Image will shut down the machine, and operate outside of Windows, and then reboot after the procedure is done. As I set up the procedure, apparently I set it up to erase the original drive (oops), and there is certainly a way to prevent this. Just pay attention as you are setting up your clone. For me it didn't matter, because the new cloned SATA drive worked perfectly the very first time. Another option is to simply Backup and Restore just the boot partition, but I chose CLONE instead because since I was replacing the whole IDE drive, I needed to copy all of the other partitions as well. Acronis did this as part of the disc clone, and as I mentioned before, various options allow you to automatically resize for the new drive, or manually choose partition sizes as you clone. Once the procedure is done, it automatically reboots into the new drive, adopting the original drive letters from your original IDE drive... COOL!!!! There you have it. I spent at least a day wrestling with this, and once I figured out all of the needed operations, it worked, and worked perfectly the first time. You don't have to suffer like I did, and you can upgrade to bigger, faster, less expensive SATA drives and keep your old IDE drives off shelf, unplugged, for backup security for when lightning strikes and burns up your entire machine. If you haven't yet learned to keep all your system files and Windows file on a completely separate partition from your data files LEARN THIS NOW, it is a MUST!!!!> > > > > http: //www. Papers/Norton. Ghost. Please enjoy my other helpful web pages: Later. Neil Slade. Neilhttp: //www. Brain. Radar. comhttp: //www. Easy. Paint. Your. Car. comhttp: //www. Ink. Jet. Helper. My. Own. Publishing. Papers/Painting. html.
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