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Post by Adam D. on Sept 1, 2014 14:24:58 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of updating the website... I was using the old Microsoft Frontpage from 2001 previously.. I'm learning Dreamweaver and so far things look better.. I recently bought a brand new computer with an HD screen and saw how terrible it looked stretched out on my new system at 1920x1080 resolution... Once finished it should be viewable on most mobile devices also... Check out the home page, as It's the only page that's done... It took me the whole night to get that page done..
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Post by fancollector12 on Sept 1, 2014 15:23:57 GMT -5
It looks awesome and I love the new layout! Just curious, what computer did you buy?
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Sept 1, 2014 18:58:41 GMT -5
Cool! I like the new layout but I also liked the one before.
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Post by Adam D. on Sept 8, 2014 23:59:00 GMT -5
Hmm, I might as well show all the computers I've been through... I went from this old Dell Optiplex that I got way back in 1999 I got from my computer friend who use to sell and repair computers out of his house.. Needless to say, he's passed away.. It still runs and has Windows 98 on it.. When I first started the site, I was using this.. I'm sure this one looks familiar to everyone seeing how these were the ones that they started to use in school classrooms.. Than I went on to this Dell Dimension in 2005-06 with Windows XP.. Yes, I've been running XP up till a month ago.. Now I am on to this in the link below With Windows 7.. It comes with both Windows 7 pro and 8.5 pro DVD disks.. I have Windows 7 on it.. I don't care for the newer Windows.. I always had Dell up until now seeing how I got this HP on sale at Tigerdirect.. www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8909247&srkey=hpr-102336160
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Post by fancollector12 on Sept 9, 2014 13:08:45 GMT -5
I don't like Windows 8 so Windows 7 is the way to go. I have a MacBook Air from mid 2012 but the family computer is a Dell Inspiron running Windows 7 Pro.
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Post by Jordan U on Sept 15, 2014 6:46:37 GMT -5
I like those early Optiplex computers, I want to get one eventually. My physics classroom had them, funny thing is that was only last year that they were still in service. Must have been older models because they ran Windows 95. Dell computers last forever, HP on the other hand, from my experience (I work in a computer repair business) those are usually junk. Hopefully you'll have better luck with yours than what I've seen.
As far as Windows goes, I don't like the current version of Windows either. I am still running XP on all my machines, modified the registry to get security updates until 2019. Windows 7 is okay, but a lot of my computers being older don't run it well, some don't have good enough graphics cards to support it at all.
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Post by Adam D. on Sept 15, 2014 17:26:27 GMT -5
Oh wow.. Windows 95.. I haven't heard that in a long time... I don't think you can do anything with Windows 95 anymore, except print a document or play a card game.. I don't see the modern internet looking too well under a 20 year old operating system..
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Post by fancollector12 on Sept 15, 2014 20:31:47 GMT -5
My dad's first computer was the one I learned on... a Gateway 2000, no internet, running Windows 3.1.1 for Workgroups, and you had to type c:\win and press enter to start it up (old MS DOS style) and it had no internet access... my dad doesn't remember how much he paid for it but he said it was pretty expensive... It's sitting downstairs in my basement but it doesn't run anymore I took the power supply out of it. Our first family computer was a Compaq built by my uncle that ran Windows 98... that had broadband internet on it but it ran out of memory and crashed... I disassembled it. The first family computer we bought was a Gateway that ran Windows XP Home Edition... it was great until 2009 when we took it for repairs and the guy working on it suggested that we get a new computer, so we did... I disassembled this one. The next family computer we have and the last one we had was a refurbished HP running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005... when it crashed, my uncle reimaged it and installed Windows 7 Professional. That lasted until 2013 when it crashed after multiple attempts to reimage it... I have it downstairs in my basement and will be reimaging it as soon as I buy a copy of Windows 7 Professional with my own keycode... the original software is corrupt now Now we have a Dell Inspiron running Windows 7 Professional... it is a nice, fast machine... we got a free upgrade code for Windows 8 Professional but it's basically meant for touch screen computers and ours is not so we kept W7 Professional. I once had a Gateway netbook running Windows 7 Starter Edition which is basically a watered-down version of Windows 7 Home Edition... it broke in half in 2010. I used a 1st-generation 16GB iPad until I got a MacBook Air Mid-2012 model for Christmas 2012 and that's what I use now... I don't need a CD drive or anything as I use it to browse the Internet and use some installed apps. I also have an old Windows NT 4.0 Workstation IBM ThinkBook laying around somewhere but the LCD is broken, and plus it didn't have broadband internet access... I think I disassembled it. I also have an older Compaq that originally ran Windows 98SE but my uncle put Windows XP Professional on it... he said it, and he had it, connected to broadband internet when he had it but I could never get it hooked up... it just sits in the basement. My mom and sister both have HP laptops that run Windows 7 Professional... I also have a Samsung Galaxy Tab3 8.0 16GB and my sister has a 16GB iPad 4.
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Post by Jordan U on Sept 17, 2014 14:57:13 GMT -5
Oh wow.. Windows 95.. I haven't heard that in a long time... I don't think you can do anything with Windows 95 anymore, except print a document or play a card game.. I don't see the modern internet looking too well under a 20 year old operating system.. They weren't connected to the Internet, they were just to run some old programs during labs and such. I think Windows 95 would still connect to the Internet, it would be more of a problem finding websites that are compatible with such an old version of Internet Explorer or Netsacpe, I don't think FireFox has been around that long, but maybe it was I'm not entirely sure. The other problem would be speed, those machines are probably a few hundred MHz at best, you really need at least 1 - 1.5 GHz of speed to browse the Internet reasonably, on a single-core processor.
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Post by Jordan U on Sept 17, 2014 15:17:02 GMT -5
My dad's first computer was the one I learned on... a Gateway 2000, no internet, running Windows 3.1.1 for Workgroups, and you had to type c:\win and press enter to start it up (old MS DOS style) and it had no internet access... my dad doesn't remember how much he paid for it but he said it was pretty expensive... It's sitting downstairs in my basement but it doesn't run anymore I took the power supply out of it. Our first family computer was a Compaq built by my uncle that ran Windows 98... that had broadband internet on it but it ran out of memory and crashed... I disassembled it. The first family computer we bought was a Gateway that ran Windows XP Home Edition... it was great until 2009 when we took it for repairs and the guy working on it suggested that we get a new computer, so we did... I disassembled this one. The next family computer we have and the last one we had was a refurbished HP running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005... when it crashed, my uncle reimaged it and installed Windows 7 Professional. That lasted until 2013 when it crashed after multiple attempts to reimage it... I have it downstairs in my basement and will be reimaging it as soon as I buy a copy of Windows 7 Professional with my own keycode... the original software is corrupt now Now we have a Dell Inspiron running Windows 7 Professional... it is a nice, fast machine... we got a free upgrade code for Windows 8 Professional but it's basically meant for touch screen computers and ours is not so we kept W7 Professional. I once had a Gateway netbook running Windows 7 Starter Edition which is basically a watered-down version of Windows 7 Home Edition... it broke in half in 2010. I used a 1st-generation 16GB iPad until I got a MacBook Air Mid-2012 model for Christmas 2012 and that's what I use now... I don't need a CD drive or anything as I use it to browse the Internet and use some installed apps. I also have an old Windows NT 4.0 Workstation IBM ThinkBook laying around somewhere but the LCD is broken, and plus it didn't have broadband internet access... I think I disassembled it. I also have an older Compaq that originally ran Windows 98SE but my uncle put Windows XP Professional on it... he said it, and he had it, connected to broadband internet when he had it but I could never get it hooked up... it just sits in the basement. My mom and sister both have HP laptops that run Windows 7 Professional... I also have a Samsung Galaxy Tab3 8.0 16GB and my sister has a 16GB iPad 4. The first portable computer we had was a Dell Inspiron 5100, my father used it for work since 2003. My mother had a Toshiba laptop for as long as I can remember, it was bought after the Inspiron I think. She had that for a very long time, until it completely failed somewhere around 2009 and she got a MacBook to replace it. That MacBook is still going. My first computer was an early iMac (the one with the round bottom). I got that for free, it was unreliable as it was when I got it. It froze occasionally, crashed often etc., when it became time that I needed a computer for school, I got a new iMac in 2008. That lasted until about 2012, then the HD failed. Somewhere around then, my father got a new computer for work so he gave me the Inspiron, its 2.8 GHz with Windows XP Pro, not a bad machine. I used that as my primary computer for a while, then in 2013, the mainboard died (finally, after about 10 years of more or less continuous use). When that quit, I bought a MacBook Pro Retina, which is still going. Since I still wanted a computer with Windows XP, I bought my desktop computer, which I'm using now, an Optiplex 745, Windows XP Pro, 3.4 GHz Pentium Dual. I didn't like not having a portable machine, so I got a good deal on a new board for the Inspiron (about 70 dollars, for another 10 years of use I figured that was a decent deal), I installed the board myself and the Inspiron 5100 is still working to this day. Then I got my first teaching position, instructing a computer class about Windows XP and 7, so now I need a portable computer capable of running both. That was when I got my Dell Latitude D630. That computer is still going. The last computer I bought was a MacBook Pro to use during college. I have quite a few other computers that I've obtained recently, all for free. My uncle was cleaning out his closets and found a Dell Inspiron 8100 and a Gateway Solo 2500 portable, both of which he gave me. The Inspiron runs Windows XP and the Gateway runs Windows 2000. Both previously had older systems on them. I also have a New World Technologies computer, which as a 100 MHz Pentium processor in it, it runs DOS and never gets used because DOS is pretty much useless in this age. I want to put Windows 95 on there eventually, but I haven't had time. It doesn't have enough RAM for anything newer than Windows 98, only 8 MB. My grandfather gave me an old Dell Latitude CPx which I put Windows XP on, as well as an old Macintosh Performa 6400 with OS 9. This computer I actually used for a while in my basement to play music, but it got replaced by a scrap IMB desktop I got from work. I still have all of these computers, and intent to get them all working when I have time except for the IMB desktop, which has since failed and will be replaced by the 2008 iMac with the HD problem. The only ones that need work at the moment is the New World Technologies computer with DOS and the early iMac computer with the round bottom. All the other computers are in functioning order and get used regularly. As far as tablets and such, I have the first iPad that came out with the Retina display, and my mother has the first iPad. I have an iPhone 3GS w/ an exploded battery (that thing is now useless), an iPhone 4S, and an iPhone 5S (currently my active cellular telephone). I do not have any intentions on getting an iPhone 6 yet, the one I have now is only over a year old and the battery is still in good condition. Hopefully that all makes sense, I wrote it pretty fast. It looks like we need to start a computer history thread!
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Post by Adam D. on Sept 17, 2014 15:39:37 GMT -5
Oh wow.. Windows 95.. I haven't heard that in a long time... I don't think you can do anything with Windows 95 anymore, except print a document or play a card game.. I don't see the modern internet looking too well under a 20 year old operating system.. They weren't connected to the Internet, they were just to run some old programs during labs and such. I think Windows 95 would still connect to the Internet, it would be more of a problem finding websites that are compatible with such an old version of Internet Explorer or Netsacpe, I don't think FireFox has been around that long, but maybe it was I'm not entirely sure. The other problem would be speed, those machines are probably a few hundred MHz at best, you really need at least 1 - 1.5 GHz of speed to browse the Internet reasonably, on a single-core processor. You would get it to connect through ethernet, but as far as viewing websites, you would probably be able to view text and images from websites with a bunch of error scripts, but as far as anything else, most popular websites such as Youtube and Facebook require a current version of flash, So most likely you won't get anywhere other than a bunch of pages that load weird, unless you can get a browser that's modern to run in Windows 95, and a more current version of flash.. This guy probably did some tweaking to even get it to load Google home page as good
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Post by fancollector12 on Sept 17, 2014 17:09:16 GMT -5
The Compaq I have running XP has a 56k modem as well as a hookup for broadband, as my uncle had it connected to broadband when he had it.
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Post by Jordan U on Sept 18, 2014 11:25:30 GMT -5
They weren't connected to the Internet, they were just to run some old programs during labs and such. I think Windows 95 would still connect to the Internet, it would be more of a problem finding websites that are compatible with such an old version of Internet Explorer or Netsacpe, I don't think FireFox has been around that long, but maybe it was I'm not entirely sure. The other problem would be speed, those machines are probably a few hundred MHz at best, you really need at least 1 - 1.5 GHz of speed to browse the Internet reasonably, on a single-core processor. You would get it to connect through ethernet, but as far as viewing websites, you would probably be able to view text and images from websites with a bunch of error scripts, but as far as anything else, most popular websites such as Youtube and Facebook require a current version of flash, So most likely you won't get anywhere other than a bunch of pages that load weird, unless you can get a browser that's modern to run in Windows 95, and a more current version of flash.. This guy probably did some tweaking to even get it to load Google home page as good
On the second video, that's what Google looks like in Windows 2000 through Internet Explorer 6.
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Post by Jordan U on Sept 18, 2014 11:28:37 GMT -5
The Compaq I have running XP has a 56k modem as well as a hookup for broadband, as my uncle had it connected to broadband when he had it.
Wow, 56K modem! That's another one I haven't heard in a very long time. I can't even remember the last time we had dial-up.
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