History of the PC – a personal view.
My first Personal computer was a broken 8088. It weighed about the same as a bag of cement, and had about the same processing power! 16kb of memory and an 8MHz processor! wow! It had obviously been upgraded before I laid hands on it because it contained a hard drive (which wasn't standard for the original IBM PC), but of course when I got it, the hard drive wasn’t working – which made it about as useful as it was graceful. Well a quick (quick?) removal of the cover revealed that the drive cable had come off the controller card (yes – drive controller card, no such thing as IDE back then!) I plonked the cable back in the right place, replaced the lovely beige cover (steel plate I think), and switched on.
The lights dimmed briefly all over town as this monster booted, wow, Dos 2! Now I could word process or play a text-based dos game, hmmm. |
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What with the amount of known Computer Virus varieties hitting the one million mark last month, it is little surprise that an increasing number of the computer 'repairs' that come in to Pthallo Media are actually virus infections of varying degrees of severity. In extreme cases the only certain cure is a format and clean start, which of course means that any files that aren't backed up are history! further complicated by the fact that some viruses cause the dreaded BSOD (blue screen of death), even in safe mode, it is sometimes impossible to back up data before a format, and all this is assuming that you don't have one of the rare but lethal bios corrupting viruses. |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2004 12:00 |
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To ensure this code release, Wilco Jansen resorted to sending rum to joint lead-developer Johan Janssens. Johan, who's had a penchant for rum ever since the first "Pirate's of the Caribbean" movie screened, took the bait, mixed it with Cola, and here we are with our latest 1.5 release. It looks like pirate talk will figure quite a lot in future Joomla! development! |
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