I used to have a computer that was completely (I mean completely) reliable. You never lost anything - largely because the computer itself did not have a memory. There were very few hard discs and 10 GB was a great big magical figure. There was very little software and virtually no internet. You kept the programme you were running on a small 3 and a half inch floppy inserted into one drive and the disc you were writing on in the other drive. There were no scanners, cameras, etc, etc, etc. Nothing ever went wrong. It never crashed and I am sorry, now, that I ever got rid of it. That is life. I suppose I will have to put up with the beast in my room that thinks it is a computer. I am having a few teeth pulled. I am having the CD-RW and the DVD drive both removed and replaced by a 'simple' CD-ROM. I hope that that my reduce a bit on the things that can go wrong.
heh I don't believe that ANYTHING that involves humans working with it is COMPLETELY reliable!! I remember my dad telling me about his friends at NASA that had all their computer punch cards lined up right to run their program when it was their turn on the computer, and they tripped and DROPPED the whole box and had to rearrange them ALL OVER again!! aaah!!! Did you ever work with the punch cards? I used to color on the old punch cards my dad had around, I thought they were cool..... I guess they weren't for home computers though....
Punch cards were how they ran programs through the really OLD computers that were about the size of rooms... I think it was binary, so if a hole was punched it was either positive or negative, and an unpunched space was the opposite. They would feed the cards into the machine, and it would read them in the order fed into them, and that would tell the computer what to do.... I think it was mainly doing calculations. I don't think there were ANY word proccessing applications!!
Yes Fae you're basically right. My first computer didn't even have 3 inch discs. They were truelly "floppy" and in the size of 5 1/4 inches. I still have such drive and games to it. The very first PC's had 2 such floppys. One with the peratingsystem and one with the program. No HDD at all. My first 286 had 20 mb HDD and a 12 mhz processor. wich was a real WOW at the time. It had CGA graphics as well. A lil bit later EGA graphics and 16 colours came. Well what else is there to say? Other than : DOS were the days.
aaah hahahahahaaaaaHEEHEEHEEHAHAAAAAHAHAHAAAaaaaa.... gasp! oh I love the PUN Nina!!! heeheehee.... *tears of laughter*
I got my first computer as a gift from my father-in-law back in 1993. We had DOS games and a few other windows games. I am now on my third computer! It is a lot of trouble to keep things up and running! Mostly things like getting the settings that you want with the internet servers.
I heard a story about a big firm that was putting in a quotation to get a particular job. They had attorneys (solicitors); etc., etc., with them. They were, naturally working on a computer. Someone asked for coffee so a solicitor (it must have been U.K.) said that he would get some. As he got up he tripped over the mains lead and, naturally, the computer crashed. There was no back up and no saved copies. My computer now does that for me without my asking. Really - my first Apricot computer really was reliable. It never ever went wrong. Why on earth did I ever get rid of it?
