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The incredible evolution of computer 🖥️

The vid calls a 3090, a 5+ year old GPU, a current graphics card, but the video was posted 13 days ago. Makes me wonder if they took that long to create the video or if they had it on the back burner. What a fantastic morning coffee video. I need to watch the other episodes.
 
Flybye said:
The vid calls a 3090, a 5+ year old GPU, a current graphics card, but the video was posted 13 days ago. Makes me wonder if they took that long to create the video or if they had it on the back burner. What a fantastic morning coffee video. I need to watch the other episodes.
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They have gone into lengths in others video about holon low it takes them to make their videos, but the channel is quite informative and does good content.
 
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People today are so spoiled with technology and computers.

I am sure many people remember the days of installing a OS off 5 or more 5.25' floppies and people before that remember punch programming and people before that remember when a computer was a entire building.

I myself remember how cool I thought I was that I knew proper jumper configurations for IDE hard drivers and having to manually configure BIOS settings.
 
StevenJamesBorchard said:
People today are so spoiled with technology and computers.

I am sure many people remember the days of installing a OS off 5 or more 5.25' floppies and people before that remember punch programming and people before that remember when a computer was a entire building.

I myself remember how cool I thought I was that I knew proper jumper configurations for IDE hard drivers and having to manually configure BIOS settings.
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Or find the proper I/O - DMA - IRQ -Midi port settings for your soundcard.
Or struggeling to free enough conventional memory.
Or having multiple boot options depeding if you game needed EMS or EMX memory.
 
xDiVolatilX said:

View: https://youtu.be/aa6YISbAJEA?si=WI1YmpUykOce1T2q
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He says phones weren't/aren't used to calculate trajectory (of rockets) yet shows it calculating trajectory (of Angry Birds)

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equinox654 said:
Back in the win9x days I would wipe and reinstall quite often. I remember after reinstalling windows sometimes I would have to shuffle around what pci slots my cards were in to resolve IRQ conflicts.
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Oh shiiz! I remember I had that once, one time. :D
 
StevenJamesBorchard said:
Oh shiiz! I remember I had that once, one time. :D
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Remember after the post screen it showed you your system specs and under that was an IRQ list?
Plug and Play could glitch and shuffle them around. I knew if I saw certain devices change... I was gonna have a bad time.
 
equinox654 said:
Back in the win9x days I would wipe and reinstall quite often. I remember after reinstalling windows sometimes I would have to shuffle around what pci slots my cards were in to resolve IRQ conflicts.
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I had memorized my windows keys, office keys, adobe keys, any things that required a key, i had memorized them all I was reinstalling so often because of usually overclocking :D
 
MrGuvernment said:
I had memorized my windows keys, office keys, adobe keys, any things that required a key, i had memorized them all I was reinstalling so often because of usually overclocking :D
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I tried to get the Quake 3 RTX mod working in Linux last night. My 17 year old was watching me. When Quake 3 opened and prompted for the cd key... I typed in my Key from 1999 from memory. He told his friends and they said I was based.
 
People complain about computers becoming "too easy," but it's videos like this that show how great an achievement that is.

We've gone from obtuse command lines and careful memory management (who remembers creating custom boot disks just to run certain apps and games?) to virtually anyone sitting down and starting to create or communicate in a few minutes. Computers are ultimately tools to accomplish things, and it's wonderful that we can focus more on getting things done than getting our devices running.

For that matter, think about the smartphone in your pocket: it's exponentially more powerful than most of the personal computers ever released (so much so that Apple is using a phone chip to power a laptop). The interface is so intuitive that even preschoolers can figure out some of the basics. For most people it has replaced cameras, media players, GPS navigators, and numerous other things; some people can handle virually all their digital work without touching a conventional PC.

I don't know where we'll be a few decades from now (powerful smart glasses? Relying on robots?), but the ride we've been on for the past 50 years has been wild.
 
equinox654 said:
I tried to get the Quake 3 RTX mod working in Linux last night. My 17 year old was watching me. When Quake 3 opened and prompted for the cd key... I typed in my Key from 1999 from memory. He told his friends and they said I was based.
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nice! Now you will be in the ranks of "your dad is base! wish my dad was.." group
 
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