This is how you represent numbers as a series of light switches. The number of "bits" is how many digits you see on the counter. For example, old keyboards used to have a ribbon with 8 wires representing an 8-bit number, or (alternatively) a specific combination of the 8 different "switches", can actually represent one of 256 different and unique "keys" pressed on the keyboard. These unique "keys" would represent 0, 1, ... !, @, #, ... a, b, c ... A, B, C ... INS, RETURN, ... etc.
I'm going through all my spare pc parts looking to build a win98 pc. I pull out this old asus cusi-m one with a 1gz pentium 3 in it. Looks like it was made in 2000. This board is pretty basic. Clearly designed for a workstation, has minimal slots, no agp and integrated graphics. Give it a clean and change the cmod battery and its working great. Go to the bios and find that it's full of an insane amount of features that most modern systems do not have. Or even the last 15 years. While I spend most of my time with bios as I hate eufi, this motherboard just blew my mind that it had the same level of features of what I would pro boards of the time or today.
Not sure of what I think about Asus stuff today though.
4 different screens, flashing lights and bells when the receipt prints out. I won some milk today. I gambled about 3.50 a gallon. Or bought it, I'm not quite sure.
As you know I bought a laptop (Lenovo $800) recently to use in my new Home Office aka the cellar and it's proved to be fine but I get tired of needing to recharge the battery seemingly all the time. At the end of the day I'm an old-fashioned Desktop and Box man but I think my next PC purchase will be an all-in-one. Did you find that interesting you miserable sod!
Suppose I want to build a computer with as few back doors as possible, but also as "fast" as possible.
At what point did computers stop being only your own property? I want to build one from right before then.
So given no IME and no UEFI; what models can you recommend? No I'm not going to be using it for gaming because I'm a real man. 486? 586? That's about when I stopped paying attention to computer hardware.
Seems to me the issue is with the Monitor? I can find out by swapping it but you're the goddamn expert! You tell me!
Edit: turned the PC off and when I turned it on got a message about Windows not loading properly and advanced repair or restarting. Fiddled about in Settings with Windows updates and ... the PC (desktop) is going ok for the moment.
Fat finger Augustine here deleted a folder that I would like to get back. Most file recovery downloads seem really shady and sus. Anyone have a good no-install portable option suggestion? Thanks
