Know nothing of the pain of loading software off cassette at 300 bits per second (roughly 30 cps - you could read the software as it was loading...)
How's this for OLD?
Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P Superboard.
My father bought this in like 1978. It was his for a few minutes,
I still have it. It still works. It has the 610 board with a mind-blowing 24 KILOBYTES of additional memory to the stock 8. I now "import" software via a PC's sound card, as there is no disk drive.
Epic FAIL - not bothering to bench burn-in any change in system hardware.
I've been building PC's for well over 25 years, starting with my empty case IBM PC 5150 (no drives, cards - nothing but 64k soldered on the system board).
First test - TEST! Then, test it again.
I currently use PC-Check to run a diag for a minimum of 24 hours. This does nothing more than to check if you're going to release any "magic smoke" because of an assembly failure.
After that, I load the OS.
I had an old Novell-brand 386 server (yes - they rebranded hardware back in the 2.12 SFT days) that had a bad CPU, but, only intermittently. Worked great when cold, would lock up dead after 10 - 15 minutes, but not all of the time. We replaced the server, I took the old one home, popped in another 386-16MHz (yes - the days of unbridled power!) and it worked flawlessly 24x7 for 8 years until it got too old to bother with and chucked into the shitcan.
Test and test again. That helps ensure your 5 9's of availability!
I'm already being asked "When are we going to be testing Windows 8?" - my reply - "When it's time".
I get thrown into the fire daily (note my spiffy asbestos drawers), and am expected to answer PHB's moronic questions without even being able to research it.
*I* make it work wherever possible. Like I stated earlier - thankfully, everything we and our sibling co's do is C/S via browser. Our biggest enterprise app is Outlook. Everything else is run on a hodge-podge of some sh!t that is older than I am.
We still have one mainframe that I swear has vacuum tubes in it... We could have had Programming write middleware to convert that database to SQL or whatever - nah... Let's pay a sh!tload of money for support we rarely use and suck up nearly 1.21 gigawatts of electricity a month!
AC's are all idiots. Post your name, or wallow in your own crapulence...
That being said - the beta machine has been wiped and repurposed, as the beta is done. Are you really that f^cking stupid? Sorry - I forgot. AC. A$$hole Commenter.
The RC's are still operating until that dies in March-ish. I have three or four machines in approximately 4,000 that are still running it. Haven't had a chance to get back to them to re-image the machines, so, they stay until I get time.
Oh, and learn English. Your diction is horrible.
Your statements prove you've never worked in the real IT world. This happens all of the time. It's why our parent company pays the extra M$ tax for support. How do you test desktop/laptop OS's in a non-production environment needing to work with production systems?
You don't. You limit the number of test machines, address issues as the pop up, have monthly meetings with those people, form your rollout plan and rollout...
I've been running the Win7 open beta since it was available for public download - in a production environment.
No issues. I'm currently deploying Win7 throughout multiple organizations. There are very few issues, as most of my customers run client/server apps via browser.
Not one BSOD on any machine that wasn't bad RAM. Not even a bad driver!
I've always wondered if something similar to ADT for the Apple platform exists for the x86 platform... If anyone knows of one... Please post!
The main problem with clones is lack of BASIC in ROM. When you boot without a disk, you get the dreaded old BASIC NOT FOUND message - and that's all the machine will do. You'd have to have a disk drive common in the old world and new. Someone above mentioned a 720k drive - that's the ticket right there. An internal or USB drive on modern equipment, and a 720k drive on the Epson. You could then at least get an OS in place, and perhaps transfer some useful software.
I do have an Apple IIe Rev A (no HGR2 support) motherboard, keyboard, PS and 2 floppies up and running via ADTPro. Works like a charm. And Apple II disk images are all over the 'net. I have a lot of fun on my second computer platform... First was an OSI C1P... Now to find 300bps KC Std WAV files of software for that...
I thank you for helping define structured computer programming languages. Programs were the dreams of the wireheads half a century ago. Now, if you can type, we can only hope you never see the dreaded :
SYNTAX ERROR : GOSUB WITHOUT RETURN LINE 380
Guess what language I learned to program first?:-P
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Only the Lefttarded would complain about not being able to read something that CAN BE READ BY EVERYONE THAT DOES NOT LOG IN!
Stupid snowflakes...
My rifles await your eradication from Earth!
End the perversion of the America-hating Regressives...
ABORT ONE OR TEN MILLION - TODAY!!!!!
Are you retarded, or have you knobbed too many dirty donkeys off on Massa Soros' ranch?
Good Christ - you're stupid!
Living is the leading cause of death.
Film at eleven!
Know nothing of the pain of loading software off cassette at 300 bits per second (roughly 30 cps - you could read the software as it was loading...)
How's this for OLD?
Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P Superboard.
My father bought this in like 1978. It was his for a few minutes,
I still have it. It still works. It has the 610 board with a mind-blowing 24 KILOBYTES of additional memory to the stock 8. I now "import" software via a PC's sound card, as there is no disk drive.
I also have a C2P with dual disk drives...
No love for my JAVA OS run phone?
Epic FAIL - not bothering to bench burn-in any change in system hardware.
I've been building PC's for well over 25 years, starting with my empty case IBM PC 5150 (no drives, cards - nothing but 64k soldered on the system board).
First test - TEST! Then, test it again.
I currently use PC-Check to run a diag for a minimum of 24 hours. This does nothing more than to check if you're going to release any "magic smoke" because of an assembly failure.
After that, I load the OS.
I had an old Novell-brand 386 server (yes - they rebranded hardware back in the 2.12 SFT days) that had a bad CPU, but, only intermittently. Worked great when cold, would lock up dead after 10 - 15 minutes, but not all of the time. We replaced the server, I took the old one home, popped in another 386-16MHz (yes - the days of unbridled power!) and it worked flawlessly 24x7 for 8 years until it got too old to bother with and chucked into the shitcan.
Test and test again. That helps ensure your 5 9's of availability!
Incorrect.
As an initial shareholder of Conner, I can assure you - they started at 10MB and went up, and up, and up...
If the drive is truly IDE - anything should be able to make a disk image. Hell - there might be a entry in the BIOS for that drive!
Why sue when you know you're gonna LOSE?
You're too late... Look up ^^^
Who in the hell still manually configures IP addressed for workstations?
Your DHCP server should be assigning static IP leases, leaving out all workstation-side configuration.....
Um...
You can't run Word (industry standard), or Excel (industry standard) or PowerPoint (industry standard) or Outlook (industry standard).
If you're SOX compliant - bye bye Linux...
Not where I work...
I'm already being asked "When are we going to be testing Windows 8?" - my reply - "When it's time".
I get thrown into the fire daily (note my spiffy asbestos drawers), and am expected to answer PHB's moronic questions without even being able to research it.
*I* make it work wherever possible. Like I stated earlier - thankfully, everything we and our sibling co's do is C/S via browser. Our biggest enterprise app is Outlook. Everything else is run on a hodge-podge of some sh!t that is older than I am.
We still have one mainframe that I swear has vacuum tubes in it... We could have had Programming write middleware to convert that database to SQL or whatever - nah... Let's pay a sh!tload of money for support we rarely use and suck up nearly 1.21 gigawatts of electricity a month!
Hey - it keeps my lunch warm!
AC's are all idiots. Post your name, or wallow in your own crapulence...
That being said - the beta machine has been wiped and repurposed, as the beta is done. Are you really that f^cking stupid? Sorry - I forgot. AC. A$$hole Commenter.
The RC's are still operating until that dies in March-ish. I have three or four machines in approximately 4,000 that are still running it. Haven't had a chance to get back to them to re-image the machines, so, they stay until I get time.
Oh, and learn English. Your diction is horrible.
Your statements prove you've never worked in the real IT world. This happens all of the time. It's why our parent company pays the extra M$ tax for support. How do you test desktop/laptop OS's in a non-production environment needing to work with production systems?
You don't. You limit the number of test machines, address issues as the pop up, have monthly meetings with those people, form your rollout plan and rollout...
First rule of UAC : DISABLE IT
I have no UAC on my 3 machines that run Win7 Enterprise and simply put - no issues. If you *KNOW* what you're doing - it's not an issue!
Granted - my 20+ years in the PC/LAN service industry has something to do with it. For end-users - leave it, as they're 99 44/100% idiots.
I've been running the Win7 open beta since it was available for public download - in a production environment.
;-)
No issues. I'm currently deploying Win7 throughout multiple organizations. There are very few issues, as most of my customers run client/server apps via browser.
Not one BSOD on any machine that wasn't bad RAM. Not even a bad driver!
It's clearly Microsoft's best OS to date.
It's no Bob, but, what is?
I've always wondered if something similar to ADT for the Apple platform exists for the x86 platform... If anyone knows of one... Please post!
The main problem with clones is lack of BASIC in ROM. When you boot without a disk, you get the dreaded old BASIC NOT FOUND message - and that's all the machine will do. You'd have to have a disk drive common in the old world and new. Someone above mentioned a 720k drive - that's the ticket right there. An internal or USB drive on modern equipment, and a 720k drive on the Epson. You could then at least get an OS in place, and perhaps transfer some useful software.
I do have an Apple IIe Rev A (no HGR2 support) motherboard, keyboard, PS and 2 floppies up and running via ADTPro. Works like a charm. And Apple II disk images are all over the 'net. I have a lot of fun on my second computer platform... First was an OSI C1P... Now to find 300bps KC Std WAV files of software for that...
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Gotta watch testing a new battery like that with the old-fashioned method...
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And IE doesn't have that flaw anymore.
My Address bar showed Google, and the page displayed was Google.
Done and done!
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Sir,
I thank you for helping define structured computer programming languages. Programs were the dreams of the wireheads half a century ago. Now, if you can type, we can only hope you never see the dreaded :
SYNTAX ERROR : GOSUB WITHOUT RETURN
LINE 380
Guess what language I learned to program first?
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Exterminate... Light.... Exterminate... Light...
Now if they only come with the toilet plungers for one hand, and a blaster for the other.... They can keep my house clean!!!
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A true piece of history, being the first microcomputer with Microsoft BASIC in ROM.
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Just another gift for perpetuating our species...
/.ers won't have to feel so bad about forgetting Mother's Day now!
I guess
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ow ow ow damn keyboard ow ow ow ow ow...
They can't make money if they agree that she has no liability...
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