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dsieber  Insufferable Know It All Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Total posts: 7036 Location: Lakewood Co. Gender: Male
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| jnarowe wrote: | | "Old" in PC terms is over 1 year, not ancient like your 1999 XT. |
1982 is fucking xt... 1999 was a pentium...
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dsieberInsufferable Know It All Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Total posts: 7036 Location: Lakewood Co. Gender: Male
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 06:19:48 PM Post subject: |
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| jnarowe wrote: | | 6 nasty posts in a row? Damn dude, have a drink! |
DUH Where have you been??? Barry just calls them as he see's them. He just might just been having a Fit or Orgasm while posting!!!!! Since you have seen six in a row it must be a Fit.  Barry you need to contact your medical professional that is covered by your"Cadillac" or Rush Limbaugh based health insurance plan.
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jnaroweInsufferable Know It All Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Total posts: 16685 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 06:28:00 PM Post subject: |
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| dsieber wrote: | | jnarowe wrote: | | "Old" in PC terms is over 1 year, not ancient like your 1999 XT. |
1982 is fucking xt... 1999 was a pentium... |
I couldn't be sure you did the upgrade. 
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| Will The True Disturbed Reefer Age: 29 Gender: Male
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 06:38:35 PM Post subject: |
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| dsieber wrote: | | jnarowe wrote: | | "Old" in PC terms is over 1 year, not ancient like your 1999 XT. |
1982 is fucking xt... 1999 was a pentium... |
1999 was the Pentium 2 era and the beginning of the Pentium 3's.
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dsieberInsufferable Know It All Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Total posts: 7036 Location: Lakewood Co. Gender: Male
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 06:56:29 PM Post subject: |
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| Will wrote: | | dsieber wrote: | | jnarowe wrote: | | "Old" in PC terms is over 1 year, not ancient like your 1999 XT. |
1982 is fucking xt... 1999 was a pentium... |
1999 was the Pentium 2 era and the beginning of the Pentium 3's. |
Will thanks for confirmation of PC history. It is still a POS for these days. The only thing I use it for is my Magic Jack telephone coverage and to print out my Income tax forms  (I just need to make sure to go down in the basement to ensure there was not a XP update that caused the computer to restart). It would be great if you could point us to the what is required to use an xbox for a media center.
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mrcrabInsufferable Know It All Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Total posts: 10638 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 07:35:14 PM Post subject: |
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| jnarowe wrote: | | 6 nasty posts in a row? Damn dude, have a drink! |
Thought that's what YOU were doing... 
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| Will The True Disturbed Reefer Age: 29 Gender: Male
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:44:00 PM Post subject: |
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| dsieber wrote: | | Will thanks for confirmation of PC history. It is still a POS for these days. The only thing I use it for is my Magic Jack telephone coverage and to print out my Income tax forms (I just need to make sure to go down in the basement to ensure there was not a XP update that caused the computer to restart). |
Yeah, XT's are fucking OLD. Those are 8088 CPUs which are a cheap version of the 8086 (the first fully 16bit Intel CPU) that came out in 1978. The 80286 that remains the heritage of the x86 architecture and all common [b]home[b] 64bit systems even was the AT that came after. They've just kept adding crap to them since then to make the jumps to 32bit, 64bit, instruction extensions, etc.
"The IBM Personal Computer XT, often shortened to the IBM XT, PC XT, or simply XT, was IBM's successor to the original IBM PC. It was released as IBM product number 5160 on March 8, 1983, and came standard with a hard drive. It was based on essentially the same architecture as the original PC, with only incremental improvements; a new 16-bit bus architecture would follow in the AT. The XT was mainly intended as an enhanced machine for business use, and a corresponding 3270 PC featuring 3270 terminal emulation was released later in October 1983. XT stands for X-tended Technology.
The standard XT originally came with 128KB of memory, a 360KB double-sided 5.25" full-height floppy disk drive, a 10MB Seagate ST-412 hard drive with Xebec 1210 MFM controller, an Asynchronous Adapter (serial card with 8250 UART) and a 130W PSU. The motherboard had eight 8-bit ISA expansion slots, and an Intel 8088 microprocessor running at 4.77 MHz (with a socket for an 8087 math coprocessor); the operating system usually sold with it was PC-DOS 2.0 and above."
| dsieber wrote: | | It would be great if you could point us to the what is required to use an xbox for a media center. |
http://www.productwiki.com/microsoft-xbox/article/how-to-go-from-xbox-to-xbox-media-center-in-30-minutes.html
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Installing_XBMC_for_Xbox
I have never done it. It was already done to the roommate's before I ever started using the thing.
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jnaroweInsufferable Know It All Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Total posts: 16685 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 06:53:12 AM Post subject: |
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| Shit, I was using a PC Jr until the early '90s.
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jnaroweInsufferable Know It All Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Total posts: 16685 Gender: Unknown
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Great links Will!
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dsieberInsufferable Know It All Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Total posts: 7036 Location: Lakewood Co. Gender: Male
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 09:36:06 AM Post subject: |
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| jnarowe wrote: | | Shit, I was using a PC Jr until the early '90s. |
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jnaroweInsufferable Know It All Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Total posts: 16685 Gender: Unknown
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My Dad was an IBM manager at the time. IIRC he checked into whether the IBM museum would want it. I figure I was the last person on Earth using one. All I did was use it for spreadsheets and light word processing...and it NEVER crashed! 
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dsieberInsufferable Know It All Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Total posts: 7036 Location: Lakewood Co. Gender: Male
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:00:17 AM Post subject: |
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| jnarowe wrote: | | My Dad was an IBM manager at the time. IIRC he checked into whether the IBM museum would want it. I figure I was the last person on Earth using one. All I did was use it for spreadsheets and light word processing...and it NEVER crashed! |
Yeah DOS was fairly stable. I used an AT for about 5 years.
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jnaroweInsufferable Know It All Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Total posts: 16685 Gender: Unknown
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:11:26 AM Post subject: |
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| PC Jr. didn't even have a hard drive.
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