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34erd said:
I think I'm the youngest member on this site. Hey building a computer at 12 must count for something plus once I'm 18 I
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I was twelve when I joined (I think) And I still love this site. :) (even though I have been banned enough times that I lost count)
 
About 2½ years ago when I started a computing course. I've been glued to the screen since. I've learnt an awful lot and what to learn more, thats why came here, to gain and share my (limited) computer knowledge :P
 
Hmm

Since 1997 I guess...ever since I got my beastly COMPAQ Presario 5610 :) I have been hooked on PCs ever since and cannot get rid of it....although my girl is a good distraction most of the time these days.

JAN :D
 
About 2 years ago I became very interested. About 3 months ago I started learning everything I could from this site. I've said it before, I didn't even know what a video card was before seeing this place.
 
Since 2003, and I was looking in a magazine and found that you could buy seperate components in stores (a TigerDirect ad). I wanted to build one that summer. Needless to say, I was not very wise in picking components and got frustruated with my computer. I sold it and built the one I have now. I love working on computers now.
 
Since about 1 1/2 years ago, when my old crappy Dell couldnt play my games anymore (you gotta respect a game that forces you to upgrade ;)) so I wanted to get a newer, better one so I started researching about good PC components, and the rest is history I guess.
 
I first started to get into building PC's etc... when I was 14, about last year on November. So about 1 year and a month. Although, all the other years I was also interested in PC's, but more on the software side.
 
34erd said:
By the way what do those nuclear buttons do lol
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It was a big, florescent orange, reset button, right on the keyboard. Recessed, so you couldn't hit it inadvertantly... best place to have a reset button, though, IMO.
 
Dngrsone said:
It was a big, florescent orange, reset button, right on the keyboard. Recessed, so you couldn't hit it inadvertantly... best place to have a reset button, though, IMO.
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On my keyboard before the one I have now, it had a standby button sticking the hell out, my cat would always press it when I wasn't around to keep him away from it.
 
Dngrsone said:
It was a big, florescent orange, reset button, right on the keyboard. Recessed, so you couldn't hit it inadvertantly... best place to have a reset button, though, IMO.
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That would be a sweet little keyboard mod :P
 
I was just thinking about that... doing it right, though, would mean an entirely new cable and connector for the keyboard and a new connector for the motherboard...

Well, keyboards are cheap, I got an old board I could experiment with... hehehe... maybe I'll incorporate that into my Legacy Monster :eek:

I'm off to eBay on the off-chance I can find a TRS-80 :cool:
 
Since the Apple IIe days and Dos. A pirater of Commodore64 software, shoplifter of Atari 2600 games and been ripping crap open since I was a kid. Wish I still had all them original LED electronics... :(
 
Camper said:
If you get a keyboard with a reset button you can change the button and put a cover over it.
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Hm... yes, but is it a hard reset or soft reset button? The ones I know about just send a ctrl+alt+del command to the motherboard, whereas the TRS-80 Models II, III, and IV had a hard reset, just like the button on the front of your case...
 
Dngrsone said:
Hm... yes, but is it a hard reset or soft reset button? The ones I know about just send a ctrl+alt+del command to the motherboard, whereas the TRS-80 Models II, III, and IV had a hard reset, just like the button on the front of your case...
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True, I did not think of that and I tank most keyboards only have shutdown, stand by and wake up buttons anyway.
 
I'd say about 3-5 years. I can never remember. I basically spent all my time tweaking and building 486's so I could play newer games and watch videos without lag. The computers were so buggy though that I remember reinstalling Windows 95 almost every other day. I had TONS of 486 mobos and CPU's for some reason.
 
since the mid 80's. my first "computer" was an atari. but our first real computer that you could actually work with was an Commodore C-64 with tape drive! :)
 
zkiller said:
since the mid 80's. my first "computer" was an atari. but our first real computer that you could actually work with was an Commodore C-64 with tape drive! :)
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classic man:)
 
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