The Good Old Days

Did you ever have a computer with a turbo button.

  • Heck yeah, i was flyin in turbo mode all the time.

    Votes: 28 53.8%

  • Computers had turbo buttons?

    Votes: 24 46.2%
  • Total voters
    52
yeah ive had one with a Turbo button,It never realy made any difference though when it was pressed in:D

well i didnt notice any difference anyway:)

that was way way back on my old Windows 98 rig :P
 
We had them when I was young in school... The teachers would tell us never to touch it, guess who couldn't resist?

They had like a learning OS for us, not Windows. I dunno what it was.... The security system would go off when someone pressed an F-key or anything other than the letters or numbers. The security alarm was the printer(line printer) printing off a sheet with x's all over it. I would do that at least twenty times a day, and every time, the computer lab assistant would say "Someone pressed a bad button".
 
INTELCRAZY said:
We had them when I was young in school... The teachers would tell us never to touch it, guess who couldn't resist?

They had like a learning OS for us, not Windows. I dunno what it was.... The security system would go off when someone pressed an F-key or anything other than the letters or numbers. The security alarm was the printer(line printer) printing off a sheet with x's all over it. I would do that at least twenty times a day, and every time, the computer lab assistant would say "Someone pressed a bad button".
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u were badddddddddddddd :eek:
 
INTELCRAZY said:
We had them when I was young in school... The teachers would tell us never to touch it, guess who couldn't resist?

They had like a learning OS for us, not Windows. I dunno what it was.... The security system would go off when someone pressed an F-key or anything other than the letters or numbers. The security alarm was the printer(line printer) printing off a sheet with x's all over it. I would do that at least twenty times a day, and every time, the computer lab assistant would say "Someone pressed a bad button".
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you know whats going to happen? Your old lab assistant is going to be searching these one day and finally find/prosecute you. Not so funny now is it?

Lol (on a totally unrelated subject, I used to always get the words "prosecute" and "persecute" mixed up lol)
 
Heck yeah, i loved those things.
I cant remember if my computer had one but i remember the grade school computers have them. LOL some of our High School computers probably still have tham.
 
I have a turbo button on my PS2 controller... Not the same :P

I never knew computers had Turbo Buttons until I saw this post...
 
Turbo Buttons where the best!

Should put a Blow of Valve on a Computer, Change Gears,

Bios -> Loading Screen -> BSOD -> Windowz And Back to BSOD

My old computer had a Turbo Button on Keyboard and Computer,

I remember always calling my mum, getting her to press the Keyboard one, while i pushed the Computer one,

I was convinced it made my computer Fly!
 
Jet said:
Back in the day, my family had a 486 with a turbo button on it. We used that computer lots! Any of you remember, or have played, the original Need For Speed? :D Now THAT was what I call gaming..
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aw man, i loved that game! i can remember driving with those arrow keys...
 
Never knew what the turbo button was used for until I read all of this.:rolleyes:

Back when I was younger I always thought it would make the processor run faster. That was back in the day when most computers had a display window built in to display the processor speed.

Heck the keyboard that I'm using to type this with has a 'turbo' button but when I press it, it dose nothing.:confused:
 
[-0MEGA-];775633 said:
The turbo button didn't speed up the mouse. It was used to slow down the computer so you can run older apps that wouldnt run no the current PC's. The processor is set at a certain speed, the turbo button didnt overclock it, but when it was depressed it was a certain percentage lower.
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Bingo, give that man a cigar.

Just off the top of my head my first real PC (we did have a VIC-20 and a Commodore 64 when I was a kid) was a Leading Edge with a 66MHz processor, 800MB HDD, cdrom, 14.4 modem, and 8MB of RAM. Win 3.11 I think was the OS. I remember paying hundreds of dollars to upgrade/double the RAM.:eek:

My parents were even still using it up to about 5 years ago.

Gotta love those stolls down memory lane.
 
vonfeldt7 said:
you know whats going to happen? Your old lab assistant is going to be searching these one day and finally find/prosecute you. Not so funny now is it?

Lol (on a totally unrelated subject, I used to always get the words "prosecute" and "persecute" mixed up lol)
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On those old shoddy things... Yeah right...
 
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