Re: Alone in the Dark - problem
Posted on 2022-05-08, 03:27
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 20:18
I suppose that depends on if the home computer was upgraded (or could be upgraded) to do useful work.
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 19:18
If you are considering them all PCs, then they can all be compared. If I needed a PC (and not specifically a portable), I would not buy the PX-8 in 1984. For a PC, it's very limited.
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 18:49
Sure it can be. But the bar is a lot higher if you are comparing capability against desktop PCs, especially in the 80s and 90s.
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 18:18
PCjr was a MS-DOS era 16-bit computer, whereas PX-8 was a CP/M era 8-bit computer. They represent different generations. PX-8 by the way had also a 3.5" external Floppy Disk Drive option. They are literally from the same year. If it was 1984 and I wanted a PC, why would I buy a PX-8? It was …
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 17:43
If you add the external disk drive, I'll begrudgingly call it a PC. But even the PCjr was more capable. They both came out in 1984. PCjr was a MS-DOS era 16-bit computer, whereas PX-8 was a CP/M era 8-bit computer. They represent different generations. PX-8 by the way had also a 3.5" external …
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 16:39
If you add the external disk drive, I'll begrudgingly call it a PC. But even the PCjr was more capable. They both came out in 1984.
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 16:20
Yes, PCjr without a floppy drive = toy. I draw the line at the floppy drive. Epson PX-8 - a CP/M based Laptop designed to be used by default with a microcassette tape drive was barely a toy. As I've mentioned before, cassette tape drives were very pretty common among CP/M era 8-bit Personal …
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 15:35
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 15:15
I draw the line at whether or not it has a floppy drive. And yes that means IBM 5150 with only cassette = toy, C64 with 1541 = PC. I can agree with you but only partly. There were some CP/M based Personal Computers that were using a cassette tape recorder by default and that was OK due to …
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 13:35
I draw the line at whether or not it has a floppy drive. And yes that means IBM 5150 with only cassette = toy, C64 with 1541 = PC.
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-02-23, 16:52
You originally claimed motherboard components were built to lower standards, that was my disagreement. Intel makes high quality server motherboards that will still never be as reliable as their CPUs, for reasons I previously explained.
Re: Help me restore my childhood... computer
Posted on 2022-02-23, 15:37
It looks like dust to me. Corrosion is usually green. But I would clean it anyway.
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-02-23, 01:19
In a typical desktop computer, there are going to be at least 10x more transistors in the RAM than in the CPU. It doesn't matter if they are on one chip or multiple chips. If one of them fails, the RAM fails. RAM is generally less reliable because there are more opportunities for failure. Certainly …
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-02-23, 00:20
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-02-22, 12:01
chris2021 wrote on 2022-02-22, 11:02: The cpu is less prone to fail yet has a comparable level of integration. The latest Ryzen is 10 billion transistors. 16GB of RAM is 137 billion.
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-02-22, 10:47
chris2021 wrote on 2022-02-22, 07:37: Yes ram could exceed the tranny count. And ram is multiple times more likely to fail then the cpu. That's my point. The RAM isn't necessarily lower quality than the CPU.
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-02-22, 04:21
It depends on the configuration but RAM is usually the most. 1 GB of RAM is more than 2x the transistors in a Core i7.
Re: Help me restore my childhood... computer
Posted on 2022-02-22, 04:00
Can you boot from a floppy? Some CF cards don't like running master/slave with another device. If your sound card has an IDE channel, use that for your CD drive.
Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?
Posted on 2022-02-22, 02:58
A motherboard simply has more potential points of failure than a CPU. I don't think it's necessarily lower standards or quality. Besides bad capacitors and leaking batteries they usually last a long time. I have XT motherboards with all original components that still work fine. And for your 1 …
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