....is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

On 4/3/14, 12:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames
next week?


Wouldn't *that* be a giggle. Why, you could upgrade to VISTA!

Is that when MS support for XP support dies? Next week?

Actually, I'm surprised you are not running some flavor of LINUX.

On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:21:04 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames
next week?

I'm going to be in Holland. If my machine blows up, so be it. I just hope the dogs are in another
room.

Microsoft Security Essentials got the word. It's telling me my support is ending. Gives me links.
Now Microsoft is suggesting:

"You can also purchase a new PC. If your current PC can't run Windows 8.1, it might be time to
consider shopping for a new one. Be sure to explore our great selection of new PCs."

I 'spect I'll jump right on that!

On 4/3/14, 1:05 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:26:11 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/3/14, 12:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames
next week?


Wouldn't *that* be a giggle. Why, you could upgrade to VISTA!

Is that when MS support for XP support dies? Next week?

Actually, I'm surprised you are not running some flavor of LINUX.

I have thought about Linux but I am not sure I have another OS in my
soul.
I am coming up on 50 years of this and a dozen or more OS's on as many
different hardware platforms. That is only counting PCs as 4. (DOS,
W/3x, W/9x, XP).

If I ever actually see the need, I will take that on tho, before I
would go for an Apple but they are exactly the opposite direction from
each other in regard to Windoze. One is totally open source, the other
is as proprietary as it gets.



I kind of liked MS-DOS. I think I started with 1.1.

My recollection is that I bought my first PC in about 1983 at a local
dealership that was independent. I was also looking at an Apple at that
time, or shortly thereafter, and I think it was called simply
"Macintosh." It was small, had a built-in screen and a keyboard without
a number pad.

On 4/3/2014 12:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames
next week?



I just spent the morning in an office where I am doing some consulting
work. I needed to get on their network server to bring up some
documents and drawings. They gave me use of an old Dell computer
running XP Professional. Most of the remainder of the company,
especially the engineering group are using Win7 computers. They use
them for running "Solid Works" , a fairly extensive, 3D Cad program.

I gave up after about an hour with the old Dell. I don't know what the
problem was but everything I did was painfully slow. It could be the
network, the server or whatever .... or it could be the computer. I
showed one of the mechanical engineers how it was running and he agreed
that they didn't have that type of "slowness" on the the newer, Win7
systems.

Not pointing a finger at XP necessarily because it could be any one or
more of a number of things. Next time I go up there I am going to
bring my own Win7 laptop and see how it works on their network.

On 4/3/14, 4:13 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:13:31 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/3/14, 1:05 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:26:11 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/3/14, 12:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames
next week?


Wouldn't *that* be a giggle. Why, you could upgrade to VISTA!

Is that when MS support for XP support dies? Next week?

Actually, I'm surprised you are not running some flavor of LINUX.

I have thought about Linux but I am not sure I have another OS in my
soul.
I am coming up on 50 years of this and a dozen or more OS's on as many
different hardware platforms. That is only counting PCs as 4. (DOS,
W/3x, W/9x, XP).

If I ever actually see the need, I will take that on tho, before I
would go for an Apple but they are exactly the opposite direction from
each other in regard to Windoze. One is totally open source, the other
is as proprietary as it gets.



I kind of liked MS-DOS. I think I started with 1.1.

My recollection is that I bought my first PC in about 1983 at a local
dealership that was independent. I was also looking at an Apple at that
time, or shortly thereafter, and I think it was called simply
"Macintosh." It was small, had a built-in screen and a keyboard without
a number pad.

I had a 1st day ship PC/1 (two 128k floppies 16k memory)
That shipped with PC DOS 1.0 but when I got a hard drive for it I went
to 2.10 and a board upgrade to the 256k system board and a 6 pack card
I stayed with that until 3.3
I had a home made networked AT machine running 3.11 at work.



The IBM PC I got was only available at point of purchase with one floppy
drive. I got rid of it a year later when I was contracted as a writer
for a tabloid called PC Week magazine, because another company, Eagle
Computer, sent me an 8086 based machine with a hard drive and an AST
multifunction board, and told me I could keep it. I did.

Beginning with the 286 machines, I started getting components and
assemblying my own. Dell sent me an evaluation PC, might have been a
386, and appointment me a moderator on CIS of one of its groups.

On 4/3/2014 4:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:11:23 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/3/2014 12:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames
next week?



I just spent the morning in an office where I am doing some consulting
work. I needed to get on their network server to bring up some
documents and drawings. They gave me use of an old Dell computer
running XP Professional. Most of the remainder of the company,
especially the engineering group are using Win7 computers. They use
them for running "Solid Works" , a fairly extensive, 3D Cad program.

I gave up after about an hour with the old Dell. I don't know what the
problem was but everything I did was painfully slow. It could be the
network, the server or whatever .... or it could be the computer. I
showed one of the mechanical engineers how it was running and he agreed
that they didn't have that type of "slowness" on the the newer, Win7
systems.

Not pointing a finger at XP necessarily because it could be any one or
more of a number of things. Next time I go up there I am going to
bring my own Win7 laptop and see how it works on their network.


Sounds more like it was just bogged down with software and not enough
memory. The old 3 finger salute and hit the performance tab will give
you a hint. If it is paging it's ass off, you are short of RAM.
A lot of time you can just go kill some of the processes you are not
using to get your speed back up. A lot of people load a bunch of crap
they seldom use and leave it resident. Sometimes it just loads itself.
Things like Quicktime and Real Player load whether you want them or
not. I go into msconfig and blow away a lot of autorun stuff every so
often.
If you know where to look you can do it with regedtit too.


Whatever it is, it was a pain in the ass. I am used to much faster
performance on the Win7 and Vista laptops I use. They aren't
particularly over endowed with RAM or CPU processing speed and have far
more programs installed in them than the Dell XP machine I was using
this morning yet run *much* faster.

I am paid to do some technical marketing for their product line, not
spend hours dissecting and fixing a bloated computer, assuming that's
the problem.

On Thursday, April 3, 2014 9:21:04 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:



...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on

legitimate replacements:



http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2



Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames

next week?

I think mine did early last month...

wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:23:30 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:


The IBM PC I got was only available at point of purchase with one floppy
drive. I got rid of it a year later when I was contracted as a writer
for a tabloid called PC Week magazine, because another company, Eagle
Computer, sent me an 8086 based machine with a hard drive and an AST
multifunction board, and told me I could keep it. I did.

Beginning with the 286 machines, I started getting components and
assemblying my own. Dell sent me an evaluation PC, might have been a
386, and appointment me a moderator on CIS of one of its groups.
I had a parts room right next to my desk ;-)

I could get everything but the case because that had a serial number
on it. That is why I made so many "woodies".

I did get some pretty cool stuff when we got a good intra company
computer BB going. Guys would send me things that were not even
released to the public yet, swapping for things I had.
"Trade Forum" was really cool. The only rule was it had to be used for
company business. I could find a guy in Austin who was lousy with
system boards but he couldn't get hard drives ... and things like
that.
The best hard drives were usually not "PC" parts anyway, they were in
AS/400s or RISC machines. Usually that was going to be SCSI, not IDE
or F2DBA. Everything I had for years had a SCSI card in it. I used
SCSI drives like diskettes because you can hot plug them.
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