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I bought my first computer in 1984. Any guesses.
I believe the 'i' is for Internet, or al least it was originally. I have an iPod Touch but it needs to be jailbroken.
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09-14-2020, 11:40 PM
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I bought my first computer in 1984. Any guesses.
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The Apple iBig Brother. |
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09-15-2020, 03:05 AM
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No that was Windows. And before Tim Cook.
The 1984 Macintosh used a ring of managers (conceptually) while Windows 95 used an hierarchy with a central registry. Major point of failure. Big opportunity for Peter Norton and Norton Utilities. And by extension a career opportunity for me.
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09-15-2020, 11:47 AM
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Freebeard had a Lisa? Or a compac portable suitcase. ( maybe not, I forget who else was running the non intel apple processor)
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09-15-2020, 12:48 PM
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For some reason I thought that I had one 16 GB module, but Task Manager shows that I am using 2, presumably 8 each.
So, use half of my RAM, and if it crashes within a week, swap?
I ran Memory Test 86 last night. It took over 3 hours and showed zero errors. Technical support kept saying that it sounded like I had bad memory or graphics until everything passed the test.
Then he told me that everything is fine.
Everything is always fine until it crashes!
I still cannot run all of the Lenovo Diagnostics tests. It still tells me "Test aborted because a system event that could compromise the outcome has happened" when it tries to test the video cards. I asked in the official forums how to remedy that.
I will let you know if I receive a response.
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09-15-2020, 01:25 PM
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So, use half of my RAM, and if it crashes within a week, swap?
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Correct. How frequently have you been experiencing crashes?
The crashes should appear as event ID 6008 in Event Viewer. You can filter for only that event to get a sense of how frequently this occurs.
It's one trick I use to see if my customers are telling me the truth when they say their machine crashes twice a day. It also allows me to see if crashes can be predicted, or if they appear random. |
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09-15-2020, 02:01 PM
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Intermittent failures are the hardest to diagnose.
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09-15-2020, 02:23 PM
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I didn't share this?
This is since I reinstalled Windows last Friday. The problems were supposed to go away!
Technical support said that this was most likely to happen while playing video games or Zoom. I would love to play WoW until it crashes, but I have too much to do!
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09-15-2020, 02:34 PM
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Yep, I'm always saying I prefer something to be totally bad instead of mostly good. Fixing totally bad is easy; fixing mostly good is difficult. I spend 90% of my time fixing mostly good. |
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09-18-2020, 10:44 AM
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Apparently Lappy woke up during the night and crashed. I e-mailed technical support. I had asked in the Lenovo forums why I cannot test the video.
I will create a new thread now.
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