-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2020 15.15, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 01/01/2020 09:00, James Knott wrote:
On 2020-01-01 08:32 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 01/01/2020 08:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Those people do not know what a flashy computer is. Indeed. They confuse a flashING computer with a flashY computer.
Sort of like back in the dark ages when you'd see computers on TV or in movies, with the tape drives spinning back 'n forth. I used to be a computer tech, working on the old mini computers and the only time I'd see a tape drive doing that was when I was running diagnostics. In fact, there was one occasion when a TV network was in our office to get some shots of a computer system. We had to run the diagnostics to give them what they wanted.
I consider that tech "bling" to be the mark of a clueless idiot.
What about the bank of toggle switches with nixie lights above them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NuCHQyaOaw
I don't think there is a toggle switch anywhere on my computer, not even one at the back by the power cord. Except for the DVD drive all the lights are behind black plastic and only light up at boot time doing POST.
There are jumpers inside, in the motherboard. In the "dark ages" a technician had to load the boot code with a bank of swithces, instruction by instruction. Write a word, flip a switch to load, then the next word. Finally, another button to "run". Then the machine knew how to load things from something else (cards, tape, whatever). Apparently, they had no "bios" or no bios boot code. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXgy0twAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1ea4AJ4vZe2wIXBuyvT6ehXfPfScm5RNZwCeNk1BmoFfLD04cIj3D7xh1iY2yb4= =RNI7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org