Laptop start up problem
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cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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- Land of confusion
i would leave it , if it doesnt boot power reset.
If you do it so many times after the 4th(?) attempt you can boot into safe mode
If you do it so many times after the 4th(?) attempt you can boot into safe mode
Thanks CK.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
When I were a lad, I didn't have a second device to Google on while the first device was out of action!
In fact, when I were a lad, Google hadn't even been formed...
And the internet hadn't been invented...
In fact only governments, universities and big companies owned computers, which cost millions, and were so big that they filled vast rooms!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
When I were a lad, I didn't have a second device to Google on while the first device was out of action!
In fact, when I were a lad, Google hadn't even been formed...
And the internet hadn't been invented...
In fact only governments, universities and big companies owned computers, which cost millions, and were so big that they filled vast rooms!
Internet been around since the 1960’s. I guess you were born in the early 50’s.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
1956.
The first computer I saw 'in the flesh' was at Warwick University in the early 1970s. We had a computer club at school and a group of us went over there to be given a guided tour of the computer room. They lent us a card punch which we took back and used to punch out some simple Algol programs. The cards would be sent over there a week later for an operator to load for us. Another week later we'd get a printout which ALWAYS told us that there were syntax errors. It took us a couple of months to get a program to run to do something simple like add up the integers from 1 to a 1,000!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Algol takes me back. I was first using the Internet in the 70’s. Plus of course modern email uses the same protocols designed and first used in the 70’s.
raleighnut
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Then some fool at IBM sold an operating system to 3 hippy geeks in a garage and 'Microsoft' was created.When I were a lad, I didn't have a second device to Google on while the first device was out of action!
In fact, when I were a lad, Google hadn't even been formed...
And the internet hadn't been invented...
In fact only governments, universities and big companies owned computers, which cost millions, and were so big that they filled vast rooms!
BTW My Father started working on computers in 1963, originally soldering components in 'Valve' computers as he was an RAF radio fitter before I came along and the need to be at home with my Mum led to him being given a 'letter of introduction' to work at English Electric' in Whetstone (about 3 miles from home)
He went on to become a punch card operator before learning programming at night school then programming > programmer analyst > systems analyst > system designer and then beyond.
swee'pea99
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The first 'computer' I saw 'in the flesh' was when one of my classmates turned up with a watch where you told the time by pressing a button and little lights came on. Or at least you did until your classmates got hold of it and pressed all the buttons repeatedly until the little lights went completely bonkers. Boo hoo. 😢
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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- Land of confusion
zx 80 was the 1st computer i saw
oldwheels
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When I were a lad even the word computer hadn't been invented as an object.
