In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
The PC must be from around 1992 as he was still working then.
What operating system is it using?
Windows 3.1?
Unless it was an extremly expensive machine from 1992, it can't even run Windows 95, which means that it couldn't run Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10.
I'm trying to figure out what exactly you were even able to do with this thing besides typing in notepad.
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Bought new monitor today and will deal with it when I am not in so much pain.
Oh good. I really want to get to the bottom of this now. My curiosity is piqued.
Sorry about the pain. I hope you feel better after some rest.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Good. It is. Ah yes, sanitizing your posts. I've been cursing under my breath off and on today because of the pain I am in. And if I am cursing then you know I am in some real pain. I have a fairly high tolerance for it.
I live alone. I'm always cursing out loud about one thing or another.
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No worries. You probably don't have a real good idea what some stores look like in Canada or what store chains are Canadian even. And some stores are different depending what part of Canada you are in. Because of the lockdown in Western Canada, we just had a 105 year old business I think it was go under. It was called "Army & Navy".
Oh, I'm sure there's some things I take for granted as "normal" around here that would make you laugh. I just never would have thought that a drug store would have computer guys until you told me they do by you.
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None taken. I know my brain doesn't always work the way I want it to anymore. I sort of accept that and after whenever I started on this again, I think I am now finally starting to understand it all.
No worries. I found myself derailing my own train of thought when talking to my grandma on the phone today and asking her "how did I get on that topic? I had a point..." Then I realized I was asking my 87 year old grandmother that question and chances are if I talked to her about the same thing tomorrow she'd think it was the first time I told her about it.
But hey... you got the monitor. At least we should be able to see if your computer will boot up still and figure out what we need to do next when you're feeling better.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Paperwork and PC file maintenance day for me here.
Finally said my final goodbyes to 3 more hard drives and got the magnets out of them. That *should* be the last of them for the time being. Looking at the huge stack of super strong hard drive magnets I've accumulated and realized that I've cannibalized a ton of those things over the last few years now. I don't even want to know how much money was spent on them.
I was able to get rid of a ton of papwerwork I didn't need too, which leaves me with about half of a smallish plastic tote with all the papwerwork left in the world that has my name on it. Feels good to finally get that done.
Had me a big old burning party and got rid of everything else that had my name on it.
Should only be one more day of file maintenance and transcribing whatever is important from a few notepads to the PC and I'll be all done with that. Another job that was a few years in the making almost done.
Got a lead on a gutter guy. Going to fix the fascia on the front of the house next week and get in contact with him and the gutter company. If I help him out I hopefully can get a good price for his labor.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:If your motherboard doesn't have a port for the internet on it and requires a separate card, it's EXTREMELY old. I don't think that's the case.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
I get that Jack. But keep saying that there is something missing which is where I plug the internet cable into the back of the case.
Does the back of your computer have a port that looks like the one highlighted in the following image?
If it does, you plug your router directly into that and you'll have internet.
I looked at the back of the computer last night but I couldn't tell anything. Brain and eyes didn't want to work together. Looked again when I got home today and there is no port like the one outlined in the picture. That I can see now is what is missing.
Is there a big gaping hole there or something then?
If a card was removed, there will be a big hole. It doesn't even make sense that somebody would remove that card since there would be absolutely no reason anybody would ever do that.
If you never had a port that looked like that in the first place, you didn't get on the internet with that computer. It's far too old for wi-fi.
You've only got 2 USB ports. I suppose you could have been getting on it wirelessly, but I'm starting to doubt it if you say the computer is possibly from 1992.
(EDIT: Just Googled it. USB wasn't even invented until 1994, so the computer is at least that "new".)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Okay, where you would plug in an internet cable is covered over and I said that there is a hole in it where an "internet or video card" should be.
He was using a modem with this thing but I doubt he ever used and it does have USB ports on the back of it. He had another large external drive that he used for his work files.
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Quote:What operating system is it using?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
The PC must be from around 1992 as he was still working then.
Windows 3.1?
Unless it was an extremly expensive machine from 1992, it can't even run Windows 95, which means that it couldn't run Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10.
I'm trying to figure out what exactly you were even able to do with this thing besides typing in notepad.
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It probably started out Windows but then Blair found Linux and he had it running on that. Linux isn't used much in BC, so I had my IT guy flip the system back to one of the Windows but I don't remember now what he told me. I had him do it over 3years ago now.Quote:
Bought new monitor today and will deal with it when I am not in so much pain.
Oh good. I really want to get to the bottom of this now. My curiosity is piqued.
Sorry about the pain. I hope you feel better after some rest.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I am using a hot water bottle tonight on my hip when I go to bed and hopefully that will help.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Good. It is. Ah yes, sanitizing your posts. I've been cursing under my breath off and on today because of the pain I am in. And if I am cursing then you know I am in some real pain. I have a fairly high tolerance for it.
I live alone. I'm always cursing out loud about one thing or another.Quote:
No worries. You probably don't have a real good idea what some stores look like in Canada or what store chains are Canadian even. And some stores are different depending what part of Canada you are in. Because of the lockdown in Western Canada, we just had a 105 year old business I think it was go under. It was called "Army & Navy".
Oh, I'm sure there's some things I take for granted as "normal" around here that would make you laugh. I just never would have thought that a drug store would have computer guys until you told me they do by you.Quote:
None taken. I know my brain doesn't always work the way I want it to anymore. I sort of accept that and after whenever I started on this again, I think I am now finally starting to understand it all.
No worries. I found myself derailing my own train of thought when talking to my grandma on the phone today and asking her "how did I get on that topic? I had a point..." Then I realized I was asking my 87 year old grandmother that question and chances are if I talked to her about the same thing tomorrow she'd think it was the first time I told her about it.
But hey... you got the monitor. At least we should be able to see if your computer will boot up still and figure out what we need to do next when you're feeling better.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I live alone too and so I am too cursing about things around me as well.
London Drugs isn't your little average drug store like where I go and get my meds. You could fit at least two average sized stores into it and maybe have a little bit of room left over.
It happens as we get older.
Yes, that is next on the agenda but not until I can properly bend over without being in pain.
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Quote:I'm not QUITE at the stage of making lists of lists, but I can definitely imagine it in my future! I do find it kinda' funny as a concept, though. Besides, watcha' gonna' do?
Originally posted by Brenda:
It happens as we get older.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Okay, where you would plug in an internet cable is covered over and I said that there is a hole in it where an "internet or video card" should be.
Well... I'll be damned. It does sound like somebody removed that card. I just can't figure out why. They're not worth anything. Motherboards have had them on the board for two decades now. Most motherboards in the last 5 to 10 years even had wireless internet capabilities built in. I can't even remember how long ago I had to purchase an internet card.
Did you, personally, ever get online with this thing? How long ago was that?
I know that you use your laptop to get on the internet, but I thought you also used this thing for internet too. Now I'm thinking that was a miscommunication on my part and you never did.
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He was using a modem with this thing but I doubt he ever used and it does have USB ports on the back of it. He had another large external drive that he used for his work files.
Well... if we're going to make this thing work at all for you, we're going to have to make the best possible use of those USB ports. That means that we cannot use those USB ports for your mouse and keyboard.
If we can't find you a keyboard/mouse with the pink/green PS2 connectors at the end, they do make these...
https://www.amazon.com/Oxsubor-PS2-USB-Female-Converter/dp/B01N5MYE72/
ref=pd_lpo_147_t_2/138-7030405-2277526?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01N5MYE72&pd_rd_r=d8baafb1-747b-411a-9244-b90033a6174d&pd_rd_w=pO8hL&pd_rd_wg=t68J6&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=AJFGM840RM28CHPNCE8R&psc=1&refRID=AJFGM840RM28CHPNCE8R
I'm not sure where you'd get them if not online, and I think they'll cost quite a bit more than $6 for the set of them though, I'm afraid.
I think we're going to want to use one USB for a wireless internet stick and one for your regular USB storage thumb drive. But since we're talking about a PC this old, chances are it uses a very, very old version of Windows that wouldn't have the drivers for them and we'd have to make sure they even worked with the PC.
Honestly, I'm hoping that your keyboard and mouse do work now, because I think your best bet is just to get this thing up and running so you can get your information off of it before you buy a new desktop PC where you won't have any of these issues. A new one will have wireless internet built in and have more USB ports than you'd know what to do with.
I hope you feel better. Take your time. I'm not going anywhere.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Gotta go out for my walk and enjoy the sunshine while it lasts.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:I'm not QUITE at the stage of making lists of lists, but I can definitely imagine it in my future! I do find it kinda' funny as a concept, though. Besides, watcha' gonna' do?
Originally posted by Brenda:
It happens as we get older.
With my brain I have to make lists or I will forget something. Learned that years ago.
Okay I am out for my walk.
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