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Offline DB

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Re: How I got my start with Computers?
« Reply #50 on: September 15, 2025, 10:06:42 pm »
I started with two top end Lenovo workstation laptops and learned the hard way about their reliability. I was also uneasy about their security being made in China. I've since moved to MSI top end workstation laptops and at least so far so good. The MSI laptop uses a 400 watt power adapter which is pretty shocking... It will run on battery but less than hour if the CPUs are loaded up but I don't need it to. It is always plugged in.
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Re: How I got my start with Computers?
« Reply #51 on: September 15, 2025, 10:14:33 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on September 15, 2025, 07:18:58 pm

Yup.  Had a friend in high school whose dad worked for the NRL and had a terminal at home.  We were on arpanet while it was still nonpublic, but we mostly just played the text-based Star Trek game.
We had terminals that looked like something out of Dr. Strangelove, and phone cradles next to them. You called up the Department's number for the Mainframe at UVa. and did what you did. We got the number for another Department and used theirs...
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Re: How I got my start with Computers?
« Reply #52 on: September 15, 2025, 10:17:16 pm »
Quote from: DB on September 15, 2025, 10:06:42 pm
I started with two top end Lenovo workstation laptops and learned the hard way about their reliability.

Yeah. I heard that. One of my favorite form factors I have ever used was my beloved Lenovo 11e. I can't think of what it was called anymore, but back in the palm pilot days, I had me a little clamshell outfit that you could throw in a tray tied to your desktop, and it would sync outlook - It was painfully inadequate, and trying to type on it with these damnable thumbs was nigh onto impossible... But what it almost was, was almost...

Well that 11e Yoga was the real thing. Big enough to use, really use. bearably awkward to really type on... Could use a spreadsheet with it ... I went through 4 of em in 2 years, and loved em anyway...

Looking now for HP's version of that HP Elitebook 365.  I want one bad.
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