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This is my memory situation is what CPU-Z says about my memory looked at my motherboard and I see I have two slots to double my memory. I am off today, like most everyone else, so I don’t expect too manyĭo drop by today, well, here is your July 4th Spark! Guess what

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Spark! Pro series – 4th July 2022 Spiceworks Originals.Freedom from punch cards, dials, and switches.

While July 4th may bring to mind a different event for many, back in 1956, it was a remarkable day in terms of freedom for computer users.

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That's not even old.punch cards, now that's old. You powered on your TRS80 sequentially after the person before you did, otherwise you'd have a tape boot storm. Not that old :-), I started with TRS-80s in school and the whole class shared a single tape drive. I even put out a little "demo", as we used to call them, every month called the "Phreakers File" that would hand out virgin codes like 0488s that we hacked using war dialers and templates. We phreaked like crazy, hacked AT&T like crazy, hacked VMBs and took them over so we could record our own messages and give out uh."hacked stuff" you could say. I also ran a hack/phreak BBS on my 1200 baud modem (yes, I upgraded from 300 so my site would be l33t) in. That I could direct copy between two 3.5" disks was insanely cool. Dude, do you have any idea how cool that made me? Everyone still had nothing but a cassette drive or a 5 1/4 floppy. Now THAT thing was bad ass! Eventually I was able to get dual 3.5" floppies.

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Once I was able to upgrade I got a Commodore 64. I learned to program/code/whatever BASIC on a Vic20. I think it's awesome that some of us have been around so long. If you have other screensavers you remember cherishing, share them below! OK, I know – this one was really called "Windows Space Screensaver," or something like that, but I couldn't resist. Astronaut Flying Elegantly Through Space Responsible for 99% of nightmares in children from 1995 through 2000. While some might critique this as looking like " Wolfenstein 3D minus the gamplay, plus a horrible red brick color scheme," I say, "Bravo, Microsoft. I'll be honest: The first time I saw this screensaver, I was hooked. well, it probably won't blow your mind now either. If this didn't blow your mind the first time you saw it. The revolution started when things started moving into the territory of 3D. Here's a collection of some iconic screensavers that might reawaken some old memories.Īccording to Mental Floss, this one was pretty popular at Microsoft's headquarters. No longer do we need screensavers to prevent burn-in, but we still use them, because they're entertaining, interesting to look at, and maybe even laced with a little nostalgia. Now, 30 years later, it's safe to say that we've come a long way. Heinlein's 1961 novel " Stranger in a Strange Land," where he described "a stereovision tank disguised as an aquarium." Bet you didn't know that.) (Curiously enough, an early reference to a screensaver appeared in Robert A. The first screensaver that let users choose an activation interval came out on Apple's Lisa that same year. Developed by John Socha for the original IBM PC, "scrnsave" featured a black screen that would pop up after three minutes of inactivity.

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To prevent static displays from remaining on screens, people began coding moving images, and what began as "a pragmatic solution quickly turned to the realm of entertainment."ĭeveloped by Berkeley Systems in 1989 for Macintosh (and ported to Windows in 1991), Flying Toasters was part of a series called After Dark, which later introduced Simpsons, Star Trek, and Disney-themed screensavers.įlying Toasters was a huge step above the first screensaver, which was introduced only six years earlier. Back in the day, if cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors were left on for too long, they could suffer from burn-in, where, in the words of Mental Floss, "constant onscreen elements like menu bars" would literally become burned in.