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Grizz's New Laptop

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  1. Grizzly Adam

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    Don't worry, I will!
     
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    Windows 3.1 and 3.11....those were fun installs :confused:
     
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    Install wasn't really necessary. I first got windows 3.1 by copying the entire windows folder off a friends computer, onto mine and then just ran the config and edited autoexec.bat and Bob's you uncle!
     
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    Weren't they on something like 12 diskettes?
     
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    I think the official package for 3.1 was 5 high density 1.44mb 3 1/4" floppies, or 10-12 of the lower density 720k 3 1/4" floppies. Not sure they came out on the 5 1/4" ones.
     
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    Because that is the fun stuff!
     
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    I didn't there were such a thing. Now I've got to have one. I hate a lot of lights on or anything in my face. I looked on Amazon and saw several. Any suggestions. I am NOT a gamer, so no need for anything for that. thanks
     
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    I thought Win 3.11 was great compared to Win 3.1! I also used DOS, OS2 Warp, Linux, Win95, 98, 2000, NT3.51,NT 4.0, 7 & 10 and many flavors or Linux.. Linux was 32 bit way before MS and also had ICS before MS however MS stole it.. Anyways I think 10 works just fine. I decided against a touch screen as it will aways be getting smudged up! I have touch screen HMI's all over the place at work and don't need this here! I do like the backlit keyboard a lot!
     
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    I just put them on a rider on my house Insurance something like 8.00 a year. Stepped on one once and ended up getting 100.00 more then I paid for it 2 years previous.

    Gary
     
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    :dex::dex::thumbs::thumbs::dancer::dancer::rootintootin::rootintootin::banana::banana:
     
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  11. Grizzly Adam

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    Here is a picture of Murray, the snowblower, happily running after cleaning up after the big storm. And yes, that's Henry doing the photo bomb!

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    Notice anything here? That is our desktop computer hooked to the TV, as it has been for about 10 years. In the first photo here it is running Windows 10 for no real good reason.

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    What's this tucked away amongst the Roku, Apple TV and Amazon FireTV? Is that one of them Intel NUK microcomputers!

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    It is, with a 2 TB drive riding piggy back! That's right, I decided for what it would take to fix the desktop I would just replace it with something that will run more stable. This little baby has a 1.8 GHz i5 processor, 32 GB of RAM, a 500 GB M.2 sata III drive, and a 525 GB ssd drive all inside it. I am dual booting it with mint and win10, but mint will be doing most of the heavy lifting. Of course, the external drive on top of it (which we have had for a long time) is shared network wide, as is the canon printer (also old) below it.

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    And helping to fulfill our entertainment needs, I have it set to run Kodi and play some movies and TV shows for us. Maybe a Cary Grant marathon tonight???
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    You sounds like my son lol.. He runs a server filled with huge hard drives loaded with movies.. He shares with family across the net.. You 2 would get along famously!
     
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    Some people has VHS, some have DVD, and some have AVI!
     
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    What is the show from the guy cutting the tree down or is it a pic?
     
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    Wow thats a nice one!! Mine was red, plastic and half the size, yours rocks!
     
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    If I had a dollar for every time I formatted and re-installed 3.1..........
     
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    Nice setup Grizz, I'm glad you're happy with everything:thumbs:
    Real glad to see the snow blower running good, shoveling sucks
     
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    Rebooting was a normal thing we did frequently! How about a left shift boot for a clean boot so we could play Doom? Great DOS game! Yup the good old 3 finger salute lol..
     
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    I gave up on windows in 2008 and went to ubuntu full time. My 2010 Dell 1545 ran win 7 until I was sure there were no hardware problems (maybe two weeks?) and then went straight to linux (I think it was lucid 10.04?). I'm now on 16.04 LTS and will probably stay on it for the life of this laptop, it is getting a little long in the tooth.

    I do however have an old server that is from 2001 running 14.04 and I do confess I do have a desktop (my son's old gaming machine) that is my Plex server running win7, just because it really isn't used for anything else and it runs just fine. My HTPC is a Dell Chromebox and works really great too.

    Oh, and BTW, a really nice kickazz laptop Griz.
     
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