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Fabulousne
I have this old computer from the 80's. It is a black screen with orange words and all it has on it is games, like wheel of fortune, monopoly, a beer tap game, frogger. How do I find out how old it is and the model info? I am looking for cables for it.
Answer
Computers are classified by their processors. Judging from the monotor and games you have, my guess would be an IBM-PC, XT or compatible. During those times, if it wasn't IBM, it was simply a compatible. The processor would be an 8086 or 8088. The cables would match those in a Pentium II except for those that involve USB which wasn't invented yet during those times. It would have ran on DOS and commands were typed at a command prompt.
I may be wrong as I personally installed and played those games on my 386 computer. The only way to be certain is to pop up the hood and look for the processor. 8086 and 8088 chips are rectangular while the 80286, 80386, 80486 and Pentiums are square. That is except for the Pentium Pro which is a bit rectangular.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm#i486
Computers are classified by their processors. Judging from the monotor and games you have, my guess would be an IBM-PC, XT or compatible. During those times, if it wasn't IBM, it was simply a compatible. The processor would be an 8086 or 8088. The cables would match those in a Pentium II except for those that involve USB which wasn't invented yet during those times. It would have ran on DOS and commands were typed at a command prompt.
I may be wrong as I personally installed and played those games on my 386 computer. The only way to be certain is to pop up the hood and look for the processor. 8086 and 8088 chips are rectangular while the 80286, 80386, 80486 and Pentiums are square. That is except for the Pentium Pro which is a bit rectangular.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm#i486
What is command prompt and what can i do with it?
joshua
I had to assign a static ip address to my xbox today. In order to do this, i had to use command prompt. This is the first time i have ever seen it. What does it do? And what are some cool things i can do with it? (that won't destroy my computer :P ) Thanks!
Answer
The coolecst thing you can do is to type this command :
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
HOwever it wont work in Vista and 7 by default cause you will have to enable telnet functionnality first. If youre in XP, connected to the net, then it will show you an star wars animation made out of only text !!!! You can Google it for more info.
It is cool to use cmd to do things more quicly than in graphic mode (gui). For example go to your desktop using the commans :
cd desktop
If you have something like :
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Desktop>
Then you are in the desktop. Then type :
md a b c d e f g h i j k l
And it will create a folder a, a folder b, a folder c, etc. In one second (less).
You can also open programs :
start "" notepad
start "" firefox
Anyway, after that you can start doing batch files that automate your tasks and thats even cooler.
Learn cmd : http://ss64.com/nt/
Batchs : http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/BatBasic.html
Just be carefull to not use command you dont know. For example to delete a file you type
del filename
But if you accidentally type
del *
It will delete all files in the current directory. If that directory is c: at the moment, bye bye all your files (ALL)
DOn't use batchs from the net unless you are sure what they do.
Cheers
The coolecst thing you can do is to type this command :
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
HOwever it wont work in Vista and 7 by default cause you will have to enable telnet functionnality first. If youre in XP, connected to the net, then it will show you an star wars animation made out of only text !!!! You can Google it for more info.
It is cool to use cmd to do things more quicly than in graphic mode (gui). For example go to your desktop using the commans :
cd desktop
If you have something like :
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Desktop>
Then you are in the desktop. Then type :
md a b c d e f g h i j k l
And it will create a folder a, a folder b, a folder c, etc. In one second (less).
You can also open programs :
start "" notepad
start "" firefox
Anyway, after that you can start doing batch files that automate your tasks and thats even cooler.
Learn cmd : http://ss64.com/nt/
Batchs : http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/BatBasic.html
Just be carefull to not use command you dont know. For example to delete a file you type
del filename
But if you accidentally type
del *
It will delete all files in the current directory. If that directory is c: at the moment, bye bye all your files (ALL)
DOn't use batchs from the net unless you are sure what they do.
Cheers
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