In Reply to: RE: Man, I hate computers! posted by LtMandella on January 11, 2021 at 08:27:32:
Likewise, I cut my teeth with Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 and was upgrading IBM PCs with hard disks and an AST 6 pack as a side business, so I've been around that block for over 40 years.
It's so frustrating when you get those intermittent problems and don't know if it's hardware going out or a driver update. One computer would blue screen and I thought it was memory or something and it turned out to be a bad graphics card. My last system, a home grown I7 just decided to randomly lock out the keyboard. I still haven't figured out whether it's the motherboard, a bad RAM stick or something else. It'll run for days and then, you can't login because the keyboard doesn't work. That computer was rock solid, running 24/7 for about 4 or 5 years.
As far as teenagers go, you have my sympathies.
-Rod
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- LOL! - Rod M 01/11/2112:34:25 01/11/21 (27)
- For a hobby or for a living... - Ivan303 07:57:24 01/12/21 (5)
- Still in demand from what I hear.... - AbeCollins 08:51:40 01/12/21 (4)
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- RE: LOL! - Rod M 19:24:32 01/11/21 (3)
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