I guess that’s why they call it “booting”
I can still hear/feel the gradual effect followed with the iconic “click”
And all the loud noises of the giant components used to be in such PCs 🤭
Do people not still do this? People must still have towers, and they must have on buttons, right?
I’ve not built a tower in a good few years now so maybe I’m out of touch and they’re all voice activated now or use DNA scanners from Gattaca idk xD
Never put your PC on the floor unless it’s your company’s shitty workstation tower that really needs to be replaced.
People learned that computer cases shouldn’t go on the ground, unless you want them to be a dust magnet (especially if you have a case with intakes on the bottom for the GPU).
I have a tower but it’s on my desk (and the button is on the top facing the ceiling) so using my foot to turn it in would be a slight issue lol
What was the big-toe-sized button for it fnot for the big to- you know what, I don’t think I wanna know.
I still do it bro
I still turn my computer like that most of the time.
I still do, why should it have changed?
More people use laptops (or even tablets or smartphones) more of the time nowadays, so fewer people turn on their devices that way nowadays.
I still use my toes for my laptop but the people in my office are so weird about it
Button is on the top now 😔
And too small for my big ass toe
mine had a button cap and dad used to joke that he bought it on black market and it originates from the nuclear missile launch button.
That button cap is important with a lot of kids around.
makes sense. never thought about that from this standpoint. I had a tendency of pushing random buttons when I was a kid so that’s probably why the cap.
I did that till my i used my desktop till 2019
I don’t think I’ve seen these words assorted in this order before.
I have moved from office use desktop to gaming laptop to gaming laptop emulated desktop (laptop connected to monitor) since then never ever used a desktop again
Hey man, as long as it’s consensual…
mine was an actual heavy-ass switch. it felt like shutting down the power of an entire neighborhood.
Made you feel something killing your pc.
And a turbo button
Yeah mine had switches on it to power all the peripherals too, and they lit up bright orange.
This brings back memories. I’d turn on my big ass HP with my foot and its bright blue LED power button would light up the room.
Blue?
Look at Mr fancy pants over here with blue power indicators on their childhood computer.
Most of us made due with red, or if you were lucky, green.
All HP desktops that competed with Dell Dimensions in 2003 had a big blue led button. It was a common trope to put blue leds on everything back then. It’s nothing special. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc1.neweggimages.com%2Fproductimage%2Fnb640%2F83-102-233-01.jpg&f=1&ipt=4deaeb006298186c0cbf8cf25ce53b9e20547c1faaa11aead6ee846a03363867
Nine times out of ten I’d hit the turbo button and then spend half an hour wondering why the family computer was running slowly…
Ah, that nice 33 -> 66 change
Hey now. Most of these people don’t know about turbo…
They certainly don’t know about the “magic/more magic” button…
I thought that was a switch?
Might have been. The way I heard it, the toggle was a button, like the turbo button.
It’s still the 2000’s so I still do
Kids these days with their 5% overclocks.
Back in my day we had 100% overclocks!
Turbo bumped my 8MHz 386 to sixteen megahertz
It never got switched off, except in some games that a slower CPU made easier (some games back then ran just as fast as the hardware could run them, expecting the computers or turn to be the state of the art) By the time of the machine in the picture unturbo wasn’t enough so we used a TSR* program called goSlow to get specific performance
*Terminate, Stay Resident; a program that could run in the background
66 MILES PER HOUR!
This brings out nostalgia…
You might have meant it as a joke but just in case someone else isn’t aware, this button actually made your CPU slower 🤓
Depends on the motherboard version. On later ones, the turbo actually worked to make your PC faster.
As far as I understand, it’s purely marketing semantics.
The point of the ‘Turbo’ button is to slow the CPU down to provide compatibility with old software that was written with a fixed clockspeed, where the software would become unusably fast on newer CPUs.
Calling this a “slow” mode or “compatibility” mode wasn’t very marketing-sexy however, so manufacturers just flipped it around and called the normal speed ‘Turbo’.
With later systems, developers all became aware that varying CPU frequencies were a thing, and started to base their software timings on the realtime clock instead.
So in later systems there was no longer any need to have the CPU run at anything other than its maximum (normal) speed - and the turbo button simply went away.
…we had finally achieved permanent turbo.
“We called it Purbo. It didn’t catch on.”
You might have meant it as a joke
Yeah, I didn’t think anyone would get the joke if I posted a picture of a 486DX with the J20 jumper set. You have to be a greybeard to remember that.
A 486DX with the J20 jumper set! HAH!
My first thought was “hey I’m not a greybeard”
I am. I am a greybeard.
