FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 20, 2010

It might turn out to be as much fun as a pc!

Nahhhhh …

That’s the spirit, Jason. And while you’re at it, it is now legal to “jailbreak” the iPhone and install Jasondows!

Nabuq:

perhaps it is more complicated on an iFruit. Anyhow, if it keeps Jason busy…..

My parents had the computer this iFruit is based on. There was a circular cap about 5 inches in diameter. You twisted the cap and it came out. The RAM socket was right under that. I installed the chip in about 60 seconds and I wasn’t even rushing.

Nabuq: My hubby works full time cause of “5 placing the new RAM module in the socket (it only goes one way),” He’s had at least 3 lately that have somehow managed to get it in backward. I have said for years that there should be an intelligence test before someone could purchase a computer, but then again I wouldn’t have a roof over my head if that were the case.

The more complicated, the better eh, Jason?

Good call, Andy!

OK, I get that the iFruit/MAC has similar parts to an actual computer. An ape has about 99% of the same DNA as a human too, doesn’t it?

I added a RAM chip to my PC for the first time ever a few months ago. It was exhilarating (I never touched my PC, but I did maintain it and buy the hardware, I always got my Comp Engineer Dad to do it). But yeah, plug it in and boot it up. Same as with changing the video card when mine died.

Granted this was a generic PC case. These days you buy one of those put-together machines and it’s put together in such a way that messing with it yourself requires a lot of effort. Though we got a bunch of Dell Precisions at work and, expensive as they are, you can like … slide everything in and out. Crazy.

Thanks mom you made Jason happy he can be creative with harddrive.

Monkeyhead our neighbor is a computer guy basement wall is based on computer’s. He had one job he traveled quit that one got hired on another more travel was laid off, then went on different interviews nothing, he outsourced himself set up his own web site, then got hired and still outsources himself. Wife works at a local aircraft as purchasing has a master’s and Engineering degree. Making good money.

I liked my old Apple II+ Lift top, put card in slot, put top back down. The top was held on with velcro!

Want to make trhe computer an 8086 instead of a 6205, just plug in the right card!

ha, same here TrapperJohn. Love my laptop but it is a pain to replace stuff.

I had an iMac like that and there’s just a little panel on the back where you add the ram, same as with the new ones and the little panel on the bottom.

you have a soldering kit right?