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30 Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor

Written By UNDER MAINTENANCE on Friday, November 11, 2011 | 4:55 AM

Many people today either are too young to have ever seen some early pc’s or have forgotten what they looked like and how much they cost. Today we complain about the cost of a laptop running 2Ghz with 4GB ram for a cost of $ 400.00, however it wasn’t that long ago that laptops and pc’s were priced quite a bit higher. Here are 30 Old PC ads that will make you laugh and possibly appreciate what you have today.

10MB Drive for $ 3398.00
Today you can get a 1TB drive for $ 85.00
1TB is about 100,000 times larger than 10MB

This is an early Laptop, with 64K of memory
Today laptops have 2 to 4 Gig of memory
4GB is about 64,000 times larger than 64K

Here are two disk systems, 80MB for $ 12K and 300MB for $ 20K
Today you can get a DVD that holds 4Gig for $ .75 each
A 4GB DVD is about 14 times larger than a 300MB Disk

Here is a 16K RAM Memory Card, $ 495.00
Today you can get 4GB RAM for $ 99.00
4GB Ram is about 256,000 times larger than 16K

This is an early modem, delivering 4800 BPS
Modems today deliver 56K
56K is about 12 times faster

This early PC is offering dual floppy drives and 128K of RAM
Today PC’s have between 2 to 4 GB RAM
4GB RAM is about 32,000 times larger than 128K

Yes this was my first video game system. Yes those are the joy sticks.
Todays game systems are far more advances in graphics, controlers, etc.

Here is another early laptop, this one can expand up to 640KB RAM
Today laptops have 2 to 4 Gig of memory
4GB is about 6,000 times larger than 640KB

Checkout this Amiga, promoting the quality of graphics it can produce.

Apple does it again, 5Mhz with 1MB RAM
Today PCs are 3Ghz with 4GB RAM
3Ghz is 600 times faster and 4GB RAM is 4000 times larger than 1MB RAM

This ATARI Computer has 48K or RAM and offers 128 colors
Today PC’s have 4GB RAM and offer 32 Bit color which is 4.2 billion colors

The TRS-80 was produced in the late 70’s and early 80’s with 1.7Mhz processor and 4KB RAM
Today PCs are 3Ghz with 4GB RAM
3Ghz is 1700 times faster and 4GB RAM is 1 Million times larger than 4KB RAM

This early pc offered a 13″ screen for just $ 3300.00

I’m not sure about the specs, but this looks more like a typewritter

The price is coming down, this pc offeres 4KB RAM for only $ 249.00

The ACE1000 offers 64KRAM and includes upper and lower case keys, plus num lock
Today pc’s offer 4GB RAM and all include shift keys plus num lock
4GB is about 6,000 times larger than 640KB

Get up and running right with this PC, offering 4K RAM and a cassette player
I’m not sure you can even buy cassette’s anymore

This was the latest and greatest in laptop design
How would you like to carry that around during school

How about another 10MB Hard Drive for $ 3,495.00
Today you can get a 1TB drive for $ 85.00
1TB is about 100,000 times larger than 10MB

One of Mac’s early computers, offeres 32 Bit Processor

Here’s a 15MB Hard Drive for $ 2,495.00, the price is coming down
Today you can get a 1TB drive for $ 85.00
1TB is about 69,000 times larger than 15MB

This Tandy 5000 offers a blazing 20Mhz processor and 2MB RAM
Today PCs are 3Ghz with 4GB RAM
3Ghz is 150 times faster and 4GB RAM is 2000 times larger than 2MB RAM

Here’s a PC in a breifcase, complete with modem and 5″ monitor.
Today pc’s don’t have to plug the whole phone in, just the phone line and have up 22″+ monitors.

Checkout the joysticks and other options that come with this pc.

Produced in early 80’s, the VIC-20 came with 5KB RAM
Today pc’s come with 4GB RAM
4GB is about 838,000 times larger than 5KB

For only $ 999.00 you can get this pc that offers 384K RAM and 20M Hard Disk Card.
Today pc’s come with 4GB RAM and 500+ GB Drives
4GB is about 10,000 times larger than 384KB RAM and 500 GB drive is about 25000 times larger than 20M

Here’s a basic pc that offered 4K RAM that you had to hook up to a TV.

Another personal pc that offeres 4K RAM for under $ 199.95, but didn’t come with a monitor.

The ZX81 offered 1K RAM but expanded up to 16K RAM and could hook up to any TV

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Amazon.com:the Hidden Empire

Written By UNDER MAINTENANCE on Saturday, May 21, 2011 | 9:51 PM

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Legless man planted 3,000 trees in 10 yrs

Written By UNDER MAINTENANCE on Sunday, May 8, 2011 | 9:27 PM

Ma Sanxiao,a 62-year-old man who lost both feet, has spent 10 years planting more than 3,000 trees in a remote mountainous area in North China's Hebei province.

Retired from the army in 1974, Ma Sanxiao lost the lower part of his right leg in 1985 due to blood poisoning and the same part of the other leg for the same reason in 2004.

He started to make a living by planting trees in 2001 but gradually he considers planting trees as a career to improve the environment.

Since the mountain road is too hilly to walk with crutches, Ma has to crawl on his hands and he wears out a pair of gloves every five days.

"There is a road in the mountain grinded by my buttocks, my keens and my hands," according to Ma.

Once he dropped down from the hill and hurt his hands. Because of blood poisoning, his wound couldn’t heal. Unfortunately, his wound infected and he lost the little finger on his right hand.

Even though, he continues to plant trees with the belief that the trees are more important than his life.

"I've been in hospital for four times and had seven operations in the past 20 years, but I never cried. As soon as I saw this tree died, I couldn't hold my tear any more since I was so heart-broken," said Ma.

Getting hurt is very dangerous to him and it may lead to amputation, so he has to wear many protection pads on his legs every day on his way to plant trees.

Reporter asked him: “How often do you change your gloves?”
He answered: “Every ten days.
Reporter asked: “The gloves are very thick, aren't they?
Ma said: “Yes, its leather gloves but it can only last for ten days.”

Reporter asked: “How much money have you saved?”
Ma answered: “No, I don’t have any bankbook.”
“Do you think you are rich now?” asked the reporter.
Ma said: “Yes, I feel I'm very rich.”
“What do you have?” asked the reporter.
"This green forest is precious for me and you can call me a billionaire," answered Ma.

Ma also told the reporter that when he heard visitors say the environment on the hill is so good because of the trees; he felt so happy and forgot the hardship he has experienced.

"I heard some people, who came to this mountain, said the environment is so great and there are so many trees. I was very happy!”

Ma has over 3000 trees now and plans to dig another 300 holes to plant more trees no matter how hard it may be.

“I have 3000 trees now and I am the regimental commander of these 3000 trees, which I considered as my soldiers. These trees protect the Taihang Mountain. When I see them I feel so happy and forget the hardship of planting them."

Ma is not satisfied with only being a regimental commander, he tells the reporter that he wants to increase the number of his soldiers and become a legless division commander by planting more trees.

Sixty-two-year-old Ma Sanxiao, a former recon scout with no feet, looks at a newly planted tree in Shixing, Hebei province on April 26, 2011. Ma has spent 10 years planting more than 3,000 trees in the remote mountainous area where a waste land has taken its greenery. His story inspired many people when he was spotted by a photographer who uploaded a video clip about him on Internet.

Ma Sanxiao gets ready to attach his artificial limb as he prepares to go out in Shixing, Hebei province on April 26, 2011.

Ma Sanxiao shows his worn-out gloves in Shixing, Hebei province on April 26, 2011. It usually only takes five days to wear out a new pair of gloves.

Ma Sanxiao crawls on a hilly road in Shixing, Hebei province on April 26, 2011.

Ma Sanxiao is seen on his way home in Shixing, Hebei province on April 26, 2011.

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The human eye has a blind spot

Written By UNDER MAINTENANCE on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | 4:56 AM

The human eye has a blind spot at the area of the retina where the optic nerve leads back into the brain.

The blind spots in each eye are aligned symmetrically so that most of the time, one eye’s field of vision will compensate for the loss of vision in the other. The diagram above shows where the blind spots are located.

To find the eye’s blind spot, you can do the following tests.

In order to find the blind spot of the right eye, it is necessary to close the left eye, focus the right eye on a single point, and see if anything vanishes from vision some 20 degrees right of this point. The following diagram has a set of characters on the left hand side, and black circle on the right. Keeping your head motionless, with the right eye about 3 or 4 times as far from the page as the length of the red line, look at each character in turn, until the black circle vanishes.

This is seriously some trippy stuff!

The opposite idea works in testing the blind spot of the left eye as well. Just do the exact same as the image above, but with the left eye opened and the right eye closed.

Those are the two basic eye tests.

It’s amazing how the brain assumes certain things in our field of vision so accurately despite the fact that the eyes cannot actually see what is there.

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Learn How to Juggle

Written By UNDER MAINTENANCE on Thursday, April 28, 2011 | 9:18 AM

This useful instruction will teach you to juggle.
If this is your idea of what juggling is you are wrong. This is not juggling.

You can say that you can juggle 2 balls only after you successfully do something like this.

Or at least like this.

These exercises will teach you to juggle.

One ball exercise:

You should start with one ball (it can be an orange, apple or any other round object). Stand straight with your feet shoulders width apart. Bend your hands in elbows with your palms upward. Your hands should be parallel to the floor. Take a ball in one hand and throw it from hand to hand about eye level.

Two ball exercise:

Take a ball in each hand. First toss the ball in your right hand and when it reaches the highest point in its arch throw your second ball from your left hand to your right. Catch the first ball with your left hand and then catch the second ball with your right hand. Pause. Do the same exercise, but start with your left hand instead of your right.

When you get more skilled, you’ll be able to do this exercise without a pause.

Three ball exercise:

Take two balls in your right hand and one ball in your left hand. Throw one of the balls from your right hand to your left, and toss the ball in your left hand just as you did in the exercise with the two balls. When this ball reaches its highest point in its arch throw the second ball from your right hand to your left. Now you will have two balls in your left hand and one ball in your right hand.Do the same exercise, except start with your left hand instead of your right.