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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #45 on: December 19, 2020, 01:44:00 PM »

I never saw it, but someone at school was reported to have brought in one of those electrical counting machines.


‘Pocket Calculator’, that’s what it was called!

I built my first one - a Sinclair Scientific kit around 1974.

I remember it used Reverse Polish Notation, which made it a little difficult to get used to, eg. 3 4 +  rather than 3+4=

By heck - this thread is bringing back some memories   :stars
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #46 on: December 19, 2020, 02:05:25 PM »

I built my first one - a Sinclair Scientific kit around 1974.

I remember it used Reverse Polish Notation, which made it a little difficult to get used to, eg. 3 4 +  rather than 3+4=

By heck - this thread is bringing back some memories   :stars

Absolutely! I'm still using my HP 41-CX which uses Reverse Polish, bought it 20 odd years ago.


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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #47 on: December 19, 2020, 02:10:29 PM »

I'm still using my Casio FX29 C1978.

When my wife was working as a maths teacher, she would borrow it for lessons. It does not use BIDMAS, so 1+2x3 = 9, unlike the kids modern calculators that do it properly.

Kids today hey?
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #48 on: December 19, 2020, 02:23:33 PM »

What has been lost in this 'march of progress' is the notion that a computer is a tool for which you the user are in control of.
These days, we are the servants and the computer is the master.

Now we own the hardware but license the software under the sort of terms that we'd never sign if we had any choice.

And for it we get a computer with a phenomenal amount of computing power, which is entirely wasted with bloated operating systems and software.

Just think, back in the 80's, your computer turned on instantly (like your car does), and you told it what to do. Now, the computer takes ages to start up (what is it doing?!), and then it might indulge you in doing something useful.
Furthermore, the usefulness hasn't really changed, all that has happened is that they have got 'prettier'

And what is this nonsense we get now 'hey, we are having a bit of bother getting that file for you, please hang around a bit and we'll sort it out' style errors. I find them incredibly patronising. My computer isn't a mate, it's a sophisticated hammer!

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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #49 on: December 19, 2020, 03:26:42 PM »

What bothers me is that young people tend to have lost the ability to approximate and they believe the answer on the screen without checking.

You have to remember GIGO garbage in = garbage out.  One miss hit key and everything onwards is wrong.

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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #50 on: December 19, 2020, 05:56:40 PM »

I'm still using my Casio FX29 C1978.

When my wife was working as a maths teacher, she would borrow it for lessons. It does not use BIDMAS, so 1+2x3 = 9, unlike the kids modern calculators that do it properly.

Kids today hey?

Should that be BODMAS ?   ???
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #51 on: December 19, 2020, 06:04:54 PM »

i think this thread as gone off track !!!! i seemed to ask about windows 7 to 10 ?
not what you used when you were at school etc etc but hey ho  :whistle
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #52 on: December 19, 2020, 06:12:31 PM »

i think this thread as gone off track !!!! i seemed to ask about windows 7 to 10 ?
not what you used when you were at school etc etc but hey ho  :whistle

Windows 10 is fine.   :coffee
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #53 on: December 19, 2020, 06:22:51 PM »

Confirmed , all my old, cheap and cheerful PC's run Win 10 no problem.
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #54 on: December 19, 2020, 06:37:37 PM »

i think this thread as gone off track !!!! i seemed to ask about windows 7 to 10 ?
not what you used when you were at school etc etc but hey ho  :whistle

Well, seeing as this is a Land Rover forum, surely the post was off track right from the start   :neener
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #55 on: December 19, 2020, 06:43:49 PM »

Confirmed , all my old, cheap and cheerful PC's run Win 10 no problem.

Not all will be happy though!

Some laptops & PCs with older nVidia chips either throw a wobbly before even attempting an upgrade, or can't cope with certain screen resolutions once running W10, with nVidia washing their hands of the problem as they are legacy chips.

I've got 3 laptops and several PCs in my stock which wouldn't upgrade - with the PCs you can fit a different graphics card, but the W10 install still sees the onboard chip - not all bios will let you disable it.

Saying that, I've successfully upgraded about 100 or more PCs & laptops for customers since W10 was released, so not surprising I've found a few which wouldn't.

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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #56 on: December 19, 2020, 07:40:05 PM »

win 10 is stropy with some xeon cpus and well , and its slow as hell after its been installed for a while , but if your using a pc its 10 or ubuntu ,

whilst typing on a mac
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #57 on: December 19, 2020, 07:56:42 PM »

win 10 is stropy with some xeon cpus and well , and its slow as hell after its been installed for a while , but if your using a pc its 10 or ubuntu ,

whilst typing on a mac

Actually, I've also got a couple of Macs under the bench which won't upgrade beyond El Capitan as they are too old!
But, they too will run Linux   :cheers
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #58 on: December 20, 2020, 01:51:41 PM »

Should that be BODMAS ?   ???
Used to be BODMAS, some still refer to it as that. Current term is BIDMAS (the one today's kids would know) - Brackets, indices, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.
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Re: upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10
« Reply #59 on: December 20, 2020, 07:15:38 PM »

Actually, I've also got a couple of Macs under the bench which won't upgrade beyond El Capitan as they are too old!
But, they too will run Linux   :cheers

have you tried dosdudes patch , lets you run newer os on older macs ,
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