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What is this forum about????????

by Ramchandra Dec 22, 2004 4:36AM PST

Why is this called " Desktop " forum ?
what does that mean anyway.
i know that desktop is the window which comes when we start a pc but i dont think we r talking about it in this forum.

sorry for this silly question.
thanx
ram

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A place for my coffee cup.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 22, 2004 4:47AM PST

That's a nice place for my coffee cup, but no one can tell you why. The forum names evolved from mergers of Cnet, ZDnet, MSN and even as far back as GEnie.

You may ask questions and more in any forum, but do try to stick with a topic that seems to match the forum name.

Bob

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What is this forum about????????
by Bob__B Dec 22, 2004 10:05PM PST

Hmmm.
Desktop vs laptop?

I suppose you could take your laptop and put it on a desk and then it would be a desktop???

I've often thought that cnet has too many overlapping forums which can sometimes make it difficult to determine where to put a post.

Perhaps that's why some folks post the same question in multiple forums. (shotgun approach)

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It's not the notebook forum.
by Coryphaeus Dec 23, 2004 12:45AM PST
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What was niether a desktop or laptop way back when?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 23, 2004 1:06AM PST

Mainframe may have been the accepted term. It was quite an advance when computers dropped to the size you could pick one up yourself.

Bob

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Quotes. . .
by Coryphaeus Dec 23, 2004 6:34AM PST

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics magazine,1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, IBM chairman, 1943

"640K ought to be enough memory for everybody."
Bill Gates, 1981.

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?

True Tales from the Techs: http://www.techtales.com/techroom.html
Customer: "I was wondering if this computer had a fan belt or something in it."
Me: "Sorry, a fan belt?"
Customer: "Yeah, it's getting slower each time I start it in the morning,
and I wondered if there was a fan belt or drive shaft that might be slipping."

What do people mean when they say, "The computer went down on me"?
--Marilyn Pittman

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My true story.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 23, 2004 6:43AM PST

I noticed one customer was always buying more and more diskettes. After they hit a thousand I offered them a bulk package... But imagine what I found out...

"You can erase these and use them again?"

Nobody told them how floppy disks worked...

Bob

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