(Yes the title could use some work, I suck at names in every area)
Just want to hear weird/interesting experiences involving technology that others here have had. Anything ranging from you computer randomly crashing due to a program it had run hundreds of times to explaining the internet to your grandparents.
This just happened to me this week: at school hanging around, doing nothing in typing class due to most of the class not being there (last period, sports and everything else happens then for some reason) and decided to begin a tear down of a recently donated computer. The thing seems to have been donated for a reason, as it is windows 98 machine with a Pentium III, 128MBs of ram, and a 200w psu (oddly had a ATI gpu and what I can only guess is a NIC, not a expert on older or more enterprise leaning hardware).
So I begin by taking the side panel off and a classmate's younger sibling (for context we are highschool age, the younger sibling is middle school age) ask how I could get inside the computer. Then a classmate (this is a slightly...strange, I guess would be the term, highschool age student) grabs the second side panel and goes into the hallway for ten minutes with it, with my guess being she/he (being as vague as I can intentionally) walked around the hallway pretending to hit people passing him/her with it (don't ask me why). Then the younger student begins trying to yank out the gpu while I am turned away for a second, despite it being clearly screwed in. Finally decide this was a bad idea and quickly put everything back together (never got a look at the harddrive though, no chance to take out the bay and unscrew it all before this)
All together I have decided to leave the old computer tear downs to either my house or in a empty room.
Just want to hear weird/interesting experiences involving technology that others here have had. Anything ranging from you computer randomly crashing due to a program it had run hundreds of times to explaining the internet to your grandparents.
This just happened to me this week: at school hanging around, doing nothing in typing class due to most of the class not being there (last period, sports and everything else happens then for some reason) and decided to begin a tear down of a recently donated computer. The thing seems to have been donated for a reason, as it is windows 98 machine with a Pentium III, 128MBs of ram, and a 200w psu (oddly had a ATI gpu and what I can only guess is a NIC, not a expert on older or more enterprise leaning hardware).
So I begin by taking the side panel off and a classmate's younger sibling (for context we are highschool age, the younger sibling is middle school age) ask how I could get inside the computer. Then a classmate (this is a slightly...strange, I guess would be the term, highschool age student) grabs the second side panel and goes into the hallway for ten minutes with it, with my guess being she/he (being as vague as I can intentionally) walked around the hallway pretending to hit people passing him/her with it (don't ask me why). Then the younger student begins trying to yank out the gpu while I am turned away for a second, despite it being clearly screwed in. Finally decide this was a bad idea and quickly put everything back together (never got a look at the harddrive though, no chance to take out the bay and unscrew it all before this)
All together I have decided to leave the old computer tear downs to either my house or in a empty room.