• dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    “Slave drive” maybe.

    I mean, they’ll think it means something totally different.

    I’m older than that, but it’s definitely something a zoomer wouldn’t understand immediately.

    • u/lukmly013 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      IDE drives? We still have some XP-era computers at school. I have upgraded them to Windows 7 now (originally I was asked to do 10, but haha), but they’re not exactly usable. They barely do 1 tab in Firefox. And I am not surprised as they start at 512MB of RAM.
      But at least we got rid of the 32-bit machines last year.

      Something I remember from elementary school is desktop PCs locked by a key. To be honest, I miss that. I really like that concept as it can stop undetermined people from turning them on. Just like Kensington lock stops them from stealing/borrowing e.g. laptops.
      Oh, yeah, and “Turbo” is… ¿slower?

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        8 months ago

        I saw IDE cables referred to as PATA cables in a YouTube video earlier today. “Huh, I don’t remember calling them that.” Luckily right after that they clarified that’s a more recent name for them. Still felt old.

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      8 months ago

      Yes we compartmentalized our minds to know that “master and slave” meant something different in computer terms,

      Just like we know that a cookie is not literal food.

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      8 months ago

      Damn, I lost the jumper. I can pull one off my audio card, luckily I don’t have to change the default IRQ, I don’t have any conflicts.