What computers were there when you went to school /g/ ?
What ways did you fuck around with them ?
we had pic related for the main computer room (only 21), then for the cad room we had dell precision 490's (i think)
they weren't locked so I swapped the ram from my own shitty optiplex and nobody noticed.
The "IT" staff didn't really know anything.
As for games nobody really played anything other than flash games or runescape
>>53988243
We had Pentium D Dell Optiplex shitfucks. The board decided to upgrade the already slow shits to Windows 7.
>>53988312
They were still on c2d's and pentium D's when I was in college, even the games design course was on c2ds with old quadros crammed into them
Just googled the models that looked familiar, I think they were these Dell Optiplex GX270 things.
They sucked ass hard and by some miracle they had managed to infest every school and computer room.
Can't remember what hardware they had in them, probably the cheapest possible parts.
I don't even remember anyone fucking with them, they just kept on failing on their own and caused tons of problems.
>>53988421
they're heavy as fuck, how did they fall on their own?
>>53988243
Good ole Novell on those Optiplexs
Some towers/monitors that started off life as white but ended up being more "dirty cream" by the end
![osbournes2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/IzIX14f.jpg "osbournes2[1].jpg")
First ones were probably these pieces of shit.
I think these are some rebrands by a local company for the government and schools.
Anyone remember these?
We had something very similar looking to pic related.
Each student got 200mb of space, either an i3 or core duo, 4gb of ram (if you were lucky) and a 5 minute boot time.
They were almost completely locked down until CS was offered as a course, after that everyone kept making python file bombs.
Anyway, some stories from the time before the PCs got unlocked:
The 200mb storage space was structured as "J:/%username%/" and for whatever reason each student got their own "J:/".
I found that if you saved any executable in "J:/" and not into "J:/%username%/" you could run it with admin permisions. I told a few friends but we kept quiet about it and it still wasn't fixed when we left, we mainly used it to play pokemon in cover lessons.
A friend found you could access restricted drives through the save menu, after snooping for a while someone found the .bat that was used by IT to grant admin privileges. Eventually some retard wiped a bunch of important documents and snitched on everyone else when brought to the dean's office.
There was also the standard stuff like acessing control panel through sticky keys, using firefox to change desktop backgrounds and disconnecting ethernet to crash the watchdog program that ran in the background.
Someone fried a workstation by overclocking it.
Kinda related, one lunchtime I went and asked the head of engineering if I could have a student copy of the CAD software used on the workstations. He gave me a disc but told me to keep quiet about it since all the software was pirated.
>>53988243
We had notebook classes. Basically, of the five classes in our grade, two were for kids whose parents bought notebooks for them to use in school. The teachers were scratching their heads, trying to find usage for the notebooks without breaking the law. We constantly broke everything in regards to copyright, in the end, just to make our books usable digitally
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I had a fuckawesome laptop with Celeron CPU and 512MB RAM.
It was thrice as heavy as everyone else's in the class and only had a fourth of the battery runtime, but it cost only two thirds of their overpriced pieces of shit and ran vidja much better.
The GPU burned out twice from overheating during summer play sessions.
I miss that fucker. Notebooks aren't what they used to be.
>>53989496
>Have old POS hardware
>Push it hard as possible and get the most out of it until it just fucking dies
>Nothing but fond memories
>Have shiny new amazing hardware
>Barely do anything with it because real life shit and no energy or motivation
>Replace it with another shiny new toy 4 years later, continue to do nothing with it
Fuck this shit.
>>53988243
Oldfag here, when I went to HS in '99 they had generic beige boxes running Windows 98. They were good enough to play Starcraft, and lots of Starcraft was played. That's about it.
I recently bought a refurb Lenovo Thinkcentre which were apparently used in a lot of schools as well. Slapped an SSD in it and it runs like new.
>>53989559
For me, it all fell apart with Vista.
Not because of the memetic Vista meme, but because that's when Windows started feeling less responsive to me.
I have no idea if that's just a subjective perception, but from what I remember, DOS-based Windows never lagged.
Well, outside of when it REALLY lagged, that is. Then you got infinite mouse cursors and bluescreens.
But most everyday usage that didn't involve Maxis games generally had instant reactions.
I think some of the issue might be due to that energy saving craze nowadays. HDDs shut down, CPUs clock down and shit.
And then there's the lovely "let's steal all of your HDD IO" thing that has been in Windows since 7. The one where your HDD is suddenly at 100% load and your entire system feels like you are running your first attempt at recursive programming without termination condition.
Thankfully, SSDs fix that shit.
>>53989657
Yeah Vista was a big mis-step. I think Windows 10 is the closest to XP in terms of performance on low end hardware. Once you disable all the stupid crap they added, anyway.
>>53989777
And then they dropped the ball on tablets by fucking up the touch interface.
I wish ecosystems weren't so enclosed.
>>53988243
We had Commodore 64's in my grade school computer courses.Turned me off from computers for nearly a decade.Everyday we were forced to draw various shapes using Logo. Granted, computers had limited uses at the time,but come on,that shit was torture for a seven year old kid.
One time my friend spammed the calculator shortcut button and eventually had so many calculators open a second task bar appeared in the center of the screen
It was an Optiplex with an i5 and 4GB RAM
>>53991766
ebin :-------D
>>53988243
Pentiums with XP. We had other PCs too, I remember I stole a lot of CPUs and RAM from those, but no one ever used them (Durons, Athlons, Semprons). I once disassembled a PC within one minute while the teacher was in the room, no one noticed.
I switched to a lower-grade school in my last year, they had better PCs with i3s and Windows 7. I don't know why the highest grade schools only had shitty ones.
custom built gamer shitboxes and T520s for the students
dual-socket Precisions and convertible HP Compaq tablets for the teachers
never fucked with them because there was no reason to, most of us just brought our own computers anyway
Which one took those massive floppies?
All I can remember is my teacher letting me play the original Wolfenstein on then in grade 2-3.. Fucking things took ages to load, don't remember it having a mouse either..
>>53988421
Thanks for triggering me, asshole. My dad used to buy wholesale school networks for resale, and these motherfuckers were indeed the worst. They used cheap ass capacitors that leaked all the time, rendering the PC unusable unless you replaced them. We estimated the failure rate at around 50%.
In intermediate school (2006? i think) we had a bunch of newer iMac g5's and shit. I had my dads old T42 with 3gb of ram, a pentium M at 1.7ghz and a 12 cell battery that could go for 6 hours.
That blew the schools computers out of the water, i was "the power user" with computers at that point, i think i was like 10 or 11 or something and from just fucking with this computer for a year i was able to do all sorts of shit.
I basically played empire earth and runescape all day on it.
Still have it, still play empire earth on it.
>>53988243
Kek we still use them in our college labs. Be it C++ classes (though the students would rather use their own laptop), matlab classes, 4-pt probe machine, hell even the spectrophotometer and Raman spectrometer are connected to this shit.
Meanwhile the computers at the library are replaced every 18 months even though the only remotely useful thing the students do on it (other than browsing social media or reading turkish cartoon porn) are downloading articles from sciencedirect.
Well at least they dispose it by auctioning them off to students and staffs. I got 2 fairly new lenovo M-series for 200 bucks
>>53993887
In middle school we had optiplexes i think, black and silver and thin at the very least, still ran XP though.
In high school there was no regular computer lab or even computers in the library, we had two carts of macbook airs. But the drafting and CAD class i was in had 23 mac pro's with w6k's in them, and were entirely unlocked, we all had admin accounts. It was expected that because we were in highschool and were in a highly technical class we could be trusted with these nice computers. I installed ubuntu xfce and got autocad 2009 lt working in WINE, and even got the graphical drivers to work. Shit was cash, i riced the fuck out of my desktop.
But way back when, when i was just a wee babby in 1st grade, we still had commodore amiga 1200's, 3 of them to be precise, and used them just to type things and do math. They got rid of them the following year, but god it would make me cum just to touch one again.
>>53988243
Installed keylogger on all of them (around 100 pcs) and got logins of email and popular social network (fb wasnt a thing back then) of nearly entire school. Checked couple of accounts and then literally got bored with it.
>>53993927
why
>>53988243
We had 486's with turbo buttons on the front. All 25 of the PCs shared a single 128k internet connection (which the didn't enable). We basically used an old DOS math program and Derive, and that was it.
>>53989356
>A friend found you could access restricted drives through the save menu,
was that the one where you click the back up option in the save menu of word 2003 or something and it'd give access to the whole network? remember doing that a few times just to fuck with people
>>53993976
Office politics, budget wrangling and competition within the departments. Fuck we still haven't had a proper clean room (even the basic class 100) even tough we fucking fabricate micro-scale devices on Si wafers on regular basis
>>53991798
Ahaha I stole like 12GB of RAM a few years ago. Fucking awesome.
>>53994293
It was mostly SDRAM not even DDR1. I suppose these PCs still stand there today and no one ever finds out about the removed CPUs.
I loved to steal mice and keyboards too, always threw them against and over a special wall in my school. There was a time when keyboard keys were scattered across the whole property.
>>53994346
my current mouse i have now is one i stole from school in like 07
intellimouse gang
fuck me that was 9 years ago
>>53988243
The school I went to had similar computers as OP. I remember that they had XP Professional SP3 at the time and they did a lot of shit to make the IT grind their teeth. For some reason, students could install software with their accounts that would appear on everyone's account. Most likely because students had full access to the program files folder
One day a student downloaded a bunch of shit and installed it on one of the computers. The desktop was filled with a shit ton of icons. I think he installed like 50 programs on it. IT pretty much cut off access to that computer for a few days as they had to remove a lot of adware that got bundled with the shit.
I also recall some kid found the vnc password to all of the computers and would regularly remote connect to them and cause chaos. I think even once he connected to the principals computer and set the wallpaper to porn. The funniest thing was that he had access to the admin account and they could never find who did it
BBC Acorn
Why am i even here.
Apple II.
We mostly played Wizardry.
>>53988421
>>53988481 >yes its Heavy
I keep one around for the keks it fully works running XP pro mine got a P4 2.4GHZ and 512mb ram and a 40GB WD hdd
>>53994468 I Had Dell optiplex GX620's in high school
>>53994346
I stole DDR3 sticks.
Good ol times, haha.
>>53994359
I don't have any stuff from that time anymore, we used these CPUs for overclocking and 'experiments' like melting Lego on the core.
They had color changing LED mice later in that school, a lot of people started to steal these, so the teachers locked their PCs up every time (We had projector type boards in almost every rooms with a separate PC).
In elementary school back in the late 90s the school bought a shit ton of these iMacs. 4 of them were like in each classroom and they rarely used them. For indoor recess we would always fuck around with them. Turns out that when opening internet browser that it would take up all of the ram in it and would purposely go on pages with tons of resources to lock them up.
The IT lady we had in elementary was like in her 50s and would always get pissed off. Pretty much everytime she would come into the classroom she would say:"alright, who has been freezing these things again?" Shit was hilarious
twist two computers so they're facing each other
make sure the disk drives are aligned
press open on both trays and watch the battle commence
>>53994579
>Having DDR3 sticks in school
I would have removed and replaced them with shitty 512 MB or 1 GB ones, so no one would ever notice it
>>53994619
I was talking about these things. They never worked and some teachers refused to use them. The best thing was the higher grade school used pirated copies of Windows XP, we got these popups every time on boot, the teachers told us to ignore it.
>>53994623
>>53988243
We had a about 21 of these as well and took the RAM out too. I would ask if you went to my school but we didn't have a cad room
We mostly played flash games. A couple times we actually had some cs1.6 LAN games going. The teacher in that class rarely got up
Cs1.6 nonsteam was GOAT
>>53988866
Checked!
>>53988243
>they weren't locked so I swapped the ram from my own shitty optiplex and nobody noticed.
You mean the IT staff didn't check inside every computer every evening to ensure the hardware is the same as the one they installed themselves? What a bunch of scrubs amirite?
Or you're a scumbag who steals stuff just because people make the terrible mistake of entrusting you with it.
>inb4 it's a doggy dog world
I set up proxies and made Minecraft work on school PCs for money. Was always a good deal, I was the only one in that computer class that knew at least a bit.
>Inb4 underage
I'm 21 now.
>>53989657
>And then there's the lovely "let's steal all of your HDD IO" thing that has been in Windows since 7. The one where your HDD is suddenly at 100% load and your entire system feels like you are running your first attempt at recursive programming without termination condition.
>Thankfully, SSDs fix that shit
I believe you're talking about page file. Try keeping your porn browsing to a maximum of 100 tabs.
>>53994722
Back to rebbit
>>53994621
must not have been hard to do, still have one of those things in a little portable carrying case and god it's a slow piece of shit
who thought 32 MB of RAM even in 1998 was a good idea?
>>53994747
>not being a nigger
>gets told to go to reddit
I thought /g/ was a wholesome community.
>>53994896
>implying niggers know their way around computers
>"if I say 'nigger' I bet I can fit in"
Back to rebbit you fucking faggot
>>53995026
Bro, I've most likely been on here longer than you, so tone down the misplaced elitism. Calling thieves niggers has been common practice since forever.
>>53988243
>>53988421
We had something similar to these Dells in HS, but I can't begin to guess at the exact model or specs. They were brand new when I started there in '00, and had been donated through some kind of Dell school sponsorship thing because we were a broke-ass public school.
We used to game on them during lunch. We wanted to put CS on them (I guess it would've been 1.4 or something) but our homeroom teacher flipped shit about it "glorifying terrorism" or some shit, so we went with Quake II instead, which she was somehow fine with.
>>53994621
We had these in some of our Middle School classrooms, but I don't recall ever actually using them.
We also had Apples in elementary school, the super-early ones with two bigass floppy drives at first and then early beige one-piece Macs, probably the Mac Classic since it would've been '93 or so. I remember them taking us into the library to learn to use a computer one day, and it was literally the first time much of the class had ever used a mouse, I was bored out of my mind because my dad had a pretty high-end PC at home and I'd been using it for years. (Haha I can still remember writing a first or sedond grade journal entry about playing Wolfenstein.)
>>53994643
If I had a bunch of them I would have done this.
Man modern school systems are so uncool since theyrw all connected to the same database and impossible to do anything on.
I remember on my schools computers we gained played unreal tournament over lan from the library to the csroom
>>53995260
>>>/death/
>>53994579
When I was a junior they upgraded a lab with shiny new PIII 1 GHz boxes. I had an Abit VP6 at home with two PIII 667's. Two of those new 1 GHz boxes became 667's one night...
Those god damned beige Pentium 3 boxes.
I still want one of the beige box 386DX machines I hacked around with in Junior High. They were constantly destroying their keyboard bios chips and the instructor had a plastic sleeve full of replacements in his desk.
In my lastyear of school they upgraded every computer to i7's eith 8gb of ram but they were so small that i dont think they had a gpu, it was really not that big a deal since the school gave everyone laptops (i broke mine trying to install ubuntu, the case also melted and i got a pirated version of office 97 stuck in the disc drive. Also the fn key fell of and the screen got a permanent mark on it. Not even joking)
>>53988243
High school: don't recall the brand, but it had a monochromatic monitor and used 8" floppy disks.
Community college: punch cards, and hard copy terminals.
College: VAX mainframe. The last semester I was there, we got some 286s running DOS.
>>53995946
Are you 50?
>>53988243
We had Commodore 64s in our computer room in High School. That was back in 1984
