;)

[hobbs]

http://h1.ripside.net/rshobbs/dsadas/Piproject1103(Large).jpg
http://h1.ripside.net/rshobbs/dsadas/Piproject1106(Large).jpg
:Wink

[JesterX]

You attended or are attending CES?

[Kindom934]

Whats in the background of the picture...

[efernandez_98]

They look like condoms.

[Kindom934]

They look like condoms.

Uhhh? :What the


You sure your looking at the right pictures?

[efernandez_98]

Uhhh? :What the


You sure your looking at the right pictures?
If by "right pictures", you mean the ones with the condoms then I would have to say, "yes." :Thumb

[Kindom934]

If by "right pictures", you mean the ones with the condoms then I would have to say, "yes." :Thumb

Wait, there's condoms in one of those two pictures?? :What the

[efernandez_98]

Wait, there's condoms in one of those two pictures?? :What the
Yes. :Thumb

[Kindom934]

Yes. :Thumb

I dunno, maybe I need sleep. I can't find 'condom'...

Maybe it is that headphone looking thing? I'm am so lost... :What the

[borschtBomber[SS]]

Ok, for some odd reason I actually just spent about 5 minutes looking and I see no condoms :What the

[Kindom934]

']Ok, for some odd reason I actually just spent about 5 minutes looking and I see no condoms :What the

I spent about 10 minutes or so zooming in the picture and I couldn't find any condoms. Maybe I was not seeing thing right but then again you don't see the condoms.

I don't know...where it could be? :What the

Also, my neck is a bit sore from turning my head sideways to look at it...


Maybe Race or Robo knows?

[Saturn2888]

There are none. Efer is messin' w/ ya.

[tkelito]

Ya I shoulda scrolled down and read the posts first, I saw the word 'condom' and I search for about 10 minutes. After an unsuccessful search I began to read the posts.

/Me feels stupid

/cut

-Pat-

[robodude666]

Actually, in the second picture... If you look to the right of the hard drive you will see a the corner of the paper bent. That paper looks yellow latexy like condoms. :Thumb

Nice desk though. Whats the PCB there? It looks like a video card thats dual layered and longer than the 8800s! Oh, I have that cordless phone. It sucks once its like 4 years old. The LCD on it is starting to die and the reception on it is poor. Hope it will die soon so I can take it apart and take out the wireless module :food

[Kindom934]

Actually, in the second picture... If you look to the right of the hard drive you will see a the corner of the paper bent. That paper looks yellow latexy like condoms. :Thumb

Nice desk though. Whats the PCB there? It looks like a video card thats dual layered and longer than the 8800s! Oh, I have that cordless phone. It sucks once its like 4 years old. The LCD on it is starting to die and the reception on it is poor. Hope it will die soon so I can take it apart and take out the wireless module :food

That so far from...err...the paper looks like a Condom? I don't see no resemblance what-so-ever...


And yes, that looks like a video card, although, I'm not suprise those older video card that used ISA & PCI were LONGER then the 8800's.

Here's a older video card picture.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/th_DSC10406.jpg (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/DSC10406.jpg)

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/th_DSC10409.jpg (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/DSC10409.jpg)



It's funny how we're talking about all these other things in the background besides the CES...

[robodude666]

Oh god! WOW. Imagine those memory chips replaced with TODAY's technology. That would be one KICKASS video card for sure!

[hobbs]

its a compaq smartraid 3200 scsi card with battery backup

[Kindom934]

Oh god! WOW. Imagine those memory chips replaced with TODAY's technology. That would be one KICKASS video card for sure!

All I can remember was that the card was in a old IBM system I think. I had the heck of a hard time finding drivers (Win2000 had it with the OS) and I couldn't go higher then 1024X768 @ 16-Bit color on 75Hz. Anything higher would decrease refresh rate and lower color.

[Drizzt]

That so far from...err...the paper looks like a Condom? I don't see no resemblance what-so-ever...

And yes, that looks like a video card, although, I'm not suprise those older video card that used ISA & PCI were LONGER then the 8800's.

Here's a older video card picture.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/th_DSC10406.jpg (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/DSC10406.jpg)

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/th_DSC10409.jpg (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/DSC10409.jpg)

It's funny how we're talking about all these other things in the background besides the CES...

I remember (barely) seeing those around the house a loooong time ago. That's an old Vesa Local Bus (VL Bus) video card that were popular on the 486 systems shortly before the Pentium came out along with the new kickass PCI bus. Those VL busses were a stop-gap designed to get around the low speed limitations of the 8 MHz ISA bus by offering a direct connection to the 33Mhz system bus. No real arbitration was provided so a flaky video driver could seriously fubar a system. The VL Bus was very privative and used mostly for signaling & data transfer only. The ISA contacts were used more for the power than anything else since the VLB portion did not supply power.

Many was the the VLB-based system that crashed due to a video card that had bad drivers. Thank god these VLB kludges lasted only a few years before PCI became popular.

[robodude666]

That's an old Vesa Local Bus (VL Bus) video card that were popular on the 486 systems shortly before the Pentium came out with the new kickass PCI bus. Those VL busses were a stop-gap designed to get around the low speed limitations of the 8 Mhz ISA bus by offering a direct connection to the 33Mhz system bus. No real arbitration was provided so a flakey video driver could seriously fubar a system.

Many was the the VLB-based system that crashed due to a video card that had bad drivers.

Thank god these VLB kludges lasted only a few years before PCI became popular.

Still some amazing technology for its time. God how technology evolves fast.

If PCI didn't catch on, we would all be using stacker cases :P

[Kindom934]

Actually, in the second picture... If you look to the right of the hard drive you will see a the corner of the paper bent. That paper looks yellow latexy like condoms. :Thumb

Nice desk though. Whats the PCB there? It looks like a video card thats dual layered and longer than the 8800s! Oh, I have that cordless phone. It sucks once its like 4 years old. The LCD on it is starting to die and the reception on it is poor. Hope it will die soon so I can take it apart and take out the wireless module :food
That so far from...err...the paper looks like a Condom? I don't see no resemblance what-so-ever...


And yes, that looks like a video card, although, I'm not suprise those older video card that used ISA & PCI were LONGER then the 8800's.

Here's a older video card picture.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/th_DSC10406.jpg (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/DSC10406.jpg)

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/th_DSC10409.jpg (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/Kingdom934/3dgameman/DSC10409.jpg)



It's funny how we're talking about all these other things in the background besides the CES...
I remember (barely) seeing those around the house a loooong time ago. That's an old Vesa Local Bus (VL Bus) video card that were popular on the 486 systems shortly before the Pentium came out along with the new kickass PCI bus. Those VL busses were a stop-gap designed to get around the low speed limitations of the 8 MHz ISA bus by offering a direct connection to the 33Mhz system bus. No real arbitration was provided so a flaky video driver could seriously fubar a system. The VL Bus was very privative and used mostly for signaling & data transfer only. The ISA contacts were used more for the power than anything else since the VLB portion did not supply power.

Many was the the VLB-based system that crashed due to a video card that had bad drivers. Thank god these VLB kludges lasted only a few years before PCI became popular.
Still some amazing technology for its time. God how technology evolves fast.

If PCI didn't catch on, we would all be using stacker cases :P

LOL...

Oh my gosh, I though nobody would know exaclty what they are. I should have kept one of those IBM's and load up Windows XP on it...

Yea, toss in a X1300 PCI and try load FEAR on that poor machine, that is if it got pass Windows XP installation :P


Either way, I'm going to ask my teacher If I can go and take one of those cards home...that is if I remember where I put it in the workshop...I think it deserves a nice retirement.

[Saturn2888]

Dude, Radeon X200M or whatever it's called. The mobile graphics card can run FEAR on a laptop w/ a Celeron M, that's what Mike was using, and he wasn't even at the lowest graphics settings!

[robodude666]

Wow, (whos mike?) I was running FEAR on my p4 3.2 w/ htt, FX5500 and I have to have the graphics settings at absolute minimum in order for me to play... Otherwise there is annoying lag.

[Saturn2888]

Wow... Integrated laptop graphics are better than your PC's. It was Tivon, Kingdom, Terrin (Mike), and me. You weren't there. Maybe you should update your... Oh yeah, they're nVIDIA graphics, my bad! :P

[Kindom934]

the intergrated 200M from ATI is a few years advance then the FX5500...

[Saturn2888]

Really? No kidding. Well then integrated from ATi has really stepped up in the world!

[StylesCD]

Wow, (whos mike?) I was running FEAR on my p4 3.2 w/ htt, FX5500 and I have to have the graphics settings at absolute minimum in order for me to play... Otherwise there is annoying lag.
so u don't hav the annoyin fog of war?

[Saturn2888]

Hey Styles, think FoW will become an acronym?

[Kindom934]

I bet Hobbs must be like we're some crazy bunch of people.

From Condoms to some Cirrrus Logic graphic cards to FEAR to intergraded graphics then to FoW....LOL

[Saturn2888]

Ha ha ha, dude... I doubt it. This thread is titled ;). What are we SUPPOSED to talk about?

[robodude666]

Ha ha ha, dude... I doubt it. This thread is titled ;). What are we SUPPOSED to talk about?

Saturn has a valid point there.. The creator of the thread didn't say anything in his first post nor did the creator post anything else so this thread really doesn't have a topic unless it fits under ";)" (wink) which can be anything...

[Kindom934]

Saturn has a valid point there.. The creator of the thread didn't say anything in his first post nor did the creator post anything else so this thread really doesn't have a topic unless it fits under ";)" (wink) which can be anything...

Well it suppose to (kinda of...) revolve around the CES...not around finding Condoms in the picture...then again it does fit in the ;) catagory....X_X...

[efernandez_98]

Well it suppose to (kinda of...) revolve around the CES...not around finding Condoms in the picture...then again it does fit in the ;) catagory....X_X...
I take it, you guys still haven't found them.

[Saturn2888]

Nope, no sirie!

[Kindom934]

I take it, you guys still haven't found them.

I don't see any condoms...I looked at almost every pixel with nothing in sight...