I can still hear/feel the gradual effect followed with the iconic “click”
I guess that’s why they call it “booting”
Do people not still do this? People must still have towers, and they must have on buttons, right?
I’ve not built a tower in a good few years now so maybe I’m out of touch and they’re all voice activated now or use DNA scanners from Gattaca idk xD
People learned that computer cases shouldn’t go on the ground, unless you want them to be a dust magnet (especially if you have a case with intakes on the bottom for the GPU).
Never put your PC on the floor unless it’s your company’s shitty workstation tower that really needs to be replaced.
I have a tower but it’s on my desk (and the button is on the top facing the ceiling) so using my foot to turn it in would be a slight issue lol
I got one of those Mac minis and the button is on the bottom!
Apple is pretty shitty at design though especially for a company so renowned for design haha.
I have a bunch of mini Linux computers too and they have mostly normal buttons but they are tiny. Probably too tiny for toes.
I still do it bro
I still do, why should it have changed?
Button is on the top now 😔
And too small for my big ass toe
More people use laptops (or even tablets or smartphones) more of the time nowadays, so fewer people turn on their devices that way nowadays.
I still use my toes for my laptop but the people in my office are so weird about it
What was the big-toe-sized button for it fnot for the big to- you know what, I don’t think I wanna know.
I still turn my computer like that most of the time.
mine had a button cap and dad used to joke that he bought it on black market and it originates from the nuclear missile launch button.
That button cap is important with a lot of kids around.
makes sense. never thought about that from this standpoint. I had a tendency of pushing random buttons when I was a kid so that’s probably why the cap.
mine was an actual heavy-ass switch. it felt like shutting down the power of an entire neighborhood.
And a turbo button
Made you feel something killing your pc.
That sounds so cool
Yeah mine had switches on it to power all the peripherals too, and they lit up bright orange.
I still do it except its my UPS
Hey man, as long as it’s consensual…
Nine times out of ten I’d hit the turbo button and then spend half an hour wondering why the family computer was running slowly…
Hey now. Most of these people don’t know about turbo…
They certainly don’t know about the “magic/more magic” button…
I thought that was a switch?
Might have been. The way I heard it, the toggle was a button, like the turbo button.
Ah, that nice 33 -> 66 change
Kids these days with their 5% overclocks.
Back in my day we had 100% overclocks!
This brings out nostalgia…
You might have meant it as a joke but just in case someone else isn’t aware, this button actually made your CPU slower 🤓
Depends on the motherboard version. On later ones, the turbo actually worked to make your PC faster.
As far as I understand, it’s purely marketing semantics.
The point of the ‘Turbo’ button is to slow the CPU down to provide compatibility with old software that was written with a fixed clockspeed, where the software would become unusably fast on newer CPUs.
Calling this a “slow” mode or “compatibility” mode wasn’t very marketing-sexy however, so manufacturers just flipped it around and called the normal speed ‘Turbo’.
With later systems, developers all became aware that varying CPU frequencies were a thing, and started to base their software timings on the realtime clock instead.
So in later systems there was no longer any need to have the CPU run at anything other than its maximum (normal) speed - and the turbo button simply went away.
…we had finally achieved permanent turbo.
You might have meant it as a joke
Yeah, I didn’t think anyone would get the joke if I posted a picture of a 486DX with the J20 jumper set. You have to be a greybeard to remember that.
A 486DX with the J20 jumper set! HAH!
My first thought was “hey I’m not a greybeard”
I am. I am a greybeard.
It’s still the 2000’s so I still do
When I was younger I had a computer where the front fell off and stripped the wires from the button.
To turn it on and off I had to hold the wires together, felt like I was hot wiring a car every time.
Wasn’t this built so the front wouldn’t fall off?
Well, Its not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Well how is it untypical?
We’ve towed it outside of the environment.
Perfect prelude to playing GTA
Kinda the same here but one day I noticed it also worked by simply touching the case with one of the wires and that’s how I did it from here.
When I bench tested components at a PC shop, I’d use my smallest screwdriver to short the pins on the motherboard to start up the caseless computer.
I have a server that’s a motherboard in a shelf that I stick a screwdriver into to power cycle
You Monster! Why would you power cycle a server?
