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How the lingo of hardware has changed.

TCPMetaTCPMeta
edited June 2004 in Hardware
Back in the day computer parts were slower and used diffrent lingo. For a example.

Motherboard (Still used but some people call them Logicboards or Mainboards)

Daughterboard (Use to stand for Add-In cards like Sound card and video card. Now we just call them as is.)

RAM (Now a days we call it Memory)

HardDisk (What people called the 720KB and 1.44MB Floppys. Mac users use the HardDisk
name for HardDrives.)

Disc (Used instead of DISK)

CD-ROM ( Now known just as a CD)

I think the reason why the hardware lingo has changed because of computer companys bumming down the names so frist timers can understand.
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  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    Fixed Disk - Now Hard Disk/Drive, (FDISK)
    Diskette - CORRECT term for 3.5"
    Floppy Disk - 5.25"
  • RNRN
    Hmmm I never heard of the term Daughterboard until now.
  • Ka0sKa0s
    Ethernet card is now Network card.
  • SlashSlash
    in Russia monitor is called "The Fucking Eye"
    Although in English it sounds not great ;)
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    FishNET3000 wrote:
    Ethernet card is now Network card.

    Yeah, even though there are different kinds of networking..... Ethernet happens to be the most popular and PLUS, stuff like BNC/Coaxial or Tolken Ring are now obsolete and used before 486's
  • RNRN
    LOL I'm looking at The Fucking Eye right now!
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    LOL, my fucken eye is large and glass!
  • MentalMadnessMentalMadness
    I still use most of those terms. Only I often call a Network Card a NIC, or "Netwerkkaart", which is the dutch term for network card.
  • QQ
    'NIC' is the most annoying term ever.

    -Q
  • DuffDuff
    Do you pronouce it as:

    n-INK

    LoL, I usually call them that when I'm trying to sound more technical.

    ~Duff
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    I hate when people say NIC Card, RAM Memory, VGA adaptor, even AGP Port (Accelerated Graphics Port port)
  • RNRN
    LOL NIC Card... Network Interface Card Card.
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    I call AGP: AGP or AGP BUS Slot.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    I just call it an AGP slot
  • RNRN
    Yeah me too.
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    I use many different terms.

    RAM, Memory, Random Access Memory if I want to scare people.

    Oh and when talking with another nerd about networking (usuallly Tony) I refer to Ethernet lines as 802.3 lines or 802.3 system. It's great when others are around. Then you can be like, "Well, you can use 802.11 as a mobile solution for 802 needs". Then you can say that for most data serving needs to use 802.3ab (Gigabit Networking). To further complicate things, you can ramble about 802.3ae, 10 Gb/s Ethernet.
    Then of course, you have IEEE 1294 and 1394, lol.
    Referring to things by their IEEE Specification number really scares people!
  • QQ
    Ahh The IEEE.

    Don't forget EIA/TIA!

    -Q
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    Haha.. the place that likes to name things with numbers!
  • QQ
    568!

    -Q
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    What's 568 for?
  • QQ
    CAT5 cablepairs (Straight though/xover)

    -Q
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    Ooohhh.. So that'd be your standard 802.3 setup? 10-4
  • QQ
    EIA/TIA 586A is one and B is the other. A to A or B to B is straight though. A to B or the other way is xover.

    -Q
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    Hahaha.... it's tough to be so involved in 802: Metropolitan and Localarea networks!
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    SurfinSHELL23 wrote:
    Ooohhh.. So that'd be your standard 802.3 setup? 10-4

    CAT5 is the std. I use all Cat5e and Cat6
  • QQ
    I use what I get! It's all 5 or 5e.

    -Q
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    I got some Cat5. But I usually get my cables off Cat5cableguy which only does Cat5 and Cat6
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    A friend of mine's family use to be hardcore Apple users. They didn't know shit about the hardware but they knew how to use MacOS like a pro (isn't hard to do lol) They finaly got sick of spending like $3,000 for a Apple so they switched to PC. They got a IBM (Thinking all PCs are IBM so they bought one) It cost them about $1,000 bucks. Not bad for the system because this was when the 1GHz breakthough happen and their IBM was 1.2GHz. Anyway, The damn thing fucked up because they didn't know what they were doing. Tech support confused them so his mom asked me to fix it. I repartitioned and formated and reinstalled Windows98. Didn't boot then realized that I had to use the stupid restore CD. Reinstalled everything with the Restore CD. I had to go back and tweak the damn thing because the CD missed a few things. When I was tweaking it his mom was sitting next to me and I was talking out loud on what I was fixing and when I got done I looked over and she looked confused ass hell. She asked me to show her and her husban on how to use Windows98 and it was like teaching a bunch of kinderguardners. I had to turn around and basicly translate some of the stuff into Mac lingo just so they could understand.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    LOL, MacOS is simple.
  • QQ
    You think MacOS is simple, just try:

    A) Terminal

    and

    B) At Ease

    -Q
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