bobmielke Loc: Portland, OR

Yesterday, while using my iMac for everything under the sun, I was having great difficulty switching from one view to the next. Things that would take a split second were taking 10 seconds to do. I checked all the basics, rebooted my broadband router and computer. Still, my speed was pathetic. After a good night's sleep I started anew this morning to my normal lightning fast computer and broadband.

I've been an electronic technician for 42 years. I've been into personal computers since 1978 when IBM launched the original PC. I've learned a basic fact: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"! Rather than blame my system or a virus or something obscure I gave it 24 hours and sure enough it had to be my ISP, Comcast.

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

My first computer was a TRS Model 80. I programmed in college on a motorola 6502 microprocessor. The apple wasn't invented yet it used the 6502. Also was on a PDP 11 and a Univac 1180 using a 6 bit byte and a 6 byte word called field data. Sperry lost out to Big Blue in the end. Ive been on IBM Mainframes since 1984. PCs are toys of simplicity.

bobmielke Loc: Portland, OR

LOL A trash 80. Right up there with the Vic 20 and Atari. My two 5-1/4 floppy 8086 computer with an RGB monitor and Epson FX-100 dot matrix printer cost me $4800.

Country's Mama Loc: Michigan

Good advice Bob. Glad you are back up and running.

larrycumba

I thought Al Gore made the first PC.