Computers Were Much Better in the 286 / 386 Days

[L.K.Eder]

Pieces of crap now and can't do much more.
Try sending a two sentence email? Yahoo, Gmail, all lock up half the time. "Recover Page?" FU, and lose what I typed. POS. And this website the way the ads F up the page and lock everything up??
I use 3 new computers, two with 12GB of Ram and high-end intel chips and websites and email lock up, blue circle of death on everything, nothing ever works for more than an hour without it brain farting.
And one other thing - when it is just idling the CPU starts pumping away like a jack rabbit on a Saturday night. WTF?
Just more evidence civilization is imploding.

Stop surfing porn sites.

 

[Ringel05]

Pieces of crap now and can't do much more.
Try sending a two sentence email? Yahoo, Gmail, all lock up half the time. "Recover Page?" FU, and lose what I typed. POS. And this website the way the ads F up the page and lock everything up??
I use 3 new computers, two with 12GB of Ram and high-end intel chips and websites and email lock up, blue circle of death on everything, nothing ever works for more than an hour without it brain farting.
And one other thing - when it is just idling the CPU starts pumping away like a jack rabbit on a Saturday night. WTF?
Just more evidence civilization is imploding.

Stop surfing porn sites.

Why?

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Pieces of crap now and can't do much more.
Try sending a two sentence email? Yahoo, Gmail, all lock up half the time. "Recover Page?" FU, and lose what I typed. POS. And this website the way the ads F up the page and lock everything up??
I use 3 new computers, two with 12GB of Ram and high-end intel chips and websites and email lock up, blue circle of death on everything, nothing ever works for more than an hour without it brain farting.
And one other thing - when it is just idling the CPU starts pumping away like a jack rabbit on a Saturday night. WTF?
Just more evidence civilization is imploding.

I still have my dual 386 and it works great for non 32 bit programs.

 

[Iceweasel]

I joined Costco to buy my first computer, a 386SX. It had DOS 4 on it. I could turn it on and get the menu to drop down. I hired a guy to load some software that I bought from him and as he was installing it the screen displayed colors exploding like the 4th of July. And then nothing. He swore he had done it before with no issues.

Took it back and had to argue the point but they caved. Maybe a year later I got the math coprocessor for $300 and thought it was the best money I ever spent.

I don't know what the OPs problem is but it isn't hardware.