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Do you know anything about networks? Study this info and translate it into Russian!

What is LAN?

When only a few computers are hooked together, usually in a single office or building, the result is called a Local Area Network (LAN). When the computers are connected over a greater distance, for example sales offices throughout a city, the result is called a Wide Area Network (WAN). Connecting all of these LANs and WANs together results in an Internet. The Internet is the world wide connection of all different kinds of networks. A new kind of network is emerging for businesses called an intranet. This refers to all the computers in a company sharing data using the same kind of system as the Internet.

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C ompaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is.

 AST technical support had a call from a lady complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in!

 Another Compaq technician received a call from a man complaining that the system wouldn’t read word processing files from his old diskettes. After trouble-shooting for magnets and heat failed to diagnose the problem, it was found that the customer labeled the diskettes then rolled them into the typewriter to type the labels…

 Another Dell customer called to say he couldn’t get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of trouble-shooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "send" key!

 Yet another Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his tub with soap and water and soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.

 An exasperated caller to Dell Computer Tech Support couldn’t get her new Dell Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed on the foot pedal and nothing happens." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the computer’s mouse…

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• Have you ever called tech support?

• What problems did you try to solve?

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CompuTalk Forum / What Was Your First Computer?

Calum Administrator

What Was Your First Computer?

Hi. What was your first ever computer?

Mine was a Windows 95 with a 2 Gb hardrive. 64mb ram and a pentium 1 processor.

What was yours?

30-06-2008 06:10 PM OS Master Moderator

RE: What Was Your First Computer?

My first computer was a Compaq Presario. It had Windows 95, a 6 GB hard drive (which I still use as a backup), 64 MB of RAM, and ~400 Mhz processor. Those were the days...

30-06-2008 06:22 PM calum

RE: What Was Your First Computer?

Yeah, those were the days.

I still remeber my dial up connection where it would take about 2 mins to connect, load pages in about 1 min and then disconect after 5 mins

30-06-2008 06:30 PM Sava

Member

RE: What Was Your First Computer?

I still have my first computer. I bought it from my money since my parents couldn't afford one. It has 1.8 MHz processor, 512 RAM and a 64 MB video card ... I believe it's an ATI RADEON

http://www.computalk.net/what-was-your-first-computer-t-32.html

1. Look through the forum body. Say what parts a message consists of.

2. What was your first computer? Fill in the forum cell below!

Date _______ time _________

YOU

RE: What Was Your First Computer?

3. Ask your partners about their computers and make a shortlist of computers we all had in “those days”!