Aboard Ship @ On your P.C.

[Doc Vernon]

Crew and Articles on the Homepage !

Also what about END (Of Trip) and HOME (When trip is finished)

Cheers

Well they are on the Computer !?? haha!

[Tony Morcom]

. & - proved to be an excellent way to communicate in the good old days. We all looked forward to a bit of } in port and of course the 'letters' from HOME were always appreciated.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Looking at Gulliver's reply Ports: Nautical terms evolved over time from different languages and I would imagine have played a large part in both history and today's technology.

Even to the extent of which side of the road we drive on (UK and some others) stemmed from much nautical / the sea.

What Are the Ports on the Side of My Laptop?

Headphone/Microphone ports allow headsets or microphones to be connected to the laptop and were traditionally called Jacks ?

Then we have Ethernet ports which are more modem jacks and even serial ports ?

Certain there is much more ?

You know you've been around computers for too long if you remember when:

You know that "Commodore" was not necessarily a nautical term in earlier computer day's.

For Everyone Else:

Bill Gates was just a geeky kid.
Intel meant Indiana Telephone.
You thought a CPU was one of the extras in Star Wars
Ink Jet was what a fountain pen did on your shirt from time to time.
You thought Pentium must have something to with the Pentagon.
Windows were just holes in the wall filled with glass and did not live in your computer.
Mouse pads were also holes in the walls and did not live beside your computer.
A mouse was a furry little critter than ran around the floor and did not have a wire hanging it off the computer.
Cleaning our Mouse Balls was something we NEVER considered doing!
Modems were something we did to lawns
Internet was something that happened to badminton birdies, tennis balls, or fish and had nothing to do with computers.
High-Speed Internet was when a really good tennis player dumped a serve into the net.
Network was when you had to fix the net after you tore it up getting the badminton birdie, tennis ball, or fish out.
Network Cables were what you used to fix the net during network.
A Web Browser was just a spider, also known as a Web Developer, and a Web Site was where he lived.
Download was when you ate as fast as you could.
Bytes were something we got from mosquitoes and, like most things, had nothing to do with computers.
Megabytes were when you got into the chiggers and REALLY got eaten up!
Kilobytes meant nothing because we didn't use the metric system for anything.
Keyboards were where we hung the car keys when we came in the house.
A Hard Disk was better than a Paper Disk (or floppy disk) for eating off of.
The only place you could find Windows 2000 was in the Empire State Building.
Multi-Tasking was when you ate chips and drank beer at the same time!
Hardware was the stuff you bought at hardware stores. Screws and nails and tools and such.
Software was a soft, fluffy robe.
Programs were on television.
Folders were Directories
Folders were things that held Files and then got stuffed in file cabinets.
Directories were what you used to look up telephone numbers.
Monitors were things parents did to their children's activities (a concept that appears to have been lost in the mists of time).
Objects were things of desire and did not live in computers.
A Sound Card was something you stuck in the spokes of your bicycle.
Multimedia referred to two-ply toilet paper
Deleting Multimedia Files meant simply flushing the toilet.
The closest thing we had to Graphics Files were the pages in a child's coloring book.
JPEG and MPEG were what old Jack and Mary Peg had as the name on their mailbox.
Audio Files were the racks we used to store phonograph records in. You do remember phonograph records, don't you?
Video Files was not a known term and did not refer to anything.
Music was something we listened to without benefit of a $1,000 computer.
Pictures were everywhere, and like Music, did not require a $1,000 computer to enjoy.
Zip Files were those soft-sided briefcases that zipped up.
Zip It meant shut your mouth and Stuff It was a derogatory come back.
Dot was short for Dorothy and Dot Com was Ed Com's wife.
History was something you studied in school, and did not refer to someplace you "Visited" yesterday.
Visiting meant going to someone else's house.
Clearing Our Cache meant cleaning out the closet we kept all our junk in.
A Crash was something that airplanes or stock markets did.
Rebooting meant getting a new pair of boots.
A Cold Boot meant that you had been out in the snow
A Warm Boot meant that you had been sitting in front of the fire.
Memory was just something you lost as you got older.
URL was pronounced Earl and he was the postman.
Email was Easter cards that Earl the postman delivered.
There was no [Send] button, you actually had to get out and go to the post office.
A Printer was a person who owned a printing shop (and printed the Email cards that Earl delivered)
A Personal Digital Assistant was a secretary who could count on her fingers.
A Digital Camera was a specialized piece of medical equipment for photographing fingers.
Connected meant bolted together.
A UPS was nothing more than a brown truck full of packages.
A Screen Saver was what you put over the window screens when they got holes in them.
A Word Processor was someone who wrote speeches for a living.
A Spreadsheet was something you did when you made up the bed.
Excel was what your kids did in school and Word was something spoken or written.
Gateway was a portal into another dimension, Dell was a quiet spot in the woods, and Compaq was when you made something take up less space.
USB meant Upper Sideband (most people probably won't understand that one!)
A Laptop was a quiet place for the cat to sleep.
A CD was something you got from a bank and a CD Drive was when you drove to the bank to get a CD.
A "help file" was be something people posted in a newspaper when they wanted to hire someone, or entries in the Ann Landers column.
Video files (videophiles) were the guys hauling around 4 or 5 video cameras and who were always saying, "Could you do that again? I missed it the first time."
Audio files (audiophiles) were the guys that had could hear the slightest phase shift from the 75 loudspeakers in their houses.

K.

[Red Lead Ted]

Shift Ship..................................Gotta be more lads Terry,

[Tony Wilding]

disabled. = broken down. ?

[Tony Morcom]

Buttons on the PC Tower plus the Button Boy on the sailing ships.
Computer Screen and Radar Screen.

[paragon9]

Cursor - The Captain.

Caps Lock - Captains Locker.

Hardware, Software - Say no more!

[Tony Wilding]

as a matter of interest what is or was a button boy ? ?

[paragon9]

Hi Tony,

Wasn't he the boy that was sent down to the engine room to look for the 'Golden Rivet'?

[John Callon]

Have we had cable yet? Control (Bridge or Engine Room Control). Windows.
Rgds
John