This for some reason reminds me of one of the biggest brainfarts i ever had as a kid. I was sitting on my computer waiting fir something to download or whatever. I looked at the turbo button and pressed it a couple of times, just to see tge TURBO light go off and on. I was wondering what it even does. Suddenly my eyes wandered over to the POWER button and i was like: i wonder what that does. And my pc ahut off. For some mysterious reason i thought i had a turbo and a power button to give it some extra juice
Fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know about the turbo button: it usually slowed down your computer. This was to make it compatible with older software that was written for slower processors, otherwise it would run way too fast. That was especially a problem for old games that would be pretty much unplayable unless you slowed them down.
Calling a button that slows down your computer “turbo” was confusing for a lot of people, though, so some manufacturers made turbo the computer’s normal speed and slowed it down when it was turned off. Oddly, though, making their computers work the exact opposite way most worked didn’t do much to make things less confusing.
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This for some reason reminds me of one of the biggest brainfarts i ever had as a kid. I was sitting on my computer waiting fir something to download or whatever. I looked at the turbo button and pressed it a couple of times, just to see tge TURBO light go off and on. I was wondering what it even does. Suddenly my eyes wandered over to the POWER button and i was like: i wonder what that does. And my pc ahut off. For some mysterious reason i thought i had a turbo and a power button to give it some extra juice
Turbo Power !!!
Fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know about the turbo button: it usually slowed down your computer. This was to make it compatible with older software that was written for slower processors, otherwise it would run way too fast. That was especially a problem for old games that would be pretty much unplayable unless you slowed them down.
Calling a button that slows down your computer “turbo” was confusing for a lot of people, though, so some manufacturers made turbo the computer’s normal speed and slowed it down when it was turned off. Oddly, though, making their computers work the exact opposite way most worked didn’t do much to make things less confusing.