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Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Pylon on Fri, 02 July 2010, 20:50:54
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4755920481_053c86f1dd_b.jpg)

Not much better, I know, and kinda uncreative and generic for the first three, and they'll probably look much better in Helvetica (don't have it).

The last one is a finger pressing down on a key(U), N, a spring(I), C, a trackpoint(O), M, and P.  (inspired by eye-bee-M)

Thoughts?
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 02 July 2010, 21:09:44
Trolling started out in bulletin boards/mailing lists where old timers would post threads about certain discussion topics that had been done to death to differentiate the old timers from the argumentative newbies. Trolling as we know it really kicked off when old timers pretending to be newbies posted to these troll topics with obviously over-the-top replies that satirized the sort of arguments that newbies would make in order to provoke comical responses from the real newbies.

I'm not saying that the OP is trolling by any means, it's just that seeing a thread about this particular topic made me think of the above...
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ricercar on Fri, 02 July 2010, 21:25:53
I confess. I have 23 alternate identities on this forum.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 03 July 2010, 15:15:32
I think they should use something like this:
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11558&stc=1&d=1278188100)

Yeah... that's better.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Sat, 03 July 2010, 17:34:37
I think the logo should have a horn on the forehead of one of the letters.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 03 July 2010, 19:39:25
Quote from: Oqsy;199102
I think the logo should have a horn on the forehead of one of the letters.


Like this?
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11566&stc=1&d=1278203949)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 03 July 2010, 20:04:27
Unicomp doesn't need a logo. Just get rid of the whole kit and kaboodle.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 02:21:55
haha not quite, but i like that...

I was thinking more along the lines of a unicorn... unicomp... see what i did there?
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Rajagra on Sun, 04 July 2010, 05:17:11
Quote from: EverythingIBM;199142
Like this?
Show Image
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11566&stc=1&d=1278203949)


Bill approves.

Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sun, 04 July 2010, 08:11:43
Unicomp should change their name all together.  I would come up with my own ideas, but they would be incredibly lame.  Any ideas?
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Morning Song on Sun, 04 July 2010, 08:20:55
I vote for the "Spring Buckler Association of America"
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Mercen_505 on Sun, 04 July 2010, 08:35:19
Jesus, what did you do to Walter?!
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 04 July 2010, 09:26:58
How about iBM? That same sales pitch worked for Crapple to sell their stupid colored boxes.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 10:52:54
Coloured boxes which are stupid, or boxes which are coloured stupidly?
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 12:18:43
there's a skeerl in yer ass... er... hat.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 04 July 2010, 12:24:31
I mean i-Crap's.
(http://bindapple.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/imac-specs-history-2.jpg)
Those things were just overpriced junk even when they were new. Less than half the speed of a Pentium III but twice the cost. I feel bad for the idiots who actually wasted their money on those things. They were just worse than PC's in every way. And they looked gay.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 12:30:09
Less than half the clock speed != less than half the speed.

P4s are oddly coming to mind again.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 04 July 2010, 12:35:14
But G3's were pieces of crap. They were slow. Pentium III's ran much better.

You all gotta remember I had to use those i-Craps for years. The 933Mhz Pentium III systems at work ran much better than the 400Mhz G3's (I don't remember the exact speed; they were somewhere in the 400's).

Oh, and even the mice on the I-Crap's were retarded. Talk about some serious RSI with those dumb round mice.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 12:41:06
I might actually be able to agree with you on the round mice point. My wrist just did a rather painful twitch when I remembered having to use those things.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Pylon on Sun, 04 July 2010, 13:54:00
I've got an old Beige G3 and don't find it particularly bad. And it's my only computer with a mechanical keyboard hooked up to it (some third party ADB thing with black Alps and reversed Ctrl-Caps lock config)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 04 July 2010, 14:08:37
Quote from: microsoft windows;199366
I mean i-Crap's.
Show Image
(http://bindapple.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/imac-specs-history-2.jpg)

Those things were just overpriced junk even when they were new. Less than half the speed of a Pentium III but twice the cost. I feel bad for the idiots who actually wasted their money on those things. They were just worse than PC's in every way. And they looked gay.


Yeah and they were released in 1998, IBM's PC 300 series could already suprass it in 1997. They were outdated when they were released in other words.
I hate the iMac G3s in every way possible, those were the first computers I used ironically... I didn't think much of them at the time, but boy, when I got my IBM, I realized how truly inferior they were... didn't learn anything from them. I learned to type own my own as time passed, that's the best way, rather than forcing it down the throat of children on iMac G3s. And did you know you could hit ctrl+alt+delete and it would bring up a windows-like menu? Apple still did a lot of copying of windows back then, so it wasn't as bad as OSX.

Quote from: kishy;199370
Less than half the clock speed != less than half the speed.

P4s are oddly coming to mind again.


P4s are perfectly fine, with a nice 3.8 Ghz P4 you're on your way.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 04 July 2010, 15:29:45
Quote from: ripster;199379
......


Yes, but this has been taken to idiotic heights around here when the same people make the same troll arguments that everyone knows are wrong.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: InSanCen on Sun, 04 July 2010, 17:08:14
do you reckon iMav can put a filter in place that stop's EIBM and M$W from submitting a post with  the following phrases in it... "Apple, Jobs, G3," and a nice wildcard to catch i-anything.

Please....

Sugar on top...
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 04 July 2010, 17:59:15
Quote from: EverythingIBM;199397
Yeah and they were released in 1998, IBM's PC 300 series could already suprass it in 1997. They were outdated when they were released in other words.
I hate the iMac G3s in every way possible, those were the first computers I used ironically... I didn't think much of them at the time, but boy, when I got my IBM, I realized how truly inferior they were... didn't learn anything from them. I learned to type own my own as time passed, that's the best way, rather than forcing it down the throat of children on iMac G3s. And did you know you could hit ctrl+alt+delete and it would bring up a windows-like menu? Apple still did a lot of copying of windows back then, so it wasn't as bad as OSX.



P4s are perfectly fine, with a nice 3.8 Ghz P4 you're on your way.


I like 3.8Ghz Pentium 4's. I can fry eggs while using my computer.

And the Crapple's got even worse than the iMac G3's. You never had to use these at work:
(http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/2009/01/power_mac_g3_aio.jpg)

They were basically these things with color displays.
(http://areeweb.polito.it/didattica/polymath/ICT/Htmls/Interventi/Articoli/Italia/IndustrialDesign/Img/apple_mac_128k.jpg)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:22:16
I've never seen one of those things... what is it?
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:28:14
Power Mackintrash G3 All-in-one. At work we always called them the "Dino's".
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:30:03
Unless I am mistaken, that first picture is an old Power Mac G3, even worse than the painfully-slow iMac G3's.  I used them back in elementary school.  The only thing they were good for was hacking into other people files with the master password.

EDIT: Damn! MS Windows beat me to it!
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:38:01
Quote from: ch_123;199477
I've never seen one of those things... what is it?

For serious?

It's a Power Mac G3.

They actually don't suck, they're just really ugly.

Edit: HOW DID BOTH OF THEM BEAT ME TO IT?!?!
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:39:09
They suck and are extremely ugly. But their keyboards weren't as bad as the I-Crap's.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:40:20
I've never seen an all-in-one example. The G3 power macs I've encountered are usually -

(http://images.apple.com/pr/photos/powermac/g3qtr150.jpg)

or

(http://lowendmac.com/ppc/art/g3-pair-320.jpg)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:40:37
They came with the AppleDesign M2980 IIRC. It's worse than the Gen1 iMac keyboard.

The computer didn't suck. Beat the living snot out of what was going on in our little IBM-compatible world at the time.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:41:23
CH - I believe it was education-market-only. My high school had some left over in the media arts program while awaiting the G5 deliveries.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:42:50
Quote from: kishy;199496

The computer didn't suck. Beat the living snot out of what was going on in our little IBM-compatible world at the time.


My Gateway2000 from the year before could beat the snot of a Power Macintrash G3. Besides, all those things ran was Mac OS, which at the time was useless garbage.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:45:09
My college is dumping a few eMacs at the moment. Rescued one, and it keeps freezing up all the time. Our resident Mac fanboi proclaims it to be a hardware issue, but there's no way in hell I'm going to save another awkwardly shaped 25Kg Mac in the vain hope that it might work...
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:49:26
Quote from: microsoft windows;199501
My Gateway2000 from the year before could beat the snot of a Power Macintrash G3. Besides, all those things ran was Mac OS, which at the time was useless garbage.


You've apparently never tried to edit video on your Pentium 1.

And apparently, never have on a G3 either.

It's virtually impossible on one, and practically impressive on the other.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 04 July 2010, 18:51:16
SGIs with MIPS CPUs were used for video editing and 3D graphics stuff... and they often had CPUs with clock-speeds as low as 200MHz.

****ing x86...
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 04 July 2010, 19:17:46
Quote from: microsoft windows;199467
I like 3.8Ghz Pentium 4's. I can fry eggs while using my computer.

They don't get that hot unless improper cooling (but hey, iMacs get so hot that they had to release firmware to speed up the fans)... have a decent copper heatsink with a two-way fan flow and it'll get good temperatures.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sun, 04 July 2010, 19:22:19
Quote from: EverythingIBM;199524
but hey, iMacs get so hot that they had to release firmware to speed up the fans.


I remember the computer lab at the elementary school was so warm in the winter time.  Now I know why...
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Sun, 04 July 2010, 19:24:40
Quote from: EverythingIBM;199524
They don't get that hot unless improper cooling


(http://www.weather.gov.hk/education/edu06nature/images/ele-cerenkov-1.jpg)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Mon, 05 July 2010, 00:39:06
Lol, they still get that hot...you're just dissipating it at the same rate as it builds up (or something like that).

Unplug the fan and watch how quickly it powers off due to overheat, even idle.

Do the same with a P3, it'll run for quite some time. P2, P3, AthlonXP, Sempron, Athlon64...they'll all survive considerably longer than a P4.

(once upon a time I got curious and did this test. YMMV, don't blame me if you roast something because you took this as actual advice to unplug your fan)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Mon, 05 July 2010, 01:42:33
Quote from: kishy;199592
Lol, they still get that hot...you're just dissipating it at the same rate as it builds up (or something like that).

Unplug the fan and watch how quickly it powers off due to overheat, even idle.

Do the same with a P3, it'll run for quite some time. P2, P3, AthlonXP, Sempron, Athlon64...they'll all survive considerably longer than a P4.

(once upon a time I got curious and did this test. YMMV, don't blame me if you roast something because you took this as actual advice to unplug your fan)

The idle thing is true -- my P4 sucks the same amount of power idle or not.

Actually, Tom's hardware did a test with various CPUs, the Pentium 4s did the best without a heatsink, they simply slowed down. The P3s survived, but froze. The AMD ones (athlon included) started smoking. lol, ****ty AMD.
hl=en_US&fs=1">hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385">[/youtube]

I seriously think people need to stop being so hard on Pentium 4 chips. They're not bad at all. My 3.4 Ghz one gets very good cooling and performs well, I can't wait for a 3.8 ghz one in the near future.
Although, when they DON'T get good cooling, yeah, they do get warm -- but that's the same with any processor today.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 05 July 2010, 05:20:52
The problem is that they need some big ****-off cooler to keep them under a stable temperature. With the same sort of cooling, you could have run an overclocked Athlon 64 at the same temperature. I know which one I would want. Nevermind how expensive the things were.

Quote
The AMD ones (athlon included) started smoking. lol, ****ty AMD.


AFAIK, that was a motherboard issue, and not a problem with the chips themselves.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Mon, 05 July 2010, 10:14:23
Quote from: ch_123;199620
The problem is that they need some big ****-off cooler to keep them under a stable temperature. With the same sort of cooling, you could have run an overclocked Athlon 64 at the same temperature. I know which one I would want. Nevermind how expensive the things were.

AFAIK, that was a motherboard issue, and not a problem with the chips themselves.


Actually, the core i7 heatsinks are larger than any P4 I've seen previously.

The core2duo computer I have has a larger heatsink than the P4. Although it runs around 30 Celsius opposed to 50.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Mon, 05 July 2010, 14:24:31
Whew, I'm sure glad this thread didn't get hijacked!
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Mon, 05 July 2010, 15:27:18
Who said anything about running a chip with no heatsink? I said unplug the fan. Worlds apart...

You should expect nothing less of total chip failure if you run it with no heatsink. It should, however, be able to survive with the fan disconnected at idle.

P4 will power off as a self protection mechanism before the others will because the others are efficient enough that passive cooling will keep them relatively stable by comparison (again at idle, and other factors play in like ambient air temp)

Again - not a suggestion that somebody actually should do this. If you were to, it'd be very advisable to keep an eye on temperature figures assuming your know your motherboard's reported numbers are accurate.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 05 July 2010, 15:31:26
Quote from: EverythingIBM;199661
Actually, the core i7 heatsinks are larger than any P4 I've seen previously.

The core2duo computer I have has a larger heatsink than the P4. Although it runs around 30 Celsius opposed to 50.


Yeah, but Core i7s are very quick, which sort of vidicates the heat they output. The fastest Pentium 4 was slower than the fastest Athlon 64, and outputted far more heat, and had no 64-bit capabilities (at least until they released those 64 bit ones when the P4 was NEOL)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Pylon on Mon, 05 July 2010, 18:35:35
Quote from: kishy;199717
Who said anything about running a chip with no heatsink? I said unplug the fan. Worlds apart...

You should expect nothing less of total chip failure if you run it with no heatsink. It should, however, be able to survive with the fan disconnected at idle.

P4 will power off as a self protection mechanism before the others will because the others are efficient enough that passive cooling will keep them relatively stable by comparison (again at idle, and other factors play in like ambient air temp)

Again - not a suggestion that somebody actually should do this. If you were to, it'd be very advisable to keep an eye on temperature figures assuming your know your motherboard's reported numbers are accurate.


I forgot to reattach the fan cable for my laptop once (granted it had a 35W Celeron, but it was Northwood-based, so counts as a P4) and it hit around 90-something before I realized the mistake (it was throttling). A Dell D630 with a 35W C2D running folding@home with fans at full blast hit 93 degrees on a regular basis, on the other hand.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Mon, 05 July 2010, 21:34:00
Quote from: ch_123;199722
Yeah, but Core i7s are very quick, which sort of vidicates the heat they output. The fastest Pentium 4 was slower than the fastest Athlon 64, and outputted far more heat, and had no 64-bit capabilities (at least until they released those 64 bit ones when the P4 was NEOL)


They had 64-bit P4s in 2005. Core2Duo wasn't out for another year yet... so the P4 was still intel's top chip.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Mon, 05 July 2010, 23:41:50
I wonder which of those chips would be best suited for mocking up a better Unicomp logo...
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Tue, 06 July 2010, 04:06:18
Quote from: EverythingIBM;199840
They had 64-bit P4s in 2005. Core2Duo wasn't out for another year yet... so the P4 was still intel's top chip.


Wasn't that what I basically said?
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Tue, 06 July 2010, 18:02:43
I take it back, I think the current unicomp logo is the best of all possible logos.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: InSanCen on Wed, 07 July 2010, 09:29:26
Quote from: EverythingIBM;199605
I seriously think people need to stop being so hard on Pentium 4 chips


Why should we? It was a very inefficient design... Go look up a few things. Barrel Shifters and a long-ass pipeline. Cache Misses too while you are at it. When you understand that, you may come back and attempt to defend the chip. They were that bad. If you stumble across Darek Mihoka's page that was written when the P4 was originally released, you may learn a few things if you actually bother to read it.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Wed, 07 July 2010, 17:54:45
Unicomp logo... hmmmmmm
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Wed, 07 July 2010, 20:16:07
(http://www.puchimaiko.com/images/unibrow.jpg)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Wed, 07 July 2010, 20:17:10
or one of those little seats that comes with a wheel under it!  just the one..... oh damn, umm what are they called again?
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Pylon on Thu, 08 July 2010, 08:37:04
A unicycle?
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Thu, 08 July 2010, 08:41:28
Quote from: kishy;199513
You've apparently never tried to edit video on your Pentium 1.

And apparently, never have on a G3 either.

It's virtually impossible on one, and practically impressive on the other.


I used G3's for years. Trust me. I know how fast/slow they are.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 08 July 2010, 08:57:48
But you never tried to edit video on them!  kishy's argument is that G3's were much better at editing video than a Pentium 1.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: microsoft windows on Thu, 08 July 2010, 09:29:53
I don't really believe that. The pentium computers ran everything else much better. I bet the video editing is probably more software-related than hardware-related.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Thu, 08 July 2010, 18:27:24
On topic threads stay on topic.

On topic threads don't bother with processor X versus processor Y arguments because they're irrelevant.  

On topic threads don't bother with OS (A) versus OS (B) because they're irrelevant.

On topic threads don't bother with IBM versus Apple versus Microsoft versus Intel versus AMD versus VIA versus MSI versus ATI versus Coca-Cola versus Pepsi because they're irrelevant.

On topic threads stay on topic.


unicomp
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 08 July 2010, 18:39:19
Well said Oqsy.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Thu, 08 July 2010, 18:44:11
Quote from: Oqsy;200833
unicomp


I rather like that...slightly stylize it, find a way to make it look good on a keyboard and it'd be nice.

The blue kind of pays respect to their origins as well.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Thu, 08 July 2010, 20:11:26
kishy: that was the thought, a little homage to the IBM heritage without being overt copyright / trademark infringement :D

I'll play around with illustrator or photoshop later and see if I can do it up right.  If it meets with enough approval we can make a template for replacement decals for num caps scroll lock indicator area :D  

Or perhaps one of you would like to try to prove me wrong that the AMD Sempron is the best processor ever built.  

Whatever...
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: kishy on Thu, 08 July 2010, 20:22:46
Went from Sempron(64) 2800 to Athlon64 3200. Sempron was a good performer.

AthlonXP Semprons are also rather decent.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Thu, 08 July 2010, 21:17:55
here's a quick attempt

(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11663&d=1278641845)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Thu, 08 July 2010, 21:45:09
Quote from: InSanCen;200238
Why should we? It was a very inefficient design... Go look up a few things. Barrel Shifters and a long-ass pipeline. Cache Misses too while you are at it. When you understand that, you may come back and attempt to defend the chip. They were that bad. If you stumble across Darek Mihoka's page that was written when the P4 was originally released, you may learn a few things if you actually bother to read it.


It works, and works well. That's all I care about.

Quote from: ripster;200526
Needs a bit more artistic flair I'd say.

Should use Frida Kahlo's Unibrow as one of the Rebus figures.
Show Image
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PGM5komqCws/ShtsxwHhmqI/AAAAAAAAHug/je_SkVGeq20/s400/unibrow.jpg)


That's a good idea ripster, an IBM logo with a uni-brow flare to it. How about two computers connected to one another? Get it? Uni-comp[uter]. Oh well.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: quadibloc on Thu, 08 July 2010, 22:05:47
Quote from: kishy;199592
Lol, they still get that hot...you're just dissipating it at the same rate as it builds up (or something like that).
This was not phrased properly.

They still produce as much heat even with proper cooling that dissipates the heat as fast as it generates.

But they don't get as hot (reach the same temperature) if they are properly cooled.

Of course, cooling always dissipates heat as fast as it generates - eventually. The difference is that if you put more effort into cooling a microprocessor, the rate of heat removal becomes equal to that of heat production at a lower equilibrium temperature. This is because, in general, heat flow from one place to another is proportional to the difference in temperature. So, if you want to remove lots of heat fast from a computer chip that isn't that hot to begin with, ice-cold water, or, better yet, liquid nitrogen might be advised.

If microprocessors could survive being hot enough (like the chips they make out of silicon carbide to put in cars) then the microprocessor could dissipate heat as fast as it was produced simply by acting as a space heater, without a fan at all. They could mount the microprocessor on the outside of the case, and you could use it to keep your coffee warm.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 09 July 2010, 09:20:27
Quote from: Oqsy;200833
On topic threads stay on topic.

On topic threads don't bother with processor X versus processor Y arguments because they're irrelevant.  

On topic threads don't bother with OS (A) versus OS (B) because they're irrelevant.

On topic threads don't bother with IBM versus Apple versus Microsoft versus Intel versus AMD versus VIA versus MSI versus ATI versus Coca-Cola versus Pepsi because they're irrelevant.

On topic threads stay on topic.


unicomp


You're going off topic...
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Fri, 09 July 2010, 09:50:26
The little unicomp logo was definitely ON topic.  I even did a bigger version.  parallel conversations and complete thread jacking are different animals...  thread jacking to troll about processors and apple sucks / doesn't suck is the lowest of the low.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: audioave10 on Fri, 09 July 2010, 10:29:43
(http://www.ecos.com/images/9654_VanillaUniFresh.jpg)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 09 July 2010, 22:00:59
What about the uni-ball pen things, they're pretty weird:
http://uniball.com/home/index.html (http://uniball.com/home/index.html)

IT DOESN'T SMUDGE!!! WOW!
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: Oqsy on Fri, 09 July 2010, 22:14:15
Unitard.
(http://russjosephs.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/freddie-mercury-in-unitard.jpg)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 09 July 2010, 22:25:06
Quote from: Oqsy;201158
Unitard.
Show Image
(http://russjosephs.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/freddie-mercury-in-unitard.jpg)

I'm reminded of this for some reason:
(http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/w/waxworks/waxworks-6.gif)

For some odd reason, I can't get the little MIDI loops from that game on the level out of my mind. CURSE YOU MIDI FILES!
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: ricercar on Sat, 10 July 2010, 21:59:53
Originally Posted by microsoft windows
My Gateway2000 from the year before could beat the snot of a Power Macintrash G3. Besides, all those things ran was Mac OS, which at the time was useless garbage.

Originally Posted by kishy
You've apparently never tried to edit video on your Pentium 1.
And apparently, never have on a G3 either.
It's virtually impossible on one, and practically impressive on the other.

This is my memory of the G3 era. 1997 was the year when Apple published advertising with an open mouth shark on the G3 PowerBook screens because they outperformed the Pentium I they were marketed against.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: TexasFlood on Sat, 10 July 2010, 22:39:46
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11685)
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sat, 10 July 2010, 22:45:34
Quote from: TexasFlood;201449
Show Image
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11685)

MENINBLUE ATTACK! AAAAAAAAH!

Quote from: ricercar;201441
Originally Posted by microsoft windows
My Gateway2000 from the year before could beat the snot of a Power Macintrash G3. Besides, all those things ran was Mac OS, which at the time was useless garbage.

Originally Posted by kishy
You've apparently never tried to edit video on your Pentium 1.
And apparently, never have on a G3 either.
It's virtually impossible on one, and practically impressive on the other.

This is my memory of the G3 era. 1997 was the year when Apple published advertising with an open mouth shark on the G3 PowerBook screens because they outperformed the Pentium I they were marketed against.

My memory of the G3 was utter garbage. It was the first computer I really got to use too. They were slow, had nothing on them, and literally were a cheap rip off of windows 95.

Ah, then I got my 300PL and all was redeemed. Wonderful computer.
Title: Idea for better Unicomp logo
Post by: TexasFlood on Sun, 11 July 2010, 00:02:21
Quote from: EverythingIBM;201452
MENINBLUE ATTACK! AAAAAAAAH!

Yes, :wink:, it's the font that gave me the look i had in mind.  Looking at it again, maybe could run some of the letters together might look a bit sleeker, something like this:

(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11692)
or
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11693)
or
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11694)