Foo - Peculiar computer problem

Whenever I go to a website, most sites will display the text size pretty darn big. The sigs. on bikeforums here look huge to me, but everyother text is normal. Other sites have the text huge, and even places like dictionary.com have the text oversized. What is goin on here?

On your browser at the top, go to View, then Text Size. You should have 5 choices of how you want your text displayed.

On IE, it was on largest, I changed it, but here Im on AOL and it is still large. Hm

Start -> Control Panel -? Accessibility Options -> Click on the "Display" tab and make sure "High Contrast" is NOT checked.

it shoudl also be noted AOL might need to be restarted for the change in IE to take effect since AOL BASICALLY wraps the Internet Web Browser control

Oh yeah, I just got on AOL again and all is fine. Thanks;D

Another thing that might help is to hold down the "CTRL" key and use the roll button on your mouse. I occasionally do that by accident and get some strange print size.

Aaron:)

LOL woah=O

I dont mind the text really small. It's nice actually.

Another thing that might help is to hold down the "CTRL" key and use the roll button on your mouse. I occasionally do that by accident and get some strange print size.

Aaron:)
+1...that was going to be my suggestion/comment.

When I was in 8th grade, I would have to always type something and use the mouse to click send, whenever I was on aol's instant messenger (not aim). Later someone told me I could use ctrl+enter to send it. What a timesaver.

When I was in 8th grade, I would have to always type something and use the mouse to click send, whenever I was on aol's instant messenger (not aim). Later someone told me I could use ctrl+enter to send it. What a timesaver.
When I was in 8th grade, the only computers ANYBODY had at home were commodore and amigas....unless you count 8-bit game consoles like Atari.

When I was in 8th grade, the only computers ANYBODY had at home were commodore and amigas....unless you count 8-bit game consoles like Atari.

When I was in the 8th grade the 8080 chip had just come out and pocket calculators that could only add, subtract, multiply and divide cost over $50:eek: Our high school was one of the first in our district to get a computer IIRC it was a TRS 80 and they used it for attendance and grades:D and I was gone the next year;) It is amazing and scarey in a way how far we have come and how much has been lost (in terms of data)

Aaron:)

When I was in the 8th grade the 8080 chip had just come out and pocket calculators that could only add, subtract, multiply and divide cost over $50:eek: Our high school was one of the first in our district to get a computer IIRC it was a TRS 80 and they used it for attendance and grades:D and I was gone the next year;) It is amazing and scarey in a way how far we have come and how much has been lost (in terms of data)

Aaron:)
Well....we are almost the exact same age then. The 8080 chip came out in 1984 IIRC, and my 8th grade year was the 83-84 school year.

we had an 8088 that was given to us by a distant uncle. Some business was getting rid of them as i recall. Loved me some SuperCalc on it.
The 8088 chip was far superior to the 8086 chip but for some reason x86 won . We also had several TRS 80's

we had an 8088 that was given to us by a distant uncle. Some business was getting rid of them as i recall. Loved me some SuperCalc on it.
The 8088 chip was far superior to the 8086 chip but for some reason x86 won . We also had several TRS 80's
Did you know Supercalc was the first commercial PC software program?

I think the x86 chip had a better architecture for expandability is why it won out. It had "doubling capability" better than the 8088 architecture.

Did you know Supercalc was the first commercial PC software program?

I think the x86 chip had a better architecture for expandability is why it won out. It had "doubling capability" better than the 8088 architecture.
I actually never followed Supercalc's beginnings much. The only one i followed was Visicalc which was created out of a garage iirc. I never saw a Visicalc for the x86 though.

I actually never followed Supercalc's beginnings much. The only one i followed was Visicalc which was created out of a garage iirc. I never saw a Visicalc for the x86 though.
I didn't "follow" it...I just remember seeing that fact in some documentary on early computing one time I think. It was created by some business or accounting students at one of the Ivy League schools (I want to say Harvard).

heh, heh... wow... ancient history... you're right, Visicalc was created by Dan Bricklin & Gary Kildall (creator of CP/M, the predecessor of MS-DOS) in 1978. The development versions were actually written in BASIC on the Apple ][. I remember my mum using Visicalc at her office. Here's a picture of the Harvard business-school, a picture of Dan and the spot at Martha's Vineyard where he came up with the idea during a bike ride.

http://www.bricklin.com/history/08be9960.jpghttp://www.bricklin.com/history/08d7b960.jpghttp://www.bricklin.com/history/0b8e3960.jpg (http://www.bricklin.com/history/saiidea.htm)

BTW, the 8086 with a 16-bit data bus was a better CPU than the 8088. But the 8088 was chosen for cost reasons in implementing memory and expansion cards. However, the 8088's 8-bit bus limited addressable memory to 1mb. Someone decided to place the system ROM from the high-end at 1mb down and user-memory would start at 0mb and work its way up. Problem was with bank-switching in memory above 1mb made user-memory non-contiguous and half-@ssed schemes were developed to leap-frog over the system ROM between 640kb-1mb... ugly... anyone remember himem.sys and memmaker.exe from the DOS days? :mad: :eek:

In 1984 when the 80286 and the IBM-AT came out, they had a chance at that time to get rid of the stupid 640kb barrier with the chip's 16-bit data-bus being able to address 16mb of memory linearly without any bank-switching. But that would've meant scrapping all previous software... MS decided to be backwards compatible and strap us with that DOS mess for another 10-years... grr...

Danno, you know everything there is to know about everything (math, cars, physics, computers,..girls:D) heh

heh, heh... ;) That's what happens when you've got a lot of time on your hands... :) I'm seriously looking for genetic therapies that will let me get away with 3-4 hrs of sleep a night...

Don't let him kid yo, he just really knows how to 'Google' real well. :)

heh, heh... ;) That's what happens when you've got a lot of time on your hands... :) I'm seriously looking for genetic therapies that will let me get away with 3-4 hrs of sleep a night...

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