What programs do you find helpful for EFI Live?

[SIKDMAX]

Gonna reformat my harddrive and install a new version of EFI Live and all that jazz for the upcoming Cali EFI class this weekend. What other programs do you guys have installed on your computer that helps you in tuning? Maybe nothing... maybe something Im missing! Thanks

 

[Mike]

Windows or equivalent operating system :rofl: Ok, just kidding. Office with excel, a good calculator program, email, something like SKYPE for talking to my buddy in Australia. Oh the list. But really you can get by on just EFI and the standard windows applications.

 

[Killerbee]

Excel and a decent screenprint utility

 

[LarryJewell]

internet explorer and outlook for email

 

[LBZrcks]

Word, Excel, Notepad, Email program, Internet

 

[McRat]

Many computers come with a version of Microsoft Works that includes a spreadsheet program that works fine for tuning. Otherwise Excel. I use a VERY old version. Seems the older the copy of Excel, the better it runs. Kinda like Windows...

Do you realize a modern computer is over 500 times faster than the first PC's (4mHz, 8-bit, vs 2gHz 64-bit) ? But the time it takes to boot, open a spreadsheet, recalculate, save, and exit is still the same? But at least today we have dancing paperclips to show for the speed increase.

Trivia: Lotus 1-2-3 was the first popular spreadsheet for the PC (a rip-off of VisiCalc for CP/M). It was written entirely in assembler and was about 96,000 bytes. Windows is currently 11,717,500,129 bytes, or over 100,000 times larger than a spreadsheet application.

 

[Mike]

Many computers come with a version of Microsoft Works that includes a spreadsheet program that works fine for tuning. Otherwise Excel. I use a VERY old version. Seems the older the copy of Excel, the better it runs. Kinda like Windows...

Do you realize a modern computer is over 500 times faster than the first PC's (4mHz, 8-bit, vs 2gHz 64-bit) ? But the time it takes to boot, open a spreadsheet, recalculate, save, and exit is still the same? But at least today we have dancing paperclips to show for the speed increase.

Trivia: Lotus 1-2-3 was the first popular spreadsheet for the PC (a rip-off of VisiCalc for CP/M). It was written entirely in assembler and was about 96,000 bytes. Windows is currently 11,717,500,129 bytes, or over 100,000 times larger than a spreadsheet application.

And the new quad 2ghz computer can calculate or process more than these 11 gig's of data faster than the 4MHz could calculate those 96kbytes. At least they look better and some are aerodynamic

 

[Killerbee]

I thought those paperclips were there to haunt me over my lack of organization. Some people have angels on their shoulders.

 

[Tired Old Man]

Trivia

Trivia: Lotus 1-2-3 was the first popular spreadsheet for the PC (a rip-off of VisiCalc for CP/M). It was written entirely in assembler and was about 96,000 bytes. Windows is currently 11,717,500,129 bytes, or over 100,000 times larger than a spreadsheet application.

You saying that 8080 needs more than 640 meg to operate on
Dos 6 was complete on 3-1.2 floppys
Dos 3 came on 2- 51/2 floppys oh dam I'm dateing myself

 

[LarryJewell]

Trivia: Lotus 1-2-3 was the first popular spreadsheet for the PC (a rip-off of VisiCalc for CP/M). It was written entirely in assembler and was about 96,000 bytes. Windows is currently 11,717,500,129 bytes, or over 100,000 times larger than a spreadsheet application.

You saying that 8080 needs more than 640 meg to operate on
Dos 6 was complete on 3-1.2 floppys
Dos 3 came on 2- 51/2 floppys oh dam I'm dateing myself

haha, I remember using the old 5 1/2 floppy's

 

[SmokeShow]

haha, I remember using the old 5 1/2 floppy's

my first typing class used those 5 1/2" floppies. Our first computer at home was DOS-based and obviously alos used them. Kicker is, I'm only 26 so the times sure do change rapidly as far as electronics goes. By the time a new product hits the mainstream market, there is already something else ahead of it in development. Hell, most times there is already something faster or better in some way that is also already developed, they just go in steps to make more money.


C-ya

 

[SIKDMAX]

Oh come on guys, its 5 and 1/4 not 5 1/2.... wasnt THAT long ago

 

[McRat]

I have computers here with 8" Floppy Disc Drives. They are from the early 1980's, and run a version of CP/M.

 

[McRat]

8" floppy disc next to a 3.5" disk.

Both hold the same amount of information.

 

[Lonnie]

When the 3.5" drives first came out, a guy I worked with, folded the 5-1/4" in half & stuck it in the 3.5" drive & asked me why it did not work. He definitely was not to smart.... but entertaining.

Lonnie

 

[sweetdiesel]

Excel is #1
Word for when you want to write your resignation,because you are addicted to EFI and nothing else matters:joker:


Sae Auto subsription is handy but its such a pain to swith to another computer,Due to the copyright infringments