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Why does my my 1983 IBM PC work better than my newer computer?

After 30 years I would expect that they would have improved and perfected the personal computer. My modern POS computer has gotten a little slower every day for the past few years.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Your old IBM uses the DOS operating system and floppy discs. Your newer one uses windows and a hard drive.

    When windows was created many crimes had been committed using computers.

    The US dept. of defence owned the internet and the telephone company owned the wires it used.

    They were reluctant to let an improved operating system use the internet because it would make it easier to commit computer crimes, and they would be an accomplice.

    Bill Gates made a secret deal with them that computer experts who worked in law enforcement would be able to get into your computer through a back door, without leaving any clues that they had invaded.

    So while the internet would make it easy to commit crimes, it would also make it easy to catch criminals.

    Unfortunatly computer hackers found out about this secret device and figured out how to use it.

    So companies that make software sabotage their competitor's software. Hackers ( or a program they invented) have been entering your computer and ****ing it up. The plan is you get frustrated by the way your software product always malfunctons so you think their companies product has gotta work better and you buy it.

    What you need to do is buy a new computer and never connect it to the internet.

    Source(s): My Dad, he's a cop
  • 8 years ago

    You probably install a various software like quicktime, itunes, realplayer, adobe reader and a lot of other things which install background services and system tray applications. When you boot your computer, all those applications load and consume some resources.

    So, the problem comes from 3rd party software.

    But it used to be worst with Win 95, Win 98, Win Me. These things got slower as the windows registry got bigger.

  • 8 years ago

    You may have noticed your old machine used programs that could fit on a floppy disc (very small) Today's programs are lucky if it fits on one DVD! Things were "simpler" then so not much "horsepower" was needed You have less peripherals and a "simple" OS Today everyone wants "bells & whistles" which take "space" and the "time" to process them!

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