Why Did the Turbo Button Slow Down Your PC in the '90s?
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Re: Why Did the Turbo Button Slow Down Your PC in the '90s?
#2I liked to flip the button around and have turbo on = faster, turbo off = slower.
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#3Site blocks Tor.
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#4Re: Why Did the Turbo Button Slow Down Your PC in the '90s?
#5On some old XT clones the turbo button did nothing, but Ctrl+Alt+Num- did the trick :D
Re: Why Did the Turbo Button Slow Down Your PC in the '90s?
#6Or the button sped it up.
The female connector on the button was directionless; motherboards provide a two pin header, and the typical local PC builder would hook it up arbitrarily based on what they thought was correct or what was easier in the assembly.