When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

When Compaq introduced the first PC based on Intel's new 80386 microprocessor, the Compaq Deskpro 386, in 1986, it marked the first CPU change to the PC platform that was not initiated by IBM.

When a PC dies, it is often possible for the dead character to be resurrected through magic, although some penalties may be imposed as a result.

When the IBM PC was introduced, IBM sold its operating system as an unbundled ( but necessary ) option.

When the PC was introduced in 1981, it was designated as the IBM 5150, putting it in the " 5100 " series, though its architecture was not directly descended from the IBM 5100.

When a key is pressed, the foil tightly clings to the surface of the PC board, forming a daisy chain of two capacitors between contact pads and itself separated with thin soldermask, and thus " shorting " the contact pads with an easily detectable drop of capacitive reactance between them.

When attempting to increase processing power, Apple was hampered by the overheating problems of the 68040 ; this resulted in the 100-series PowerBook being stuck with the aging 68030 which could not compete with newer-generation Intel 80486-based PC laptops introduced in 1994.

When the Gold card was finally released, the Sound Blaster series was entrenched as the de-facto PC sound card standard, and priced significantly cheaper than the Adlib Gold.

When Xerox finally entered the PC market with the Xerox 820, they pointedly rejected the Alto design and opted instead for a very conventional model, a CP / M-based machine with the then-standard 80 by 24 character-only monitor and no mouse.

When IBM used the 80286 in their IBM Personal Computer AT, they solved this problem by including a software-settable gate to enable or disable ( force to zero ) the A20 address line, between the A20 pin on the 80286 and the system bus ; this is known as Gate-A20 ( the A20 gate ), and it is still implemented in PC chipsets to this day.

When you enter the disk's password, the disk image is " mounted ", and made available as a new drive letter on your PC.

When the IBM Personal Computer was being developed, DR was asked to supply a version of CP / M written for the Intel 8086 microprocessor as the standard operating system for the PC, which used the code-compatible Intel 8088 chip.

When the IBM PC arrived in late 1981, it came with PC-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft acquired for this purpose.

When using a PC, a typical example of a games control system would be the use of a mouse and keyboard combined.

When the PC party held power at the federal level, it never truly embraced Reaganomics and its crusade against " big government " as vociferously as was done in the USA.

When it was launched, the cost of a PCW system was under 25 % of the cost of almost all IBM-compatible PC systems in the UK.

When an emulator was added to provide PC DOS compatibility, the system was renamed to Concurrent DOS, which later became Multiuser DOS.

When IBM contacted other companies to obtain components for the IBM PC, the as-yet unreleased CP / M-86 was its first choice for an operating system because CP / M had the most applications at the time.

When Digital Research founder Gary Kildall examined PC DOS and found that it duplicated CP / M's programming interface, he wanted to sue IBM, which at the time claimed that PC DOS was its own product.

When IBM implemented the parallel interface on the IBM PC, they used the DB25F connector at the PC-end of the interface, creating the now familiar parallel cable with a DB25M at one end and a 36 pin micro ribbon connector at the other.

The same is true for newer processors: When a single-core Intel CPU was 20 % underclocked, the PC ’ s performance was down only 13 % with a 49 % power reduction.

When Mulroney announced his retirement as PC leader and prime minister, Charest was a candidate for the leadership of the party at the 1993 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.

When the game was released, it received consistently high reviews for all versions, 95 % from Amiga Computing for the Amiga version, 96 % from Computer and Video Games for the PC version.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

When Nintendo revived the industry, they signed up software development companies to create NES games under a strict license agreement which imposed serious restrictions on what they were allowed to do.

When it gets to the second half of the season the Panthers will start to wear their colored jerseys for home games as temperatures will be cooler.

When Dave Wesely entered the service in 1970, his friend and fellow Napoleonics wargamer Dave Arneson began a medieval variation of Wesely's Braunstein games, where players control individuals instead of armies.

When he was five, he played card games such as pinochle and then chess.

When still a youth, Der Spiegel wrote of Polgár, " her tactical thunderstorms during blitz games have confounded many opponents, who are rated higher.

When the Vikings played the Chicago Bears in the first of their two games, Peterson broke the record for single game All-Purpose ( rushing, receiving, kick returning ) yards ( 361 total yards, 224 rushing ).

When studying the mathematics of games, the mathematical analysis of the game is more important than actually playing the game.

When games move from one region to another, they tend to initially preserve their original sense of rotation ..

When the password system linking the three games proved too troublesome, the concept was reduced to two games at Miyamoto's suggestion.

When Yoshiki Okamoto worked to develop Zelda titles for the Game Boy Color, his Capcom team decided to create a series of three games.

When the first server is chosen in the second or the latter games of the match, the first receiver of the game is the player who served to the first server of the game in the preceding game.

When radio broadcasts returned to the airwaves in 1975, only 52 games were broadcast.

When Minesweeper was released with Windows 95, mainstream audiences embraced using a mouse to play puzzle games.

When collectible card games arrived in the 1990s, the gaming market became even more competitive.

When no games were being held, the Circus at the time of Catullus ( mid-1st century BC ) was likely " a dusty open space with shops and booths ... a colourful crowded disreputable area " frequented by " prostitutes, jugglers, fortune tellers and low-class performing artists.

When Carmack was on vacation with his wife, he ended up playing some games on her cellphone, and decided he was going to make a good mobile game.

When Star Trek was cancelled in 1969, Shatner assumed it would be the end of his association with the show ; however, Shatner went on to voice Kirk in the animated Star Trek, star in the first seven Star Trek movies, and provide voice acting for several games.

When Ajax lost eleven points in four games, the Eredivisie title was out of sight.

When the boy grows up, he attends some funeral games at Thebes, and is recognized by the mark of a dragon on his body.

Sports author Dick Crouser wrote, " When the late Al Helfer was broadcasting the Oakland A's games, he was not too enthusiastic about Reggie Jackson's speed or his hustle.

When Boston lost a number of games due to bullpen failures, Little reverted to a traditional closer approach and moved Byung-Hyun Kim from being a starting pitcher to a closer.

When the company Iron Crown Enterprises gained the licensing rights for games made from Tolkien's books, they expanded the selection of named dragons considerably in both Middle-earth Role Playing and The Wizards, a trading card game set in Middle-earth.

When Victory Games released a line of SPI-style games, it met with critical and commercial acclaim.