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Why Did the Turbo Button Slow Down Your PC in the '90s?

10 points| chedoku | 10 months ago |howtogeek.com

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brudgers|10 months ago

Or 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.

olgeni|10 months ago

On some old XT clones the turbo button did nothing, but Ctrl+Alt+Num- did the trick :D

accrual|10 months ago

I liked to flip the button around and have turbo on = faster, turbo off = slower.