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Builtf0rdtough
damn, sweet deal. Thanks for that. were lookin at computers too!
tallguy007
HEMPS DA MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN :>) I went threw QVC for the monthly got a gateway but NOT LIKE YOURS :>) SWEET PC HEMP
daisycutter
go ahead and LOL me ! No hard drive, it had a 5 1/4 floppy.
Got a 286, okay but very limited, good for playing pacman and pong.
Bought an Acer 486 from Wal*Mart, disappointing...
Disgusted I ordered a whole heap of parts and built a computer. That was in '98 so by '99 it was obsolete but was an amazing computer for that time, could not buy anything off the shelf any better.
Definately, building one from components is fun and worth the money!
I especially liked my wife's reaction when she saw the pile of parts. "What's that going to be?"
The Gateway I am currently using I got at a yard sale for $25, it was only a year old. The old dude said it kept crashing. I brought it home, blew the pillow of dust out of the heat sink and voila, super deal. My old one, a Dell Demented was constantly doing app hangs and was slow.
I'm happy you had a good time and have a "killer computer" !
Ishootdaily
Would like an Amber or Green Display, Floppy?
Boy those where the days of Options huh?
daisycutter
I bought a 10MB HDD for the 8088, worked great, who would ever need more storage than that????
Vaquero
My 1st one had windows 95 and 2 mb of RAM. I got tired of waiting and upgraded to 4 mb!
CD ROM held more data than my HDD.
daisycutter
I just could not live w/o Win 3.11. Stunning technology !
The local tech guru told me Win95 would most likely "hang" my 286. It loaded and worked just fine.
Do you remember the DOS game MS put into their OLD windows? It was a monkey throwing exploding bananas over buildings. I admit, I'm easy to entertain :<)
Vaquero
I vaugely remember the monkey game. Started with Win 3.11 at work.
I learned AutoCAD on Version 12. Had to launch it from a DOS prompt.
Cool stuff when V14 came out and you just clicked an icon.
daisycutter
Windows. After the first few minutes I could not understand why people needed to be "taught". After living in the DOS world (go ahead, just misstype one character in the command) it was like suddenly the software did everything FOR me !
Now I become somewhat tense when I have to open the command prompt.
greg az
ok.. well i'd better sit down on the bench for a bit..
Ishootdaily
Me too, damn thing worked great for a Door stop for many, many years!
Sucker was as big as a Shoe Box and about as heavy as a 5 gallon bucket of water!!
Wife told me not to drop it one time I was moving it or I'd break it, told her hell with the drive I was more worried about my feet!
daisycutter
I put most of the music from old computer and a handful of photos and the durn thing's full.
Using thumb drives and 2X4GB SDs.
It boggles the mind...
Vaquero
I'm guessing windows but it don't have to be. What version?
greg az
I took my time to get the best... Four 500gig hard drives (terabyte of memory) set blown hemi, with quad 5 1/4 floppy. Got a dedicated cam 28up steam turbine in RAID, six gigs of 16 valve RAM, a gaming video card, 5 1/4 floppy.he's a dick 5 1/4 floppy. got Roots as oppose to Paxton a 286 windows, OS. is SOS..Got a 28 Acer 486 Flat head Acer 486 gateway mac...
....i may vomit
Vaquero
from the HOWTAG episode?
greg az
think i understood "bill" better than you guys. i better pick up one of those computers for idiots books i've seen.. Honestly it's comparable (it's busted!) to learning another language. as stated its listen learn and bench..
Saint J.M. Browning
You're killin' me here. Oh man. Classic post.
Saint J.M. Browning
was a Sinclair ZX81. Plugged into a TV, had 1k of memory, we upgraded to 4k. No disks. Tape drive. Cassette tape. No OS. Just BASIC. You had to type out the program you wanted to run. If you wanted to run it ever again, you had to "record" it to the cassette tape. Which of course wore out quickly and you would lose your programs. Good times.