PC Upgrades -- A Pain In The Ass, But Inevitable (Trees And Things)

ckm: Re: PC Upgrades -- A Pain In The Ass, But Inevitab

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:25:54 EST

I've had a few esoteric machines in my time. I still have a couple of NeXT machines my wife and I used for years. And I had a Canon workstation at some point. One of my workplaces gave me a Wang Desk to work on...

One of the b

ckm: Re: PC Upgrades -- A Pain In The Ass, But Inevitab

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:14:42 EST

I have a couple of Buffalo LinkStations that have be re-flashed with a full version of Linux (they run Linux natively, but it's a bit crippled).

It's not that easy to do, but if you are a geek, it's not that hard. They are quiet and use about 15w

skeeter1: Re: Machines I've built or re-built

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:25:45 EST

"and then was forced to buy a floppy drive that he only ever used once."

Yes, I have an external (USB) floppy drive that I think I've probably used once as well. The only reason I got it was because it was free. HP found out that ship

thefadd: Re: PC Upgrades -- A Pain In The Ass, But Inevitab

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:12:00 EST

Windows Vista, but just heard that Windows 7 is in the planning stages.

Thank god they're finally going back to their old OS's. Everything after 2000 was a bomb.

skeeter1: Re: PC Upgrades -- A Pain In The Ass, But Inevitab

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 02:05:38 EST

Well, now I feel really old. The first system I worked on professionally was a DEC PDP-11/34. The operating system was Mac mini? $600 is a pretty good

Lou: don't always have to buy a new computer

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:04:32 EST

Sometimes you can perform a simple upgrade on your current system.

port1080: Re: PC Upgrades -- A Pain In The Ass, But Inevitab

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:08:54 EST

My first computer was a Tandy Color Computer 3, with a 13" television as a monitor. I think if I had it today I'd have a lot of fun with it, but at the time (about 1989 or 1990, probably) I

delete me: Re: Note

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:36:55 EST

Thanks. Now, if I can just keep the sort order from resetting itself ...

port1080: Re: Note

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:24:49 EST

If you switch to "HTML Formatted" or "Plain Text" instead of "Auto Formatted" in the drop down box next to the Preview and Post buttons, that should take care of the problem.

MC Nally: Re: PC Upgrades -- A Pain In The Ass, But Inevitab

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:21:31 EST

Computer history in a nutshell: Atari 400 -> Amiga 1000 -> Sun II (used, purchased from university property disposition) -> self-assembled 486 clone (BSD386) -> Pentium 75 (NetBSD) -> IBM-built PIII 500Mhz (Windows 2000) -> P4 2.4

postillion: Re: PC Upgrades -- A Pain In The Ass

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:10:39 EST

One of the saddest days of my life was when my IBM butterfly broke down on me. I took it to a repair shop, and they basically told me it was too old and too burned out to fi

delete me: Note

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:52:11 EST

Imagine an asterisk or two being used at the beginning and the end of that mysterious block of bolding.

Editors, is there a way around this stupid and inane feature, since b and /b are already easy to use, and an asterisk is often used

delete me: Machines I've built or re-built

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:47:50 EST

Most of my early PCs started off as store-bought machines that were upgraded immediately and sometimes later became something else entirely.

First PC was a super-fast Packard Bell (Pentium 100), immediately upgraded with an incredible videocard (2mb) an

DEMachina: aah, the memories (nerd lj)

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:58:46 EST

I've built my last 3 computers, which thankfully has gotten easier as I've gained experience.

My first machine was an IBM-compatible with an 8086 processor (somewhere around 10MHz), 640k of