SillyDog701 • Your computers?

by **Wellander** » Wed 25 Jun, 2003 5:31 pm

profman wrote:Wellander: How about telling how you got 27 computers and keep them all running? Are they all in one room? Who pays the electric bill? :wink:

Hi,
I purchased them all and they are through out my house and I pay the eletric bill it runs at least $350 a month And I keep them all running by I keep them giong by using them and having notton anit-virus in them and they are on a server (windows 2000 advanced server).
Thank You for asking.

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by **jim** » Sat 28 Jun, 2003 2:07 pm

Main (Homebuilt) system:

Motherboard: ASUS P4PE (Raid, LAN, and Serial ATA onboard)
Processor: Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 533MHz FSB
RAM: 512MB Samsung PC2700
Hard Drive: Western Digital 100GB Special Edition
DVD-ROM: LiteON 16x/48x (LTD-166S)
CD Burner: Sony 32x/10x/40x (CRX185E1)
Mouse: IntelliMouse Optical
Keyboard: Logitech Internet Navigator
Modem: U.S. Robotics V.92 Performance Pro (For when the cable goes down)
Monitor: HP Pavilion MX75
Graphics Card: GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB
Power Supply: Antec True430
Case: Antec Performance Plus 1080AMG
Printer: DeskJet 940c
OS: Red Hat Linux 9 and Windows XP

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by **Josh** » Sat 28 Jun, 2003 8:44 pm

One more I forgot:

Palm m130 Handheld:

CPU - Motorola MC68VZ328 33 MHz
Total RAM - 8MB
OS - Palm OS 4.1

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by **Josh** » Sat 28 Jun, 2003 8:51 pm

Josh wrote:Dell PC:

CPU - P4 1.6 GHZ
Total RAM - 256MB
Total HDD space - 20GB
OS - Windows XP Home

Laptop:

Coming Soon!!!

Two more I forgot:

Palm m130 Handheld:

CPU - Motorola MC68VZ328 33 MHz
Total RAM - 8MB
OS - Palm OS 4.1

Mom's Gateway Laptop:

CPU - 233 P3
HDD Space: 8 GB
Total RAM - 128MB
OS - Windows Me

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by **Lorraine** » Sun 29 Jun, 2003 12:05 pm

I forgot one too, it still works, not connected tho':

Intel Pentium 120 MHZ Processor
40 RAM
1.6 Gigabyte Hard drive
6X CD ROM Driv
64 bit PCI Graphics with full motion Video (MPEG)
16 bit wavetable surround sound
10 watt stereo speaker System
33.6 fax/Data/Voice modem
Integrated fax
Voicemail & speakerphone
Voice Navigtion
Windows 95 Keyboard, mouse & microphone
Nec's Video Wizard "Merlin"
Nec Webway,one touch internet access
Microsoft Windows 95

Netscape Version 2.0 with ISP

Plus a full suite of multimedia software
17" MultiSync M700 Monitor

Laugh all you want, it was tops of the line, cost me $3,978.00
And I wish I could still use it. I liked that machine.

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by **DJGM** » Sun 29 Jun, 2003 12:28 pm

Lorraine wrote:. . . it was tops of the line, cost me $3,978.00 . . .

I assume you're referring to Canadian Dollars, so that would be . . .

Â£ 1,781.80 - U.K. Pounds Sterling
$ 2,949.07 - United States Dollar
$ 4,427.36 - Australian Dollars

. . . and in a dodgy unpopular fledgling currency . . .

â‚¬ 2,583.96 - Pathetic â‚¬uros (!)

All at today's (29/06) exchange rates according to xe.com/ucc . . .

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by **Edward** » Sun 29 Jun, 2003 2:37 pm

If the memory and hard drive were upgraded in that system,. it could be used again.

My Pentium/MMX 166 (what I'm using to type this) went from something with 32 Mb of RAM and a 4 Gb hard drive (at one time) running Windows, to one with 229 Mb of RAM, and can take up to a 30 Gb hard drive, now running Linux.

With a processor of that speed, Netscape 7 is agonizingly slow, however Opera runs considerably faster.

As long as someone has a use for a computer, it never becomes obsolete.

So Lorraine doesn't feel bad, I originally paid $1,200 (USD) for this Pentium system.

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by **Lorraine** » Sun 29 Jun, 2003 3:26 pm

Greg
Well, in Can. dollars $3,978. was a lot of money. That was seven years ago.

I understand today for $1.00 Can. I could get $1.10 au.

For $1.00 Can. I could get around U.S 74.57 cents.

I'm not sure but I think the euro is worth about .64 cents for $1.00 Can.

I just glanced this morning in yesterdays newspaper.

Today I think $1500. is a lot of money as I did yesterday

Edward
I changed the floppy disk myself, perhaps I will take the puter apart and see what other damage I can do to it, by upgrading

In the latter years of it's use, I had cable, so it wasn't too bad. I just didn't have enough something or other. <g>
Besides, it's Windows 95.

How much does a Hard Drive Cost and where is it? Is that one of the small square things. It is a Pentium/Intel inside, Do you mean Ram when you say Memory?
I have 4 Ram sticks or whatever you call them in an envelope. Either 4's or 8's. Probably 4's and of no use. Two are Gold metal, two are silver. I like to tinker with things.

-Lorriane

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by **Edward** » Sun 29 Jun, 2003 6:27 pm

RAM is memory.

The price for hard drives, depends on the storage capacity of the drive. The larger the capacity, the more the cost. The size you would be able to use, is also limited, based on how old the BIOS is on the motherboard, if it was never "flashed" (or upgraded) since you had it, then generally the system would be limited to using a small capacity hard drive (20 Gb is the smallest I've seen locally from Maxtor), but even still, if the BIOS is really old, it may not even recognize the full 20 Gb on that drive.

You would be best to check with the company who made the motherboard to see what options (if any), you might have today.

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by **Mandrake** » Sun 29 Jun, 2003 6:34 pm

Hmmm... If it is a Super Socket 7 board, then you might have some options. A friend has one of them, and he bought an overdrive CPU, running at 266mhz. Then he took out all the old ram, put 2 128mb sticks in the DIMM slots, and 4 64mb sticks in the SIMM slots. Runs Windows 2000 fine now, loads massive programs like Mozilla or MS Office after a while too, but he has the memory that he can use Quicklaunch and stuff.. so don't throw out your old hardware :-)

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by **Subir** » Tue 01 Jul, 2003 12:10 pm

Oh it's good to be back - anyway...

MY DESKTOP PC
Packard Bell ixtreme
Pentium 3 - 1GHz
40GB (Hard Disk Space - Used about 20 on god knows what!)
CD ROM Drive
DVD/CD-RW Drive
Floppy Disk Drive (Currently Broken!)
4 USB Ports (2 Currently Broken!)
FireWire/IEEE 1394
2 Serial Ports
1 Parrell Port/Printer Port (Currently Broken!)
2 PS/2 Ports (Both Working - YAY!)
OS: Microsoft Windows ME (I am also trying to install Red Hat Linux 9 on a partition - so far no luck!:x)

MY LAPTOP
Dell Latitude CSi
Pentium 2 - 350MHz
6GB (Hard Disk Space)
CD ROM Drive
Floppy Disk Drive
1 USB Port
FireWire/IEEE 1394
1 Serial Port
1 Parrell Port/Printer Port
1 PS/2 Port
OS: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

I am also getting a new laptop soon it's a second-hand Dell Latitude with a Pentium 3 (500MHz I think) & with 12GB (Hard Disk Space).

:wink:

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by **Lorraine** » Tue 01 Jul, 2003 10:46 pm

Mandrake:
Sounds like an F1 Racing car to me or something.
I think I will just leave it the way it is, sounds very complicated to do all that was suggested by everyone.
Thanks anyway for all the suggestions,may invest in a new one, if my ship comes in

-Lorraine

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by **smileyme** » Sun 03 Aug, 2003 8:20 am

I also have many boxes.

Mac Digital Audio

Dual 1.2 GHz G4
1.5 GB RAM
420 GB ATA 133 HDD (305 GB RAID)
64 MB GeForce4 MX AGP
64 MB Radeon 7000 PCI
DVDRW/CDRW
Zip 250
10/100/1000 base T
Extended Desktop
Jaguar 10.2.6

ATX (Unknown board)

1 GHz Pentium III
512k RAM
30 GB ATA 100 HDD
64 MB GeForce2 MX/MX 400 AGP
CDRW
Aztech Sound card/modem
3Com 10/100 base T
Windows 2k

Rick : )

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by **Edward** » Sun 03 Aug, 2003 12:29 pm

Mandrake wrote:Hmmm... If it is a Super Socket 7 board, then you might have some options. A friend has one of them, and he bought an overdrive CPU, running at 266mhz. Then he took out all the old ram, put 2 128mb sticks in the DIMM slots, and 4 64mb sticks in the SIMM slots. Runs Windows 2000 fine now, loads massive programs like Mozilla or MS Office after a while too, but he has the memory that he can use Quicklaunch and stuff.. so don't throw out your old hardware

I recall seeing Evergreen CPU upgrades a few years back. Their current offering, upgrades a Pentium to an AMD K6-2 400 MHz, however this motherboard will not accept a CPU that fast. The fastest processor this will take per the motherboard manual, is an K-6 (not K6-2) at 300 MHz.

But even still, with the Pentium/MMX 166 MHz in this, it still runs quite well.

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by **Mandrake** » Thu 04 Sep, 2003 8:56 am

Edit: Not 400mhz anymore, 2.2ghz with new motherboard :-)

Windows XP is so fast! Firebird zooms along :-)

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