Old Puter With New Life.......Sorta

[OBJ]

WELLLLLLLLL.....I kinda hacked together some puter parts and got the old puter up and running again. Kinda' nice since I've been usin' the shops puter to get in here once in a while and she herselfs machine on occasion.<br /><br />Came by a couple old machines and used a piece from here and there...even managed to get back on line. <br /><br />Herself says that maybe Santa will get me a new one for Xmas. So in the meantime, I'll just hack the old machine to death.<br /><br />But for now, setting on my stand is an ugly awesome colletion. Two re-writeable disc drives, two floppy drives, two hard drives giving me over 60 gigs of storage (hell....I don't know what I'll do with it....just seemed like a good idea), and a huge selections of tunes I can listen to while browsing iboats. AND....a fresh Bud Longneck. Wish I could find a way to keep them cold in the machine.....

 

[deputydawg]

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I do that all of the time here at work. The county will not buy us new computers, but every other office gets new ones every year. Whenever the assessor or clerk get new ones, I am the first in line to snag the old ones. I have a stock pile of parts and peices in the storage room. So far have cobbled together 3 complete puters, and kept 2 up and running with parts swapping. Time to do it again, mine is kind of sick lately.

 

[BassMan283]

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Amazing stuff. I date back to where a 40 meg hard drive was state of the art and you had to use partitions because the operating system couldn't adress that much memory. I now have an 80 gig hard drive of which 72 gig is free and 6 of the 8 gig used is crap that I don't really understand.

 

[dolluper]

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Got her running like a Johnson eh OBJ,good for you!!!!!,but you better be good so Santa will fix you up with a new one{MERC POWER}

 

[OBJ]

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Thanks dolluper.....but I'm looking for one with a little "E-Tec" power..... <br /><br />So far the old machine is running strong. I'm using the slave drive for storage and the master for every thing else. Hopefully if the original drive croaks, I'll still have the slave with all my saved work that I havn't put on floppies or disc.

 

[KaGee]

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My computer has been a "work in progress" over the last 5 or 6 years. My first PC was a DOS 386 AT machine... 5-1/4 floppy disk and all.<br /><br />It finally got to where it was no longer viable. I bought a PAckard Bell Pentium system. I think it was a Pentium 200mhz. It was a POS that you could not upgrade. So, I built my own. <br /><br />Over the years it has evolved... upgrading memory, processors, video and sound cards. Started with a CD-ROM, now I have a CD-RW as well as a DVD-RW. I currently have 270GB of storage and 1 Gig of DDR memory. I think my first PC had a 20MB hard drive and 256K of RAM. <br /><br />Oh, and I just had* to upgrade the video card yesterday. (*had to... wifey's PC vid card was of mid-late 90's vintage and was giving her fits on some newer games she down-loaded. So, I gave her my card that was 2 years old )<br /><br />My current setup...<br />AMD XP-2500 BARTON Processor (1.8 GHZ, Overclocked to 2.2GHZ). ABIT NF-7S Nvidia chipset motherboard w/on-board SATA, LAN, N-Force Soundstream audio and USB 2.0. 3 Western Digital hard-drives w/ 270GB combined storage. 1GB PC2700 RAM. RADEON 9600 PRO video cart w/128mb on board memory. Pinnacle Studio AV/DV capture card. Zoom Modem.<br /><br />Home Brew computers are fun, easily upgraded, easy to fix or swap parts. I wouldn't have anything else now. My investment over time is easily less than 1/2 of what an equal setup from a "box" company would sell for.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Me thinks I will get KG to build me one next time.

 

[KaGee]

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LOL @ Spinner! <br /><br />No problem. <br /><br />Now if we could only figure out a way to add it as an Email attachment..

 

[roscoe]

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Originally posted by BassMan283:<br /> Amazing stuff. I date back to where a 40 meg hard drive was state of the art and

Go back a few more years, to when you had 512k of ram, no hard drive, no windows interface, 8" floppies, and punched paper tape to transfer to the output device (photograpgic printer, you had to develope the printed image in a darkroom).

 

[Ron G]

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I got a dell4 years old,wouldnt do anything,im no good with these things everthing i know ive learned off the iboats fourm and talking and reading.but the oldlady wanted dsl??or something so i carred it the coumputer doc and told him that i have a pinto now and i want a cadilac,he fixed me for $80,its supper fast and does all that extra stuff i just dont know how to do it yet should of talke to KG too.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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I had a comadore(sp) 64 once.

 

[Link]

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Originally posted by roscoe:<br />

Originally posted by BassMan283:<br /> Amazing stuff. I date back to where a 40 meg hard drive was state of the art and

Go back a few more years, to when you had 512k of ram, no hard drive, no windows interface, 8" floppies, and punched paper tape to transfer to the output device (photograpgic printer, you had to develope the printed image in a darkroom).

WOW try VIC20 @ $325.00 with tape drive extra! <br />LOAD,8,1 or something like that LOL

 

[ZmOz]

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I have a 5x6 walk in closet literally stuffed full of old computer parts. I could easily make 30+ computers out of it all. I bought a truckload of industrial computers from Denver intl. Airport a few years ago to part out and sell. This is all the stuff I never got around to selling, now it's not even worth my time to list it on ebay.

 

[ZodFutMk2]

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shazzam! Punch paper tape? 8 inch floppies? NO hard drive? NO Windows interface? Now, that was Basic...<br /><br />Did it glow inside from the glass vacuum tubes?<br /> Was the outside of it covered in wrinkled black paint?<br /><br />Yep, I may just have to update my Commodore and cross that 128k threshold!

 

[KilroyJC]

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I stll have a VIC20 in my basement, right next to the Magnavox Odyssey II video game...<br /><br /><br />OBJ - <br /><br />If you want your machine to keep your longnecks cold, get a couple of the Peltier Heat Junction chip coolers and another power supply & rig up something.. It'd definitely be different, and well worth the photo!

 

[OBJ]

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Not a bad ID at all JC......have ta' work on that...... <br /><br />My first computer was a blazing 25mhz something....then up graded to a 63mhz. Both had just the DOS on them.....sure have come a long way. Now I'm piecing together my own machines. I remember shelling out something like 25 to 26 hundred bucks for the first machine. Now look what ya' can buy for a grand or less.

 

[KaGee]

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OBJ's comments led me to remember the commercial that ran a a year or two ago... in an effort to save the company money, the IT guy was going around duct taping old PCs and monitors together.