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aggie
Tribes Geek
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 Posted - 04/02/2004 : 14:15:15
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Driving to work today, I saw a pc and monitor out by the curb. It was on the top of a trash can. In my neighborhood, Tuesday and Friday are trash days. I normally stop if I see computer parts. This time, I stopped my vehicle to check and see if there were any salvageable cables, drives, PCI cards, and hopefully a hard drive. To my surprize it was a fully functional working PC. (Monitor included)In a matter of a few seconds, I loaded the pc and monitor in the car.
The only problem with the computer WAS that the 3 1/2 sounded like an airplane and thus making a load noise. Since then, it has been replaced. Little 409 and now, my son has his own computer...
I now have 10 pc's and one laptop.
"I was successful because you believed in me"
U.S. Grant to A. Lincoln
Edited by - aggie on 04/02/2004 14:21:48 |
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Atriedis
Wordy Bastard
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Posted - 04/02/2004 : 14:37:53
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you had 9 pc's and your son is just now getting one? what are you doing with them all? btw sweet deal on it. whats the specs?
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nicknames - atr, art, atri, atar, atru, atari, Harkonnen (more to come as I recieve them) |
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aggie
Tribes Geek
439 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2004 : 15:11:57
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My son was going to get one of the other pc's when he turns six(6), this summer. He is very responsible for his young age but I wasn't going to give him one of the 2.4 ghz with 250 gigs and 1 gig ddr ram. I was debating on which one to give him and how much computing power he would need. I was considering giving him one of the older ones without much computing power.
This one is a 166mhz, 3 gig hd, and 32 megs of ram - running win98. Not much but to him, it's his!
"I was successful because you believed in me"
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TicklemeElmo
Super Noobie! ;)
115 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2004 : 15:19:23
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For his first PC teh price is right, escpecially for a six year old. and he can mess around with it all he wants, and if he fries it, your out $0
PROZACK It's not just for breakfast anymore!
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Slayer_Allen
Incredibly Wordy Bastard
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Posted - 04/02/2004 : 17:18:14
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Yeah, I found out recently my step-dad threw out all my old PCs. All but one of the worked fine too :(
My first, a 386; My second, a 486; and my third, a P120.
I hope someone found them on the curb or wherever he put them and adopted them.
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Impact4ever
Wordy Bastard
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Posted - 04/02/2004 : 18:13:04
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Wow aggie, you lucky man. I bought a hand me down pc from Salvation Army for about $65. And in the system was a working windows 98se, thats until I reformatted and installed Linux.
Its an old emachine 400MHz celeron with 64 megs. Its a good learning tool.
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Master of world
Official Forum *****
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Posted - 04/02/2004 : 21:19:15
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nice treasure aggie.
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