Welcome aboard, Oldsalt!

Welcome to SubSim Oldsalt :sunny:

Greetings, and welcome to the site! :sunny:

This weekend's orders from Amazon:

1 Allsop Metal Art Monitor Stand
1 Sapphire Radeon HD5770 Vapor-X
2 Kensington RAM kits

Looks like your on a mission :DL

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http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=184267

You setting up a new rig or something? :DL

The parts sitting around here in boxes would seem to indicate that this is indeed the case. :O:

Hopefully all goes well and you don't end up with too many *extra* parts... :D

What I'll end up with is a second, lower end, working computer that I have no use for. :O:

Which is not so bad, I was thinking of taking it to work and using it there - where it would still be miles ahead of what I've got in my office - or selling it to the computer shop down the road. Their ad says if you have a working PC that shipped with XP on it, they'll buy it. The ad was a bit old but I was in there poking around their used parts yesterday and they were in the process of selling an XP rig to somebody, so...

Also they had quite a selection of used components and cables and just about everything you can think of - nothing I wanted right now, unfortunately, but a lot of stuff I thought was too obsolete to be of interest to anyone. Which means I may be able to go through my growing collection of leftover bits and pieces of old rigs and make a couple bucks off of them. Plus there's stuff at work that my boss keeps asking me if I want, maybe I should start saying "yes" to that question. :hmmm:

Boy does that ever bring back memories... I used to do desktop technical support in a large call centre and they had us sorting out XP issues on rigs that were running Windows 2000.

Friggin' OS was so unstable it would periodically crash whenever you opened more than 3 or 4 windows, so you had to do the two-step phone ad lib while the system rebooted. :damn:

Getting back on topic though, I've got so many pieces of old rigs kicking about that I've pretty much lost track of them all. Still that doesn't deter me from collecting more :03:, so if it was my boss offering extra parts, I'd definitely take him (or her) up on it.

I keep telling myself, you never know when you might need it, and come to think of it I can actually recall an after hours HDD crash when I was able to swap out an old one and get back up and running even though the stores were all closed.

Flimsy justification though that might be, it's good enough for me to justify my ever growing collection of largely obsolete parts. Then again if anyone ever needs a Pentium 1 with an amazing 40 GB hard drive I can always hook 'em up! :O:

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You need to read the PC thread. :rock:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=184267

Now, Steve, be fair. Jim's here so seldom that he has to be very choosy about what threads he reads in the limited time available.

Don't knock Win2000, I still look back on it fondly as a huge step up from the Win95 rigs we started out on. :haha:

Actually I started out on DOS then Windows 3.1 then '95...

While it's true each incarnation seemed like a huge step up, they were all very early in the era of the home PC. Kind of like going from Jurrasic to Cretaceous, a noticeable improvement but still very primitive. :O:

Hey Frau Kaleun and Fish In The water....
All this talk about DOS, Win 3.1 and 95 - you are giving your ages away :har:.
Remember the old customised floppy boot disk to get your software running :damn:
....and how smart programmers were then to fit games onto a handfull of floppies :up:
...ah those were the days....

I never used Windows 3.1 but I can sure remember buying software that still came on floppies. Our first PCs at work didn't even have CD drives, which made it interesting when you needed to install or reinstall, say, MS Word or Outlook or the software that made your printer work, all of which came on CD. :damn:

And I can still remember the HDD on my first work computer... it was a whole 1 gigabyte! :haha:

Aye reminds me of my first 'fast' chip, an 888Mhz with a whopping 1 1/2GB HD :DL

I can remember playing the old King's Quest by Sierra. It came on something like 17 floppy disks, and being an adventure game, you had to change floppies (and wait for it to load) almost every time you walked off the edge of the screen.

It went something like this:

Walk, walk, walk...

Please insert disk 13...

Okay where's disk 13?

Oh, there it is...

Okay open the door and remove disk 7...

Insert disk 13 and close door...

Wait ,wait and wait some more for that awesome floppy seek time...

Walk across the screen and repeat... :har:

Ordered some Lysol No-Touch Hand Soap refills, $25.95.

I recently (like last week) bought a new computer chair. The cheapo plastic lawn chair made me so sore I couldn't take it anymore. $106 smackaroons.