Damn screws

[catocom]

I got plenty of 586-133 that would probably fit that board.
I'd send ya one of those free. I got all kinds of cheap stuff.
We could probably get you into a pentium 233 at least.

 

[Altron]

And a mothereboard too?
I have $17....
I would love a P-233 with 64MB PC-66...
*dreams*
I have 220w AT PSU (but if you have an extra ATX it is nice too, the AT has only 8 amps on 12v rail)

 

[catocom]

Let me check my inventory, and I'll get back with you tomarrow.
This is what I like to do. Make computers affordable for people
that can't afford them. I remember all to well when I just wished
I could afford a 386.

 

[PT]

You had a 386?!?!?!?!? Lucky bastard.

 

[catocom]

No
I said I remember when I wished I could afford one.
ooh ooh with a math coprocessor.

 

[Altron]

I wish I could afford a 1800+...
Oh well, it is only $861 away...
I could probably afford a 1800+ if I saved u[ like 3 months, but I would need mobo, RAM, video card, all that shit

Actually this tower started out as a 386 25MHz
Thanks for the help catocom
Much appreciated by poor middle schooler

 

[PT]

I had a 286 back when the Pentium came out. I remember drooling browsing through the pages of catalogs at them.

 

[catocom]

I had a 486 dx2-100.
I think I paid about $3500 after a year and forever of financing.

I was on a 286-mono-40meg hd 2years before that one.
and a real piece of shit Tandy before that one. This thing
used those huge 8.25 floppies. I had a big ass 3 drive unit.
so I could run 4 of those 180k floppies at a time.

 

[Altron]

My uncle used to have 8.25 floppies, and 8" HDDs...
On the table next to that is my Compaq Portable 8088 4.77MHz YEAH BABY!

 

[PT]

That was some serious storage space now.

 

[Altron]

http://www.geocities.com/rathius12/compaq.html
My 8088 is so special it gets it's own website!

 

[Altron]

The unOFFICAL site
http://www.firstibmclone.fsnet.co.uk/

 

[catocom]

I remember when I got that 286 with the 40meg HD, the
salesman told "that's all the harddrive space you'll ever need"
and I believed him.
til I got windows 3.1.

I still love msdos though, and still do some programming with
QBasic. I didn't know what to think when you couldn't get
the whole operating system on one floppy.

 

[PT]

Oh yes, those were the days. Actually the first salesman to tell me that was with my 2.1 Gig on my K-6 200. Told me that computer should last me a good ten years. Yeah. That was 5 years ago. Uh huh.

 

[catocom]

yep,
I'm glad I don't have to go back.
I'd probably go crazy.

I don't know though. I guess that may be why I'm getting back
to Linux. Got to have that command line fix.

 

[PT]

I still use command line, in fact just the other day, my nine year old asked me why Windows was called Windows, so I went into a detailed explanation, including booting my computer up in Dos to show him what computers Used to look like. I'm still not sure if he believed me.

 

[Shadowfax]

command line is now very underestimated...

i use it on daily basis, last thing was to copy the dir listing of my MP3 folder so i wouldn't have to type out all the bands i like...

 

[Altron]

Command line stuff is important for games too.
Id you're not into them i'll explain: There is this thing called a console, which is a lot like MS-DOS. You can do scripts and stuff in that, like these:

//Names
// Changes names
set gamename1 "name ^1{UA}^7Rathius^4<A>; set nextname vstr gamename2"
set gamename2 "name ^5M^3r.^5S^3miley; set nextname vstr gamename1"
set nextname "vstr gamename1"
bind f12 "vstr nextname"
//Controls
bind 0 say ^5M^3r.^5S^3miley ^5j^3ust ^5S^3chooled ^5y^3ou
bind 9 say ^5M^3r.^5S^3miley ^5o^3wns ^5y^3ou
//weapon
bind 1 "weaponbank 1"
bind 2 "weaponbank 2"
bind 3 "weaponbank 3"
bind 4 "weaponbank 4"
bind 5 "weaponbank 5"
bind 6 "weaponbank 6"
bind uparrow "+forward"
bind w "+forward"
bind downarrow "+back"
bind s "+back"
bind leftarrow "+moveleft"
bind a "+moveleft"
bind rightarrow "+moveright"
bind d "+moveright"
bind mouse2 "+moveup"
bind mouse1 "+attack"
bind enter "+activate"
bind ctrl "+movedown"
bind r "+reload"
bind MWHEELUP "weapprev"
bind MWHEELDOWN "weapnext"
bind TAB "+scores"
bind F1 "vote yes"
bind F2 "vote no"

// new
bind del "+activate"
bind end "+reload"
bind pgdn "+movedown"
bind e "+movedown"
bind pgup "+sprint"
bind q "+sprint"
//other
bind TAB "+scores"
bind F1 "vote yes"
bind F2 "vote no"
bind w "+movedown"
bind F3 "mp_playertype 0;mp_weapon 6;echo You will respawn as a ^2Soldier with a ^3Mauser"
bind F5 "mp_playertype 3;mp_weapon 5;echo You will respawn as a ^2Lieutenant with a ^3Sten"
bind f10 "screenshot"
bind f11 "screenshotJPEG"

 

[Justintime]

I remember my first 1GB hdd, i thought, wow i'm NEVER gonna run out of space!

 

[Altron]

What the stripe will look like (When it is finsihed drying)