It's not a recent purchase, but it is recently pulled out of storage; it's an old HP Pavilion a1644x that I purchased at a local thrift store for just $9.99; its 300 gigabyte HDD alone sold it for me, but I had to take a look inside to see why they were selling it for so cheap, so I sat on the floor and removed the side of it, checked the capacitors and memory, the processor; everything looked like it was proper. But, if the motherboard worked, it was a stunning deal, considering that Goodwill would have sold it for at least twenty! I purchased it, took it home and it powered on as soon as I hooked it up. Recently, I took it out of storage and installed Ubuntu Server on it, so it's going to be my file storage hub now.
(Pentium D 2.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 300 GB HDD) Mine actually came with 2 gigs RAM, so it was, in fact, an upgraded model... for basically ten dollars!!!
2019 planner, pens, motivational stickers, washi tape, bulletin board, coffee mug, mascara, and two candle holders.
A 2 metre HDMI cable and I'm really excited about it. This is for when I'm traveling for work and need 2 screens. We went paperless years ago and it's virtually impossible to do work without 2 or more screens these days with spare screens showing what would once have been warm, newly-printed guff propped up against my keyboard. Dragging hotel furniture around so that I'm close enough to the TV for my previous half metre paltry excuse for a cable to connect and getting a suntan from the proximity to a plasma device that was never intended to have humans camped so close is now in my past, finally!
Soon to take a 6hr drive there and back to Hobart for a pristine PS3 with logitech steering wheel, reduced to $90 'cus the seller said folks in Hobart thought the 30 minute drive to grab it was too long. Haha. Buying it 'cus my #1 PS3 started glitching visually, I suspect overheating, which I kinda suspected for a long time but was too dumbass to give it a clean. Currently on my backup, but I'd like to have another backup. Plus, 'cus it's there, and at a good price, negotiating with an eBay seller for an unused, sealed in box PS3 12giger for under $250 delivered...can't get a better backup than that.
Haha, yep, it could end up like that. I built a new puta a year or more ago, not the latest technology, too expensive and I'd never use that much power. That system, the curent backup, still sitting in the tool shed awaiting use, runs older graphics cards, GTX 550s and the like. Also 'cus I'm sticking with XP 32, thus can't run anything above DirectX 9 and newer cards require 10 at least. Went nuts acquiring spares and now have a dozen various cards, also in the tool shed...the majority of them in pristine condition, therefore my system will be okay for 2 decades.
I feel ya a bit. I have an older E-machine desktop for old-school gaming that runs XP. Though I won't hook it up to the internet, unless I want to have the dialup speed experience. Though the older machines last and stand (for the most part) many decades of use for what they can do. I have an ancient (70's era) computer that only runs DOS, but I don't use it even though it still runs good. I don't see a need to play around with 5 1/4 floppy drive.
Ink cartridges for a fountain pen a former girlfriend gave me as a graduation present. Nothing amazingly special, but I was going abroad and we weren't serious enough to warrant trying to long-distance or anything, so she gave me a blank book and a fountain pen to journal with. Don't know what happened to the book, never put much in it anyway, but it's nice to get the pen up and running again. Also, green ink, something I picked up from Stranger in a Strange Land, so that's fun.
Yup, but developed in October(?) of 1980, and based off of QDOS, which was basically a 16 bit version of CP/M.
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Hmm, my dad had a TRS-80 Model 1, but he sprang for the 16k RAM. Only the top of the line for him, all the other dads came over to see someone who had an actual computer in their house. Lunar Lander anyone? Loaded by cassette, naturally. Next was an Atari 500, IIRC, then he finally got onto the Pentium thing with an Acer Pentium 90. My first was an NEC Pentium 120 with 1.2gb hard drive, took me five years to fill it :0
Got Ya ALL beat! I have a Commodore 64 Executive (Their very shortlived sewing machine type portable with the 9-inch screen) and all the GeOS Disks. It all still worked as of last year!
Oh, yeah? Well, I used to use an Osborne Executive. It wasn't mine, it belonged to a friend, but still... yeah. I also learned to use computers on the Unysis Icon, which ran QNX (rhymes with Unix) and had a monochrome radiation green display and integrated keyboard with trackball.
I have a lab at home as a kind of museum. Original IBM PC Original IBM VGA monitor Original IBM AT Original IBM PS2 Model 80 MCA server Original Compaq DeskPro 486 w/ 'Business Audio' 1st MicroStar dual P90 motherboard and one original WD 286 cpu module with integrated video and original Adaptec SCSI card. and then there's all the PPro PII/III/4 motherboards and CPUs, Intel 440 reference boards EISA/VLB/PCI countless video cards S3, 3DFx Voodoo, ATI, Oxygen, WD... all the other flavors and evolutions to date all evolutions of NIC all evolutions of SoundBlaster and ProAudio cards all evolutions of Adaptec and Emulex SCSI cards, including multichannel RAID and cache a countless infestation of mice evolutions of keyboards every conceivable evolution of memory module etc, etc Oh, and one really cool gadget that uses memory modules as harddrive Need anything from the Library, or how to set it up, ping me.
