Ever feel sentimental over your old pc?

[fyxxer32]

Tonight I'm doing a clean install of Win2k Pro on my old pc.Had win95 on it long ago.The floppy crapped out on me tonight after how long ? 4 or 5 yrs? It's the first machine I really built myself. It not a lot, an old ASUS P5-AB Socket 7 board, with an AMD 450 cpu . It has had various hard drives , modems, now a nic, sound cards(several), several different video cards. Ive got a 100 mb external zip drive hooked up from when I used to move mp3s , bring them home from work , we didn't have cable broadband then. My old scanner which still works great and is really simpler to use than the new one. I have a removable hd rack that I have been switching from 98se back and forth to Mandrake 8.2. Anyway it's been old reliable, old hp694c printer still chugging along.
It's what I really learned the basics on, many , many hours spent on it, working on it. Learning how to make it do what I want it to do. Lots of learning,surfing,reading done on that thing.Now I've built or helped to build 20? And we have 4 running on our LAN here. Guess I better find my keys, go out to the van and get the new floppy drive, I knew the old one was on its way out.

[originel]

yeah i feel your pain. i remember the first comp i built myself. it was a k6-2 400 with a FIC VA503+ mobo and 64 (later 128) mb pc100. i remember when i found out i would be able to upgrade to my current system (yes it was quite a jump) at first i was excited (of course0, but after a while i started thinking about my old comp and got all sentimental over it, i thought it was sad to see it go, it was like family to me. it's now my parents computer (i wouldn't let it out of the family).

My first build was to upgrade my trusty 386SX to a 486DX2-66. That was the first time I ever tried to fiddle with the innards fo my PC. Was quite a revelation.

Now that PC is with my mum and is a P100. She doesn't use it much , but at least it is still around. Still has the original badge from my friend's PC shop, which is now defunct as he has gone back teaching.

Memories...

Cheers
Mick

[Solid Snake]

Ahhh yes. When the computer world is going insane with TCPA, Palladium and all that garbage it's nice to know I can sit down on my 386 and blast some nazis. Win3.11 was a good OS but I'm starting to develop a gag reflex to anything M$ so it's back to freedos for me. Ha good luck spying on that machine M$, the only thing running to the wall is a power line!

[Ed_S]

Sentimental over a hunk o' plastic & circuitry??

You Betcha!
Two of 'em in particular - early '80's Tandys, at that. A buddy & I spent countless hours modifying our first computers, back when you soldered in the home-made mods...
He passed on a couple years ago & his wife gave me his. It's in it's box in the closet, next to mine. Neither one's been powered up for...a decade? But they're staying right there.
Guess my wife can toss 'em when I'm gone!

[Brainchild]

The first one I had was a Compaq prolinea 486. I hated it, but I'm still using all but the mobo which went out a couple years back. That was the one I upgraded myself I'm using the 4.3 HDD as a slave in this puter for MP3s,modem quit,cd-rom in my 233,floppy in my sons puter,sound card is still around somewhere. Do I miss it, well no in fact,everytime I use a computer I,ve built for myself, remnants of it still linger

The first one I built myself I was still using yesterday 233

Glad to have my t-bird flying again

[Xeroid]

My first PC was a 486 50mhz with a whole 8mb of ram. I didn't build it cause I didn't know much about PCs at the time. I bought it to learn on. It had twice the ram of anything else on the market at the time. It's still up in the attic cause I can't bear to part with it.

The first PC that I built was a Celeron 300 with 128mb of Sdram, WD 10g HD, Zip 100, SB 128 pci, Creative 48x CD, Diamond Viper 16meg TNT video, 235 watt PS. It's sitting on the floor next to my desk cause...you guessed, I can't bear to part with it. Although, the HD is in my latest PC as the slave HD and is dedicated to Mandrake 8.2.

Mike

[Knothead]

Our first was a teeny 40 mhz box with a 2 different floppy drives...my bro-in-law built it for us, and we had no idea what to do with it.
But, "We have a computer!" we'd say, and we'd stand around and regard it in much the same way as a caveman would regard a transistor radio.

[Xeroid]

Originally posted by Knothead
But, "We have a computer!" we'd say, and we'd stand around and regard it in much the same way as a caveman would regard a transistor radio.

You clubbed the living daylights out of it?

Mike

[Knothead]

Originally posted by Xeroid


You clubbed the living daylights out of it?

Mike

No, we just made small sacrifices to it.
We ARE civilized, after all.