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Subject: What is in your computer box?
Written By: Shannon on 09/22/02 at 02:03 a.m.
We now know what you have displayed on your computer desktop and most recently, your mousepad. So what are you running inside your computer box?
I wish I could boast, but my computer is just as uninteresting as both my computer desktop and mousepad. I have an AMD 950, 10gig hard drive :-[, 240 mb RAM, and a sorry 16bit video card, equiped with just a Sony CDRW and CD drive. I am running windows 98 (second edition).
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: RockandRollFan on 09/22/02 at 06:28 a.m.
Thanks for reminding me :( I have a pentium 133 which I must run windows 98 or earlier on (Needs to be at least 150 to install Windows ME) It also has a 1.5 gig hard Drive. I added another hard drive last year....6 gig, which is nice to have. I am waiting to get a nice laptop very soon though (Hopefully).
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: Crazy Don on 09/22/02 at 07:07 a.m.
I have two computers. The main, or downstairs computer, is an HP Pavilion with an 850 MHz AMD Athlon with 128MB of RAM (planning to upgrade to 384MB), a 60 GB hard drive, a CD-RW and a DVD drive, plus a floppy drive, running Windows 98 SE. (Plans to add Linux to the box.)
The other, or upstairs computer, is an IBM Aptiva with a 233 MHz AMD K6 with 96MB (planning to upgrade to 256MB) of RAM, a 3.2 GB hard drive and a CD-ROM drive, plus a floppy drive, running Windows 98 SE.
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: dagwood on 09/22/02 at 07:46 a.m.
I am computer illiterate and can only tell you what I know. I have a Pentium II 6 gig hard drive. It has a zip drive that I probably will never use (and don't know how) and a broken CD rom. It is running windows 98.
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: MissInformation on 09/22/02 at 09:25 a.m.
I have a Toshiba Satellite 5005-S504 laptop. It has 1.1Ghz pentium-III, 512 Meg RAM, 16 Meg video RAM, 30 Gig hard drive. All and all, I like my laptop, it has a 15" LCD screen, a Smart Media reader built into it (someother card reader built in as well, but I only use the Smart Media one), and a CD writer/DVD player.
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: ThunderVamp9 on 09/22/02 at 10:59 a.m.
Ooh, ooh! Computer specs!
I have 4
#1 - AMD Athlon XP 2200+, Abit KG7-Raid motherboard, 512 MB RAM, 60GB HDD, 40GB HDD, 16xDVD, 48x12x48x CD-RW, 64MB GeForce4 MX440, Sound Blaster Audigy, 10/100 ethernet card, 431W Power Supply, running Windows XP. This one's my own personal system.
#2 - AMD Athlon 1400, MSI KT7 Turbo 2 motherboard, 512 MB RAM< 2 20GB HDD's, 16x DVD, 32x10x40x CD-RW, 64MB Geforce 2 MX 400, Sound Blaster Live, 10/100 Ethernet Card, 300W Power Supply, running Windows XP. This one's my son's computer, he gets my hand-me-downs.
#3 - AMD K6-2 500, FIC VA-503+ motherboard, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, ATI Rage 128 Video, Sound Blaster Live, 24x CD-ROM, 10/100 ethernet card, running Windows XP. This one is my radio station server, and that's all it ever does, 24/7. Never used for anything else.
#4 - Panasonic laptop, Pentium II 233, 32MB RAM, USB 10/100 ethernet card, cheap video, no CD drive yet, 6 GB HDD, running Windows 98. This is my new toy, that I'm slowly upgrading.
OK, I'm officially a computer geek now...
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: Taoist on 09/22/02 at 12:56 a.m.
Quoting:
OK, I'm officially a computer geek now...
End Quote
lol....
#1. Main Games box - Pentium4 2.5GHz, 512MB DDR mem, GeForce2 64MB DDR, 20GB HD, Win XP (and games)
#2. Gateway - P3 500MHz, 12GB HD, Win XP
#3. File Server - P2 400MHz, 128MB RAM, 140GB HD, Linux (of course!)
100MB switch (16 port) for LAN, 512kB Broadband internet connection
4 CD writers, 3 DVDs and a variety of stuff attached
also while my buddy is staying.... ;)
#4. Games box (for head up Wolf/IL2) same as #1 (nice deal at PC world)
#5. File Server - P3 500Mhz, 256MB RAM, 200GB HD, Linux
#6. There's a laptop knocking around too!
#7. and some bits in the loft ;)
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: jamminoldies on 09/22/02 at 02:08 p.m.
Gosh,I wouldn't know.I'm not much of a computer expert! :(-howard-
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: Screwball54 on 09/22/02 at 10:22 p.m.
I have Only 1, t is a 900mhz HP Pavilion XL768 with a 60GB HD, 256MB of Ram, an ATI Radeon 7200 64MB video card, and the rest is stock. this is the first computer I have ever owned that I have not built myself. I am kind of regreting that desicion, but the deal was to good to pass up.
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: Shannon on 09/23/02 at 01:49 a.m.
Quoting:
I am waiting to get a nice laptop very soon though (Hopefully).
End Quote
I have my sights on a laptop also. But, unfortunately. money is tight. :(
Thundervamp, I am jealous.
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: Gis on 09/23/02 at 05:43 a.m.
Who knows?? I just come in to work and log on! ;D
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: DJ Midas on 09/23/02 at 08:49 a.m.
I think there's a hamster and a running wheel, but I can't be sure...
Actually, (I'm not very computer literate) at home I have a Gateway 450MHz 4.3GB hard drive with a Pentium III. Don't know what I did to it, but I always have an error upon startup (can't find blah blah blah winup_32.dll something or other....) as well as some "Regsv" error upon getting on the 'net. My DSL connection (earthlink) is only around 450-550 kbps, which I'm not too thrilled with but it's quicker than dialup.
At work I have a Dell with a Pentium 4 and a T1 Connection.
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: Jonman on 09/23/02 at 02:34 p.m.
Mine is beige...but that's on the outside of the box...the inside is wires n stuff...
P2, 2.1 gig, dunnowhomanyHz, Sony CD-RW, Creative 52X CD-Rom, Win95 but have 98SE to install one day soon....
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 09/23/02 at 03:23 p.m.
I'm very computer illiterate myself, but I do know that I'm running Windows 98 and I have a 60 GB hard drive installed. Don't ask me about anything else! :-[
Subject: Re: What is in your computer box?
Written By: philbo_baggins on 09/24/02 at 11:47 a.m.
Well, where I'm sitting now...
This is a P3 900, running Win 2k, 512MB RAM, 40GB/6GB HDDs etc etc; to my right is a Celeron 333 with touchscreen for developing the "Touch & Go" fingerprint T&A product; moving left, past this one is the laptop (P3 1Gig/128MB/10GB/WinME but not for much longer), just past that is the test machine (P2-350/128MB/Win98SE) and next to that is the test board with a VIA EPIA-based mini-ITX footprint (170mm square - it's tiny!) and access control rig mounted on a piece of plywood.
Back home, I have a Pentium 233 and a P2-233, nothing special just 60GB of disk space, and loads of music videos for the children to watch ;-)
Phil (another certified and certifiable geek)