Well, I've got a temporary, semi-functional computer again. Picked it up, along with an even older second one, at a garage sale for $10. :P It's old, but at least it will let me get online to start looking for replacement parts for my other ones. To give you an idea how old the second one is, it has a 5 1/4" drive along with its 3 1/2" :) This one is a P166, while the older one is a 486dx2 66.
I'm pretty sure I just need to pick up a couple of motherboards for my other ones. My power out here in the woods is a bit sporadic, and I think that is what is frying my motherboards. I need to invest in a quality UPS, or move :P
The really fun part is that I don't have a mouse that will function with this computer. I've got an old PS2 mouse, but the computer wants a serial. I've got an adapter, but it still doesn't seem to recognize it. *sigh*
Jul 30 2005, 11:15 am
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Artekia
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Wow, finding a cheap(if not old) computer at a yard sale, that's lucky! I've been to a ton of yard sales(my mom sells books online, yard sales often have a lot of books) and the best thing I've found so far is a graphing calculator(COUGH http://members.byond.com/Artekia).
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This is all just a trick to avoid being defeated in PathWrath, isn't it? =)
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Welcome back to the internets, Flick!
Nifty that you found a computor good enough to get you online to surf. Get-Er-Done! ~Texter | |
Hey, this means you can run all of the old classic computer games without recieving Win32 errors! Woohoo! Get your DOS 6.2 and MS-Windows 3.1 installed, mate.
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well, good thing is that once you get your higher-end machines running, you can turn those old computers into linux-based BYOND hosts! :D
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