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bokey

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Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 2:24pm

 sirdroseph wrote:
3 months; HP Pavillion dm4 notebook with an I5 M430 2. 27 GHZ processor and 4 Gigs of RAM. It is running on a 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium platform (actually like Vista better, but it is not much different. )

 
                    
            

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Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 2:20pm

Dell Optiplex GX620. I bought it for Daddy. Inherited it from him when he died in January '09. So, it's around 4 years old I'd say.
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Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 2:16pm

3 months; HP Pavillion dm4 notebook with an I5 M430 2.27 GHZ processor and 4 Gigs of RAM. It is running on a 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium platform (actually like Vista better, but it is not much different.)
DaveInSaoMiguel

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Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 2:00pm

I have more than one but I will only list ones new enough to have hard drives:

Amiga 1000 - bought it new in Nov 85 -still works great -

Amiga 4000T - Bought new around '90 - Real workhorse and still works great. My previous music server.

Homebrew PC I use as music server built it around 2005 ish - Gigabyte K8 MB, AMD 3400+, 1 gb ram - 2 500gb HD, Widows XP  etc.  

Hackintosh - My daily computer - built it around 2008 - ASUS M2R32-MVP MB - AMD 5600+, 4gb RAM. Am upgrading it to Phenom 940 quad core next week and 8 gb ram. Running Snow Leopard 10.6.6


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Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 2:00pm

6 years...
MrsHobieJoe

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Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 1:56pm

 kopak wrote:

{#Think}
 

LOL

I have no idea how old my laptop is- work hand me out a new one every so often and I just get on with it.  I guess most of us employed types are in that position.

Our desktop died last year after about 6 years service and I'm hoping for an imac to replace it.
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Posted: Feb 19, 2011 - 1:48pm

 hippiechick wrote:
Newer than most of my underwear
 
{#Think}

hippiechick

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 9:53am

Newer than most of my underwear
Danimal174

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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 9:48am

Desktop #1 - Originally purchased in 1996; replaced parts over the years as they died; the only thing original in it now is the floppy drive & the tower. The last replacement was a new motherboard, processor, and fan around three years ago.

Desktop #2 - Built in 2003, as part of a hardware class lab; seldom used, but works fine.

Laptop #1 - Toshiba, around five years old; don't really like it all that much; constantly overheats; running Windows XP.

Laptop #2 - my work laptop; Dell; around five years old
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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 6:26am

 BlueHeronDruid wrote:
I'm curious. How old are the machines you currently have at home?
 
Desktop is PowerMac MDD circa 2002. Laptop is iBook G4 circa 2005. iPhone 3G circa 2008 ;-)

All of these are used for RP listening duties

Have yet to try my Toshiba Tecra 8000 circa 2000 running Linux Mint on RP duty yet . . . 

There's also a strawberry iMac that I bought in 99 in the spare room


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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 6:10am

Still have a Gateway laptop with Windows 98 on it (ca.1999).  It was my primary computer until a month or so ago when I got an assembled PC with XP on it.  That one is about 5 years old.


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Posted: Apr 22, 2009 - 5:20am

Desktop - Circa 1998!!!  :-)  It's in CB's room and works great!
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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 11:15pm

Not old enough for this thread, apparently.
fractalv

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 10:51pm

Desktop is circa 2002, 1.2GHz Duron

Laptop is a Dell C600, circa 2001

Work laptop running Ubuntu, born in 2004

Desktop inherited from client, first booted in 2005
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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 10:19pm

 islander wrote:


And like I said,
 

 
OK- You done told me. {#Yes}
islander

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 10:08pm

 Leslie wrote:

Forget grammar, that can mess up the space-time continuum! 
 
for those who don't want to disassemble drives:

http://www.unitednuclear.com/magnets.htm

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Leslie

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 10:08pm

 islander wrote:

Actually no. I can't imagine loading any OS from floppys. Even the slimmest distros would take a big stack, and I doubt i have that many of them around anymore. It has a PCMCIA slot, but It's old enough I don't know that the one or two network cards I have that will fit the slot would work, and even if they did, I'm not sure about getting drivers for them, and can you PXE boot w/ a PCM network card?  

And like I said, even now I'm not sure what it would really be good for. I think I'd find better project items elsewhere in the pile.

 

  I think your original idea of saving it for posterity is probably best.

islander

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 10:04pm

 bokey wrote:

OK- you are kidding, correct?

 Like troll for tards time?{#Stupid}
 
Actually no. I can't imagine loading any OS from floppys. Even the slimmest distros would take a big stack, and I doubt i have that many of them around anymore. It has a PCMCIA slot, but It's old enough I don't know that the one or two network cards I have that will fit the slot would work, and even if they did, I'm not sure about getting drivers for them, and can you PXE boot w/ a PCM network card?  

And like I said, even now I'm not sure what it would really be good for. I think I'd find better project items elsewhere in the pile.

 
Leslie

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 10:00pm

 islander wrote:

If you get enough of them together you can screw up grammar as well!

 
Forget grammar, that can mess up the space-time continuum! 

bokey

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 10:00pm

 Leslie wrote:

They affect your spelling as well, apparently.

 
Hey, stop talkin' about computers and go fix me a plate(man talk){#Lol}

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