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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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Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA
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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


Proclivities

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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
bokey

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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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Beware - you must think ahead when moving these magnets.

If carrying one into another room, carefully plan the route you will be taking. Sensitive instruments like computers & monitors will be affected in an entire room. Loose metallic objects and other magnets may become airborne and fly at great speed to attach themselves to these magnets. If you get caught in between the two, you can be severely injured. These magnets will crush bones in the blink of an eye.
Two of these magnets close together can create an almost unbelievable magnetic field that can be incredibly dangerous.
Of all the unique items we offer for sale, we consider these items the most dangerous of all. Our normal packing & shipping personnel refuse to package these magnets - our engineers have to do it. This is no joke or exaggeration - and we cannot stress it strongly enough. You must be extremely careful - and know what you're doing with these magnets.
Two Supermagnets can very easily get out of control, crush fingers and instantly break ribs or even your arm if opposing poles fly at each other.
A small child recently lost his hand when his father left two # 31 supermagnets unattended. The child picked one up and when he approached the other magnet on a nearby table,
it became airborne and obliterated his small hand.

 




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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