Quick Poll, how old is your computer.

This is you main computer.
I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main
computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post).

To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months old).

"Bazzer Smith" wrote in message
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This is you main computer.
I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main
computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post).

To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months
old).



i use a celeron 2.6ghz and a p-IV 1.6 ghz

i use AMD whenver i can but the two machines i have were essentially
freebies
which i found in the alley near my house.

prior to the machines i now use...
i retired my amd-1000 about 6 months ago...


and the p-75 that i had upgraded to a p-200 was in use until maybe three
years ago...
had i not started to do a little bit of video editing...the amd-1000 would
have been plenty good



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"Bazzer Smith" wrote in message
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This is you main computer.
I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main
computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post).

To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months
old).



i use a celeron 2.6ghz and a p-IV 1.6 ghz

i use AMD whenver i can but the two machines i have were essentially
freebies
which i found in the alley near my house.

prior to the machines i now use...
i retired my amd-1000 about 6 months ago...


and the p-75 that i had upgraded to a p-200 was in use until maybe three
years ago...
had i not started to do a little bit of video editing...the amd-1000 would
have been plenty good

My new machine is a Sempron 3000 1.8gig, not lightening fast but
scores tops in the value for money stakes.
The old one was a Cyrix MII 300, about the same as a p-200
it too was crippled by modern video files so I finally got rid,
it was fine for news reading and some surfing, but modern 'flashy' sites
pretty much crippled it too.
I could have spent an extra £100 on the processor, but I doubt I would
have noticed any difference!
I had never watched streaming video footage on the old machine it
was way too much, this one does it fine with plenty of 'umph' to spare :O)




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philo wrote:

"Bazzer Smith" wrote in message
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This is you main computer.
I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main
computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post).

To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months

old).



i use a celeron 2.6ghz and a p-IV 1.6 ghz

i use AMD whenver i can but the two machines i have were essentially
freebies
which i found in the alley near my house.

You find Celerons 2.6ghz and p-IVs 1.6 ghz systems in your alley? Maybe
you could tell me where you live and I could change my Celeron 850 for one
of those "finds".

Bazzer Smith wrote:
This is you main computer.
I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main
computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post).

To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months old).

Case and Zip drive, 10 years old. The rest of the guts are variuos
ages.

Bazzer Smith wrote:
This is you main computer.
I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main
computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post).

To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months old).

Case and Zip drive, 10 years old. The rest of the guts are variuos
ages.

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i use a celeron 2.6ghz and a p-IV 1.6 ghz

i use AMD whenver i can but the two machines i have were essentially
freebies
which i found in the alley near my house.

You find Celerons 2.6ghz and p-IVs 1.6 ghz systems in your alley? Maybe
you could tell me where you live and I could change my Celeron 850 for one
of those "finds".



I live near the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
and I'm sure most of the stuff is from students discarding their "old junk"

Although the p-IV and Celeron were a bit beyond my average find...

stuff like p-III's are quite common in the trash!

also, with everyone buying flat screen monitors...
good crt's are also fairly common now



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).

To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months
old).

Case and Zip drive, 10 years old. The rest of the guts are variuos
ages.



ah yes...those old cases...
I should have mentioned that my Celeron was recased into a Gateway 2000
large tower from a 486 DX2-66

I had to do a little metalwork...but I really like the looks of the case!



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Bazzer Smith wrote:

This is you main computer.

The CPUs are ~1 GHz Tualitin Celeron and Sempron64 3100+, the cases
full size AT desktops from 1985, about as large as full size ATX towers
but designed for 11" x 17" motherboards. The original back panels were
removed and replaced with pieces made to fit ATX motherboards and power
supplies. I like desktop cases because the monitors sit at the
perfect viewing height on top of them, and these old cases are made of
metal thick enough to support their heavy 21" CRT monitors.

main PC is 5 months old.
i have a p133 from 1996, old HP Pavilion 7222. hdd died in 2002 (i'm
surprised how long it lasted) - HP made machines well back then.

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Bazzer Smith wrote:


This is you main computer.


The CPUs are ~1 GHz Tualitin Celeron and Sempron64 3100+, the cases
full size AT desktops from 1985, about as large as full size ATX towers
but designed for 11" x 17" motherboards. The original back panels were
removed and replaced with pieces made to fit ATX motherboards and power
supplies. I like desktop cases because the monitors sit at the
perfect viewing height on top of them, and these old cases are made of
metal thick enough to support their heavy 21" CRT monitors.