My AMAZING "new" CPU

[tanis2]

Ohh yeah! I have needed a new CPU for nearly 2 months now (my old one got burnt in a fire) so I went out to the Flea Market and scavenged for a deal...and oh mother of God, I found one, lol. Check out my CPU stats

Compaq Pentium II
350 mhz speed (blazin')
4.3 Gig hard drive (spacious)
128 memory (with extra 128 slow woo-hoo)
Cd-Rom drive (oh yeah 48x...actually not too bad)
Floppy drive- (You are jealous now)
Usb ports (2, haha)
Ethernet card
Sound

Ok, so the computer is a piece of ****, but still it works and it satisfies my needs. I got it for 40 bucks which is the only happy part of this story...I will be building onto it though, so it won't suck for too long (hopefully)

[Cindy]

Good to see your up and running again tanis. We all have to use stuff like that, or at least us poor ones "like me" But if it does the job, well thats ok, much better than nothing. As you say, you can build on that. :p

[Gray Ghost]

That sounds like the computer I used for years, and still have it. A Compaq 5000. Mobo went out tho, trying to find another one. First thing I did was put in a larger hdd, you'd be surprised at how much faster it ran after that. Increased the memory to 192 later but that didn't seem to speed it up as much as the bigger hdd.

[Dude]

ok, when I tell you this your not going to believe me, but I swear it's true...

I am still using an original pc at, the one that was out before the pentium and before the 396 chip, can anyone remember back that far?

it came out right after the xt, I can't remember how many years I have been using it, I am going to guess more than 10, it has dos 3.2 I think. the reason is that I don't like to have any of my financial stuff on the computer I connect to the internet with, so I kept this old one around and use it for all my accounting, spread sheets, word processing, printing and I do my taxes on it. Basically anything that has important information that I wouldn't want someone on the internet breaking into.

I have a lot of great software loaded onto it back when it was avaliable, and I just keep using it. I have a backup 386 that I will replace it with if anything goes wrong with it, but I use it everyday and it just keeps on running, and running, and running. :)

tanis, that 40 bucks sounds like a good deal, shouldn't be to hard to get your moneys worth out of that.