How much spare PC stuff do you have?

riptide

Yep... There was/is a soundcard with it. it was ready to use on plug in when i got home and a good bit of software came with it.

unklerosco

If anyone, in all of there hoards of gear, has a socket A mobo they don't want please pm me as i needs to get my hands on one fairly soon...

TomCo

Anyone have an old AT?

The power button on those had 240V mains power running through it.

Ouch.

Cuddlesworth

TomCo wrote:

Anyone have an old AT?

The power button on those had 240V mains power running through it.

Ouch.

I just checked and your right, how were they allowed get away with that. As for me, I have only been into computers for just over a year and already my room is full of old parts. Besides my main rig I have an assortment of crap fans, heatsinks, propriotory cases and mobos, an old At 133 I use to kick when im pissed off at my rig and a dell ???? that may or may not run. I havnt bothered to check yet. That is if you can find them

Capt'n Midnight

TomCo wrote:

Anyone have an old AT?

The power button on those had 240V mains power running through it.

Ouch.

Just like the power button on every non-electronic device.

When it's on it's on, and when it's off it's off. No autopower on when changing a card. None of this power button not working because of a software crash. ZERO watts power usage when turned off etc. Zero fire risk when turned off. A lot to be said for it

riptide

TomCo wrote:

Anyone have an old AT?

The power button on those had 240V mains power running through it.

Ouch.

Just like an electric kettle!

Cuddlesworth

Picture a full steel case with bad positioning on the power switch. You could easly knock it out and onto the metal.

gline

my first was a 286, LOL
i remember that, it was sweet at the time, 20meg hdd + 256k memory i think, no ram, no cd, no sound, 16 colours hehehe made by WANG, LOL
ah the memories, playing prince of persia and the time you were able to EXIT out of windows (3.0) into dos, hahahah

riptide

This is getting akin to, "So how did you loose your virginity?"

gline

riptide wrote:

This is getting akin to, "So how did you loose your virginity?"

LOL "when did you first use your floppy", hahahaha

riptide

gline wrote:

LOL "when did you first use your floppy", hahahaha

Well to answer the question, I used to use the 5 1/4 in ones in school as frisbies and cut the heads off guys in the class. They actually had great aero dynamics and you could bend them and get a flight path out of them.... and if you were really good you could get it such a way that the corner would hit someone in the cheek!

gline

riptide wrote:

Well to answer the question, I used to use the 5 1/4 in ones in school as frisbies and cut the heads off guys in the class. They actually had great aero dynamics and you could bend them and get a flight path out of them.... and if you were really good you could get it such a way that the corner would hit someone in the cheek!

hahahaha , we used to use them in school too but not throwing them

riptide

gline wrote:

hahahaha , we used to use them in school too but not throwing them

Well our school spent more money on gyms for the football/hurling team and nothing on computers hardly. I could count on 1 hand the amount of PCs in the place... and that was a school of 600/700. And the ones that were there, we didn't get to use much... and i remember my best friend formatted one of the harddrives after I told him to impress the teacher with this 'special' command for the craic and the teacher went bannanas. ... so you can see why not a lot of interest was put into PCs with guys like us around...

gline

riptide wrote:

Well our school spent more money on gyms for the football/hurling team and nothing on computers hardly. I could count on 1 hand the amount of PCs in the place... and that was a school of 600/700. And the ones that were there, we didn't get to use much... and i remember my best friend formatted one of the harddrives after I told him to impress the teacher with this 'special' command for the craic and the teacher went bannanas. ... so you can see why not a lot of interest was put into PCs with guys like us around...

hahaha computer smart people in schools then was rare

SouperComputer

anyone have those horrid nework-based token-ring RM nimbus'? They were awful, easy enough to hack though

Capt'n Midnight

krazy_8s wrote:

Picture a full steel case with bad positioning on the power switch. You could easly knock it out and onto the metal.

That's one of the reasons metal cases are earthed.
Alternatively Compo

riptide

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

That's one of the reasons metal cases are earthed.
Alternatively Compo

Alternatively Funeral