19 inch digital monitor...linked to a lap top...allows you to use two monitors at the same time; write on word and research from websites on the other screen...
Got a gig of ram on the laptop too.
What was once a luxury becomes a necessity...almost instantly.
My wife got a laptop with a pentium 4 in it from work and we went out and got a wireless router so while she's doing work at home, I can be playing games or taunting Datapickleshortzinvader in the back room.
I ran my P2-450 into the ground after six years of heavy use. Now I've upgraded to a second-hand 1.67Ghz Athlon, and my 44k dialup connection allows me to zip all over the Internet!
I used a home-made "Butch PC" (Pentium II 350Mhz, 256MB Ram) machine for years and years. It is now my one of my daughters rooms, with a few CD games on it, that's about it. We upgraded to a new wicked hot DELL Dimension 3000 P4 2.8Ghz with all the bells and whistles. What a rocking machine!
BTW, I have an old Pentium 166 PC with twin 8GB drives, Win98, and a whopping 32MB Ram up in my attic. I'm thinking of tying a rope around it and using as an anchor for my boat!
BTW, I have an old Pentium 166 PC with twin 8GB drives, Win98, and a whopping 32MB Ram up in my attic. I'm thinking of tying a rope around it and using as an anchor for my boat!
I still have my family's first Pentium, a Gateway 2000 60Mhz with 8 megs of RAM and a 1 gig hard drive. I screwed around with it using Linux, but I think it's about time to put the thing to rest. Now where'd I put my shotgun?
I'm hanging onto the TI99/4a, though. I still play Zork on it from time to time when I feel like getting all sentimental.
Up until about 10 years ago when I didn't have alot of use for a home computer (had the screaming 486 at work) me and the wifey had a Clone™ brand 286, took about 5 minutes to boot up.
couldn't even install Norton on it (old norton, like norton change directory etc.) because the hard drive didn't have the capacity -- oh yeah, and the daisy wheel printer...
couldn't even install Norton on it (old norton, like norton change directory etc.) because the hard drive didn't have the capacity -- oh yeah, and the daisy wheel printer...
Let me guess--you could boot up DOS 5.0 but that was about the limit of its usefulness.
Let me guess--you could boot up DOS 5.0 but that was about the limit of its usefulness.
DIR
CD \DOS
CD..
CLS
DIR
CD \DOS
CD..
CLS
DIR....
Yup, and had to use the dos text editor for letters etc.
Amazingly enough, I was able to run an early copy of Matlab™ and the Matlab Signal Processing Toolbox on it - must have been some ungodly tight coding on that, the whole thing came on two 5 1/4 floppies and could do some serious number crunching for such a little package.
New computer stuff...well alright!
