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The Crappy Computer Thread
jariku:
The computer I have to use when I'm visiting my parents is an old Mac Performa 6400 with no real updates, only a slightly larger HD. It had a Voodoo 3000 graphics card in it, but I gave it to my brother.
Connection to the internet is handled trough an old Farallon ISDN router, which I hate almost as much as it hates me.
Luckily I have a laptop nowadays, which I can take with me.
josiah:
I inherited a computer a few months ago... a laptop from the mid-90's. Ancient Fujitsu LifeBook 530T, circa 1996. Nothing other than the default apps installed except for a demo of some silly game. Norton AV physically removed but not uninstalled. Win95 in all its glory. CD Rom drive , no floppy drive, no USB drive (1996! you gotta be kidding!), internal modem, no network card. 1.3 Gb hard drive. Not much RAM (I'm not currently remembering how much). I should mention that such experiments are not for the faint of heart. Installing onto sufficiently old hardware, especially laptops, can be a frustrating experience. It might work, it might turn the computer into a brick. Fortunately this computer was free (for me, anyway... I think that in 1996, this may have been state of the art).
I wrote an installation report that can be read here. Not something I'm likely to repeat. Until the next time I get a free, ancient, POS laptop :)
Oli:
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I'm sitting at 256MB ram and I get annoyed with it running slow.
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ahh, Remember back then? in like, 2001 or 1999, where 128MB of RAM seemed rather speedy?
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Yeah, but I remember a time when I was able to tell the difference between the enemies and the wall while playing duke nukem 3D. If I try it nowadays I'm stuck with a sorta "The graphics were never THIS bad..." expression. I think it's because we all want our computer to do outrageous things nowadays in the speed it takes us to click a mouse button. It used to be 5 minutes give or take for my computer to start up and me to be able to do anything with it, now it's something like a minute and it frustrates me because I've used computer that start in 30 seconds.
Ah modern life.
Switchblade:
Man, is it wrong that I'm running a Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz, with half a terabyte of hard disk space, a gig of RAM, and a 256Mb Radeon X300 graphics card, and I'm not satisfied?
...It's wrong, isn't it...?
My desire to be up to rec. spec. for X3 Reunion is an unholy sin....
Bunnyman:
All wrong except for the graphics card.
What the fuck, man? X300? Weeeeeeaaaaaak...
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