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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Oct 9th at 8:46pm 2004

i know i have posted this before, but its getting close to christmas once again.. if you are in the US and have some old PC parts just lying around, i would be glad to take them off your hands.. i would pay the postage, assuming you sent it snail mail and cheap

as i have said before, i attempt to take old computers and reformat them for kids who have no opportunity to own one.. right now, i am in dire straights for hard drives of the 2 to 3 gig variety.. i have some 10's and 20's, but it seems a waste to use one of those on an old 200 or 300 mhz comp.

anywho's, if you have an old comp, or parts of one.. gimme a yell.

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Posted by Hugh on Sat Oct 9th at 8:50pm 2004

I thought the correct vernacular was "gimme a holler." That's what my crazy grandma always says. Anyway, I'd give you parts if I had them, I can't just steal them from school anymore. Damn door locks.



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Sat Oct 9th at 8:50pm 2004

It's october.

And you're saying we're close to Christmas?!

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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Oct 9th at 8:51pm 2004

? posted by G.Ballblue

It's october.

And you're saying we're close to Christmas?!

blue, you're doing it again.. need i call reno in to reign you in

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Posted by Hugh on Sat Oct 9th at 8:53pm 2004

Ballblue, you're an idiot. It said "ATTENTION U.S. RESIDENTS" not "ATTENTION IDIOTS." I know they're pretty close but you're still an exception. It takes time for parts to travel and then for Orph to put them together and THEN for him to distribute them to today's youngsters.





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Posted by G.Ballblue on Sat Oct 9th at 9:01pm 2004

? posted by Orpheus
? posted by G.Ballblue

It's october.

And you're saying we're close to Christmas?!

blue, you're doing it again.. need i call reno in to reign you in

No. But I still haven't quite put my finger on how October is close to December. That's a 2 month difference you know.

/me sits there for a minute looking at my submit-a-post screen.

Oh wait, you're bitchin' about how I just over-disected your post, right?

/scoots away

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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Oct 9th at 9:02pm 2004

*sighs*

you're ruining my thread..

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Posted by Wild Card on Sat Oct 9th at 9:13pm 2004

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Ballblue, you're an idiot. It said "ATTENTION U.S. RESIDENTS" not "ATTENTION IDIOTS." I know they're pretty close but you're still an exception. It takes time for parts to travel and then for Orph to put them together and THEN for him to distribute them to today's youngsters.



US residents and idiots are not close alike. US government and idiots are

Jon, I have many a spare parts, unfortunatly, it might not be worth it seeing as how Im not in the US, border charges are expensive last time I checked.
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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Oct 9th at 9:17pm 2004

? posted by Wild Card
Jon, I have many a spare parts, unfortunatly, it might not be worth it seeing as how Im not in the US, border charges are expensive last time I checked.

its the thought that counts nick

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Posted by Wild Card on Sat Oct 9th at 9:40pm 2004

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Jon, I have many a spare parts, unfortunatly, it might not be worth it seeing as how Im not in the US, border charges are expensive last time I checked.

its the thought that counts nick



Thought? Your the one doing the good deeds here boss Computers for needy kids. Ah well, we cant all help.
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Posted by $loth on Sat Oct 9th at 9:43pm 2004

Thats really nice of you orph. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Oct 9th at 9:46pm 2004

? posted by Wild Card
Your the one doing the good deeds here boss

its for selfish reasons i assure you

every time i am successful, i get more confident.. i am 100% self taught, as far as the hands on portion, what i don't know, i ask here of course.. but for the most part its trial and error, as my recent bios flash screwup shows

anyways, the kiddies get the goods, but i gain the knowledge

its a fair trade.

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Posted by G.Ballblue on Sat Oct 9th at 10:11pm 2004

Well I got an old Packard Bell with Windows 3.1 on it if ya want it. : [addsig]



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Posted by Spartan on Sat Oct 9th at 10:56pm 2004

I have an old packard bell I could give you. I need to check with my dad first though.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Oct 9th at 10:59pm 2004

i don't want to sound ungrateful, but old, as in p200, not old as in 5 1/4" floppy guys

finding software that will run on anything older than a 200 mhz is nigh impossible..

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Posted by Wild Card on Sat Oct 9th at 11:01pm 2004

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? posted by Wild Card
Your the one doing the good deeds here boss

its for selfish reasons i assure you

every time i am successful, i get more confident.. i am 100% self taught, as far as the hands on portion, what i don't know, i ask here of course.. but for the most part its trial and error, as my recent bios flash screwup shows

anyways, the kiddies get the goods, but i gain the knowledge

its a fair trade.


As far as knowledge goes, I have a question. Do you do anything to the hard drive or just stick it in? I mean, a nice delete and re-creation of a partition as well as a full format after that is a great way to ensure the kids get a trouble-free drive as well as protecting any previous information the drive stored previously.
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Posted by Wild Card on Sat Oct 9th at 11:03pm 2004

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i don't want to sound ungrateful, but old, as in p200, not old as in 5 1/4" floppy guys

finding software that will run on anything older than a 200 mhz is nigh impossible..



Hey I took apart a 286 and a "personal computer" the other day. Man those things we're old. One had a 127mb hard drive, the other had a 75mb hard drive on 2 platters. It had a 5.25inch floppy drive which I can only assume was bleeding-edge technology back in those days.
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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Oct 9th at 11:09pm 2004

if i manage to get a functional comp, i "Fdisk" it, deleting the partitions, then i make one, then i reformat, then i install an operating system compliant with the PC's ability, in other words, if its old, i put in win98se, if it can handle more i put in ME, and if it has enough ram/HD space, and so forth, i put in either win2000pro, or XP pro.

the 500 i borked, had XPpro

i also am playing around with windows longhorn 4053build.. it looks nice from the screens, but i cannot find a minimum sys spec chart to see how much pc its gonna need to work.

there is BTW, a plugin to make winXP look like longhorn, you might look at it.. tis cool beaners

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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Oct 9th at 11:25pm 2004

Here is what ill have soon, don't know if I want to sell them or not on e-bay, im trying to get some money back, but maybe the christmas bug will bite me and ill feel generous......Heres what i got:

Mother Board: P4 socket 478; 800MHz fsb; built in video card, autio card, and lan card; 1 AGP slot (forgot what speed 4x??); 3 PCI card slots; 4 DDR RAM slots.

Processor: P4 2.8c GHz fro socket 476

RAM: 2 512mb Ram (I think they are DDR400 PC 2700)

If I cant sell these parts online then ill look to you orph.

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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Oct 9th at 11:29pm 2004

cool deal bud

sell them if you can, if nothin else, i understand recouping your expenditures

i will still be here.. your list looks cool though.

as i said, you'd be surprised just how damned hard it is to find a 3 gig hard drive

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