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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Oct 9th at 11:38pm 2004

? posted by Orpheus

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

Umm I think I gave a friend a 4 gig hard drive (and since its been used soo much there is probably 3 gigs left) and I can get it back probably

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Posted by G.Ballblue on Sat Oct 9th at 11:59pm 2004

If you don't want my packard bell then, I could give you my NEC with windows 95

(never!)

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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Oct 10th at 12:22am 2004

Good stuff Jon. Fdisk is your friend lol.

As for Windows Longhorn, I read up in a Maximum PC magasine I remember I think the specs we're still high. Including the need for a 3D video card due to the 3D GUI that Longhorn uses.

Personnaly Im not really overjoyed about longhorn lol.

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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Oct 10th at 12:30am 2004

if, one spends bucks on a card just to play a game, an operating system would be a better reason wouldn't you think?

besides, just how big a card? most of us have at least a 32 meg hunk-o-junk already.

i may end up not liking it, but it sure is pretty from the screens

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Posted by Crono on Sun Oct 10th at 1:00am 2004

That isn't true. You just can't put anything but 98 (in the windows universe) on anything below 133Mhz.
I believe you can put XP on a 150. I had a 133 and it had 2000 on it for awhile.

It just wont run very fast.

Also, Orph, dear lord, never make partitions using DOS, EVER.

Just delete the partisions and try installing XP, it has a set lower bound on what it can run on and what it can't. If it can't run XP put on 98SE, DO NOT BOTHER WITH MILLENIUM. This will save you so much time, and it's a more effecient process. As far as Windows goes. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Oct 10th at 1:06am 2004

yes father

i, use win98 only if the pc just cant handle more.. seriously, who would want 2000 on a 133

anywho's.. i am learning, as long as you are around, you can keep me straight

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Posted by Crono on Sun Oct 10th at 1:21am 2004

Yeah, well, are you going to stop doing it the way you said? If not I think it'd be time for a time out.

And it wasn't that bad, I just didn't have much of anything installed; it was a useless computer.

I'd say take all the trash I have laying around my house, but I doubt you want it, it is in the area you're speaking, but the problem is, you can't really say, "Yeah, I'll take that board", because you have no idea what processor it takes, or ram type. I think most of the board and ram I have is SIMM. O-L-D [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Oct 10th at 2:54am 2004

? posted by Orpheus

yes father

i, use win98 only if the pc just cant handle more.. seriously, who would want 2000 on a 133

anywho's.. i am learning, as long as you are around, you can keep me straight

Are you indicating you would be gay if it wasent for Crono?

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sun Oct 10th at 3:20am 2004

I'll have to check with my brother, but I have an old PII 300 I could send your way. It's been sitting around outside any sort of case for a long time, so I'll need to check if it still works at all...



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Oct 10th at 7:44am 2004

good stuff guys..

and nick.. bad, really bad

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Posted by $loth on Sun Oct 10th at 7:53am 2004

? posted by Wild Card
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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.

back in the days when floppy disks were actually floppy lol.

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Posted by OtZman on Sun Oct 10th at 5:42pm 2004

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as i have said before, i attempt to take old computers and reformat them for kids who have no opportunity to own one..



Seriously Orph, that's very kind of you

I can't help since I have nothing to give and I live far away over here

Good luck with your work though
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Posted by Cassius on Sun Oct 10th at 5:49pm 2004

? posted by Orpheus

yes father

i, use win98 only if the pc just cant handle more.. seriously, who would want 2000 on a 133

anywho's.. i am learning, as long as you are around, you can keep me GAY

Fixed.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Oct 10th at 5:55pm 2004

*blushes*

payback is a bitch, but i knew you were up to the task..

thankyou kind sir..

so now, i'm gay, and you're a penis.. whatever will we do with ourselves

/giggles

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Posted by thursday- on Sun Oct 10th at 8:08pm 2004

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It's october.

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



Remember he has to get these parts mailed to him, then create the computers, test the hardware and software and then send them out to the unfortunate children of today. I may be of a young age of 16, but the Orpheus is rather a hell of a lot nicer than I am, and its good to see someone doing something like this for free.

EDIT: If they did something like this in the UK I could donate some stuff I don't use.
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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Oct 11th at 3:57pm 2004

Yep, I've got like 4 old PC's in my room (I just use them as storage space for backups, or advanced typewriters ), and I'd love to send some up, but ehm ... mailing old heavy junk to America would be rather expensive.

But I love what you're doing, Orph. I don't want to make fun of your age (really), but you make me think of Santa Claus

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Posted by Hugh on Mon Oct 11th at 5:57pm 2004

Have you seen Orph and Santa Claus together?

I want a big cherry-flavored candy cane!





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Posted by fokker on Tue Oct 12th at 7:11pm 2004

orph standing with santa claus? Sounds like orph IS santa claus. Nice to see some people in society still aren't assholes. Wow do I hate the world or what.

I applaud you orpheus





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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Oct 12th at 7:19pm 2004

*blushes*

some would argue otherwise fokker..

but on a serious note, i do this every years, post it on the nets anyways, and when tracer bullets parts get here, it will be the very first time some one took the time to send stuff this way [edit] let me rephrase that, some have sent them, but the postal service lost them

if anyone needs applause, its people like tracer bullet, not me.. i enjoy fiddling with PC's to much to get kudos for doing it

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Posted by fokker on Tue Oct 12th at 7:22pm 2004

lol how bout i give you both credit and call it good?






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