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Topic: My puter has finally had it
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dafremen
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posted December 19, 2003 09:21 PM
Well...It's been babied since 1997. The keyboard has been torn down and put back together again once a year for years. The motherboard is removed for cleaning regularly, and fans galore have been added to reduce wear and tear, but she's finally dying of an old hard drive. Can hardly bear to see her go..where she used to say 200 in LEDs (advertising her super mega powerful 200 MMX Pentium processor), she now says dAF..because...well..she loves me. The missus has been on me to get rid of her for many years now...to upgrade...move on..but I'm loyal dammit, and so has my PC been, and when something or someone gets to need more from me than I get from them, I don't just give up on them and start looking for a replacement. No siree, I'm no user and abuser..I reward loyalty with loyalty and I reward friendship with true blue too...from you know who..(it's true.) Even more depressing will be the loss of the little secret something that always made this OUR computer...not just my computer. See, the CMOS date that first comes on screen when she boots up..5-29-97..that was our 7th wedding anniversary. And the other date that pops up, the BIOS date...6-24-97 that was the wife's 27th birthday...and so this is more than just a computer..chips and cables and motors and lights...it's part of the family and it's a very old friend, so I'll be very sad to see it go..but perhaps it's time. I'm at a cybercafe right now, and we'll be ordering one of those new fancy shmancy things next week, but it won't be the same...18 inch flat screen monitor, Pentium 4 2.5 GHz processor and all..it won't be half the computer that my old Pentium 200 MMX was..it won't have the history that we did together...and that made all of the difference in the world. daf P.S. If you're still waiting for a chart..(TINK)..that's why you're still waiting. IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted December 20, 2003 01:28 AM
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I'm at a cybercafe right now, and we'll be ordering one of those new fancy shmancy things next week, but it won't be the same...18 inch flat screen monitor, Pentium 4 2.5 GHz processor and all..it won't be half the computer that my old Pentium 200 MMX was..it won't have the history that we did together...and that made all of the difference in the world.
C'mon, I know you say you are sad, and I surely believe you..... But....... I could practically FEEL the excitement in this new computer's description.... You could have SOLD it to someone, modelling it like Vanna White!  On to new things... you have the memories inside you, where they matter.....you'll make new ones with your new computer friend. ( May I suggest you park your wife in front of it, while it is freshly installed, and find new uses for the computer chair?  ) IP: Logged |
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 9417
From: Madeira Beach, Florida
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted December 20, 2003 02:47 AM
Hey daf, I know what you mean about holding on to things. I still have a P100 that has a lot of things on the hard drive that I don't want to lose, though I seldom use it anymore. Sometimes I think women just don't understand  Anyway, you can bump that P200MMX up to a 233MMX for about $12 and a 6gig hard drive is about $40 which you can transfer everything on the old drive onto. If you really want to keep it and the dates you mentioned. The limiting factor, at least online is the 56K modem so a super fast computer is going to be limited by the modem and isn't going to be appreciably faster online anyway unless you have broadband. The parts I mentioned can be found here. http://www.computersurplusoutlet.com/index.asp Good luck  jwhop IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted December 20, 2003 09:09 AM
Daf, give the cold hearted bugger up Write it a poem, have a few cocktails w/it, share the old old times then scrap it. This woman doesn`t understand cuz she has a garage full of sentimental lifeless scrap hogging my parking space  I park my 2002 Tracker in the hot sun, blustery snow and hike in just so that scrap heap is close & warm to the heart that holds it dear. *sigh*  is grand isn`t it Hats off & kudos to your woman  juniperb  ------------------
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
TINK
Knowflake Posts: 3831
From: New England
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted December 20, 2003 10:12 AM
All this computer talk makes me dizzy  I have a uneasy relationship with any and all machines. Don't understand them, never will. But I can still feel your pain, daf. Amazing how attached we can become to our stuff. I'm liking pixelpixie's idea. Ah, the scorpio mind. Anyway, be strong brother To everything there is a season. No hurry with the chart. I know you have quite a bit on your plate. As God is my witness, I will master this patience virtue everyone talks about if it's the last thing I do.  IP: Logged |
Meercatt^
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posted December 20, 2003 02:58 PM
dafreman, that was beautiful. I nearly cried myself. God bless you! (I have an 'antique' at home myself, 100 mHz Compaq jobby, and I'll miss it when it's gone, too. If the overclocked processor doesn't burn out first...)IP: Logged | |
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