| 1 more old and decrepit computer for my collection |
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One of Nikkis coworkers, let just call her a made up name like Sally, moved away from Baltimore. She lightened her moving load by giving me her old computer, a Compaq Presario sporting an Intel Inside sticker (note not a Intel III inside).
I can never turn down a working computer, or even a broken one for that matter. This computer is a little elderly; a Pentium Celeron 700 with 192 mb of ram and integrated video and audio. The upside is that it comes with 2 hard drives for a total of 40 gigs of storage and one of the drives is shock mounted in rubber. I am taking out the 10 gig HD just to have a spare. That should relieve some of the stress on the 135 watt power supply:)
Now that I know what it is, what do I do with it? Here is my list so far:
1. Heater in the winter time
2. Search for the next prime number
3. Air purifier (just need to add a few more fans for serious dust collection)
4. Arcademachine
5. Garage computer
I think for now I will go with garage computer. It would be nice to have some tunes while I work on the motorcycle. Of course the computer would be infinitly more useful in the garage if I had internect access out there. You might think my wireless router would get signal out there, but then again its a piece of $h1t microsoft mn-700 router. Its impossible for me to hate this router more than I do now, but thats a story for a different blog.
For now the new computer gets XUbuntu linux and 25 gigs of mp3s. And hey, in the wintertime I can still use it to heat my garage. |
