Saturday Yard Sale Find June 09, 2009, 11:15:12 PM While some of you were out having fun at Carlisle or wherever, I was rootin' around at a couple local Yard Sales and found this for $40...No it ain't anything you gamers would even give a second glance, but it's perfect for a garage computer... Has 3.56 Celeron processor, 120Gb SATA HD & a DVD burner... Has the dreaded(so I hear) Windows Vista but for my use, I'm happier than a hog in slop... Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #1 – June 09, 2009, 11:30:23 PM Awesome! Great find.I had nice yard sale score myself, And a needed one at that.4000lb Engine Hoist and a 750lb Engine stand, $100 for the combo. :burnout:I'll snap a few pics after i clean up all the grime off 'em..They aren't the prettiest, But who cares~Hard to find Engine Hoists around here. Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #2 – June 09, 2009, 11:31:17 PM wow,, go to start, then run and then type "dxdiag"All your machines specs will pop up.I feel like im in the stone ages 800MHZ celeron processor250mg Ram with 198MG available18gig HD with 1/3'rd freeBios version 2.06This machine has seen windows 3.1 !!! and the day when we were happy to get 95 on! We are now running XP on it and people cant understand how its doing it.All this cramed into a small HP case has been running just fine since about 2000.My boys have all that fancy stuff they earned with good grade money so thier machines can game. Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #3 – June 09, 2009, 11:40:09 PM Awww Scott you got a screamer there, how bout these guys in Germany that ran XP on a 7Mhz machine with 20meg of memory??? BTW the Compaq only had 512K of memory and was slow as mud till I upped to a Gig, runs decent now...Full story...http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #4 – June 09, 2009, 11:42:45 PM Quote from: jcassity;276766wow,, go to start, then run and then type "dxdiag"All your machines specs will pop up.I feel like im in the stone ages 800MHZ celeron processor250mg Ram with 198MG available18gig HD with 1/3'rd freeBios version 2.06This machine has seen windows 3.1 !!! and the day when we were happy to get 95 on! We are now running XP on it and people cant understand how its doing it.All this cramed into a small HP case has been running just fine since about 2000.My boys have all that fancy stuff they earned with good grade money so thier machines can game.Does it look like this?::hick: Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #5 – June 09, 2009, 11:45:28 PM Quote from: turbocoupe50;276767awww scott you got a screamer there, how bout these guys in germany that ran xp on a 7mhz machine with 20meg of memory??? Btw the compaq only had 512k of memory and was slow as mud till i upped to a gig, runs decent now...Full story...http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htmI wanna play some Far Cry on that baby! ;-P Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #6 – June 09, 2009, 11:53:00 PM Quote from: Romeo2k;276769Does it look like this?::hick:umm,,,yep thats itSo we are thinking of an upgrade cause mason has an ATX mini with a 1.3ghz processor, 8gig ram and two HD 150gig and 500gig.Im trying to figure out a way to integrate the mother board so i dont have to reload windows. Im stumped right now until i figure out a way. Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #7 – June 09, 2009, 11:53:53 PM tomwhat's the thing on top? Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #8 – June 10, 2009, 12:04:16 AM Quote from: jcassity;276771umm,,,yep thats itSo we are thinking of an upgrade cause mason has an ATX mini with a 1.3ghz processor, 8gig ram and two HD 150gig and 500gig.Im trying to figure out a way to integrate the mother board so i dont have to reload windows. Im stumped right now until i figure out a way.Wow man, Great job on keeping that running.That was my first "real working internet" computer.Came with 500mhz celeron, 64mb ram, 10gb HD, 56K.If you get a Dell motherboard i can hook you up with a win2000pro OS install disc, Embedded/Universal Serial (Also have win98 and ME).Wont the HP drive boot on another board? I dont recall if its propietary. I could check mine out later for you.Here's my work in progress:Low End Gaming/Media.Already pretty dated, But working with what i have or can get cheap. Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #9 – June 10, 2009, 12:04:52 AM Another pile of computers LOL... I have something like 15 out in the garage(maybe 4-5 are bootable), problem is the fastest is a AMD 500... I'd been running a HP 450Mhz to mostly play Mp3s, but it running Win ME & didn't have a DVD reader... Might say I went from the outhouse to the penthouse... :hick:Scott that unit on top is a external USB HD case(uses a external P/S as well)... Can install a drive in it from another computer and read files on the new(er) one... I was adding some songs I got a few years back... Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #10 – June 10, 2009, 12:09:20 AM Wow, I thought I was some sort of badass running windows 95 on a 386 SX, or maybe DX, which ever one couldn't use a cd-rom because it didn't have a math co processor. Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #11 – June 10, 2009, 01:36:14 AM Maybe Saturday was the day for Garage sale deals. I got me a deal too. Yours is pretty nice but I like mine better. I got it for $60. Its a 1944 Spanish Mauser in 7.92cal=8mmx57. All numbers matching except for the Bolt. so Sat was a good day for me too! Stuckman Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #12 – June 10, 2009, 04:19:43 AM Quote from: ipsd;276794Maybe Saturday was the day for Garage sale deals. I got me a deal too. Yours is pretty nice but I like mine better. I got it for $60. Its a 1944 Spanish Mauser in 7.92cal=8mmx57. All numbers matching except for the Bolt. so Sat was a good day for me too! StuckmanDad has one similar. I cant remember what it is, Ive never shot it. He got his cheap too. His buddy was a dealer for a few years. Vista isnt that bad. "Change is bad" is the main issue I think. I have no issues using it. Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #13 – June 10, 2009, 04:32:08 AM Quote from: ipsd;276794Maybe Saturday was the day for Garage sale deals. I got me a deal too. Yours is pretty nice but I like mine better. I got it for $60. Its a 1944 Spanish Mauser in 7.92cal=8mmx57. All numbers matching except for the Bolt. so Sat was a good day for me too! StuckmanNice! My dad would freak if he found that deal~Free kitten with purchase? ;-)As promised:Sorry about the pics, Cam takes terrible night shots. Quote Selected
Saturday Yard Sale Find Reply #14 – June 10, 2009, 05:51:45 AM Wow, you all have purchased some pretty cool stuff at yard sales. Here I thought I did well with my new, made in the US files for a buck each. I bought 12.Shiny Side Up!Bill Quote Selected
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