2007-11-07, 07:34 AM
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EJ205
Real Name: It is real!
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: RNO
Posts: 2,367
Car: 1998 Impreza Wagon, 1991 Legacy Turbo Sedan, 2003 Nissan Xterra
Class: tvFree
Yes, I'll fix it for you. Again.
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Originally Posted by M3n2c3
Oh, yes. . . my first notebook was a Compaq Armada that I picked up in 2000. I also remember quite well the Compaq 150MHz Pentium desktop that a roomie had. It was almost completely impossible to upgrade due to all the proprietary hardware. . . funny shaped case, motherboard with daughterboard riser for PCI/ISA slots, on-board RAM. . .
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Originally Posted by all teh compy geeks pileon
...I started out with this panel at my work....it had vacuum tubes and ran off of punch cards and a trained monkey....I upgraded the capacitors, boosted the voltages on the filament overdrive, and found a source of fresher bananas to get an extra hertz of power...it could name all 6 U.S. Presidents in order...ahh, the good old days...
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