been without a computer
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Heh yeah that is funny hey. Do you remember when the pentium first came out? I wasnt into computers then, but my neighbours got one of the first pentiums when they first came out, and I think they paid around 2500 bucks for the whole system!
You can barely give them away now!
You can barely give them away now!
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I got one! Those first pentiums had a bug, so when you were playing a game the whole computer would freeze for like a second and it would continue on. Here's my processor collection: The Pentium 60 is the gold one
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Well this "geek" made good money fixing computers around my home town. 
I think I still got a Pentium 233 kicking around the farm and wouldn't have minded to have gotten my brothers AMD K6-II processor but I think it got pitched. BTW all these processors still work except for the 2.6 ghz Celeron.
I think I still got a Pentium 233 kicking around the farm and wouldn't have minded to have gotten my brothers AMD K6-II processor but I think it got pitched. BTW all these processors still work except for the 2.6 ghz Celeron.
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Originally Posted by 51dueller
Well this "geek" made good money fixing computers around my home town.
I think I still got a Pentium 233 kicking around the farm and wouldn't have minded to have gotten my brothers AMD K6-II processor but I think it got pitched. BTW all these processors still work except for the 2.6 ghz Celeron.
I think I still got a Pentium 233 kicking around the farm and wouldn't have minded to have gotten my brothers AMD K6-II processor but I think it got pitched. BTW all these processors still work except for the 2.6 ghz Celeron.
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Originally Posted by preppypyro
Thats a nice loking unit. What are the specs on it?
Originally Posted by 51dueller
I never did anything with the Y2K stuff. I just fixed general problems and many times made a $1 a minute. 
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I sort of got out of it as it became too much useless spyware stuff rather than conflicting hardware or software errors. I still got my "repair" cd case with every version of Windows, 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000 and XP. I do have dos 6.22 and Win 3.1 on floppy.
On thing I learned when doing odd jobs it's best to pick odd numbers for payment. So like $15 and $25 so more often or not you get $20/30.
On thing I learned when doing odd jobs it's best to pick odd numbers for payment. So like $15 and $25 so more often or not you get $20/30.
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Originally Posted by 51dueller
I sort of got out of it as it became too much useless spyware stuff rather than conflicting hardware or software errors. I still got my "repair" cd case with every version of Windows, 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000 and XP. I do have dos 6.22 and Win 3.1 on floppy.
Originally Posted by 51dueller
On thing I learned when doing odd jobs it's best to pick odd numbers for payment. So like $15 and $25 so more often or not you get $20/30.
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I never did charge anything for fixing computers. I got out of it because there just wasnt enough money in it for me. Plus I liked working physically hard.
Im surprised you dont have windows NT in your collection Nathan!
Im surprised you dont have windows NT in your collection Nathan!