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LOL... I must have been auto-corrected on the "Old" part, or my brain was working faster than my fingers. Back in 92/93 we got new Macintosh Classic II's. I am pretty certain the 80mb HD's they came with said OWC on them.
These old MAC's were sweet back then. Windows 3.1 had just been released, but our IBM's were all DOS still. I remember drilling holes in the 720kb floppy's to make their capacity 1.44mb. LOL. My teacher made a jig on the drill press so we could get it just right (not that it was hard to do, though).
We were using the Mac Classic's to make circuit boards, BTW. Still have my power supply I made somewhere's in a box.
These old MAC's were sweet back then. Windows 3.1 had just been released, but our IBM's were all DOS still. I remember drilling holes in the 720kb floppy's to make their capacity 1.44mb. LOL. My teacher made a jig on the drill press so we could get it just right (not that it was hard to do, though).
We were using the Mac Classic's to make circuit boards, BTW. Still have my power supply I made somewhere's in a box.
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From: MI
LOL... I must have been auto-corrected on the "Old" part, or my brain was working faster than my fingers. Back in 92/93 we got new Macintosh Classic II's. I am pretty certain the 80mb HD's they came with said OWC on them.
These old MAC's were sweet back then. Windows 3.1 had just been released, but our IBM's were all DOS still. I remember drilling holes in the 720kb floppy's to make their capacity 1.44mb. LOL. My teacher made a jig on the drill press so we could get it just right (not that it was hard to do, though).
We were using the Mac Classic's to make circuit boards, BTW. Still have my power supply I made somewhere's in a box.
These old MAC's were sweet back then. Windows 3.1 had just been released, but our IBM's were all DOS still. I remember drilling holes in the 720kb floppy's to make their capacity 1.44mb. LOL. My teacher made a jig on the drill press so we could get it just right (not that it was hard to do, though).
We were using the Mac Classic's to make circuit boards, BTW. Still have my power supply I made somewhere's in a box.
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From: Not quite over the rainbow
Used Mac's in school but first computer I had at home was a 486 33SX with a 100MB hard drive.
I went to hang out with a friend and the parent's bought the computer, then read the manual. The first instructions in the manual was to format the hard drive...................and they didn't have recovery disks. I come home to find my brother messing about in the bios and my parents sitting there making suggestions. Had to tell them to take it back to CompUSA to reload it.
Good times. One or possibly two video games would fit on the drive. I had far more fun trying to get the games working than actually playing them.
I went to hang out with a friend and the parent's bought the computer, then read the manual. The first instructions in the manual was to format the hard drive...................and they didn't have recovery disks. I come home to find my brother messing about in the bios and my parents sitting there making suggestions. Had to tell them to take it back to CompUSA to reload it.
Good times. One or possibly two video games would fit on the drive. I had far more fun trying to get the games working than actually playing them.
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From: Utah
Yeah, that's old school.
I remember my Dad referring to our 8-bit Atari 800XL as a "computer". All you could do was play games on it. It would lock up anytime you tried any word processing. I did a couple school papers on it, and that was enough. It was faster to use a type writer. Damn, that makes me feel old.
We got a Windows 3.1 Packard Bell machine right after I graduated from high school, with a Pentium 75mhz processor and 16mb of ram. It was right in the neighborhood of 300 dollars to "upgrade" to 32mb. Can't remember the HD size, but it was around 150mb. The neighbor across the street from us was a big wig at Packard Bell, and got my parents a deal on it. I'm thinking it was in the 1700 dollar range though, lol.
Good times.
When I bought MY first PC, it was an IBM. It was one of the first big pushes for AMD processors, and it had a K6-2 350mhz, which I later stepped up to 400mhz. It had an 8GB Quantum HD, and I remember thinking I'd never fill that thing up, LOL. It was also one of the first PC's to come with a 100mhz front side bus. It was pretty bad-A for its time. Oh... it had Windows 98 SE when I got it, and later I put 2000 on it.
I remember my Dad referring to our 8-bit Atari 800XL as a "computer". All you could do was play games on it. It would lock up anytime you tried any word processing. I did a couple school papers on it, and that was enough. It was faster to use a type writer. Damn, that makes me feel old.
We got a Windows 3.1 Packard Bell machine right after I graduated from high school, with a Pentium 75mhz processor and 16mb of ram. It was right in the neighborhood of 300 dollars to "upgrade" to 32mb. Can't remember the HD size, but it was around 150mb. The neighbor across the street from us was a big wig at Packard Bell, and got my parents a deal on it. I'm thinking it was in the 1700 dollar range though, lol.
Good times.
When I bought MY first PC, it was an IBM. It was one of the first big pushes for AMD processors, and it had a K6-2 350mhz, which I later stepped up to 400mhz. It had an 8GB Quantum HD, and I remember thinking I'd never fill that thing up, LOL. It was also one of the first PC's to come with a 100mhz front side bus. It was pretty bad-A for its time. Oh... it had Windows 98 SE when I got it, and later I put 2000 on it.
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From: MI
Yeah, that's old school.
I remember my Dad referring to our 8-bit Atari 800XL as a "computer". All you could do was play games on it. It would lock up anytime you tried any word processing. I did a couple school papers on it, and that was enough. It was faster to use a type writer. Damn, that makes me feel old.
We got a Windows 3.1 Packard Bell machine right after I graduated from high school, with a Pentium 75mhz processor and 16mb of ram. It was right in the neighborhood of 300 dollars to "upgrade" to 32mb. Can't remember the HD size, but it was around 150mb. The neighbor across the street from us was a big wig at Packard Bell, and got my parents a deal on it. I'm thinking it was in the 1700 dollar range though, lol.
Good times.
When I bought MY first PC, it was an IBM. It was one of the first big pushes for AMD processors, and it had a K6-2 350mhz, which I later stepped up to 400mhz. It had an 8GB Quantum HD, and I remember thinking I'd never fill that thing up, LOL. It was also one of the first PC's to come with a 100mhz front side bus. It was pretty bad-A for its time. Oh... it had Windows 98 SE when I got it, and later I put 2000 on it.
I remember my Dad referring to our 8-bit Atari 800XL as a "computer". All you could do was play games on it. It would lock up anytime you tried any word processing. I did a couple school papers on it, and that was enough. It was faster to use a type writer. Damn, that makes me feel old.
We got a Windows 3.1 Packard Bell machine right after I graduated from high school, with a Pentium 75mhz processor and 16mb of ram. It was right in the neighborhood of 300 dollars to "upgrade" to 32mb. Can't remember the HD size, but it was around 150mb. The neighbor across the street from us was a big wig at Packard Bell, and got my parents a deal on it. I'm thinking it was in the 1700 dollar range though, lol.
Good times.
When I bought MY first PC, it was an IBM. It was one of the first big pushes for AMD processors, and it had a K6-2 350mhz, which I later stepped up to 400mhz. It had an 8GB Quantum HD, and I remember thinking I'd never fill that thing up, LOL. It was also one of the first PC's to come with a 100mhz front side bus. It was pretty bad-A for its time. Oh... it had Windows 98 SE when I got it, and later I put 2000 on it.
We had one in house, but hell, I didn't know what it was.
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Originally Posted by Jbrew
Does that thing have 2x3 walls or whatnot lol? What made the largest difference on the trailer was installing reflectix on the windows. When I shoot the walls with a laser they will be at 40* or so. I shoot the windows and they're quite a bit warmer, in the high 50's. The actual window frame is like 30's lol. The walls are R7 so I figure the windows are now a R10 vs a R1 before treating.
Home depot has these cool little heaters that plug right into the outlet, no cord. They're 28 bucks apiece and really kick out some heat. You can set the temp on them. Thing is for me anyway, I'm not there and don't dare leave anything like that plugged in without being there.
Home depot has these cool little heaters that plug right into the outlet, no cord. They're 28 bucks apiece and really kick out some heat. You can set the temp on them. Thing is for me anyway, I'm not there and don't dare leave anything like that plugged in without being there.
Yeah my wife has a portable space heater she keeps on her downstairs... we just have a draft across our feet I just can't seem to kill. Upstairs has actually been warmer this year compared to the last few.... not complaining there. Checked our forecast and I think we are dodging the cold snap that is coming your way