Woot! I am soooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!! *dances*

[Hardy]

I ordered a computer on aug. 8, estimated ship date was aug 20 (it was custom made, had to go through series of tests), and it was shipped out TODAY! I can't wait!!!!! If could be here Friday or Monday! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!! Goodbye 333mhz computer!! Hello 2.6ghz computer!!! Damn, you can't tell how happy I am can you?! :D This computer is 2 years in the making, I have been trying to save up for so long! But no, I had to get a PS2 w/ 4 games and had to go to a wwe house show. But I got it now! WOOOOOT!!!!!

Now the days will go by slow, I want it to bad :P I have NEVER EVER EVER played on a computer faster than 333mhz (well, my friends is 450mhz but its slower than mine he has so much crap on it). School don't count, I couldn't play games their! I have so many games I can finally PLAY!! Damn I am HAPPY!!!!

I have to many games waiting for me to play! Nascar 2003 Season, Trailor Park Tycoon, Sim City 4. I want to play em!! AHHHH!!

*dances with joy* *kisses the first chick that posts* :P

*edit*
lol, I noticed a place where I repeated myself, but I will leave it in, tells ya just how excited I really am, I dont know how I can type!!

[Hardy]

Oh yea! Here is my computer, lol:
http://www.ibuypower.com/confirm/configurator-special-a.htm
I beefed it up a little, so it cost me $740.

I got the Aluminum Tower Case. No monitor, I just got the computer with no accessories. Not even windows :P

[Memener]

nice computer!!! 2.6GHz P4 for under $1000 is a good deal

I had a 433HP celeron for 2 years then got a 1.4 about last Xmas and its like a whole new world.

Lol in july i got a newer 2.08 Ghz computer and they both run the same :)

[Hardy]

Yea, it was hard to find a good deal like that, cheapest computer I could find with 2.6ghz p4. It will be REALLY differant going from a 333mhz to a 2.6ghz :P I sure hope it comes on Friday, says 5-10 business days, Friday is 5 days, hehe. Either that or next week sometime.
I just better remember to let our dog out back, he HATES UPS for some reason, every time they drive by he goes NUTS! :roll:

[daxin]

LOL i went to that site and tried to build a computer i would want and it came out just under $5000

[Hardy]

hehe, I did that also, would be a damn nice computer!! :D

I had to get a PS2

Haha, I read that and immediately thought IBM Personal System/2, you know Microchannel Architecture, OS/2, before I realised you meant Playstation 2

Shows my age I guess ... hmm, I 'll get my coat :P

[Trumpcard]

My first 486 was a PS/2 Consultant...
486 25SX (without the Math coprocessor, thats where the DX came from)

I thought I was a big man with 8 meg of memory, and a 120 meg hard drive... That thing cost me 1500$ or so new...lol...

[Hardy]

Haha, I read that and immediately thought IBM Personal System/2, you know Microchannel Architecture, OS/2, before I realised you meant Playstation 2

Shows my age I guess ... hmm, I 'll get my coat
LOL :lol:

I thought I was a big man with 8 meg of memory, and a 120 meg hard drive... That thing cost me 1500$ or so new...lol...
damn, lol! I bought this one (333mhz, 64mb ram, 16mb vid card) for $2000 5 years ago. I have upgraded to a 16mb voodoo vid card and 320mb ram, helped a tad :P

Than I go out and buy one 10x better than this one for less than half the price. Interesting ain't it? But I won't complain! I hope prices keep falling like that! Hmmm, top of the line PC's for $100? I doubt it :P

[Memener]

Lol my frist computer was a 22Mhz 386 with 2 or 4 Mbs of RAM and a 40MB HD that was the size of a CDROM or 3 of todays hard drives
i think it ran windows 3.0 or a verson of dos. It cost my over 1500+ and thats why i still have it to day.

now it is a 22Mhz with 16 MB RAM and a 1000MB HD and runs windows 3.1 and its FAST!!! i cna play the older computer on it or do some typing. it is mostly for show tho

he HATES UPS for some reason, every time they drive by he goes NUTS!

lol my rot is the same way i dont know why but just start backing. 1 time he got out and run after the UPS man for 2 block lol

[Hardy]

lol my rot is the same way i dont know why but just start backing. 1 time he got out and run after the UPS man for 2 block lol

lol, dogs can be crazy.

Lol my frist computer was a 22Mhz 386 with 2 or 4 Mbs of RAM and a 40MB HD that was the size of a CDROM or 3 of todays hard drives
i think it ran windows 3.0 or a verson of dos. It cost my over 1500+ and thats why i still have it to day.
I had one about 7 years ago, not sure the speed or anything, but it ran windows 3.1. It was free though, so not sure how much it actually cost. My Uncle had so many computers, he just gave me that one. I was so happy to get it, it was "uber" fast, lol.
I used to play a game on it called "Chips" or something like that. You had to run around collecting these computer chips, and you had to solve puzzles to get to the chip. I got pretty far on it, not sure what happened to it though.

[Trumpcard]

My first 'real' computer was a VIC-20. 20k of ram. Only had a basic intrepreter, forget hard drives, they didnt exist, I had to load programs off a tape drive (magnetic tape just like you use to play in a jambox)

Would take 30 minutes to load 'Moon Lander'

[Kgaul]

C64 here, no HD but i rember the day a few weeks later i got my first 5.25 floppy ohhh.

the Bards Tale owned.


KG

My first computer was a BBC Model B (32K RAM, BASIC with an in-line assembler) ... this is in the UK, I doubt it was marketed much in other countries. I got an 'acoustic coupler' for it and signed up to a service called Micronet 800.

An acoustic coupler, for those too young to remember :P was the forerunner to a modem, basically a cradle in which you placed your telephone handset.

The coupler was 1200/75, i.e. 1200 baud downstream, 75!! baud upstream I think, and I also used it to play MUD at Essex University in the UK (written by Richard Bartle) via a hacked PSS (UK X25 network) account ... as far as I know, this was the first ever multi-user adventure game in the world.

Ahh, well, I am rambling .... :oops: good memories though :)

Edit: Graduated from the BBC to an ATARI 520STFM, then to an Amiga 500, and then sold-out to Intel with my first PC, a 486DX-33

[Trumpcard]

I remember well acoustic couplers... Had to shove the handset into it , and it would pick up the baud tones through the handset speaker...

If no one knows what they look like, watch the old movie WarGames and see the nifty doodad he uses to punch into Norad from a phonebooth...lol....

Here's a pic of a Radio Shack/Tandy acoustic coupler ...

http://www.tonh.net/tandyacousticcoupler.JPG