Let's purchase a workstation for yeti

[buddha01]

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this site and its members our my true famliy, we all question and know there is truth that deserves to be spoken off although we may argue against the finner points the turth is that we are all really one and today, this moment when ever that moment is, is a time for action.

donate to keep movement alive, to keep education alive, to allow us to breath and be as we are ment to be, questioning people looking for answers before we return to the truth, the unconfortable truth that will seek answers from us each individually.

donation of $50.

Edit: Done, via main page donation page.

[spiro]

I can't believe "TheEar" even bothered to type what he did. If YETI gets a kickass system it's all the better for us. Fewer hours for YETI waiting for things to happen. Two Screens for ease of use and sanity is a given, and why have a fast motherboard with outdated hard drives or a 16bit Graphics card? Upgrade the lot or not at all. Let's save money with a ball mouse as well.

Anyway $50 Chipin sent.

[zapoper]

This was my first computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer 16k extended basic LOL

10 PRINT "Donations ="
20 INPUT X
30 IF X < 2000 THEN PRINT "CHEAP BASTARDS!"
40 IF X >= 2000 THEN PRINT "BRAVO! YOU GUYS AIN'T TOO CHEAP."

yeti Wrote:In my experience, the PSU should be at the top of that list. Motherboards should also be on there. I've never personally replaced a hard drive, CPU, or video card because of failure. Professionally (working for Compaq) only the higher speed SCSI drives under heavy use were prone to failure.

I've replaced CPUs, PSUs and hard drives. One HD in particular was weird because it was running extremely slow. I succeeded in formatting it and was installing windows. Twelve hours later it hadn't finished installing lol.

I still have it (250 GB). I've always wondered if it was possible to repair it.

[yeti]

(08-01-2011 03:23 PM)zapoper Wrote:  This was my first computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer 16k extended basic

Ah, the venerable "Trash 80". My dad had a Model III which I took over from him, but my first was a Tandy 1000 with TWO floppy drives and a 300 baud modem!!!

You could literally see the characters coming in on the screen. Thems was the days...

[Deathaniel]

Shite them be old school units!!!!

My first was a commodore 64 but now guess it would have been classified as a gaming console, though i had a primitive word perfect like program for it but no printer lol. it was plugged as a computer though in it's marketing.

[Mike_Smith]

Tom, or whoever's running this little money bomb:

Can you please confirm my pledge came through? Mastercard had recently put that card on hold because I had no mailing address and I'm not sure they prompty activated it once I updated my addy... about 30 minutes before sending this money.

Thanks

[zapoper]

You shouldn't have updated your address at the same time. They will drag it on as long as they can. (usury).

Keep on top of it Mike and it should be resolved in a few days.

P.S. I think I never thanked you for putting up this site so I am doing it now.

Thanks man! WWAAVVE.

[eflactem]

an eye for an eye

expect $40 US from your mate down under

[icosaface]

Thank you kindly aflactem. Good on ya.

[yeti]

(08-01-2011 08:57 PM)Mike_Smith Wrote:  Can you please confirm my pledge came through?

It indeed went through - six times!






Just joking. You sent $50. Thanks again mang!

[daresearcher]

Wow some other people that started out with a CoCo. I had a 4Kb box with chiklet keyboard that I piggybacked d-ram on to get it up to 64Kb and wrote drivers to page out the memory. Then later upgraded to newer units CoCo 64 etc as they came out. Then went to the T-1000 as well as Apple ][ clones, IBM clones etc. T-1000 ended up becoming a Fidonet Node for a couple of years. If things go down the tubes with the Internet, we may be back to Fidonet

Those were the days.

Have you considered this configuration? I use one of these for all of my I.T. Lab work and it's been powerful enough to do just about anything. (Not sure why you need such a hot graphics card for forum development work though )

http://www.cdw.ca/shop/products/HP-ProLi...02282.aspx
2x http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/...D-2000EARS
VMWare ESXi (Free)
Subscribe to Microsoft Technet ($199 will get you just about every server/app they have with multi legal license keys)
Add whatever memory you need (I have more than 10 MS, Linux servers and several Desktop OSs running on 12Gb)
Add whatever two monitors you need
Add decent dual-head graphic card (does not need to be a gamer card)

This machine includes 1 year on-site warranty.

[Swordfish]

Quote:I had a 4Kb box with chiklet keyboard that I piggybacked d-ram on to get it up to 64Kb and wrote drivers to page out the memory. Then later upgraded to newer units CoCo 64 etc as they came out. Then went to the T-1000 as well as Apple ][ clones, IBM clones etc. T-1000 ended up becoming a Fidonet Node for a couple of years. If things go down the tubes with the Internet, we may be back to Fidonet

I remember when we sent letters and talked to people

[zapoper]

Swordfish Wrote:I remember when we sent letters and talked to people

We are communicating in a more efficient way on the internet and we share ideas with one another. I'm sure that in this context it's even better because whether we like to admit it or not, we tend to not speak with some people because of the way they look or whatever. In this manner of communicating that is not a problem.

JMHO.

P.S, I talk to my neighbors nearly every day and still have "physical" friends. As an added bonus, I have you guys.

[yeti]

(08-02-2011 12:44 PM)daresearcher Wrote:  Have you considered this configuration?
http://www.cdw.ca/shop/products/HP-ProLi...02282.aspx

I won't do HP anymore (and I used to do server support for them) unless it's an old school duplex laser printer. They use junk parts in their systems.

(08-02-2011 12:44 PM)daresearcher Wrote:  (Not sure why you need such a hot graphics card for forum development work though )

It's going to be a kickass machine, so it should be able to do video and animation too, no? It would be a waste to use all that memory just for virtual machines. And anyway a decent graphics card these days can be had for $160. That extra $100 goes a long way.

(08-02-2011 12:44 PM)daresearcher Wrote:  Subscribe to Microsoft Technet ($199 will get you just about every server/app they have with multi legal license keys)

Good idea.

[Swordfish]

Quote:Swordfish Wrote:I remember when we sent letters and talked to people

@zapoper: I was making the comment in jest though my experience is that some technology prevents proper communication. I see groups of kids all the time sat with "real" friends but taking no notice of each other because they are texting, "twittering" or facebooking their cyber "friends". It seems that cyber friends are more of a commodity as it becomes a competition to see who has the most so they can poke each other....