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If you ain't got any photos to prove it, it never happened!
I dont usually take photos of 30 year old broken down computers when I get called in. Perhaps I should start doing that just to shame the clients into spending $350 for a Core i3 instead of calling for repairs.
But, here is a link to the computer a contestant on a 30 year old game show won: Franklin Ace 1000 Computer
The network is Buzzr, a bunch of old game-shows, even from 50's are shown.
I dont usually take photos of 30 year old broken down computers when I get called in. Perhaps I should start doing that just to shame the clients into spending $350 for a Core i3 instead of calling for repairs.
But, here is a link to the computer a contestant on a 30 year old game show won: Franklin Ace 1000 Computer
The network is Buzzr, a bunch of old game-shows, even from 50's are shown.
I was just teasing you mate! I was actually curious and wanted to see.
I'd have taken a photo of it so I could share it with the rest of the gang, never to shame anyone (at least not a customer/friend).
I dont usually take photos of 30 year old broken down computers when I get called in. Perhaps I should start doing that just to shame the clients into spending $350 for a Core i3 instead of calling for repairs.
But, here is a link to the computer a contestant on a 30 year old game show won: Franklin Ace 1000 Computer
The network is Buzzr, a bunch of old game-shows, even from 50's are shown.
what $350?? just have them go to any resale shop or garage sale and pickup a windows xp for $20.
just scored a classic yesterday, a windows 98se computer, 41M of ram and a wopping 4G of hardrive!!!
a pentium 2 brick as a processor.brings back great memories.
with that amount of HD it must have been on of the very first win98 machines made.I have been making some simple 70's style video games in BASIC so I may use it just for that.and yes it is slllooowwww!
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what $350?? just have them go to any resale shop or garage sale and pickup a windows xp for $20.
OK, that would then be an old box.
You *can* make an up to date box for less then 350 green ones.
Just did one two weeks ago for a friend, box only, no monitor.
He uses a flat screen TV as a monitor.
Used his old Win 7 home copy, upgraded it to Win 10.
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The last time I attempted to get a Win98 machine up and running from rescue discs on an elderly neighbor's computer, it was a disaster. I could not even get it updated before it would get a nasty virus. I talked them into upgrading to Windows XP, and they were better off for it. This was probably around 2006 or so.
My Warp box runs! Multi-boot, Warp/Win3.11/Win95/Win98/Linux.
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