Roger A. Shrubber
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i'll try that, i've done it in the past, sometimes it works, sometimes they're too fouled
Computer Thread
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Roger A. Shrubber
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i need to build my girl a machine of her own, more so she'll leave mine the hell alone than because she "needs" one.
this just seems like a poor time to do it though, the price of gpu's were stupid high the last time i looked, and a lot of shit looked like it was sporadically out of stock...i'll go look at new egg and few other places, see what i can find.
this just seems like a poor time to do it though, the price of gpu's were stupid high the last time i looked, and a lot of shit looked like it was sporadically out of stock...i'll go look at new egg and few other places, see what i can find.
neosapien
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I'm with @BarnBuster . In the rare event that I have to print something these days, I just go to my work and use the color laser MFC. We got it last year and so far so good. I've never had any luck with home printers. Here it is…
mile.high
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Does she really need a GPU? Geforce GT730's or Quadro P400 are still available and about $100, Quadro P620 closer to $250.
I work for a pretty big supplier and we use these cards a lot. If she's not a big gamer these cards will do fine.
Roger A. Shrubber
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well....i'd like to get her to play a game with me, and i'd like to be able to play on her machine if mine has a problem...and i just like shiny stuff....and waitresses throw money at me for weed and edibles....so i would like a semi decent unit. i have a gtx 1660 super in my machine, looks like they're starting off around 500 on newegg...i think i paid 350 for mine
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Even 8 1/2 by 14 only caught the downstateRaise of hands........who's Xerox'd their ass?
I did!
Roger A. Shrubber
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at least it's still solid state...
Roger A. Shrubber
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i was kind of thinking FFXIV...or maybe ESO...she doesn't need a computer to play any of the other games she likes to play with me 
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I like the European Southern Observatory. Their instruments are so huge.i was kind of thinking FFXIV...or maybe ESO...she doesn't need a computer to play any of the other games she likes to play with me
Roger A. Shrubber
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
BarnBuster
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Aug. 12, 1981: IBM introduces the 5150 personal computer. It will sweep away the competition and effectively have the field to itself, for a while.
For an operating system, IBM first went to Digital Research, which had developed CP/M. When Digital declined, IBM went to a small firm known for microcomputer adaptations of Basic: Microsoft.
Microsoft bought the rights to Seattle Computer Products' QDOS (supposedly, "Quick and Dirty Operating System," itself a possible hack of CP/M). In Microsoft's hands, QDOS became PC-DOS and later MS-DOS. (The 5150 could also run the more-expensive CP/M-86 and UCSD D-Pascal operating systems, but the $40 price tag -- $120 in today's money -- on PC-DOS 1.0 made it irresistible to most users.)
Before 1980, IBM made only mini and mainframe computers. The old-line firm just wasn't sure that the fledgling microcomputer market would be at all profitable.
But once the company decided to act, it developed the 5150 in less than a year at its Boca Raton, Florida, facility -- using existing off-the-shelf components. IBM selected Intel's 8-to-16-bit 8088 processor, because it thought both the Intel 8086 and Motorola MC68000 16-bit processors were too powerful.
IBM unveiled its new baby in Boca Raton and at New York City's Waldorf Astoria hotel. It weighed a then-svelte 25 pounds with a 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 CPU that contained 29,000 transistors. Stripped, it had just 16 kB of RAM; standard 64 kB, expandable to 256 kB. It also featured a 40-kB ROM, a choice of zero, one or two 5.25-inch floppy drives, a monochromatic display and optional cassette drive.
The 16-kb base model, with no data-storage drives included, cost $1,565 ($4,700 today). If you loaded a 64-kB box with all the standard features, that jumped to $2,880 ($8,649 today), and souped up with color graphics and 256 kB, it'd cost you about $6,000 ($18,020 today). Available software included the VisiCalc spreadsheet, Easywriter 1.0 and Adventure, Microsoft's first game.
IBM retailed the 5150 through ComputerLand and Sears, Roebuck. It sold 65,000 PCs in four months, with 100,000 orders taken by Christmas.
The 5150 was trouncing all the other microcomputers targeted for homes and small businesses. It established the dominance of the Microsoft operating system, pushing CP/M and proprietary operating systems out of the market. On the hardware side, its boxy design became the model for PC compatibles, and the ISA bus supplanted the old S-100 bus as standard.
It would be two-and-a-half years before the first real challenge appeared, when the original Apple Macintosh went on sale.
xtsho
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USB burners are $40 or less. I have a couple of the ASUS Zendrives. I think I paid $30 a piece for them.Can't burn files to a disk if you don't have a burner on your laptop.
Sir Napsalot
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My dedicated CD duplication machine runs Win95
It was actually a file server in a credit union before I got it for free
It was actually a file server in a credit union before I got it for free
Sir Napsalot
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It's a 333Mhz Pentium II with a 4Gb drive
raratt
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$32 for a 1TB thumb drive. Sounds like a plan.
xtsho
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A thumb drive would work as well. I was referring to the USB DVD drives but a thumb drive will hold more data than a disc.
This is what I have. I also have a ton of thumb drives as well. You can never have too much data storage.
