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what do you with your old pcs?

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  • #32
    whizzbang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,366 ✭✭✭whizzbang


    Prosta wrote:
    Am I the only 1 that flogs my old PCs to some unsuspecting "user" (1 of my in-laws if I can swing it) for way too much money to fund my new PC?


    1. Thats evil
    2. You are also selling them free support for life! ;)

    J


  • #33
    Prosta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Prosta


    whizzbang wrote:
    1. Thats evil
    2. You are also selling them free support for life! ;)

    J

    Na - support only for a year or so. then I tell them they broke it and would be better off buying a Dell.

    Its their own fault for either
    1. putting in CDs up-side-down or
    2. using the power button to turn it off instead of Start > Shutdown.
    That'll kill any computer :D


  • #34
    jc94062
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭jc94062


    2. using the power button to turn it off instead of Start > Shutdown.
    That'll kill any computer

    Remember that used to be the only way :D

    Well, there was "park" to sort it out, but hardly anyone used that.

    Ahhh, the good old days, when qbasic would overload if you went over a few thousand lines :D


  • #35
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,692 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    jc94062 wrote:
    Well, there was "park" to sort it out, but hardly anyone used that.
    I used to use on new fangled IDE self parking drives, couldn't be too careful ;)


  • #36
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,781 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    jc94062 wrote:
    Well, there was "park" to sort it out, but hardly anyone used that

    I did :)

    But only on my first ever PC with, wait for it, a 10MB hard disk

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  • #37
    rcaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    unkel wrote:
    I did :)

    But only on my first ever PC with, wait for it, a 10MB hard disk

    Nice...Hehe, the CD-R I'm holding right now can store 70 times that.....Sucky :p


  • #38
    davie_b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 179 ✭✭davie_b


    i use my main rig 2 harbour terroists maybe if your old rig has as big a case as mine maybe you could do the same!!!!!!!
    thermaltake xaiser3
    gives them plenty of room 2 hide in!!!!!!!!!
    :D


  • #39
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,227 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    yeah i remember having to type "park" into the old IBM we had it was a real preformance horse, it had wordperfect and an old line drawing program, and a 12mb HDD, it even had a key to lock the computer, powerfull stuff i tell ya, we even got a dot-matrix printer with it, boy was that some fast printer :D


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