A puzzle for those who know PCs better than anyone on earth:

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RE: Allow me to add a new wrinkle:

Heh, my hard drive all of a sudden started sounding REALLY loud. It is really annoying and I'm looking forward to replacing it with a new 60GB hard drive.

Just remember one thing about hard drives: Never buy more space than you expect to need/get by with for three to six months. By the time you fill up that drive the amount of money you would've spent to buy extra space back then will land you with a larger drive than you just bought.

-Xotor-

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RE: Allow me to add a new wrinkle:

Hey i remember paying close to 500$ on a 850Mb HD for my 486dx2.
And paying 400$ for a Reveal multimedia kit wich included two speakers, a sound card and a 2x cd-rom drive.

It hurts just thinking about it, now i could have a sub-1000$ PC with more capacity than that 486 (wich i paid 1700$) for that 900$ and have the rest of the PC too.


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RE: Allow me to add a new wrinkle:

I have a spare 45BG HD I bought last year because this one was starting to get long in the tooth, but without a working floppy drive I haven't been able to format it. Perhaps if I switch the drives and format the new one, then install windows...?

Well, it may just be worth a shot.

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RE: Allow me to add a new wrinkle:

>Hey i remember paying close to
>500$ on a 850Mb HD
>for my 486dx2.
>And paying 400$ for a Reveal
>multimedia kit wich included two
>speakers, a sound card and
>a 2x cd-rom drive.
>
>It hurts just thinking about it,
>now i could have a
>sub-1000$ PC with more capacity
>than that 486 (wich i
>paid 1700$) for that 900$
>and have the rest of
>the PC too.

In an age not so long ago, I paid $200 for 128 megs of PC100 RAM. If I spent the same amount for PC100 RAM (and had a motherboard that would accept infinite amounts of RAM chips) I could get 12,800 megs of RAM ($1 for 64 meg SDRAM * 200 = 12800 megs). Or if I bought the same chip ($8 for 128 megs PC100), 3.2 gigs of memory.

I also remember seeing 23 gig hard drives for about $3000 back in the day... now my 27.5 gig hard drive is barely cutting it.

On a final note, remember those $5,000 CD burners with media that would cost $8 a pop? They were notoriously apt to ruin your CD because the hard drives sucked back then and RAM was not all that plentiful. One little error and you could kiss your $8 CD bye-bye. They were 1x burn speed too!

Now I can get a 24x10x40 CDR with Burnproof for less than $100, and 100 quality CDRs for $36 including shipping (roughly $0.36 per CD).

I love progress...

-Xotor-

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RE: Allow me to add a new wrinkle:

>I have a spare 45BG HD
>I bought last year because
>this one was starting to
>get long in the tooth,
>but without a working floppy
>drive I haven't been able
>to format it. Perhaps if
>I switch the drives and
>format the new one, then
>install windows...?
>
>Well, it may just be worth
>a shot.
>
>/me starts looking for spare time

Yeah, just put your spare hard drive on a computer with Windows and a copy of Partition Magic on it and you can partition it/format it however you want.

If you have a Windows CD you should be able to install right to the drive anyway... I think... I think the Win2000 CD allows you to do that.

-Xotor-

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RE: Allow me to add a new wrinkle:

Well, all I can say is - good luck, because reformating "can" be a nasty business. The last time I tried to rescue my budy's HD, it took us 5 hrs, Ack! I think we all can use some free time off, and maybe playing FO2 a tenth time. Just make sure everything else is working, and Have Fun! ;-)

Starseeker, signing off.

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RE: Allow me to add a new wrinkle:

>Well, all I can say is
>- good luck, because reformating
>"can" be a nasty business.
> The last time I
>tried to rescue my budy's
>HD, it took us 5
>hrs, Ack! I think
>we all can use some
>free time off, and maybe
>playing FO2 a tenth time.
> Just make sure everything
>else is working, and Have
>Fun! ;-)

FIVE hours? What software did you use and what settings?

-Xotor-

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RE: Allow me to add a new wrinkle:

...Or paying 4000$ for a personnal laser printer, i just saw a commercial for a lexmarx personnal laser printer below 300$.
Before that 486dx2 i had (still have it downstairs) a 386sx wich a 20Mb HD and 4 mb of ram ( i know its a lot :-) ) wich i paid 2800$. It was as the dealer said state-of-the-art-top-of-the-line with two floppy drives a 5.25 inch high density and a 3.5 floppy. It came bundle with Windows 3.1 on 8 disks.

Thinking back, the 486dx2 line was the line that stayed up-to-date the longest, you could buy it and a year later you would still be with one of the more powerfull pc on the market (providing you upgraded you RAM a bit).
Now A year ago we had Athlon 1.0Gb cpu now were up to (last week) 1.8Gb, do you remember how long it took to go from PentiumII 466 to 500?.
I think that the computer company have in their basement computer so fast that they do not want to put it on the market now because they would lose the scaling of faster pc. Let's say they have a 10Gb processor ready now and they take it out, I would not have bought the 2.0Gb or gotten tempted by the 4.5Gb a year later, so they would basicaly lose money.



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