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Look what I did with a $20 PC
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Took it apart and stuck it into a desk
Pics (took with bad cam):
On the floor:
Whole setup:
Running Da Menu:
Running DOS:
Booting into Win3.11:
Running Win3.11:
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512 MB HDD
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Old school floppy drive
(Last edited by C.A.T.S. CEO; Mar 4, 2007 at 12:11 PM.
(Reason:New power cable + fan))
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How long did you get grounded?
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Originally Posted by andreas_g4 
How long did you get grounded?
I wasn't
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but defninitely not getting anything else for a few months ...
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What kind of framerates do you get in Half-life 2?
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Originally Posted by USB HUB
but defninitely not getting anything else for a few months ...
Mo-ooom!
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I would totally do that, but I don't have 20 bucks. 
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Where is the dot-matrix printer?
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NO DAISY WHEEL
"please enter your selection you idiot"
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
Running DOS:
I use a command prompt window every single day on my winbox at work. It's the only way to get **** done.
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Originally Posted by scaught
I use a command prompt window every single day on my winbox at work. It's the only way to get **** done.
hahaha.... I'm thinking of going back to the flea market to get a 2nd HD and floppy drive, one question tho: the guy at the flea market told me that DOS 6.22 would only see up to a 512 MB HD, is this true? Can a partition a bigger HD so it works?
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so what are you going to do with this? seems like a total waste of time/space.
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Originally Posted by torsoboy
so what are you going to do with this? seems like a total waste of time/space.
trying to learn basic programing + trying to learn how to build a PC w/o breaking a $+1000 PC
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
Running Win3.11:
Looking at that pic is so weird. Windows 3.11 is all my school used for several years when I was young (and a few Commodore 64s tucked away in an old library room). It's so ugly...
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i thought you said it was $50 on irc..
anyway, make sure you dont hit the insides.
also, download the original liero.
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Originally Posted by Jawbone54
Looking at that pic is so weird. Windows 3.11 is all my school used for several years when I was young (and a few Commodore 64s tucked away in an old library room). It's so ugly...
whats even weirder is that i don't have a mouse to go with this machine (need to get one at the flea market).
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Originally Posted by kick52
i thought you said it was $50 on irc..
anyway, make sure you dont hit the insides.
also, download the original liero.
the PC was $20, the monitor was 15 and the keyboard was 5 and the non-working mouse was 5, so I guess that it was $45 total
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640K of RAM? Looks like someone hasn't loaded himem.sys/EMM386.
I would check that again while you're running Windows 3.1. ;-)
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Originally Posted by Tomchu
640K of RAM? Looks like someone hasn't loaded himem.sys/EMM386.
I would check that again while you're running Windows 3.1. ;-)
I read that on the sticker that the sales man had on the machine, and I did run himem.sys
edit: the base mem is 640K
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$20? You got taken to town. Ouch.
Here's what I got for $43:
1 GHz PIII
512MB of RAM
20GB HD
USB, ethernet, etc.
19" Flat CRT
Harmon Kardon speakers
Microsoft optical USB mouse
PS/2 Keyboard
Works great with XP and Office 2003, which is all it needs to do.
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I think you need a modem with that.
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You need to learn to take two pictures that're in focus. (OK. He got one.)
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It isn't that, it is just a bad camera, but it is still annoying.
Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
Pics (took with bad cam):
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I think it's cute. Very Nice CATS.
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With all the expensive Mac junk, you can't afford a nice camera?
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
trying to learn basic programing + trying to learn how to build a PC w/o breaking a $+1000 PC
Build It: $800 Gaming PC
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Originally Posted by Rumor
I'd want more than a gig of RAM if I was going to be doing any real gaming. I have a gig now and I never play games, but I still manage to use all of it.
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Im still not sure what you actually did...
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look what i got for $0:
Winbox 1ghz, 256mb, 30gb, wi-fi card+ethernet, a usb extension cable, working.
Winbox 800mhz, 126mb, 30gb, ethernet, working.
I slapped XUbuntu on the first one so i could play Gusansos (Best. Game. Ever.)
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Originally Posted by Peter
Im still not sure what you actually did...
just mucking about, fun!
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If you wanted to be truly old school, you'd ditch that IDE drive and toss in an MFM. Not many people know this, but there were two versions of Windows 3.11 . . . One for Workgroups, and one that was just 3.11. WFW was the most popular though. I miss the good ol' DOS days. . .
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-How pumped would you be driving home from work, knowing someplace in your house there's a monkey you're gonna battle?
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
hahaha.... I'm thinking of going back to the flea market to get a 2nd HD and floppy drive, one question tho: the guy at the flea market told me that DOS 6.22 would only see up to a 512 MB HD, is this true? Can a partition a bigger HD so it works?
Wow - that's old school.
The limit for Fat16 is 2GB (Fdisk should tell you - via a warning message). So as long as the Bios supports it, you should be fine. I do remember having a "driver" that I needed to install when drives started to get really big, but I forgot what that size was.
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