New PC for 30 euros
My PC as it was for two years on the left, and my “new” PC on the right. For my birthday two weeks ago I got a nice discount from my favorite PC-related electronics site (LDLC) and so used it to upgrade my PC a bit. I went from my old CD burner/DVD player to a CD and DVD burner, so that I can finally burn backups to DVD, and got a real “multi-drive” to replace the old portable one I used to read SD cards. Drives photographed here. With the discount they cost me about thirty euros all together, and as can be seen, they make the computer look much better too. I’m really glad I know how to put together a PC; it’s saved me a lot over the years. It also gave me the chance to clean out furballs that had gathered inside the case.
For a bit of computing and geek history, I worked on a portable 80486 not too long ago, and there’s a photo of me in 1992 on a 486/66 playing Space Quest IV. With a 4-button mouse and drafting tablet for AutoCAD! 5.25″ floppies! Nerd glasses! And a two-year-old! (I was 16, or half the age I am now.)
May 10th, 2008 at 20:43
I know exactly what you are talking about when you refer to the old computer… I used a 486 myself and even older ones… Oh… the floppies! :-D
May 11th, 2008 at 07:00
That looks just like our 486 from 92′, down to the game of space quest on the screen. King’s quest and hero’s quest were also frequently seen on the monitor.
May 11th, 2008 at 08:48
King’s Quest was great! I got all of them in a Roberta Williams collection not too long ago, so much fun. Need to get Space Quest too… that was one quirky series.
May 11th, 2008 at 18:43
I remember my Texas Instruments 99 4/A (Is that what it was called?) and my Apple IIe. Cutting-edge technology of their day…