Comments on: YSaC, Vol. 515: Wanna grow up to be a De Acer.

By: SwissKat

SwissKat — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:29:03 +0000

I'm an Ubuntu girl...

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By: marn

marn — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:52:35 +0000

my DH and his brothers started on a TI-99/4A. I started on an Apple Macintosh. I'm a PC now, though...I converted when we married.

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By: sarajean80

sarajean80 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:50:41 +0000

It sounds weird, but you feel so much better afterwards. There is actually a popular fundraising activity around here; a group will get a very old clunker and sell tickets for a dollar a hit. You buy your tickets, stand in line, then whale on the thing with a five-pound sledge. Extremely therapeutic.

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By: marn

marn — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:16:03 +0000

you must be a distant relative...my mother does that, too! after her nearly-new Nikon camera malfunctioned one too many times when she was taking pics at a park in town, she drove to my grandparents' house (also in town), walked into the garage, came out with a sledgehammer, set the camera on the drive and proceeded to smash the living hell out of it. my grandparents just watched from the house, aghast.

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:53:47 +0000

I would totally buy that, if only because I have a strange nostalgia for computers taht are older than I am. I actually put a 5" floppy drive in my (mostly) modern Windows XP machine.

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By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:13:52 +0000

The second ad is way off on the ‘flat panel part’ yes. But that’s probably an HP machine from the P4 era. It won’t be anywhere near as fast as a modern 2Ghz machine, it’s not worth near that much, but it’s probably actually an HP. Those are certainly HP drives in it. Here’s a similar-era HP (a little newer) http://www.websitesolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/049b.jpg

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By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:39:38 +0000

steals "gargoyle squatting on a desk" for her novel

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By: GrahamT

GrahamT — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:42:46 +0000

I had a 286 with a clock speed read-out on front. When you pushed the turbo button, the clock speed went from 12MHz to 15MHz. Hold on to your seat as BASIC Nibbles goes into warp!

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By: Lola

Lola — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:47:45 +0000

Your shopping style is rather similar to mine.

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By: mudslicker

mudslicker — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:45:15 +0000

I think that's what Ugg boots are made of: Spam! Spam in a can, Sam I am. Grazie

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