Get a stick 512 Mb of ram. It is not that much more and XP needs 256 Mb to run somewhat smoothly. Having several documents and web pages open at once will bring the PC to a crawl.
I have a total of 512MB of RAM now, with the (2) 256MB sticks side-by-side.
And, I?m thinking of getting two 512MB of RAM sticks side-by-side to give me a full gig of ram just in case of the future.
And, I?m thinking of changing my mind again; and getting that Seagate 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model ST380011A, OEM, just in case.
And, I?m thinking of changing my mind again; and getting a AMD Sempron 3100
And keep my same motherboard: the BIOSTAR "M7NCG 400" nForce2 IGP Motherboard to keep the heat down and maybe some other advantage, I know not what.
And, I?m thinking of changing my mind again; and getting another Motherboard; one that is a Socket 754 instead of a Socket A. No, I don?t want to do that...but, well maybe I do...
Sigh! I don?t know!
And, I?m thinking of changing my mind again; and getting a Pentium, but... ?Speed?, ?Over clock?, or was it overstock ya all were saying. I?m thinking, ?How do you clock a desktop? Do you flip switches, toggle mini switches, rotate a screw with a screwdriver, or do you use a duel trace Tektronix scope looking at a Bit Steam clocked from another Bit Steam??
What is the matter with me? I can?t make up my mind!
Is everyone else like that; can?t make up their minds on so many options to go? So many choices for what ever the budget allows, or...
Never mind.
Not to be rude, but since when did 70 year old guys start building their own computers.
You?re not rude, you?re just like me. They do it before they become too blind to see, or too feeble to remember the difference in a screwdriver and a knife. But, then again, you?re opening up a venue for an ol? man to reflect on his past, to brag a little and you don?t want to do too much of that.
For more then 45 years, I worked at the Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) doing the same job with several contracts with Radiation Inc., RCA, United Space Alliance on their computers that support launches and landings of space craft such as Timing And Countdown systems, Abort and Destruct, and the Communications networks; Center to Center, Building to Building System to System, and from Earth to outer space (Astrocomm), all in the same department.
From almost five years before I was forced to retire due to health problems, I taught these systems to young men and women in their 20s just out of school, or the military while as I was supporting the system for operations and maintaining them. They taught me, as I was teaching them. As a lead, I wrote support and maintenance manuals and they gobbled them up and hid them before they were authorized for release. I got no Turkey Dinner from the company as I left, but the guys and galls called me a Turkey when they handed me a silver pocket watch on a silver chain as they grinned at me saying their finals. They still wont leave me alone, wanting me to keep in touch, come over, or go out for dinner. Darn Turkeys, they are, they are, they are. I said that three times, just because I love em.
We had plenty of desktops used as control interfaces with the system using Unix as an OS, and we had the regular desktops loaded with support information docs linked to support information systems monitored by other support departments and loaded with Microsoft OS and Office, but we never maintained them, another department did that. We were not allowed to.
Other than the size, you have no idea on how similar, but different the two types of computers are (Systems and desktops); the processes are the same, but the languages are different and so are the ways you install, work on, use, and maintain them. If you were to look closely, stick you head into them, put your eyeball right on this, or that particular object, and gaze into it?s vast inner working technology, you would be amazed at how similar they are.
Ah, there I go; blabbing my head off. That?s not what this forum is for. I?m sorry.
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