PEOPLE! Computers do NOT last for ever!!!

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: meltdown75
you two are only 101 posts apart. that's awesome.

(mosh & OP)

got a little number fetish goin on?

Thats Hot.

I swear to god I'm gonna pistol whip the next person that says "That's hot."

That's hot.

Alright, you're on the list too.
Now I just need to come up with a profit scheme so I can catch some flights and pistol whip all you sillyarses.

That's Hot.

 

[LeetViet]

Sentimental (sp?) value?

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: Googer
Every post i have seen written by this guy, never has anything useful to say (in it).

Many of the posts I have seen written by you, are not very nice. Did you not learn to say nothing if you have nothing nice to say?

 

[AdamDuritz99]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
What gets me...is that people would rather pay me $150 to come out for 3 hours and work on a 7 year old machine that well beyond it's useable life and try to revive it, than just spend $300 on a brand new Dell.

hahhaha, yah i know. I never understood that, but I make some good money repairing their worthless crap. So i guess i can't complain.

 

[trek]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I believe the local library still has P5 machines for public use.

P -> P2 -> P3 -> P4 ->...P5?

it's circular!
(will there be pentium 5s?)

 

[PoPPeR]

can you come fix my tandy?

 

[brtspears2]

Originally posted by: trek

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I believe the local library still has P5 machines for public use.

P -> P2 -> P3 -> P4 ->...P5?

it's circular!
(will there be pentium 5s?)

P5 back in the day meant 5th generation.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: MustISO
I feel your pain. Imagine spending 3 hours at someone's house while Anti-Virus and Spyware apps are scanning.

It's even better if the person you are helping is standing right behind you wondering if you know what the F you're doing...

LOL if anyone wants me to look/work on their computer,I tell them bring it to me,
and I will work on it at my own house,so I can hook it up via Roadrunner.

I work on very few peoples stuff,as they all seem to think that
the work is warrantied for life! :|

 

[classy]

Originally posted by: MustISO
I feel your pain. Imagine spending 3 hours at someone's house while Anti-Virus and Spyware apps are scanning.

LOL, LMAO. Then they ask you is that normal.

 

[Engineer]

Tell it to my damn IT department which won't replace the Pentium Pro 200 server in my plant. A whole 4GB of space on shared drives (including the OS) to share among all plant employees and for all plant applications. Try to store 5,000 AutoCAD prints plus other files on that garbage! :Q

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: MustISO
I feel your pain. Imagine spending 3 hours at someone's house while Anti-Virus and Spyware apps are scanning.

I've done EIGHTEEN - on a P4 3.2.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: brtspears2

Originally posted by: trek

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I believe the local library still has P5 machines for public use.

P -> P2 -> P3 -> P4 ->...P5?

it's circular!
(will there be pentium 5s?)

P5 back in the day meant 5th generation.

You mean 586?

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: meltdown75
you two are only 101 posts apart. that's awesome.

(mosh & OP)

got a little number fetish goin on?

Thats Hot.

I swear to god I'm gonna pistol whip the next person that says "That's hot."

That's hot.

Alright, you're on the list too.
Now I just need to come up with a profit scheme so I can catch some flights and pistol whip all you sillyarses.

From a post a few months ago.. that I can't seem to find.. or remember who posted it: "If there was an invention to stab people over the internet.." or something like that. I don't remember all of it, but it's funny. So, just find a way to pistol whip through the internet. Problem solved.

Edit: I found it.

Originally posted by: isasir

I guess I need some more forward thinking so I can patent something that'll get popular 15 years from now. Maybe I'll patent a device that lets you stab people in the face over the internet.

from Here

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: MustISO
I feel your pain. Imagine spending 3 hours at someone's house while Anti-Virus and Spyware apps are scanning.

It's even better if the person you are helping is standing right behind you wondering if you know what the F you're doing...

Oh man...I know exactly what you mean.

 

[wiredspider]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I believe the local library still has P5 machines for public use.

I got a P4 and thought that was new.

 

[MajorCaliber]

I feel mistreated because my company makes me use a 3 year old Dell P3 notebook.

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: MajorCaliber
I feel mistreated because my company makes me use a 3 year old Dell P3 notebook.

Trust me....that isn't bad. We just recently got rid of some freakin' 486 Toshiba laptops.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: brtspears2

Originally posted by: trek

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I believe the local library still has P5 machines for public use.

P -> P2 -> P3 -> P4 ->...P5?

it's circular!
(will there be pentium 5s?)

P5 back in the day meant 5th generation.

You mean 586?

Yeah...I don't think anyone called them P5s. There was a K5.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Compters are not cars...if you wax them and keep them clean it doesn't mean they remain useful forever. My GOD, if your son gave you a P-75 with Windows 95 (upgrade), don't yell at me because I can't get this piece of crap connected over the phone. Let the damn thing die, get out your wallet, spend $300 on an EMachine, and STFU you cheap a$$!!!!!! :|

BUT I PAID GOOD MONEY FOR THAT COMPUTER!!

oh my goodness. This is so true for asian people. My aunt spent clost to $3000 on a P75 in 1998 or something like that, and expected her son to use it until he's done with college in 2003.

came stock with 420MB hard drive, 8 MB RAM, 2X cd reader. He did some upgrading along the way.

 

[CombatChuk]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: brtspears2

Originally posted by: trek

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I believe the local library still has P5 machines for public use.

P -> P2 -> P3 -> P4 ->...P5?

it's circular!
(will there be pentium 5s?)

P5 back in the day meant 5th generation.

You mean 586?

Yeah...I don't think anyone called them P5s. There was a K5.

The P5 was the code name of the orginal Pentium. When the Pentium Pro came out, that was the P6 which numerous processors were based off of (Pentium II, Pentium III, Celeron, Pentium M)

 

[jiwq]

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: DurocShark

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Compters are not cars...if you wax them and keep them clean it doesn't mean they remain useful forever. My GOD, if your son gave you a P-75 with Windows 95 (upgrade), don't yell at me because I can't get this piece of crap connected over the phone. Let the damn thing die, get out your wallet, spend $300 on an EMachine, and STFU you cheap a$$!!!!!! :|

BUT I PAID GOOD MONEY FOR THAT COMPUTER!!

FS: PAID $1500 4 YEARS AGO, HARDLY USED AT ALL! GREAT CONDITION COMES WITH MOUSE KEYBOARD AND ALL ACCESSORIES. ASKING $1000.

I actually see these. :laugh:

I'm lookling at 4 in the newspaper right now. Fun-ay! People have no clue. I bet they're the same ones selling their VCR for $100 (paid $400 in 1981!)

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Modeps
I find it amusing that my in-laws have an HP K6-450, citing the fact that they paid a lot for it when they bought it whenever I suggest a new one. The thing feels slower than my P-200 was.

Truthfully, hardware made a bigger leap than software some years back, so computers are lasting longer. PC's 300 mhz and over are still more than useable for the Internet. Under that is a whole different generation that's lived past their useful life. Get rid if it for cripes sake!!!!!

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: meltdown75
you two are only 101 posts apart. that's awesome.

(mosh & OP)

got a little number fetish goin on?

Thats Hot.

I swear to god I'm gonna pistol whip the next person that says "That's hot."

That's hot.

Alright, you're on the list too.
Now I just need to come up with a profit scheme so I can catch some flights and pistol whip all you sillyarses.

That's Hot.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Compters are not cars...if you wax them and keep them clean it doesn't mean they remain useful forever. My GOD, if your son gave you a P-75 with Windows 95 (upgrade), don't yell at me because I can't get this piece of crap connected over the phone. Let the damn thing die, get out your wallet, spend $300 on an EMachine, and STFU you cheap a$$!!!!!! :|

There are a lot of people out there who like old computers and see no need to upgrade the one they have. There are some collage professors who still use there original 8086 or 80286 for word processing and nothing else. They enjoy them and don't want to get rid of them.

I should clairify that these people are trying to do things with their computers that they were never designed to do and then getting angry at me when they don't work. If they have a 286 for typing letters, fine. If they want their P75 with Win95 and 16 MB of ram to do smooth streaming video with a 28.8 modem, they need a reality check.