What kind of Computer would you build with $35

[her209]

have $35 to spend on a PC, so if you had $35 to build a PC, what would you build?

 

[bradruth]

A crappy one.


Oh, and 0/10.

 

[Transition]

A four-eighty-six. With 128kb of ram. Yea, that's it... 128kb

 

[Chiboy]

You made a parody of my thread, I feel honored 5/10

 

[bdjohnson]

maybe you could find an old Pentium 1 at an old surplus computer store probably.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Use the $35 to pay for gas to go dumpster diving.

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: bdjohnson
maybe you could find an old Pentium 1 at an old surplus computer store probably.

probably the best he can do

 

[K1052]

I have a 286 Compaq laptop I might we willing to part with.

 

[vi edit]

Heh. We are selling our old HP Vectras that are P2-300's w/ 128 RAM, cdrom, floppy, 3 gig HD, 10/100 NIC, and 8 meg AGP for $50 to employees for cheap email and word processing machines.

I'd scrounge for a few bucks and buy one of them.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

450P2
192MB RAM
2x9GB 10kRPM U2W HDs in RAID-0
Pioneer DVD-305S
Plextor 40TSI
Yamaha 2100SZ
Floppy drive
SB AWE64
Matrox G400-DH (32MB)
3Com 10/100 NIC
USR v.90 modem
Standard full size ATX case
17" monitor

...so how'd I do?

 

[acemcmac]

I second the D-diving

 

[Demon-Xanth]

...and yes, I did build that computer for approximately $0. I haven't had a chance to install an OS on it yet. (Lindows has a problem with the way the RAID card handles booting to CD)