just hopped on the board while over at step fathers house. used to live there with him and mother.
this old PC a PII 400 mhz wiht a 28.8 dialup
YIKES LOL
i helped them pick this out like many years ago... was TOP of the line at the time. spent like $3000 on it
i have since gave them more memory, and upgraded to XP home. it runs ok, no real problems, keeping the viruses out is a tough one, since my stepdad is not real tech savy. have to keep norton running full time, and updating, and doing it's own scans in the background. makes this thing even slower than it needs to be.
another thing, this old 8GB WD hard drive in here, and the whole PC for that matter has been ON for liek 3 years staright now LMFAO. i tell him to shut down for a night at least once a week, but he never does it LOL. talk about a tank of a PC, i feel bad telling him for $500 he can get a brand new Dell with a flat panel moniter that would be like 100 times faster than this thing.
all he does is email and freecell, so he doesn't care really about "speed" or power or even other programs. heck he doesn't know how to write a letter in word.
funny, there are highschoolers who can't write a letter without word, and here my stepdad is just fine, getting along with life, president (mayor) of the city we live in.
sometimes i wish we all could go back to a more "simple" and low tech way of life.
that said, i am on this 4+ year old keyboard, and it feels more comfortable and natural than my 2 month old one. why can't they make em like they used too?
oh well random thought for the night done.
