8088 with single floppy, then dual floppies, then that great upgrade to a 10MB HDD. Oh the Packard Bell Days. Let's see, Packard Bell and Dell... sort of rhymes doesn?t it.
If you cannot build your own system and you live in the US or Canada, may I suggest Costco as a source for PC?s. The main reason for this is that they are one of the few retailers out there that do sell name brand PC?s as well as low end PC?s but the best part of this is that they have a 6 MONTH return policy, (all your money back including taxes,) if you are not completely happy with your purchase!
But the best is to build your own system which is really very easy to do nowadays, way easier then the 286, 386, P100, PII, PIII days!
you been smokin crack? who the hell needs a Dual floppy drive? I mean the only reason you use a damned floppy is to install scsi drivers at the start of installing windows... and you can get them on cd. Dual floppy brain cells i think you have. :p
alll good fun
Studio Comp: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ OC ~ 2.35GHz runs at 40 celcius idle and 48 under stress (aerocool GT1000 really works!), Asrock K7VT4A , 1024MB Dual Channel DDR 400, MSI Nvidia FX5200 128MB OC ~ 600MHz mem 350MHz core,80GB SATA + 200GB SATA + 120GB IDE, 7.1 Channel Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum EX sound and midi interface. 19" Sony SDM-HS95 TFT monitor - sweeet
Comp2: AMD Sempron 2400+ OC ~ 2.0GHz (Stable), Asrock K7S41GX, 512MB DDR 333, Onboard Graphics, 40GB Maxtor IDE
set of monitors on the way soon :P
Google is your friend... WorkComp: LAPTOP, intel celeron D 2.4GHz, 256MB DDR, 20GB hd. NO SCREEN IT WAS SAWN OFF :S (bag of crap)
Quote:I've been there and done that and I had computers since the 8088 processor back in the '80's!!! when a 10Meg hard drive was the largest one out there for home use and we were still in DOS! hahahahhahaa what a different world that was!
From myself to reply to IHoe?s comment:
Quote:8088 with single floppy, then dual floppies, then that great upgrade to a 10MB HDD. Oh the Packard Bell Days.
From SypherTek in response to above:
Quote: you been smokin crack? who the hell needs a Dual floppy drive? I mean the only reason you use a damned floppy is to install scsi drivers at the start of installing windows... and you can get them on cd. Dual floppy brain cells i think you have. :p
alll good fun
My suggestion to SypherTek is to shut up and read the posts first from start to finish so that HIS brain cells can communicate better with HIS thoughts before he typed the B/S above! Also it might have helped a bit if he knew what an 8088 machine was in the first place! And by the way? all good fun!~
Easy, ScubaBud - I'm sure he didn't mean to be rude.
Hey, I built a helluva rig for a guy before Xmas (A64 x2 3800+, 2GB OCZ, Plextor SATA etc.) and yes, it had a floppy drive in it! A black one.
Y'see, all my OS installations have a 2GB FAT system partition C:\
This is very useful even if not multi-booting OSs (and essential for Linux) and cannot be created without a good ol' 3.5 floppy (and good ol' DOS).
If you ask me, a floppy is basic and essential...
Billy G. tryin' to wean you off floppy, to get you booting from CD.
This is for 'the public' - system builders, hobbyists and advanced users know better.
And Oldtimers too :^) (We have always known, LoL)
Regards
i was in the same situation like couple months ago when i order a laptop from them their customer service suppport is in India and no racism or what i can't understand what most of those people are saying i'm done with dell too.
