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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: microsoft windows on Sun, 25 October 2009, 09:10:22
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I have 7. How many do you have?
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Only 3.
One old desktop that I bought about 5 years ago.
One 2 year old laptop (Dell latitude D630).
One 1 year old home build desktop.
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I have 5
Portables
13.3" Macbook (10.6.1), 10.2" Lenovo S10 (XP)
Desktops
Dell Dimension L800r, Dell Dimension 8200 (Both XP Pro)
Sony Vaio RS430G (XP Pro, and awaiting Ubuntu 9.10)
I only have a matching monitor for the Sony, and I'm seeking Monitors/Keyboards/mice for the others.
Part of what keeps my interest in keyboards and mice is having missing pieces and the urge to have only complete standalone setups. I like the idea of having a home computer lab. If I had only one computer, I'd stick with my CH trackball and HHKB. Having more computers/towers around justifies keyboard and mice purchases.
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Let's see...
I have 6:
4 desktops
2 laptops
And only one is on the level of M.W.'s, I'm sure.
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Workable:
Three desktops (Phenom II, 386SX, PowerPC WinNT 4 workstation)
One netbook
In parts:
One desktop (Pentium D)
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I have 16 or so;
My current workstation
My old workstation
My laptop
My netbook
My mini-itx router thingamajig
My 2 Sun Ultra 10 (One is dev webserver, the other is planned to be backup server)
My 2 Apple eMacs
My silicon graphics O2
My 2 Ericsson E-box (which I count because they're x86 based)
My old old workstation
An old 486 I got off my high school, it runs FreeDOS, but is in storage
Two Pentium 100MHz I got from the same place, also in storage
Yeah, that about covers it. I am hoping to be able to move to something bigger soon (that is, I hope to get a real job), so that I can rethink the whole computing situation. As it is now, I have about 3 stationary computers actually running at home at the same time, due to noise and heat. If I had more room it'd be actually worthwhile having the eMacs being thin clients, for example.
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Too many.
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Too many.
Yeah, this...
Varies between 3-4 and over twenty.
In my defense, I buy em, sort em out, and sell them on, or cannibilse them to make others to sell on.
My own, actual computers, is 4 (If you count the Missus Notebook and the Rendering Rig).
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ug. today I have
2 - VADEM Clio tablets
2 - Fujitsu Pencentra 130
1 - Toshiba Satellite x205 Sli1
1 - PowerBook 5300 engineering seed
1 - Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC tablet (MS Origami)
3 - Apple PowerBook G3 Firewire Pismo
1 - Dell Latitude C800
1 - Lenovo Thinkpad T60
1 - iBook clamshell FireWire SE (G3 466)
1 - iBook dual USB (Icebook)
1 - Toshiba Libretto CT50
1 - Hitachi Traveler 3000
1 - Apple 20th Anniversary Macintosh
1 - IBM ThinkPad R31
(offers invited)
And about as many made-them-myself desktops.
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Oh my, that's a good question.
Just what's technically mine, and not counting family members' computers that I admin.
Desktops -
1 Mac 512
2 Mac SE's (upgraded to SE30's)
2 Mac Plus's
2 Apple II GS's
1 Mac II
1 Quadra 800 w/ PPC Card
1 PowerMac 7600
1 G3 Beige Tower
1 PowerMac G4 AGP w/ CPU Upgrade Card (main desktop - 10 years old and still ticking)
Laptops/Handhelds -
1 Powerbook 540
3 Powerbook 1400's
1 Powerbook 3400
2 G3 iBooks (1 Blueberry 300Mhz, 1 White 800Mhz (what I'm typing this on))
4 G3 Powerbooks (3 Wallstreet/PDQ's, 1 Lombard)
3 Newton eMates
1 Newton 110
Admin another five, including a Pismo, an iPod Touch and an Acer Netbook (XP), but most are in storage.
Oh, and a couple of Roland synths that I'd consider computers despite being musical instruments.
As you can see, I think I have a problem only Computers Anonymous can address properly ;)
Glad you didn't ask about the typewriters...
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I am jealous of the collections of old Macs.
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2 G3 iBooks (1 Blueberry 300Mhz, 1 White 800Mhz (what I'm typing this on))
4 G3 Powerbooks (3 Wallstreet/PDQ's, 1 Lombard)
3 Newton eMates
1 Newton 110
Dude! Are you a collector or are you just really bad at throwing stuff out? I'm jealous of the early handhelds that you have there. I've got a soft spot for early portables that resembled souped up calculators more than they resembled actual computers.
I only have two computers that are used regularly and one that's used only when I need to check a website in IE6 (yuuuuck). My main rig is a Mac Pro 8-core with one drive for WinXP run through virtualization. I also have a laptop which is mostly used by my wife around the house when I'm not toting it along for client meetings. My IE6 computer is a Dell Latitude 600.
Whenever I move up, I always sell my old machine. I don't have space to collect them and I can't justify not using the proceeds of the sale to give myself a discount upgrade.
I'm thinking of adding a mini book style PC to my collection though. While the virtualization of my Windows OS on my Mac is real convenient the extra few seconds it takes for programs to load or pages to come up sometimes really add up and disrupt my thought process... but to that end, so does getting distracted on Geekhack.
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2! One (http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=97085&postcount=40) as main machine, and another "junky" one (build from leftover parts) as backup (in case the main one dies) and to experiment (ie. checking "non save" software)
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Regular use:
- My Dual-Xeon rackmount workstation
- Wife's P4 desktop
- Racked P4 server in the entertainment center for PVR duty
- GW clone of E-machines laptop with AMD Athlon 64
Infrequent but fully assembled:
- Fujitsu Lifebook P-7120 Laptop
- 450MHz server with 360GB fault-tolerant space, been off for years, built a decade ago
- Sony R505 subnotebook at wife's parents' house
Plus enough parts to probably build four or five more. I've got some more dual-Xeon boards and an SAS controller laying around for when I build my new file server. I'm thinking about four to eight 1tb to 2tb hard disks striped and mirrored...
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I have 4 desktops and 2 laptops at the moment.
5 desktops if you include a Mac SE (dual floppies + external HDD).
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Dude! Are you a collector or are you just really bad at throwing stuff out? I'm jealous of the early handhelds that you have there. I've got a soft spot for early portables that resembled souped up calculators more than they resembled actual computers.
A little of both, I think. It just sort of happened.
Yeah, the eMates are cool tech - closest thing to stock Steampunk anybody's ever sold mainstream retail. They're buckling tube keyboards, btw. A bit stiff and a bit small (being essentially the first netbook), but not too bad. They're great for things like NaNoWriMo and just general on-the-fly stuff. In some ways Newtons come closer to the original concepts for the Mac (pre-Jobs) than what actually evolved - instant on, long battery life, solid state storage, semi-modeless infinite scrolling paradigm, rugged as hell appliance, etc.
The MP110 is cool too (especially considering what I paid for it), but I find myself yearning for a MP2K or 2100 :)
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How many computers do you have?
1 - A little black Dell desktop and a pile of 3 old pc's and a printer that I used as a footrest that have been canibalised and are going to the rubbish tip soon.
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Desktop, Q6600 @ 3.8GHz with triplehead, 3x22" in portrait (1080x1920 a piece)
Laptop, Macbook Pro 13.3", unspoiled so far
Netbook, Asus EeePC 1005HA, warranty truly voided :)
Media PC, PIII 933MHz -> VGA-to-SVideo box -> 28" 16:9 CRT television
Slackware 12.2 all-round
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2 desktops (one AMD phenom II quadcore 955, overclocked to 3.7HGZ)
(one AMD XP 1.4 GHZ)
2 netbooks (both assus EEE PC 900, 900mhz pentium mobile)
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Between me and my girlfriend we've got 10:
Desktop - i7 920
Desktop - Athlon 64 6000+
HTPC - Phenom II 545
HTPC - Pentium 4 630
Laptop - Pentium 4 Northwood
Laptop - P8700
Hackintosh - Atom 230
Server - E3110 (E8400 Xeon)
Router - Dual 3.2GHz P4 Xeons
Spare I don't know what to do with - VIA Pico ITX
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Between me and my girlfriend we've got 10:
Desktop - i7 920
Desktop - Athlon 64 6000+
HTPC - Phenom II 545
HTPC - Pentium 4 630
Laptop - Pentium 4 Northwood
Laptop - P8700
Hackintosh - Atom 230
Server - E3110 (E8400 Xeon)
Router - Dual 3.2GHz P4 Xeons
Spare I don't know what to do with - VIA Pico ITX
...So which one does your GF have?
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Usually between 15 and 20 at any given time. A couple of netbooks, half a dozen laptops, and the rest mid tower systems.
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Between me and my girlfriend we've got 10:
Desktop - i7 920
Desktop - Athlon 64 6000+
HTPC - Phenom II 545
HTPC - Pentium 4 630
Laptop - Pentium 4 Northwood
Laptop - P8700
Hackintosh - Atom 230
Server - E3110 (E8400 Xeon)
Router - Dual 3.2GHz P4 Xeons
Spare I don't know what to do with - VIA Pico ITX
When did you build the VIA box?
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I'm going to go with the too many (http://dej915.darktech.org:8080/systems.html) option lol. Anyone want one of them? I'm starting to thin out the collective.
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Any of you guys have "pizza-box" computers?
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Yeah, sure do.
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I do, and mine's about the size of a personal pan pizza.
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Any of you guys have "pizza-box" computers?
I used to have a HP 712/60. Cute little box; bought it from my college's sale-of-spares shop. I like CDE; it's a classy environment even today.
The WinNT box is a little Motorola PowerStack which is riser-card based-- not quite pizza-box thin but close.
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I used to have a HP 712/60. Cute little box; bought it from my college's sale-of-spares shop. I like CDE; it's a classy environment even today.
The WinNT box is a little Motorola PowerStack which is riser-card based-- not quite pizza-box thin but close.
(*Quivers at the thought of CDE being considered 'classy' *)
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Currently, I only have one pizza-box computer but I used to have an old Hewlett-Packard Vectra XM Series 3/90 from 1995. It had a 90Mhz Pentium and 64MB of RAM. It ran well on Windows 95 and did the job quite nicely.
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I never had an NLX or LPX form factor PC, but I had a Centris 660AV that was 17" wide and worked well in the entertainment center. Ultimately I got rid of it because Motorola 68K became ridiculously obsolete.
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660s work great! I've got one, kind of funky on boot though with the video...think I might put it up on ebay.
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I just didn't have a use for it anymore. For a time I had it set up effectively as a movie machine with an old Laserdisc player hooked up, but the novelty wore off quickly. I tried running M68k Linux on it but it took about a week to compile a kernel. I tried Seti@home just for kicks and it took several weeks to process one packet.
For a time I had an IBM PS/2 Model 95 (386 tower with 8MB Ram and microchannel bus) set up with Linux, and it took about a week and a half for a single seti@home packet. Never compiled a kernel on that one.
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ah I run 8.1 on mine, works great for doing word processing and chatting
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I bet you could get Windows 3.1 running on that 386.
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20 at present, plus one for a customer...
I junked 20+ recently.
Building an i7.
This thing is an AMD Phenom 9550. Good enough for XP.
My wife has an E8400.
The customer machine is a Phenom II X3 720. I've built several of these for different people. They work out well.
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I bet you could get Windows 3.1 running on that 386.
Why would I want to though? If I were going to pick a Microsoft OS for that, it'd be either an early NT variant or OS/2. The PS/2 Model 95 was built to be a server or high end workstation, not a run-of-the-mill desktop PC.
I'm pretty sure that this particular computer was a Novell server in a previous life, probably 3.12 or older.
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It's still fun to get with the nineties and play around on Windows 3.1.
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I still remember how to install sound drivers via MCI control panel. I had a Win 3.1 box with a Sound Blaster Discovery CD-16 kit, which was a $400 kit with a sound card with integrated MKE-Panasonic CD interface as well as the necessary 2x drive. It came with Aldus Photostyler and a bunch of other tools. Cool stuff.
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That was a great package. I wanted one for a long time. I ended up getting a Logitech Soundman and some OEM CD-ROM drive. Later, I got one of the Soundblaster kits.
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It's still fun to get with the nineties and play around on Windows 3.1.
I miss OS/2...
Oh, and... Uh... I have 2 laptops, and a desktop, my wife and son have one of each and my daughters each have a desktop. So... 8-ish?
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No Power Mac G3's?
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No Power Mac G3's?
Unfortunately, I don't have any Power Mac G3s. :(
I would love to find a cheap Blue & White Power Mac around here some day.
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Sounds like you've got a whole computer lab there!
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I've only got 8 computers right now and most of them are sitting on tables in my basement.
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I have 7, soon to be 8. Most of them are old clunkers, my best computer is a 2.8ghz P4 with 1.75gb RAM.
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Unfortunately, I don't have any Power Mac G3s. :(
I would love to find a cheap Blue & White Power Mac around here some day.
How cheap is cheap? I have one.
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anybody need a spare G3 B&W board? lol I've got one sitting here...and a G4 one too
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I have 2 computers. one dedicated to gaming and the other dedicated to ripsters obsession with lego.
Big Christine
Modified Cooler Master HAF 932
Aqua Multiswitch Fan Controller
6 120mm Scythe S-Flex F
Intel Core i7 920
eVGA X58 SLI LE
6GB Corsair Dominator GT
Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB
Corsair 1000HX
Dell Ultrascan P992 19" CRT
Das Ultimate Professional
Modified SteelSeries Ikari Laser
Auzentech Prelude 7.1, Logitech Z-5500, Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1 Headset
Modified XFX GTX 285 and XFX 9800GT
Swiftech MCR220-QP, Swiftech MCR120-QP, Swiftech MCW60-R2, Swiftech MCW60-R, Swiftech Apogee GTZ, Swiftech MCP355 with XSPC Laing DDC Top, EK Multioption 250, 3 120mm Yate Loon High Speed, Tygon 7/16", Distilled Water with PT Nuke -PHN
Little Christine
Cooler Master Centurion 590
Modified Sunbeam Rheobus
5 120mm Yate Loon High Speed
Intel Core 2 Duo E5200
DFI LP P45 JR
2GB OCZ Flex
Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB
Corsair 520HX
Samsung 226BW 22" S Panel LCD
Microsoft Comfort Curve 3000
Logitech Optical
Asus Xonar DX, Logitech Z-680, Sennheiser HD515
Modified XFX 9600GSO
Xigmatek S1283, 1 120mm Scythe Ultra Kaze 3000
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I have no doubt you will.
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Is it compatible with QERY-layout Lego keyboards?
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I've got Two:
Dell Inspiron 530
- Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
- 2 GB Ram
- 500 GB HDD
- 22" Flat screen
- Dual boot Win/Ubuntu
Dell Dimension E520
- Intel Pentium D 820 2.8GHz
- 1GB Ram
- 250 GB HDD
- 17" CRT monitor
- Ubuntu 9.04
The Inspiron is the first computer that I've actually bought whole. When it's predecessor was starting to crap out I didn't have the time or the desire to build a new one so we ordered up this Dell. The Dimension is a hand-me-down from my parents. They had just moved away from their technical support guru (me) and were having problems with it so they bought a new one and shipped me the castoff. I put a clean install of Ubuntu on it and it hasn't had a single problem, well except for the 17" monitor that will be replaced just after christmas.
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Well, lets see...
I got 6, soon to be only 5:
Tandy 102 (best portable keyboard ever, with 32k expansion)
Tandy 200 (like the 102, but bigger screen, not expanded)
Apple IIgs w/ dual 3.5" drives, dual 5.25" drives, 1 meg RAM and standard RGB monitor
Generic P1 @ ~200 Mhtz, it's running my Xeltek Superpro II chip programmer (ISA slot)
HP 64110A "portable mainframe" computer w/ logic analysis boards and probes (selling)
HP zv6000 laptop (5 year old piece of junk lappy. Should have got a desktop.)
The 64110A is quite cool/retro/rare, but too big/not useful enough for me, and the guy at hpmueseum.net is going to buy it from me. See some pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/arf.at.sjv/HP64110APortableMainframe#
It has a very nice keyboard, I might add.
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Yup, that's me. What's your handle on the VC forums?
EDIT: D'oh, it's kishy. Stupid me.
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I now have 6 desktops and 2 laptops. 3 P4 desktops, 2 PIII desktops, 2 PIII laptops, 1 Pentium MMX desktop. That would make 8 total computers. 9 if you include my NEC MobilePro 770 pocket PC
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think I have 5
(1 real and 4 virtual) :nod:
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I only have two.
An old desktop that I bought at college, and a new Thinkpad T500 laptop.
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I'm going to go with the too many (http://dej915.darktech.org:8080/systems.html) option lol. Anyone want one of them? I'm starting to thin out the collective.
I'll take that nice G4 Cube off your hands. How much did you want for it?
By the way, I have a total of nine computers. All of them listed below.
HP Pavilion a6600z CTO: 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 2.8GHz Athlon
Gateway G6-333c: 96MB RAM, 4GB HDD, 3GB HDD, 400MHz Celeron
Power Mac G3 (Blue & White): 256MB RAM, 9GB HDD, 450MHz PowerPC G3
iMac (Graphite): 384MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 600MHz PowerPC G3
Custom Beige Box System: 384MB RAM, 20GB HDD, 8GB, HDD, 256MB HDD, dual 500MHz Pentium III
Macintosh LCII
Macintosh Classic
Gateway NV5207u: 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 2.1GHz Athlon X2
Compaq Presario 1244: 160MB RAM, 4GB HDD, 366MHz K6-2
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I've been able to clock my K6-2 at 450Mhz through the BIOS.
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I've got 4: ASUS EEE PC Netbook, ibook G4, and two desktops, one of them some 64 bit AMD IIRC and the other a fairly new intel Dual Core. I used to have 5, but I threw the server out recently.
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Everything on my network pictured below along with a couple of older systems (including a 486/25 in mint condition)
(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h216/hofy/odysseynetwork.jpg)
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Heh, my laptop is called ICARUS... Was the computer in the pic named for the AI in Deus Ex too?
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My Icarus is so named as it is my dedicated flight sim computer.
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Oh, I thought it was your dedicated NES emulator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Icarus).
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And I have 'em all. I LOVE emulators. It's about the only gaming I'll do these days.
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I would hope so. The funny thing is I had to use a "tool" O2 gave me to see that pic at work.
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Oh, I thought it was your dedicated NES emulator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Icarus).
Nope I actually use a real NES and cartridges! I just scored an NES Advantage joystick off ebay for $3.50. The seller claims it had very little use and sat on a shelf. It is brown on one end from the sun so I will see if I can whiten it up a bit. otherwise it is like new and works great.
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Picked up another one from uni today, so whatever I had before + 1. I'm thinking I'll replace my current gateway/server with it, because it's got a bit more oomph in it, some day. Up until then I'll play around with vserver on it, soon as I transplant some ram into it.
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I used to have a bunch of computers - Mac Mini, a gaming tower I built, and 2 Inspiron laptops but now I'm down to one Inspiron. I'll be using my Filco at my office where I run a really nice Optiplex 755, and I might haul it home with me so that I can write at my desk. I guess I should probably just get a Happy Hacker for the house, right people?
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I guess I should probably just get a Happy Hacker for the house, right people?
Definitely! One for each hand too!