My Great Old Computer
The great little beast
that I am currently doing all this work on is my trusty
old Intel Pentium 133.
Sure, its slow compared to some of my friends
pentium II's, but it does
the job on a college man's budget. Loaded with the base options, a 14"
svga monitor, 1.3gig hd, 16 bit creative sound card, wingman joystick,
mouse (duh) 8x creative cdrom, Canon bubblejet and a 2 meg video card all
for around $2000 canadian with taxes. Looking back, I should have looked
around. But the shop was and is still good to me, my dad and all my friends.
As soon as i got it, I upgraded it from 16 megs to 32. After getting a
problem fixed with the ram I got off a friend, I decided to up it to a
nice 64 megs of EDO. Meanwhile, the modem had to be upgraded from that
average 33.6 to an at the time kick ass 56k USR. With all this new found
power, it was now time to change video cards. I had just received the money
from my insurance settlement from my car stereo theft, so off to the mall
I go. Looking in the Electronics Boutique, a nice Intergraph Voodoo 6 meg
chipset caught my eye for $300. I found that to be the cheapest and best
one in the area. Future upgrades: upgrading to a 200MMX with some of my
income tax return, adding a sub (to be later used in my car). And naturally,
a DVD rom is in the picture as well.
Well, now you are probably
bored as all heck, so just click and
go back to the main menu.