Who has the coolest looking computer???

[pyrate83]

Now I'm wondering what thread has had the most views? 4001 for this one amazes me.

[vcdforme]

[flaninacupboard]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/statistics.php#3

[pyrate83]

Wow, this thread's a solid 30,000 views from even making the charts.

[flaninacupboard]

best start hitting refresh then

[DVD_Ripper]

Has anybody given thought to a "sorryest looking computer" thread?

Here's a pretty sorry one... buts its mine - P4-2G, 512M, coupla' drives

A = myriad of DVD Disks from CMC to TYG01's
B = Pencil holder made by 4 yo son
C = awesome 4" TV to catch the news
D = prerequisite pic of wife and I
E = Fan to keep external USB MPEG captrue device cool
F = TDK burner
G-H = CDRW and DVDROM
I - POS 17" monitor
J = morning java intake
K = Pending bills
L = WebCam

did ya' notice the Zip Drive --- just can't throw it away.

[pyrate83]

best start hitting refresh then

Ok, for future reference, if you hit the refresh button too many times like I did, you will get temporarily banned from the site.

[pyrate83]

I'm keeping this topic on top whether you guys like it or not.

[stiltman]

Has anybody given thought to a "sorryest looking computer" thread?

Here's a pretty sorry one... buts its mine - P4-2G, 512M, coupla' drives

A = myriad of DVD Disks from CMC to TYG01's
B = Pencil holder made by 4 yo son
C = awesome 4" TV to catch the news
D = prerequisite pic of wife and I
E = Fan to keep external USB MPEG captrue device cool
F = TDK burner
G-H = CDRW and DVDROM
I - POS 17" monitor
J = morning java intake
K = Pending bills
L = WebCam

did ya' notice the Zip Drive --- just can't throw it away.

I think mine is worse
I still have a zip drive in my desktop case.

May post a pic of my setup

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Well, here's mine, I hope it's not that bad

[x-kid]

here is my case:

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Nice Case... but what's the upper device in the front part of your case... do you have a car stereo inserted there???

[IAIHMB]

Is it me or do most peoples computer work spaces seem a bit messy? :P

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

I thought it was just my space that was messed up, but it's a common problem... i just cant't keep it neat for too long!!!...
It's like the things around my desk have a mind of their own, and pick their own places... uhm... the next one decaf for me please!

[x-kid]

Nice Case... but what's the upper device in the front part of your case... do you have a car stereo inserted there???

in the upper bay of my case is a newq equalizer. it's pretty much for show. it's not really that great. i wouldn't recommend it to anyone. i actually don't even have it anymore.

[SLICK RICK]

Look what I found pyrate83. 8)

[Treebeard]

My new build,



next build will be done in a few weeks

[mattyboy]

It's just a freakin' box man. Why would I want to make it look cool. If I fixed up my PC and showed it to someone, they'd think I was a real big time geek. Actualy I hate PCs, they are a nesesery evil. Even though I'm very good with a PC, I sometimes wish I never learned how to use one.

I would rather make my bike or truck look nice. At least that would turn heads. Nobody cares about a PC, it's just a tool.

Some people might say that to you , simply for the time you spend on it. It comes down to interest and opinion dude.

[mattyboy]

Has anybody given thought to a "sorryest looking computer" thread?

Here's a pretty sorry one... buts its mine - P4-2G, 512M, coupla' drives

A = myriad of DVD Disks from CMC to TYG01's
B = Pencil holder made by 4 yo son
C = awesome 4" TV to catch the news
D = prerequisite pic of wife and I
E = Fan to keep external USB MPEG captrue device cool
F = TDK burner
G-H = CDRW and DVDROM
I - POS 17" monitor
J = morning java intake
K = Pending bills
L = WebCam

did ya' notice the Zip Drive --- just can't throw it away.

Nice wires, where the fire extinguisher!!

[waheed]

Well. heres mine:

[888888]

Here is a picture of my new case:



Actually, I don't like it very much and I wish I had gotten a better one.

[Cole]

I still own this in its original box and it works perfectly:


Sinclair ZX81 circa 1982

[BJ_M]

for what?

[Cole]

for what?

I don't actually use it anymore. It is more a collector's item nowadays, but it still works. In its day it was quite easy to write simple games. Mind you it doesn't have alot of memory - 1k.

Sinclair's ZX81 was one of the first home computers to be marketed (in the UK anyway), but I never did upgrade to the ZXSpectrum or the Commodore 64.

I remember once entering a load of machine code, from a magazine and got a fairly decent (although flickery) version of Space Invaders but without the bunkers. Soon as I pulled out the power cable, I lost the lot.

All the PC stuff had to start somewhere...

[BJ_M]

i know what it is -- i thought you meant you were still using it .

people still do use tandy 80's though ..

[Cole]

Nah, I just meant that it is still in good working order.

The only practical use it has now is as a calculator (but with bad buttons) or a door stop

[Scoobert]

My Dually





Dual 3.2 Xeons running at 3576. (24 X 149)

[EddyH]

zx81s are cool........ get that baby hooked up with a 16k ram pack (and a lot of very strong duct tape) and some very clever assembly programming and you can have high rez games with colour and sound - out of a supposedly 32x24, mono, silent machine. now that's skill, in my book, skills that i think we've probably lost

mind you because of my age i was always a spectrum / 8mhz-16bit 68000-based computer lad. the same spirit lived on into them. the things those guys could do with 0.25mips, a graphics chip supposedly only good for 16 colours at 320x200 and a sound chip capable of 3+1 square wave/noise output beggared belief. 512 colour 3D environments at 640x256 with 8 bit sample soundtracker music and FX? nice

eh um so i digress.............. where's that zip drive again? .... oh, i see.. very well hidden that

my first PC booted right from a floppy and loaded win3.1 from an internal ATAPI zip disc - no hard drive... real junkyard job (i think it had about 3.5mb of RAM, too) unfortunately my last working zip100 bit the dust ages ago, succumbed to the demons of click. My dad had all my discs and one of his two drives still works - i'm trying to wean him on to CDRW and thumbdrives ---- so i can rob the parallel-driven Zip back to use as a data transfer mule for my non-USB compatible 1997 sub-notebook laptop
(pain in the ass - it's about three months too old to have either built in USB or the requisite Cardbus slot for a add-in card... just a 16 bit PCMCIA instead ... but still has a parallel port at least)

I'll dig out a piccy of my current PC setup in a minute. I think it looks quite good if you excuse the mess on the desk. The box is kinda nondescript and mostly hidden ... all you can really see is the printer, scanner, keyboard/mouse, the LCD..... and all the system box's wires sprouting out from the right of the monitor

[SLICK RICK]

Wow, here is an old thread.

[Cobra]

Could do with a few new pictures, couldn't it?