Flashback to the Past

I spent most of last night and this morning rebuilding a Compaq Presario from the distant past (2000). Its been a long time since I dealt with windows 98, but from what I understand it still holds its ground with some home PC users.

For those who find a quirky hilarity in old computer specs, here is what’s under the (rather noisy) hood:

AMD K6 3D Processor (I don’t know the speed)
128MB of RAM
4GB Hard Drive (Partitioned by Compaq into a 2.75GB C drive and 1.25GB Restore drive)
Standard CD-ROM Drive (don’t know the speed)
A floppy drive
And fully dysfunctional USB 1.0

The owner of the computer has asked me to keep an eye out for a good deal on a laptop, and seeing that she likes to get her mileage out of her computers I’m not sure my typical $1200 configuration is going to do the trick.

I’m doing windows updates right now, which amounted to a whopping 40 MB, had to install a network card to do it though, had to pull one out of another dinosaur computer that I had laying around (which will someday become a VMware machine for a small testing environment).

Anyway, all is well, I just thought I would give an update to the rather slow blog.