Begging letter

My girlfriend has just had a bit of a computer crises (too complicated
to explain).

She needs a machine to run her business (she works for herself, from
home), so I'm appealing to ukrm's generous side - does anyone have a
machine surplus to requirements that I could borrow for a few weeks
until she can get something sorted more permanently.

The box can be pretty basic spec - just enough to run email and web,
really, and I've got a spare monitor, keyboard and mouse, so it's only
the system itself we need.

Thanks in advance

 

Champ was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

I've got a slimline Compaq P2/600 sitting here holding up a shelf that
you can borrow for a few weeks. Should be good enough for the above if
you've got an OS, as I don't think she'd appreciate one of the Unices
I run here.

Unfortunately you'd have to collect it...

 

I do, but it's an older Powermac 7500. Upgraded processor and memory,
though. Plus it has 'Appleworks' installed, which will read and write
Works and Word files.

Lovely machine, actually, but probably useless for what she needs.

 

Got a P166 running Win98se doing bugger all.
Configure it how you like and you can use it as long as you want.
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If you'd have asked a fortnight ago, I'd have has a P266[1] spare.
However, it is now in my next door neighbour's lad's bedrooom.

[1] I think. Anyway, it was shit hot ~3 years ago.

 

If you go for this I have a P200 processor doing nothing and a few paired
sticks of memory 8, 16 and 32s IIRC. May help it along a bit.

 

Got a 500mhz AMD thingy sitting in the corner somewhere

 

1G Athlon, but no OS ATM
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Breathtakingly shite old P100, 1Gb (over 2 HDs) about 32 Mb ram, 28.8 ext
modem, Win 95, keyboard, mouse, screen etc. Sat in the loft atm.

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Hang on to it - it'll be a collectors piece in a few years. There'll
be a whole new group raving about their SOCs and how marvelously slow
they are.

 

Sean Doherty <> spouted the following in

Oh no it wasn't

 

Champ <> spouted the following in

Yeah, PII 400 with all the usual stuff running Win98, got a new 56k modem in
ISTR. West Yorks

 

Anything Champ doesn't want I'll have......purleeeze.

 

Champ says...

Crikey, you could borrow one of my spares, except you live so far away.

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Catman says...

Are you fairly close to Champ? [1] I'm sure we could sort out the OS
for him if need be.

[1] In location that is.

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Alan.T.Gower says...

Anything? Literally anything, or do you have a minimum requirement.
I've got a SOC sitting here atm that is available as a freebie, but I
think the postage costs might be a bit much.

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I've a PIII-800, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD she can have if she wants.

 

Harlow. I have no idea where Champ is

I've got 98 / ME / 2k / XP around, just not installed, and not really
enough time to set up
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Prolly not. Four years ago, then? Five?

 

Fucking hell I need a new PC...

Reading this thread, I'm conscious of the fact that my main home PC is a
Celeron 633 o/c'd to 950MHz and yet people are /chucking out/ machines of
a higher spec.
:-(

Still, running Linux helps some.
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