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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Until recently a pc would be made of 3 components - Keyboard, Monitor and Box
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Boy, these guys really know their technical jargon.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Lycia:
<strong>Who'da thunk my Commodore Vic20 would be back in style! Think I gonna go to my mums and rummage around for it...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">:D :D :D :D :D
Here's my system I put together,
C-700
256 MB Ram
40 GB 7200RPM HDD
Win XP Home
24X CD-Rom (So, no PCI)
3.5" FDD (gotta have one of those!)
MS Office XS SBE
2 Button mouse (It doesn't come with one???)
NO MONITOR:
$985
Add CD-RW $110
Modem : $25
Eh, not too great, but not too bad..
We're considering these <a href="http://www.gateway.com/work/prod/sb_aio_completeprofile.shtml" target="_blank">Gateway Profiles</a> for locations where space is at a premium. Everything except the keyboard and mouse are built into the display. We did a site visit to a Physician's office where these were wall mounted and used IR keyboards with an integrated mouse - no wires dangling across the exam room.
I would have thought it should have included some type of wireless and or infra red technology like blue tooth as it is trumpeted as being space saving technology.Other than that it looks a nice peice of kit with a good specification,looking very much the Atari clone that it does.
The dell Optiplex is pretty space saving too, while not sacrificing the "box" :D
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by freddy:
<strong>commadore 64 (in white) sinclair spectrum (in black) ,,,,,,,,,,
FtF</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Lycia:
<strong>Who'da thunk my Commodore Vic20 would be back in style! Think I gonna go to my mums and rummage around for it...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My thoughts exactly. .
I was in the "dentists (thats what we call ppl who pull teeth , in the UK) ..anywasy ,tipicly the magazines 1974/5 PCPLUs (uk mag) ,,showing a firm called Snieder (prob spelt wrong) ,,who had just fallen out with "amstrad" ,,and designed/built there own machine ,,,,,,looked just like that one ,,,,,,,,whatever happened to schider??
FtF
The thing I hate about these PCs are that coffee spill scenario. One bad coffee spill, and your out of an entire PC versus just a keyboard.
How many of you drink coffee right in front of your keyboard???
I like this idea:
<a href="http://www.clearcube.com/" target="_blank">http://www.clearcube.com/</a>
Having the PC in the server room and connecting the keyboard, mouse & monitor via USB. Keeps the PC coponents nice and safe!
"Oops I spilled cofee on my $1500 keyboard, now it won't work" :D :p :D
How 'bout one of <a href="http://www.hp.com/desktops/professional/e-pc/e-pc_42/" target="_blank">these</a> instead?
it's like the ol' C=64.
Pretty good for office environement.
well they do have a limited two year warrenty,I wonder if it covers coffee?
Perhaps they should design one that looks like a chair,at least it will keep your butt warm :)
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by craigmodius:
<strong>"Oops I spilled cofee on my $1500 keyboard, now it won't work" :D :p :D
How 'bout one of <a href="http://www.hp.com/desktops/professional/e-pc/e-pc_42/" target="_blank">these</a> instead?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">stay far away from anything in those cases. We sold a bunch of those same style cases last year and have had nothing but problems with them. No air flow, crappy smelly steaming power supplies and a pain to service.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Damned Angel:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by craigmodius:
<strong>"Oops I spilled cofee on my $1500 keyboard, now it won't work" :D :p :D
How 'bout one of <a href="http://www.hp.com/desktops/professional/e-pc/e-pc_42/" target="_blank">these</a> instead?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">stay far away from anything in those cases. We sold a bunch of those same style cases last year and have had nothing but problems with them. No air flow, crappy smelly steaming power supplies and a pain to service.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">%&*#!! We just put one of those in for the chairman of the board at the bank!! I think it'll be fine considering that he barely uses it.