To bad the materials for the parts would cost much more then 20 clams... Plus the fact you wouldn't be able to buy any parts from this time unless someone list an older then shat PC on ebay even then, its so old it very likely wouldn't even turn on.
ALso, why don't you go out and try to buy a ten year old PC for 20 bucks.. that still works. You might have a easyer time in a grabage dump.
And don't forget the end of the word is in 2012 anyways...
Interesting thread...:roll: How many people with $20 Goodwill PCs are running 20 year old software today? Anyone? Hmmmm.....Sentinel672002
12 year old software you mean? and thrift stores dont sell computers for $20. ive seen crappy ones from like 2000 that they want $200 out of. you would hav to PAY me to take that crap.
i bet right now the TP is roughly.....13 years old or very imature for his age.
[QUOTE="Sentinel672002"]Interesting thread...:roll: How many people with $20 Goodwill PCs are running 20 year old software today? Anyone? Hmmmm.....blazethe1
12 year old software you mean? and thrift stores dont sell computers for $20. ive seen crappy ones from like 2000 that they want $200 out of. you would hav to PAY me to take that crap.
i bet right now the TP is roughly.....13 years old or very imature for his age.
I thought about the 12 year thing after I posted...but didn't care enough to edit it. You can find PCs for $20...maybe not at Goodwill, but they are out there. Church rummage sales, garage sales, etc. I actually had a guy bring my a complete system he bought for about $20, back in 2001. He wanted to it for college. It had a 50Mhz processor and 4MB of memory (4x1MB chips) hard soldered to the board...no SIMM slot(s). He tells me he wants Windows 95 and Office 97 installed on it. I took it as a challenge and gave it a whirl. I had to force-feed it Win95, since it was below the minimum memory install requirement. It only took five hours to install the OS. Next, I installed Internet Explorer 5. No problem. Then I loaded a ZIP utility and it crashed and burned. LOL!!! In the end, he had to settle for an install of Windows 3.1 and no office software. Didn't run too badly on 3.1... :lol:
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