i've been building PC's for about 17 years. there is no way i am going to buy a complete system when i have two very nice PCIE video cards, 4GB RAM, 1.5+TB worth of SATA HDD, a DVD/CD burner and two CPU's (both of which are probably fine). that would be like buying a new 944 (brand new, mind you) because my current 944 needs a door.

I started with my Commodore Vic 16 with a tape drive and then a Commodore 64.

I started with the DOS world with my Compaq portable running DOS 2.2

Here is a price list I found in my closet at home when I was cleaning up recently. I ended up buying this computer. Look at the prices!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1325022944.jpg

$619 for a 80 MB hard drive. That ain't 80 gig that is 80 MB. It had a whopping 4MB of ram. The 2400 baud modem was the best part. It was WAY faster than the 300 baud I had been using. The 25 Mhz 386 was a screaming fast computer compared to the 4.77 machine it replaced.

If you notice there is no OS at all. I was going to use my DOS version that I already had.

The PC option board was so that I could read and write that funny format that Mac floppies used back then.

Evening guys.

Evening Rick. Have any deer tried to attack Peggy in a while?

Naw Peggy is safe since I changed jobs and drive on more main roads. Good thing it was getting about time for one of them to do some damage and not just a light or grill.

Tell her you would never buy a car without driving it so you will never commit to a woman without driving it.:D

Hello Rick!

did ya spoil the grand kids rotten?

They are already rotten. Blame GrandMaw

They are always the guilty ones.
Did you have a good holiday?

We don't make too much of the holidays, the over comercilazion of the whole thing just drives us nuts, We prefer to just relax. But yeah it was good.

yowdy.

Relaxing is good. The wife and I don't do to much but with two kids its a must.

Well fortunately our kids feel the same way we do, so we do for the grandkids and just a HUGE dinner thing.



Vas

hey vas.

G'day

From +40C to 20ish, brrrr, this is going to take a couple of days to get used to

Have you blokes ever seen this car?

http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/...3-800-6001.jpg

This is a very significant & almost mythical car. It is the 1974 Paris Motor Show Porsche Turbo prototype. It was built on the shell of a 1973 911S coupe. The chassis number shown on the sales sheet should have a 6 between 3 and 0. It's the first 911 to wear the bigger bumpers, turbo flares and a whale tail. As shown in Paris the car's engine had a real bottom end but the upper "turbo" plumbing was in fact made of wood. The car is often referred to as having a wooden engine, but this is not correct. The car did the Motor Show circuit here in Australia and then returned to the factory, its life as a show car over. It soon returned to Australia to become a successful race car and had many victories. Once its race career finished, it was turned into a road car and passed through a number of hands over the years. I took these photos at a Sydney dealer in Jan 2007. The paintwork looks a bit flat because it was being polished at the time. I believe that the car was sold to a fortunate new owner in Chicago.

I saw this car race as a young chap many times in Australia.
Anyone know anything about it now? :)

Jeff
Rick
D

Don't know a thing about the car other than the fact I want it.

x2