030 - This Week: COMPUTERS!

[captain_slinky]

This week I am going to be focusing on clearing out my "Technomancer Graveyard" of dead computers, harvesting their organs and cobbling together systems for various friends and family members from their lifeless corpses.

(This is a task made SO MUCH EASIER by having an actual, working computer, thank you very much!)

One of the first things I'm going to do is install my old PCI Video Capture Card into THIS, the *WORKING* computer, so i can digitize a bunch of VHS tapes that I have recently adopted. I can hardly wait to see how this VCC from 2006 holds up in the modern day of digital file transfer! Over ten years old in the world of computers = "An elegant weapon for a more civilized age".

Then I shall move on to The Laptops, because EVERYBODY loves a laptop and has room for one. After that, it's to The Towers, where one tower in particular has been giving me entirely too much grief - it's a huge, beefy system with a teeny-tiny power source (like 450 i think?), and I'm surprised that it lasted as long as it did in the service of it's owner. Hopefully I can find something better and get it back to it's rightful home.

And that's my week this week!

Comments

[aurora77]

I will have a power supply available to give away soon. It's, I think, a 550W or 600W. It works, but something plastic fell into it a long time ago and it makes soma annoying noises sometimes. We're tired of it and finally going to replace it. It's not the most quiet thing ever, BUT it's free. We're just waiting for the new one to arrive. I'd understand if nobody wants it, though.

[captain_slinky]

Hmmmm... I'll let you know! I can't remember if it currently has a 550 or a 450 in it, but i remember thinking that it needed either a 750 or a 900 in there... it's a computer that was used for rendering CGI backgrounds for a slew of big Hollywood films before it died, and I couldn't believe the mamby-pamby power supply that was in it compared to the 27 memory slots and the giant video card and the everything else... I really fear for this system. It died back in 2011 after some 4 or 5 years of faithful service without maintenance, I don't think it's going to live up to his memories of how awesome it was once i have it restored :/ We're talking about pre-iPhone technology here!