obsolescence
sometimes i just don't know what to do. see, the first computer i owned was a upper-mid level 486-25sx with 4mb of ram and a 210 mb hard drive. meeping spiffy, i know. but i didn't come here to gloat. anyway, i think i'll be saying goodbye to it soon, as i already pilfered any fans, useful screws and jumpers from it. it was a packard bell piece of meep, but i'll still miss it. however, my main reason for writing this journal entry is about storage. i have various hard drives in various piddly sizes. i just picked up a 5.25 211 mb hard drive at work, maybe to use it for this. but i don't know. i don't have a problem pitching a 486, as i have a few low-end pentiums around. but i remember the days of installing games and then saving games to a floppy and then uninstalling and installing another game all because my brother and i were in junior high school and couldn't afford $3,000 for a 500MB drive. anyway, i'm thinking there has to be a use for these things. you know, like how if you collect enough pennies you can buy stuff? i just don't know... i was thinking of some crazy raid-type deal, but same size drives i have not. i only hope when i get old and useless, someone will connect me to a bunch of other humans and then we can serve a purpose.
disclaimer: i am not jeff the riffer, i just added the links for 'spice'. oh, and i'm bored as meep at work.
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Jun05 '02
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I still have my first PC computer and use it daily.
It's a 386SX-16 with an 80meg hard drive. Well, at least that's what it used to be. The only thing left of it is the floppy drive. Everything else has been upgraded several times including the case. Currently it's a P3-500 with a 20gig drive. Same floppy though.
I used to work at a computer store and when new stuff came out I'd just bring in my old part and swap it with new and pay the difference. Then they'd sell it as a display model. It's
It's about to be completely replaced by a machine I'm building and the old machine will go to my wife and daughter.
I just wish I had my 1st computer ever. A TI99/4a with 16k ram ohhhh!
I hear ya about being bored at work. I have 10 minutes to go before a 5 day vacation. The sucky part is I'll have the parts to build my new computer at home but I won't be there to build it. Ahhhhhh, torture!!
Jun06 '02
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As I recall, you can indeed RAID together drives of a different size -- you'll just have to settle for a partition size on each that's the size of the smallest drive. Know what I'm saying?
I'm sure someone RAID-wiser than me (and there are plenty) can point you in a more meaningful direction.
As for the aging machine(s), get familiar with Linux or Unix or one of the alternative micro-OSs and turn the box into something useful. I have a house full of services running on pre-P166 laptops.
P.S. Who the meep is Jeffrey Riffer?