Comments on: Building A Personal Computer, PC On A Very Tight Budget! http://www.moneyaccumulator.com/78/building-a-personal-computer-pc-on-a-very-tight-budget/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:25:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Yorokobi http://www.moneyaccumulator.com/78/building-a-personal-computer-pc-on-a-very-tight-budget/#comment-11 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:00:48 +0000 http://www.moneyaccumulator.com/78/building-a-personal-computer-pc-on-a-very-tight-budget/#comment-11 Bravo on saving some lead from seeping into the earth. I myself haven't bought a NEW pc since my very first one, a PC XT (blazing 4.7Mhz!!) My first one was a PC AT that I litterally caught on it's way to the dumpster at the local landfill. My latest was a PII 400 which I set up as a linux box so I could run an apache server for my intranet. Neighbors might think less of me for dumpster diving, but that little server cost me $4.00 (keyboard) and I even salvaged the monitor! ------------------------------------------------------- Response from Das Brain - Thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you are also doing your part for the environment by not needing to upgrade to the latest and greatest as the media is telling everyone to do. Don't worry about what your neighbours think, the end result is you've done the right thing Yorokobi.   I think more people should buy or recover old computers, because not everyone is going to need the latest and superfast machine.    Bravo on saving some lead from seeping into the earth. I myself haven’t bought a NEW pc since my very first one, a PC XT (blazing 4.7Mhz!!)

My first one was a PC AT that I litterally caught on it’s way to the dumpster at the local landfill. My latest was a PII 400 which I set up as a linux box so I could run an apache server for my intranet.

Neighbors might think less of me for dumpster diving, but that little server cost me $4.00 (keyboard) and I even salvaged the monitor!

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Response from Das Brain - Thanks for the comment, and I’m glad you are also doing your part for the environment by not needing to upgrade to the latest and greatest as the media is telling everyone to do.

Don’t worry about what your neighbours think, the end result is you’ve done the right thing Yorokobi.   I think more people should buy or recover old computers, because not everyone is going to need the latest and superfast machine. 

 

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