Reply 5600 of 28625, by Tetrium
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wrote:Purchased another desktop, a Dell Dimension E510 at a thrift store for $25, and the keyboard for $5 with an Intel Pentium 4 HT, […]
Purchased another desktop, a Dell Dimension E510 at a thrift store for $25, and the keyboard for $5 with an Intel Pentium 4 HT, about 1GB DDR2 RAM, ATI PCI-E card, Fax modem, integrated HD audio with different outputs (front speakers, back speakers, sub, etc.), integrated ethernet, 8x USB 2.0 ports, Intel graphics (on-board), Serial, Parallel, CD+/-RW DVD ROM combo, Floppy drive, 80GB HDD, and possibly Windows XP MCE 2005 installed on it, or maybe it's formatted. Going to either install Linux on it, or as a pfSense firewall since it has enough power under the hood, and I have memory for the system as well (upgradable to 4GB). Could use some cleaning inside and out, but the condition is phenomenal (I didn't see any scuffs, scrapes, dings, or scratches on the casing itself, and the inside looked rather dusty since 2 of the slot blanks went AWOL (or didn't get put on there, such as add-on cards were installed in one point in time), but I have slot blanks from a Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus that has 3 sound cards (Lo-Tech Tandy Compatible Sound Card, Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro (OPL3, Covox Sound Things, Disney Sound Source, SB Pro, CD ROM controller, and parallel port expansion), and a Music Quest MPU401 Clone card), and a 3Com EtherLink III 10BaseT Ethernet card.
Also bidded on an HP Pavilion N3350 on the shopgoodwill.com website for $23 ($10 + S&H and taxes) that has an AMD K6-2+ 550 Mobile, Trident video card, 64MB RAM, 4GB HDD (no OS and formatted), DVD drive, FDD, ESS Maestro 3 sound and modem, no PSU, but I have one that would work with it that's for a Compaq Presario C700 notebook. Can't wait to get the HP notebook, and it'll be my portable MS-DOS and Windows gaming machine.
Edit:
Not retro activity related, but, I made some animated GIF images via GIMP 2.8 on my Dimension 4550 running Windows XP Home Edition with SP3:
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Haha, nice!
I did experiment once with making some new icons for the sole purpose of being able to find certain text files faster (by just giving standard text files a new extension and assigning a self-made icon (which was basically a very tiny .bmp) in the shape of a white+red exclamation mark. Brings back memories 🤣