Assembling a PC in 4+ minutes

[ChrisGreaves]

BBC News - Technology
A few tips for those in a hurry ...


Now to screw the hard drive caddy into place. I get it in position and, in a miracle of dexterity, screw it in despite the small space, stumpy screws and chunky fingers. Then I realise. It's in back-to-front. There are penalties for parts being in the wrong way or loosely secured.

I'm unscrewing it when, suddenly, there's a commotion. Someone has finished. In a little over four minutes.

[stuck]

a little over four minutes

and there was me sitting on the floor of my study spending a whole Saturday rebuilding my ancient Win98 PC (now with a 1Ghz Celeron processor, 768Mb RAM and running 98SE ) with Mrs stuck shaking her head in disbelief, "Are you having fun, dear?"

Ken
PS as to why I bothered, see here

[ChrisGreaves]

spending a whole Saturday

Well, Ken, it sounds to me as if you are the one that needs a 1GHz overhaul (G&DR)

[wasbit]

Puts my building skills to shame.

I left home at 9am one saturday & using only 'A' & 'B' country roads (no motorway), drove to a computer store some 50 miles away, negotiating a blizzard on the way. Returned home, had 45 minutes for lunch & built a PC by 4pm.

Now if someone had mentioned that it was a competition, I might have managed it a bit faster.

[ChrisGreaves]

... built a PC by 4pm.

I'm getting there. That's the 400GB hard drive standing vertically. The tension in the cables prevent it from falling over.
The feed from the sound card to the stereo amplifier is temporarily held together with spring clips since 2003.
At least I can use my HP27600N and Canon scanner again ...
The STSC APL project is now deemed complete.

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Actually, that link above led me to a paper by Roger Moore in which I find this memoarble snippet:-
Node numbers had been restricted to two decimal digits by a petty limitation in the billing software. In 1979 this restriction was removed.

[tedshemyers]

This is a pic of a friend' PC (from the other Lounge) Talk about modifications:

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[ChrisGreaves]

This is a pic of a friend' PC (from the other Lounge)

Ooooh!
Where can I get candy-red cables?

[StuartR]

...Where can I get candy-red cables?

That is a common color for SATA cables. Mine are mostly either that shade of red or a very bright blue.

[ChrisGreaves]

That is a common color for SATA cables.

Oh great.
Just GREAT!
Before I am finished hooking up the IDE drive, I have to upgrade to SATA.
Story of my life ...

[HansV]

Have some Red Vines as consolation...

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[ChrisGreaves]

Have some Red Vines as consolation...

Ooooh! They have those in Holland too? They aren't called Red Vines here.
Also they tend not to be very licorishy(?), more flour and sugar and gum and artificial flavour.

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[HansV]

I don't think we have that type of red licorice in The Netherlands, but we do have these:

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[ChrisGreaves]

I don't think we have that type of red licorice in The Netherlands, but we do have these:

My postal address is 4340 Bloor Street West, ...

[stuck]

...licorishy(?)

...licorice

tricky word to spell, try here.

Ken

[ChrisGreaves]

tricky word to spell, try here.

It wasn't so much the spelling as the use of a variation-on-a-theme-of.
Try, for example, describing the state of Liquoricity.

[HansV]

the state of Liquoricity.

Is that a city state?

[viking33]

tricky word to spell, try here.

It wasn't so much the spelling as the use of a variation-on-a-theme-of.
Try, for example, describing the state of Liquoricity.

Liquoricity:
An area of dwellings where many of the inhabitants imbibe in too much alcoholicity. :headtrob:

[wasbit]

That's the 400GB hard drive standing vertically. The tension in the cables prevent it from falling over.[

I'm sure I can find you four suitable screws.

This is a pic of a friend' PC (from the other Lounge) Talk about modifications:

What no water cooling?