Oh the irony!

Scott Johnson · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:58 am

Many of you may have noticed that I seem to have a my fair share of "desk" time at work. Well, I fussed a little to my boss the other day that my computer was too slow (Pentium 3, 500 mHz or so, 300 mb ram). Well, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I've now got an AMD Athalon at about 1800 MHz (but only 256 mb RAM).

Yes, the machine is faster.

Yes, I can surf more efficiently now!

I also have a CD-R and DVD player now.

Scott

Kevin Hoff · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:38 am

Geek one-upmanship:

My workstation:
Pentium IV Dual processor 3.2 GHz
1 GB Ram
36 GB U320 SCSI Hard drive

:shock:

Too bad the internet connection is only OC-12...

--Kevin H.

Scott Johnson · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:48 am

Yeah, but what do you do for a living?

I'm a lab chemist... My job doesn't require more than a calculator...

Scott

Matthew_Thomson · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:10 pm

geek one DOWN-manship

embedded firmware engineer here.. lots of code compiling and real time debugging... on a....

p2 233 with 192 meg ram (was 64 up until not long ago).. and man is it painful.. guess who is too cheap to get me something better?

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 2:21 pm

I work with Matt. Same job, same computer. It's kind of like autocrossing a uhaul....it gets the job done, but it ain't pretty!

Chuck Frank · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:52 pm

scottjohnson wrote:

Many of you may have noticed that I seem to have a my fair share of "desk" time at work. Well, I fussed a little to my boss the other day that my computer was too slow (Pentium 3, 500 mHz or so, 300 mb ram). Well, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I've now got an AMD Athalon at about 1800 MHz (but only 256 mb RAM).

Yes, the machine is faster.

Yes, I can surf more efficiently now!

I also have a CD-R and DVD player now.

Scott

But I'm a jewelry designer and I have an AMD 1800, 512 MB RAM, Raid 240 GB HD array, 21" flatscreen monitor, CDR and DVD. Plus 3 slightly slower DTs and a P3 IBM laptop with DVD that goes to AXs with us.
Let the pi$$in contest begin! :lol:

Matthew_Thomson · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:11 pm

just remember you started it =)

at home i have 5 desktops p3 750, athlon 800, t-bird 1200, p3 733 and athlon 500 all with at least 128 megs of ram and total storage of over 400GB (60GB mirrored array counted only as 60GB not 120) and a p3 500 laptop. oh.. and one of my pc's is in the garage for quick access to alldata cds and the bmw ETK and TIS. unfortunately my apartment complex garages are not close enough to pick up my wireless or i'd have wireless installed on the pc in the garage.

Patrick Wellenius · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:46 pm

I've got you all beat! AMD k6 400MHz, 128MB, 2(yes, 2) GB drive, no sound card, no speakers. Oh yeah, it stopped working after 6 years

Graham Jagger · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:53 am **Posts:** 1718

Patrick Wellenius wrote:

I've got you all beat! AMD k6 400MHz, 128MB, 2(yes, 2) GB drive, no sound card, no speakers. Oh yeah, it stopped working after 6 years

DEC Rainbow. 4.66MHz 8088 primary cpu and 2.33Mhz Z80 secondary, 16MB memory, 5Gb drive (upgrade), dual 5 1/4in floppies. DOS 3 and CPM/86.

Graham

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Diane Hall · **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:33 am

Mike... dude... I've actually *got* one of those!!!

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

scottjohnson wrote:

Yeah, but what do you do for a living?

I'm a lab chemist get paid to surf the internet... My job doesn't require more than a calculator hidden cubicle...

Scott

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