well i finally upgraded my computer
just ordered a dell 733 b series with a 19"
trinitron monitor and 128 meg of rambus ram,27 gig ultra 66 hd (7200 rpm),nvidia geforce video card w/32 meg, sound blaster live sound card,48 speed cd with 8/4/32 cd re write and 56k modem.
all for about the price of a supercharger.


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99 XLT SC 4x4 STYLESIDE ORP 5.4,AUTO & 3.73 POSI
MED. TOREADOR RED
EXTANG TONEAU,BED MAT,
K&N FILTER & WOOD DASH KIT

 

HP 400 celeron, 96 megs ram, 9.6 gig harddrive, 17" Sony trinitron. Great machine beats the heck out of my old 75 pentium.Happy 2000

 

Im upgrading to 128 megs of ram. Should boost the performance!

 

fast46triton
pricewatch.com is the best place to shop for
parts (ram)
good luck

 

I just have a lowely Packard Bell PII 350, 3 gig HD, 64k ram. It was pretty fast when I bought it last year. Now - about average!

I did just get the cable modem though. Man, it kicks the tail at of 56K dial-up. The message board goes zip and its up. Very nice.

 

For christmas I got a new model;
1.21 gigawatts with the DeLoroian enclosure
Also have a Compaq Presario;
500mhz AMD
64 megs ram
10.0 gig HD
CD-RW

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2000, F-150, XLT, SC, Flareside, 4x4, 5.4, 3.55ls, ORP,
Tow Package,BFG Allterrain T/A KO's
Downey soft tonneau, Black Westin step bars
Bright REDWINGS red
Rewired driving lights from low beam dependant
to keyed toggle switch

 

Manx, thats a powerful computer!

 

Work -
(a) IBM 9672-R55 4gb of Memory, fiber optic channels, 1.4 Terabytes hard drive storage, 40 18-track tape drives, 3 robotic tape storage systems, 2 Xerox highlight color laser printers
(b) 25 Dell 6300 Powerservers, 4-500mhz Xeon processors (each), 1gb of memory, varying amounts of hard drives
(c) Oodles of HP9000's
(d) a Pair of large scale IBM AS/400's

Home -
(a) AST 166mhz, 3-1.2gb hard drives, HP 18" LCD Flat Screen.
(b) Compaq Proliant 1000 Server with 5-2.1gb SCSI Array Drives, 15" ViewSonic monitor

...and all of them are Y2K compliant!!!!

Tom in Tacoma

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1998 F150 XLT S/C 4.6L Auto, 3.55LS, 4X2, Moonlight Blue, all the bells & whistles except for leather seats. Lund Deflector, Lund Premier Tonneau, K&N, Body-color painted Throttle Cover, Pentaliner S/R, Window tint, factory side-steps, Infiniti component speakers, Superchip. Tom in Tacoma (Washington not Toyota)
Go check out http://communities.msn.com/SS97FordsPics for the second best website for F150's



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Home built AMD K6-2/300, FIC 503+ motherboard, WD 6.4Gig, 64MB memory, ATI 3D Rage Pro, Sound Blaster AWE 64, 32X cd-rom, 33.6 modem, Yamaha speakers, Labtec subwoofer

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Michael
99f150@pickupman.com
mkrieger@mailcity.com
99 F-150 XLT Supercab, 4x2, Bright Red/Harvest Gold, 4.2L, Automatic, 3.55LS, 255/70R16 Goodyears, Captains Chairs, Keyless Entry, CD Changer, Tow Package

Accessories: SuperChip, Donnelly Compass Mirror, Lariat Wheelwell Moldings and Bumper Cap, Ford Splash Guards, Bug Shield, Bed Mat, WeatherTech Deflectors, Mobil1 Synthetic Oil

Modifications: Painted Tailgate Handle, A/C on/off switch

 

Compaq Presario with 700mhz Athlon processor running on a 200mhz bus (my kids, the experts, say it runs faster than the 733 mhz PIII). 27 gig hd, 128 meg ram, CD-RW, 2 USB ports on front, 19 inch monitor...this system moves a lot of info really quick. For once, games move smoooooothly...no more herky, jerky flight sims!!!

 

Thanks Manx.

 

Texas kid - I think you could be in the "adopt-a-pc" program

 

Work - The most powerful one in the lab is
a Sun Starfire, 64 processor, 64Gb memory, Tb class storage. But there are plenty of others.

Home - PII 350, CD, CD-RW, 128 Meg memory, 16 Gig HD, Cable modem, film scanner, rio, 21 in. monitor.

Other Home - Sun Sparc 20 - 15" monitor.

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99 F-150 5.4L 4WD S/C XLT, 3.55LS and Tow
Pace-Edwards Roll Top Cover

 

Trs-80 8k ram 4k rom, cassette drive, crt displays 4 dif shades of grey. 300 baud external modem (complete with velcro strap to hold the phone onto it) Tandy Basic is the language of choice. I am getting tired of looking at the web in text only though,,may upgrade soon.

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2000 F150 SC XLT
5.4
4-sp auto
255/70r-16
3.55 LS
Heavy Duty electric
Heavy Duty cooling
Trailer Towing Group
Keyless Entry
Soft Cover
Captains Chairs
wedg blue& silver two tone
Fog Lights
Bed Liner
Fender Flairs
Cab Steps
10 disc CD changer

(Just 892 more payments and that sucker is all mine)

 

#1 K6-2 450, 96 MB Ram, 2 gig & 4 gig HDs, Voodoo3 3000, Win98, 7 year old 15" monitor from an generic 486 system.

#2 Pentium 166, 48 MB Ram, 2gig HD, Matrox Mystique Video, Redhat Linux. The real workhorse, everything goes through him first.

As a side note, if you have cable modems or DSL avaliable in your area, get it you won't be dissapointed.

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1997 F150 XLT Flareside
4.6, Auto, 3.55, custom catback
Pioneer DEH-305, Alpine 3547, 12" Kicker Comp.