YSaC, Vol. 1429: Girls just want to have RAM.
2013 January 17
Packard Bell 13″ computer – $25
Packard Bell 13″ monitor and tower -works great previously owned by a girl. Please call Marie xxx-xxx-xxxx
That’s right, this computer was previously owned by a GIRL! You know what that means! It means that there’s none of that icky stuff that BOYS do on computers, like … well, wait a minute. That may actually be a selling point after all.
The potential to upgrade the computer to Windows 3.1, however, is probably not as big of a draw.
Thanks, BF!
It was a sad day when Marie Cavanaugh, curator of the National Museum of Ancient Computing, had to deaccession some of the museum’s storied collection of Packard Bells.
Is Packard Bells anything like Tubular Bells? Because I’d bet this computer needs an exorcism.
Ask not who tolls for thee,
It tolls for Packard Bell Cannon in D
<kaboom>
[segue into crescendo of 1812 Overture]
{refrigerator}
That’s… just the monitor. Don’t tell me this is one of those PEBCAKs who thinks the monitor IS the computer.
The computer is on the back side of the photograph.
The stereoscopic effect isn’t all that great, either.
If you move your face close enough to the screen and cross your eyes so the two pictures overlap, it looks really, really
blurry3D!D’oh. There actually was a picture of the computer (sort of) — *this* PEBCAK posted the same picture twice.
Fixed now, which will hopefully make your comment look like YOU’RE the idiot. š
Still no keyboard, but it is compatible with most pianos.
I hope it has a serial port because I need something that I can use to download all the fan mail from my microwave.
I thought that thing to the right of it was either the furnace or the vortex into Hell.
It is.
That’s okay, I like looking like the idiot. It makes me feel “special”.
USEFUL descriptions, please!
“previously owned by a girl” <- Not helpful
"system is still humming along" <- Slightly more helpful
"hard drive has been replaced with a wasp nest" <-Very helpful
http://xkcd.com/325/
Actually, if you look closely, you can see a sticker that proclaims, Anthill Inside.
+++ Out Of Cheese Error+++
+++Redo From Start+++
āpreviously owned by a girlā <- Not helpful
Of course this is helpful it means the buyer who has been holed up in his parents basement looking at pr0n online may get to meet an actual live girl*!
*make and model may very, may not measure up to pr0n standards, may not be an actual girl.
O’er the RAM parts we watched….
Let’s see.
1. My 13″ Bell has been Packard.
2. My tower works great and has been monitored.
3. I’ve been previously owned by a girl.
I’m 3 for 3, guess it’s time to call Marie.
So that’s why you laugh at foot-long hot dogs. 8)
:tries to be discreet while sliding snarkalounger closer to OMV’s:
The only Packard for this GIRL: My Packard
1933? You don’t look that old.
Windy, I don’t have to be “that old” to appreciate a fine Packard do I?
(resists overwhelming urges to make “straight 8” in-you-endo; fails; refrigerator)
(considers braiding “Inuit”, “Intuit”, and “Innuendo” into clever nerd pun of geeky glee, but fails roll for Initiative.)
Ooh, Yeah!
As we age, both girls and boys get Random Access Memory. Why, just the other day I went into the yard. True story.
Why am I sitting at this keyboard?
Wow, Windy. That’s very.
From what I can see, this looks like the same model as the first computer I had. No kidding. It was a 486 with dial up AOL (You’ve got mail) on a modem powered by the juice of a lemon.* And I’m a girl. You don’t suppose..
*all but one of these things is true. And maybe all. That would explain why I would read a book while waiting for pages to load.
[boring computer hemi-corey]
Last time I had a 13″ CRT monitor, is was for a 386 (with 387 math co-processor).
It was in a Pack-Bell case (swapped for that); but was components I assembled myself.
Was a marvel, I went to some expense to increase it to 1024 bytes of RAM (an entire mega-byte, woohoo!). Paid extra to have a video card that was SVGA rather than EGA, and had, gasp, 256 bits of cache! Sixteen separate colors! Monitor was a 0.27 dot-pitch screen mask, too–none of those 0.29 “jaggies”!
Saved my pennies and swapped out the external, serial port, 800 baud handset modem for, gasp, a Cardinal 1600 baud internal modem with its own RJ 7 phone jack–was high speed on the DOS-based IRC buletin Boards.
Upgraded to WordStar 3.x, too–was a high-speed word processor.
Heady days, having twice–2x!–the computing power of the LEM.
WordStar *snicker* XyWrite *snicker. Amber screen *my eyes*.
Hey! I still use a CRT!
I was able to do many more digital art pieces when I had dial-up. Oh the days when it took nearly a half-hour for a under 4 minute youtube video to be ready to view. Now that I have wi-fi I’m much less productive.
Girl apparently didn’t want to have this much fun.
“Previously Owned By A Girl” = I hope I’ve wiped all the pron off the hard drive. I used a tissue and dribbled some bleach into the cup-holder.
Why thank you Llama-nun (BBUY), I’ll be hearing Cyndi in my head all day now… š
My work here is done.
I has a bummer!
No, I don’t mean I has a hiney. Although I do, but we don’t need to talk about that.
No, I don’t mean an orphaned lamb. Ewe should be ashamed to suggest that is the type of RAM involved here.
I mean I can’t upgrade to win3.1 because somebody spilled coffee on my 3.5″ floppy…
So I has a bummer.
Just use the 5.25″! You can do the same job in twice the time!!!
My first computer did not have a hard drive. It just came with a 5.25″ floppy. I took it home, set it up, put the disk in the drive, then erased the disk. I had to go back to the store so they could put the operating system back on the disk for me.
So, no more 5.25″ floppies for me.
I thought they were only floppies ‘after’ they were used?
I never understood computers.
I presume that’s without horror stories of improperly designed computers accidentally wiping their own disks with little EMP blasts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam), or software that had a decent chance of screwing up the filesystem?
…I’m lucky to have missed those days. The worst I remember was, as a little tyke, putting a Commodore 64 data tape into my parent’s regular cassette tape drive to see what it would sound OH GOD THE EARSPLITTING NOISES
BD, you work for the gubbermint too, don’t cha? Half the work in twice the time is tatooed on all the new workers I train.
Hark how the Bell
My Packard Bell
It has a tower
I am a girl.
Windows is here
Bringing us near
Previously great
It’s not too late
Oh how it hums
Whistles and strums
It’s not too old
You must be bold
My Bell’s a ringer
A real humdinger
Hard drive is sparkly
My name is Sparky
Don’t forget I am a girl
Don’t forget I am a girl
Hark Packard Bell
My Packard Bell
Ding….Dong…Ding…Dong…
(Intel inside)
I love Beesmus songs!
*looks up kc’s measurements for the inevitable box induction*
Raise your hand if you sang that softly aloud at your desk.
:raises hand sheepishly: (baaa)
Hammy and Dave, put the gloves away, no more boxing. Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, PEBCAKs!