New PC

[Glenn]

Talking of customer service with computer suppliers; last year when I built my current PC, I brought most of the parts from Tekheads. It turned out that the Ram and motherboard were faulty, I RMA'd both within 3 days new parts were in my PC, no need to argue with the company.

Would I deal with Tekheads again, I most certainly would  to them.

[madasahatter]

I got a new PC yesterday - but like the cowardly hoob I am I went out and bought one 

Couldn't have done with all the stress that Simon went through. 

[LesD]

The silly part is, by the time I've finished, it will look exactly the same as the old PC! 

You could opt for Linux!

I can assure you that has a different look!

[Rik]

You can get BBC BASIC for the PC. That looks different!

[Sebby]

I remember doing some wild Turtle drawings.

[Rik]

10 REM Hello World
20 PRINT "Hello World"
30 GOTO 20

or, if you were being refined

10 REM Hello World
20 REPEAT
30 PROChello
40 UNTIL FALSE
50 REM
100 DEFPROChello
110 PRINT "Hello World"
120 ENDPROC

[Sebby]

No idea what that would do. My Turtle days are well and truly gone.

[Rik]

It just puts Hello World on the screen. Probably the first program that everyone learns.

[Sebby]

Oh, right. I didn't learn it like that, I was very young at the time.

[Rik]

So was I, relatively speaking.

[Sebby]

[Inactive]

Oh, right. I didn't learn it like that, I was very young at the time.

You must have been, my Daughter who is now 30, sat typing that stuff when she was six years old, on a Texas Instruments 16k computer.

[Simon]

I got a new PC yesterday - but like the cowardly hoob I am I went out and bought one 

Couldn't have done with all the stress that Simon went through. 

Someone asked me to build them one today, and I politely declined ( ) saying it's just as cheap to buy one, and you get a warranty.  That said, yes it is as cheap to buy one, but I wonder if you would get the same quality components for the price of a home build?  Mine cost me about £550 all in, but at least I know what went into it (and got broke!), and it doesn't come pre-loaded with cr@p that a retail one would have.

What did you get, Mad?

[LesD]

You must have been, my Daughter who is now 30, sat typing that stuff when she was six years old, on a Texas Instruments 16k computer.

Ditto that sound very familiar if you substitute BBC Micro! 

Just where have the years gone! 

[Niall]

10 REM Hello World
20 PRINT "Hello World"
30 GOTO 20

or, if you were being refined

10 REM Hello World
20 REPEAT
30 PROChello
40 UNTIL FALSE
50 REM
100 DEFPROChello
110 PRINT "Hello World"
120 ENDPROC

Don't forget my personal favourite addition to any program I wrote in BBC basic:

*fx 200,1

That disabled the escape key. There was another command that I used after creating a password login system, so that if someone presses "break" it wipes the program so they never know what they were looking at, and think they'd broken something. It was great

[madasahatter]

Someone asked me to build them one today, and I politely declined ( ) saying it's just as cheap to buy one, and you get a warranty.  That said, yes it is as cheap to buy one, but I wonder if you would get the same quality components for the price of a home build?  Mine cost me about £550 all in, but at least I know what went into it (and got broke!), and it doesn't come pre-loaded with cr@p that a retail one would have.

What did you get, Mad?

After much scouring of the internet and wandering in and out of shops, I chose a Packard Bell imedia (can't remember the model number). Anyway, it's vital statistics are Intel Q6600 proc (2.4GHz), 3Gig Ram,and NVidia 256k graphics card, and it's bloody fast!!!   8)

Only trouble is that I ended up spending much more than I wanted to, because I also saw lovely new 2.1 speakers, and an all in one printer that I simply had to have - when in spending mood, us hoobs just don't know when to stop 

[Simon]

So, can I ask what you ended up spending, Mad?  It's would be interesting to compare the price of an off the shelf PC to a home build. 

[Sebby]

Nice spec, Mad.

[madasahatter]

Cheers Sebby - I'm very happy with it so far