Bye bye Betsy :(
Oct 25
Yesterday, Betsy has finally decided that enough is enough. Betsy has finally suffered a neuro-mechanical shock and entered a deep state of comatose. In an effort to give more meaning in her existence, she broke a nerve and never woke up again from the lapse.
Betsy is lovingly survived by Lala and Paquito. Thank you for all the good memories.
Oh yeah, Betsy is my ~7 year old, triple-booted workstation. I was cleaning the computer command center (or nook depending on who is talking 😀 ) yesterday when the power switch on the Simba casing refused to work properly when I returned the chassis in the rack. I already took the casing apart but the switch is a one-piece deal and electricals is one area where I dont dare push my limited tinkering skills. This is the last straw for me so I decided to coax my Chief Financial Officer (CFO, aka Commander Wife-san) to finally approve Betsy’s upgrade. I am currently looking for an affordable barebones package (Chassis+Motherboard+Processor+RAM) since I will be reusing most of Betsy’s reusable components: the 60GB HDD and the DVD/CD Writers. I am currently looking at buyqube.com’s offerings but I am still confirming if they would allow the removal of the HDD and Optical drive on their packages.
For those interested, I am selling the remains of Betsy which is composed of the following:
- AMD Duron 800Mhz
- Redfox motherboard w/ built-in video (32MB shared) and sound
- 386MB SDRAM (256+128)
- 52X CD_ROM Drive
- PCI Lan card
- USB-PCI 1.1 adaptor card (6 ports, i think)
- The darned Simba chassis
- Aged (read:Yellowish) Speakers, keyboard and mouse
All except the chassis switch and ethernet card is working since it has been a long time since I used it on a network. Based on current market price of the components, I am setting the asking price to Php2,000 (which is already a bargain price). I am also willing to add a 2GB Fujitsu HDD but it is missing a jumper but usable as a floppy disk since I sometimes use it with an external HDD enclosure. So if you are interested then do drop me note. 🙂
Btw, Lala and Paquito are the given names of my laptop and Ipaq. Once upgraded, Ol’Betsy is to be named Bettina. /lol
ciao!
Clair
Oct 31, 2006 @ 15:29:49
I don’t recall where Calen bought my desktop but he got it cheap 🙂 It’s real sweet 😀 That’s the one with the 1440×900 Acer LCD 😉 Want me to ask him where he got it? 😀 Email me 😉