_TyIzaeL_
Nov 16 2005, 12:19 PM
| | I aquired this computer through a program at my little brother's school. For some reason, a compay called CyberStudies101.com figured that if they gave out free computers to student who failed the math proficiency test the year before, the kids would go to their site every day and use it. (YEAH RIGHT).
We never used the site, the site was slow, and down more than half the time.
So, in the end we got a free quality AMD System for absolutely nothing.
I defy you to post a more interesting story.  |
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itssami
Nov 16 2005, 12:22 PM
My elder brother was doing some microsoft certification...MSCE , and other things so he said my parents thata he needs for his education...So they let him buy and paid for it ...and as me and my elder prother used to share same room , so i was always sticking with the computer but now i have my laptop , and i paid it my own.
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cragllo
Nov 16 2005, 01:45 PM
I built mine last christmas, but i had a monitor, dvd-rom, cd-rw and floppy, so all i needed was the rest... I also keep adding stuff to it and upgrading slowly.
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mayank
Nov 16 2005, 03:40 PM
That's a good way of getting a new system. Just like the case of "itssami"...in my case...my brother was doing software engg. and for that he needed the computer and my Dad paid for it...but that was 6 years ago...now when I felt that the computer is completely out of date..(it was PIII 500 Mhz) i updated my system and I have paid for the upgradation.
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alperuzi
Nov 16 2005, 04:14 PM
My computer is a laptop from a German manufacturer called Gericom. I had no plans of getting it actually, but then I went to this electronics store in Hamburg Germany and saw an incredible deal. It was along the lines of the best laptop of its time for a price like 700 euros. Since I could also get a tax refund for it I had no choice but to buy it 
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mini148
Nov 16 2005, 06:39 PM
Ah.. my laptop died (the onboard video card) on the first day of summer break.. exactly a week after the one-year warranty ran out. So.. I had $500.. decided to buy a bunch of parts and teach myself how to build a desktop compy.. it actually wasn't very hard ^^ ..never did get around to fixing that laptop, though o.o (Scrapped its 40GB harddrive, got a USB convertor.. made it into a portable HD ^^; )
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knowlege pool
Nov 16 2005, 07:09 PM
I got my first system three years back in december 2002. Fortunately / unfortunatley it is my present system also. It is a PIII 1.3 Gz system with 40 GB harddisk. But I simply love it because of the reason I bought it my savings over a year. It was a long time desired which got fulfilled with it. I was thinking and dreaming about qwning one since the time thay were launch here in India. I was facinated with this technological marvel since my school days. Back at school we use to have special classes where we were only alloowed to work on 286 or 386 systems with big 51/2 inch floppies once in a fortninght. Then in college there was introduction of Internet. It used to cost us heaven. At that point of time it cost around 2 INR/ minute (or 3USD/Hour).
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Cerebral Stasis
Nov 16 2005, 07:15 PM
I built mine about half a year or so ago, hoping to create a powerful gaming computer that was also silent (liquid cooling system) and pleanty of resources for my multiple uses. I bought all the parts off of Newegg and had it put together within a day. Since, I believe I have wiped the hard drive and reinstalled everyone only once, since I've been using a stricter system to avoid garbage and spyware buildup on my computer.
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wariorpk
Nov 16 2005, 08:10 PM
The way I got this computer was a combination of things. For my birthday my dad gave me computer parts (he didn't want to pay for labor) and I built it so its a birthday present/I built it.
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Chameleon
Nov 16 2005, 09:39 PM
I built this one up from a pII 300Mhz, 128Mb ram, 20Gb hdd; its now a p4 3.2Ghz, 1Gb ram, 1.8Tb hdd space; has neon lights in it and a window on the side as well (its a monster  )
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-bLiNd-
Sep 26 2006, 12:12 PM
I got my first PC when I was 13 years old, I like most kids used it for games  It was a old pentium1 with 200 mhz processor and it had 64 mb ram and 1 mb graphics. After I grew up and got in gr.11 I started learning Delphi and so my dad bought me a new Pentium4. I am still using it at the moment, and Im upgrading it along the way 
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Morne
Sep 25 2006, 01:45 PM
I got my first PC from my parents, it was a pentium one, and it sucked big time lol After a few years I got to High School and started learning Delphi the language and I suprised myself and my parents, so then they bought me my own PC I do everything with my new PC it's just very expensive to buy new parts every once in a while haha
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darran
Sep 23 2006, 11:09 AM
My story is not as interesting and advantage-taking as yours but I will post mine nonetheless. I figured I was going to do a lot of projects while in my 2nd year of tertiary education mainly programming. I can't be walking around in the campus looking for an empty computer lab all the time and wait to get home before starting on my programming project. So I decided to head down to my local Harvey Norman retailer and purchase a laptop. At that point of time, I wasn't too concerned what brand I would buy, be it an Acer, HP, Compaq, Fujitsu ... etc, I was introduced to a Sony Vaio laptop. I was fascinated by the design of the laptop, one which is used for large scale video editing and also entertainment purposes. Its specs were one of the best around there and on top of that, it was the only laptop providing wide-screen resolution, very useful for me especially as I do designs using photoshop, it could really help me. Some bundled software came with it, namely Sonic products (Burner, Music player, editor ... etc) and Adobe (Premiere). I have been using this laptop for a year and I am very satisfied with it. I will definitely continue using Sony Vaio if they are going to cater to Macintosh OSes, but I guess that won't be happening anytime soon.
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adriantc
Sep 22 2006, 01:29 PM
QUOTE(_TyIzaeL_ @ Nov 16 2005, 03:19 PM)  I aquired this computer through a program at my little brother's school. For some reason, a compay called CyberStudies101.com figured that if they gave out free computers to student who failed the math proficiency test the year before, the kids would go to their site every day and use it. (YEAH RIGHT). We never used the site, the site was slow, and down more than half the time. So, in the end we got a free quality AMD System for absolutely nothing. I defy you to post a more interesting story. Well it would have been nice if I were to get a free computer. Sadly that wasn't my case  Well I was in the 5th grade (my parents long promised me a computer once I'll be in the 5th grade). They didn't have all the money for it and as we don't like borrowing money from banks, they started buying my computer piece by piece. And for almoust half an year every month they bought some part of my computer. The funny part of my story comes now... as the computer's parts where all on my sofa I was eager to see it working that everyday I used to hug and kiss the computer's components. Yeah that was stupid, but I was 11 years old and there wasn't anything on the world that could make me happier then my own computer. And, even though I have changed it a few times since I bought it 8 years ago, I can say I still love it.
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juice
Sep 22 2006, 12:51 PM
I found my first computer in the bin, along with a gigabyte motherboard and an Intel 486 60MHz chip. Yes I was quite happy until the computer game people starting making games for faster PCs I now get my dad's old PC when he upgrades. I now have a...... and don't laugh.......Pentium III 650MHz 256MB ram. It serves its perpose for the time being and it's better than nothing.
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