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#16  Posy 25 Mar 2005 03:51

You love going to the goodwills and garage sales he or she find all kinds of fun and useful things at a quarter of the cost. What do you like about  going to the goodwills and garage sales he or she find all kinds of fun and useful things at a quarter of the cost   so much?
 




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#17  pangor 25 Mar 2005 05:46

The various second hand stores is where most of my books came from, Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc.  One such book was not a treasure in hiding, but did lead me to a strange situation.  One pricipal during highschool was opposed to anything electronic being used by the students.  So, scientific calculators were nolonger permitted.  Our mathbooks had trig and log tables in the appendix, but they were not precise enough to use for the work we were doing in class.  I started using a slide rule, but it was not precises enough either.  So while in a second had store, I found a book of trig, log and other functions.  When the pricipal during an inspection, saw the book and declared it to be trash.  A couple of month latter I was in the museum, guess what I saw there?  A copy of the book was sitting along side of the other tools of a surveyer of the turn of the century.  In the description of the display, it was stated that all of the tools and books were selected for being the best of their kind available.

Then there was the time that I had a real find or a real hoax right in my hands.  I think I was ten when this happened and so I did not know at the time what a find this book might have been.  Latter when I learned more about the people that may have been involved, I could have kicked myself for losing that book.  While brousing in the book section, I had found several old popular electronics magazines and several books.  A clerk (who knew me) asked me to put the books on the sales counter until we were ready to checkout, that way I would not have to carry them around.  I did so, when we were ready to check out, the books and magazines were missing.

The reason I remember the book was because of the strange message handwritten with what appeared to be fountain pen ink, on the inside front cover, near where that store would write the price for the book.  Price for a hardback book like that one was ten cents.  The book was one of Mark Twain's, I think it was, The Prince and The Pauper.  For some reason the message stuck in my mind, it was, "To my friend N.T. Don't fry yourself.  Don't disappoint T.E. He wants to do it.  S.C."  I would like to think that it was a hoax.  Oh how I hope it was a hoax.

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#18  Tormie 25 Mar 2005 10:43

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Have you tried a HD TV for a monitor? Mine looks great on a 42 inch Plasma



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I picked up a used 19 in monitor at a second hand store (Value Village) for about 7 bucks

     
 




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#19  rayera 25 Mar 2005 12:44

Tormentor: don't have green envy, you unless can consider a 300 € monitor, here 300 €  is $1131.00 of argentinian money, and that is a loooooot of money for me now, even my system is not powerfull I feel confortable with it, the only problem is I can not upgrade to Win2000 or XP because of some issues between my video card and the mother board, and all new aplications don't support W98 anymore, I MUST fee confortable with my chair
 



 
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#20  pangor 25 Mar 2005 16:05

Rayera, your situation sounds much like mine when it comes to hardware.  My computer, once considered very fast, is now a little too slow for the listed minimun for Poser 5 specs, but works well anyway.  Newer versions of Windows does not support my hardware in this box, so that is why I have just upgraded to Poser 5 while we keep hearing about Poser 6.  It may be an old fashioned box now, but I like it and am happy with it.

I just wish that I could find a 1.2Meg 5-1/4" floppy drive some were.  I still have too much of my data that I would like to access again stored in that media with no working drive to access it again.  :-(

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#21  Posy 25 Mar 2005 16:05

In any case, I like computers.  Then again, it may not. Only just? I hope that your dreams come true.
 




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#22  Landman 25 Mar 2005 17:14

pangor";p="19839 wrote: 
Rayera, your situation sounds much like mine when it comes to hardware.  My computer, once considered very fast, is now a little too slow for the listed minimun for Poser 5 specs, but works well anyway.  Newer versions of Windows does not support my hardware in this box, so that is why I have just upgraded to Poser 5 while we keep hearing about Poser 6.  It may be an old fashioned box now, but I like it and am happy with it.

I just wish that I could find a 1.2Meg 5-1/4" floppy drive some were.  I still have too much of my data that I would like to access again stored in that media with no working drive to access it again.  :-(

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I may be able to help you with the 5 and a quarter inch drive. I have a couple of them. I don't know how well they work but they are yours if you want them. As far as newer versions of windows. at home I run windows XP, my modem and videocards are almost 11 years old and I have zero issues with them from an operating system point of view. software runs a little slow on them, but I spend all fricken day on a computer here at work. when I get home the most I do if I do anything is look something up on the internet for 5 minutes then the kids and the wife use it for the most part.
 




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