How attached are you to your computer?

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13 Feb 2006, 9:07 pm

Hmmmmmm?

Hi! This is Ghosthunter and the question is
how overly attached to your computer are you?

I will give this forum a little push, and then you
folks can make your posts if you chose to do so.

Is Ghosthunter overly attached to his computer? wrote:

I am very overly attached to my computer.
I have 2. A dying Wallstreet I have had for 2 years
and a recent Pismo due to the unreliablity of the
hard drive issues of the Wallstreet.

S.F Fleamarket wrote:

My Wallstreet was bought at the S.F Fleamarket in
2003 for $200. It was a series of 3 Wallstreets.

W'st 1)...Parts $200
W'st 2)...primary travel unit when in S.F until it died.
And to add the most thoroughly pre-abused one I
have ever seen. $200
W'st 3)...The cleanest and stabilist one I have owned.
This is the one that i keep alive due to it's Death-living
phases.

How I kept the 3rd W'st alive wrote:

I keep my better shape alive by allowing regular
hard drive transfusions. She killed her 4g, 10g,
and in a 2 week period a 40g. She has been
living somewhat contently with the pismo's 6g.

She no longer accepted her X.2.4 and is back
to being a OS 9.1 computer. When she did accept
here X.2.4 disks she allowed me to create 10 videos
and a Movie #1 and #3 Harry Potter Library.

She then reverted back to here wifi and burning CD's
self and has remained stable there. I feel that
witha good job, $400 is here reward for being a
good girl for putting up with X.2.4's iMovie she
didn't like running before-hand.

To keep my faithful computer companion alive,
here are the following items she may need
to keep her harddrives happy and upgrading
to boot.

Shopping list for Wallstreet to keep her happy wrote:

DVD module
DVD module card
Replacement Cmos battery to hopefully stop it's HD killing habit
Replacement Main Battery

DVD Module wrote:

WALLSTREET DVD:

2X DVD-ROM Module for Powerbook G3

2X DVD-ROM Module for Powerbook G3(233,250,266,292,300) Wallstreet

This is a replacement 2x DVD drive for the Apple Powerbook Wallstreet. This will play both CDs and DVDs. (To play DVDs you need the PCMCIA DVD decoder card, available separately.)

Model M4743

Used, Apple original part

Mac-Pro gives a 30 day warranty on all manufacturing defects. Defective product can be sent directly to Mac-Pro.

MFP#: 661-1514
dvdm4743a.jpg
2X DVD-ROM Module for Powerbook G3(233,250,266,292,300) Wallstreet

Quantity
Price
1 – 4 $97.77
5 – 9 $92.77
10 + $87.77

This is the rarest piece for a Wallstreet. The W'st
was the first PB to have DVD and it's DVD module
is reallly hard to replace. She has been good to me
in my iMovie stuff, she then deserves a scooby snack.

DVD Compression Card wrote:

Apple DVD Video Compression Card for Wallstreet / Lombard G3

Apple DVD Video Compression Card
Price: $47.77

The 233-333 PBG3 models required a Decoder card.
400 and above processors didn't

Replacement CD module wrote:

replacement CD-Rom module: Apple 20X CD-ROM for Power Book G3 Wallstreet series
Price: $77.77

This is not a option since the DVD module will do the
trick, I was just curious about the cost differences.

replacement Battery wrote:

Replacement Batteries: Newer Technology NuPower High-Capacity 4500mAh Lithium-Ion Battery - PowerBook G3 Wallstreets

Price: $137.99

This will give her 4 hours battery life for practicality.
Coupled with the DVD playing upgrade = $300 cost so far
to say thanks for being a friend and computer that never judged
me or hurt me emotionally. She taught me alot about
OS X, iMovie, ect.... and thus being autistic, I can look
past her harddrive eating habits. Thanks Wallstreet.

Replaced Clock battery wrote:

Pram Battery Replacement: Internal PRAM Battery Back-up

Brand-New. Apple Part #922-3380. Installation extra
wallbattery back up.jpg
Internal PRAM Battery Back-up for Powerbook G3 Wallstreet

Quantity
Price
1 – 4 $39.99
5 – 9 $37.99
10 + $35.95

I have tried Disk permission repairs, Tech Tool,
Hard drive reformating, and no avail on her harddrive
eating habits. I find this is my last hardware option
to possibly cure it?

Hard Drive Costs wrote:

Spare harddrives: Powerbook 2.5" 40 Gb Travelstar HardDrive - IDE

Quantity
Price
1 – 4 $87.77
5 – 9 $85.77
10 + $83.77

Coupled with her final X.2.4 Mac OS this is a
hard drive eating replacement cost.

Final thoughts wrote:

As you can see, my Wallstreet has been a better friend
then most people. She was there inthe bad and good
and never said "Stan your a fuckup".

She may not be perfect(eats harddrives and dies, returns
to life, eats another harddrive and dies, and returns to life....
and so forth!), nor am I.

I really miss having a sexual Relationshipl, human contact,
and Interpersonal communication in my life, but until these
upper ones get resolved my Wallstreet has been the best
companion I have had to share time with(like one's pet cat, dog, rat, ect...)
in the last 6 years. Hopefully things change for the better
in sexual, Human Contact, and Communication areas?
But until then, at least one item doesn't judge me as a f***head.

NOW IT IS YOUR TURN!

The question was are you overly attached to your computer?
What special things have you done, or will do to demostrated
this?

Thanks for responding

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13 Feb 2006, 9:16 pm

Of course I love my computer, especially the 19" LCD screen. Visuals are important to me.
I don't understand most talk about computers, but I plan on being taught by GalileoAce! He doesn't know yet, though. :oops:

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13 Feb 2006, 9:36 pm

I love how all your polls come with *#*&$# Ghosthunter.

(I voted: Yes)

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13 Feb 2006, 9:53 pm

Totally computer addicted. Definately. However, I'm finally not going to have to use the family Vaio anymore when I get my iBook, so...

PC'S SUCK!

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13 Feb 2006, 10:21 pm

I'm very attatched to my Computer. I need to have it in front of me, for half of my Waking Hours. I enjoy going on the Internet. I also plan my Goals and save them, as well. I love saving Images to use for Wallpaper.

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13 Feb 2006, 10:29 pm

Love isn't the word for it. I cherish my old, Compaq Presario 5000 I bought from the pawn shop two years ago. It's like a worn teddybear with patchy fur that you love in spite of its condition. It spent its former life as Rent-A-Center inventory so I can only imagine how much (and how hard) it's been handled. But I adopted my foster child of a PC, giving it a good home on my desk and feeding it a new video card, CD-ROM drive (twice) and a reinstallation of Windows ME when a virus called AOL 9.0 made it sick and nearly killed it.

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13 Feb 2006, 10:44 pm

I think I named it but I forgot.

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13 Feb 2006, 10:46 pm

My computer has all my porn on it and it isnt backed up. And though i dont actually masturbate anymore, i feel like if i lost all that effort collecting all that porn, twould be a deep blow.

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13 Feb 2006, 10:53 pm

Thats gross.

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13 Feb 2006, 10:58 pm

Sometimes pride aint pretty.

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13 Feb 2006, 11:21 pm

Yes - my computer ate itself one time and I was up for two days trying to resurect it . . . it is the most important non-living thing in my life . . .

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14 Feb 2006, 2:41 am

Slight paradox:
My computer is very important to me, and I have almost no interest in it at all. It's like my car: as long as it goes and stops when I want it to, it's where it can get me, not the thing itself, that matters.

I don't generally want the new features, I want simple and reliable, and have to be forced by balky computers into upgrades and changes. This machine is four years old, and is looking like needing reducing to back-up status.

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14 Feb 2006, 4:24 am

I'm very attached to my PC, I just love so many people online, they've changed my life for the better, this is my only means of talking to most of 'em, and I have no idea what I'd do without them

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14 Feb 2006, 8:53 am

My computer is pretty important, although I can live without it for several days if I have to. My sister's boyfriend, OTOH... I'd say there's a pretty good chance he's an aspie, and he and his laptop are inseparable. He even takes it outside with him to keep working on it (programming) when he goes out for a few minutes for a smoke.

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14 Feb 2006, 12:58 pm

*huggles computer*

I wuv yew compy wompy.

I'm on this thing almost every waking moment of my life. DL'ing stuff, MB posting, and (most importantly) gaming.

I'll be getting one of my very own when my next student loan installment comes in (if I buy it with my student loan, and since i'm in college, wouldn't that make it a tax deductable?)

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14 Feb 2006, 1:01 pm

I thought my home PC was very important to me...then it broke and I didn't get it fixed for six weeks. I guess that means it isn't that important. :oops:

The fact that I am chained to a computer at work for hours on end probably has something to do with it though.

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