I’m blogging from my old Pentium III 500Mhz computer (named Styrona, after the Everquest character I used to play from this computer.) My main computer (AMD 1200, named Styrogur) is in the shop at CompUSA, where they will attempt to recover the data from the hard drive and transfer it to a new computer that I bought (AMD Athlon XP 2800+, to be named later.) Unfortunately, it’ll take them a week-and-a-half to two weeks.
The new computer is actually the first complete Windows PC I’ve ever bought. My first “PC-compatible” computer was one I built myself in about 1997, and I’ve been using that same computer ever since. Of course, over the years I’ve updated the processor, and the motherboard, and the memory, and the hard drive, and the video card, and the case, and the keyboard, and the mouse, added CD-RW and DVD drives, etc. In fact, the only original piece of equipment still left on the computer may be the 3.25″ floppy drive, and I’m not too sure about that.
This computer (Styrona) is made up entirely of parts that used to be in my main computer, and I believe my sister Carolyn is still using a computer made up of even older parts (unless she’s finally upgraded to something better).
It’s sort of like the old joke: “This is George Washington’s axe. The blade has been replaced four times and the handle three times.”