The (new) computer
Since I am a Hobo living in a modern world, I felt that I needed a modern computer. The computer that came with my desk reset around 5 times a day, destroying all my work, which may have been acceptable in 1995, but this is not 1995. So, I went about getting a new computer to put under my desk. One night, very late, I happened to be getting a drive back home from Joe's place from Orion (I suppose it goes without saying that it wasn't my car). Since Orion had given me a lift, I offered to help carry his groceries up to his apartment. When we got there, he said that his brazilian girlfriend was coming and had a whole closet full of shoes and that he therefore needed to clean out his closet. He asked me if I wanted any of his computer junk, and I said sure.
The computer junk consisted of a 386 laptop with no power supply (which was released in 1985, not a computer for a modern hobo) and a motherboard with some RAM and a CPU attached to it. For those of you who are less computer inclined, it looked like part of the guts of a computer. The CPU had a Pentium 2 350Mhz chip on it. Incidentally, the Pentium II 350Mhz chip was released in 1998. So, with this collection of computer bits, Rasputin (my computer) was conceived.
The next day, I went hunting around for the cheapest case I could find (which I found at factorydirect.ca, the hobo equivalent of a computer store if there ever was one) which cost $30. When I finally plugged everything together I didn't expect it to work, especially since Orion said that the reason it was in his junk bin was because he had some problems with the RAM, but it worked like a charm.
I brought the computer to school and it now sits under my desk. I ran out of hard drive space the other day, and tried to get more free computer stuff off of Orion and he made some remark about the laptop. Well, you can't get everything for free. I found the cheapest ratio between price and space which turned out to be a 120GB drive, which, if real things could fit on disks would be enough space for all my stuff with enough room for me to curl up in to sleep.
So now, as it stands, Rasputin is complete and happily helping me work harder than ever (because I don't want to be a hobo forever).
The computer junk consisted of a 386 laptop with no power supply (which was released in 1985, not a computer for a modern hobo) and a motherboard with some RAM and a CPU attached to it. For those of you who are less computer inclined, it looked like part of the guts of a computer. The CPU had a Pentium 2 350Mhz chip on it. Incidentally, the Pentium II 350Mhz chip was released in 1998. So, with this collection of computer bits, Rasputin (my computer) was conceived.
The next day, I went hunting around for the cheapest case I could find (which I found at factorydirect.ca, the hobo equivalent of a computer store if there ever was one) which cost $30. When I finally plugged everything together I didn't expect it to work, especially since Orion said that the reason it was in his junk bin was because he had some problems with the RAM, but it worked like a charm.
I brought the computer to school and it now sits under my desk. I ran out of hard drive space the other day, and tried to get more free computer stuff off of Orion and he made some remark about the laptop. Well, you can't get everything for free. I found the cheapest ratio between price and space which turned out to be a 120GB drive, which, if real things could fit on disks would be enough space for all my stuff with enough room for me to curl up in to sleep.
So now, as it stands, Rasputin is complete and happily helping me work harder than ever (because I don't want to be a hobo forever).
posted by Timothy Fowler at 2/10/2005 10:46:00 PM
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