Hi there!
Here are photos of my new computer and stuff.

Here is a look at my office and new computer setup.

Actually, this is not the new stuff, just moved around old stuff -- I had to move things around so I could put both monitors next to one another. My old monitor is on the left. It is a Hitachi Accuvue 21" and it is still broken, convergence problems, but works well enough to watch the weather channel on. :-)

My somewhat newer monitor, a 21" Hitachi SuperScan 814,has Apollo on it. I am having troubles with it though. Little glitches, short horizontal lines which appear randomly when I move things around and they only go away if I run a window from another application over a window with the little lines. Very annoying. I guess I'll have to call Matrox to figure out what is going on since I have the latest NT drivers installed. I have a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP with 16MB of RAM in the new computer. The old Hitachi monitor is fine, outside the convergence problem, with the Millenium, the newer Hitachi on the old computer, with a 4MB Number 9 video card, is fine, but the good, newer monitor on the new computer is not fine...have I lost anybody yet?

Here is a photo of the NEW computer. It's next to Jessica's computer which has a full size case. The new one is much bigger. Currently it has 2 18GB hard drives, one 20 GB hard drive and a small 11gb hard drive. I added up how much I'm actually getting in storage space and it's about 65GB of hard drive space. That would be 3,250 more Hard drive space than the old original very first computer I had!!!

It also has 500mb of Ram and two 400mhz Celeron processors which helps run things a lot faster, even if they are a bit brain dead.

The new computer is so big though, that it can't fit into my office! So, I have it sitting out here in my matting room next to Jessica's computer. I cut a hole in the wall below the table to run all the cables though.

This is what it looks like under my desk though :)
Spaghetti anybody?

         - Monty

As an addendum:
I have since retired my old Dell to my house. I just could not stand how slow it was. It was also not very upgradeable. My original plan was to upgrade it with a new motherboard, CPU and video card, but that quickly evolved into "Fred". Fred is a 650mhz Athalon on a very nice Asus Motherboard which allows me to overclock Fred's CPU to 733 MHZ and remain stable. Fred has 265mb of PC133 RAM, a 17 & 20GB HDs, and best of all, a Matrox G400 dual head video card with 32mb of RAM. Of course I had to get a new monitor for Fred so he has a 21" Viewsonic P815. Fred also has an old Sony 14" as his secondary monitor. I can just drag applications to the smaller monitor to see what is going on. Then, I decided that my old 10baseT hub was simply too slow (try opening a 50mb file across the network on one of those...) so I upgraded Bob, Fred and my notebook to 100baseT through a really cool D-Link Switching hub. Needless to say, I have added considerably to my "spaghetti" under my desk.... Oh, and Fred also is running both Windows 98 and 2000 and I'm planning on trying Linux just for fun :-)


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