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I'm sitting here at my desk at home tonight in front of my new dual-computer setup. Of course, the first is my trusty MacBook Pro. More surprisingly, the other is my 10-year old Pentium II Dell desktop. It's finally time to clean it up, do a clean install of Windows XP, and get rid of the thing. I bought this spring semester of my freshman year at Penn State. At that point, it's 300 MHz processor and 64 MB RAM was pretty smoking. Now I have a USB drive sitting here on my desk that's bigger than the 6 GB hard drive. Still, I'm going to miss it. Going through it one last time was very entertaining and nostalgic. The A: drive was still called "Jerad's Floppy," a renaming that my PSU roommate thought was just awesome, the hard drive was named Harold (for no particular reason), and I still had lots of great old software installed. There were many early music management, CD ripping, and MP3 compression tools; they weren't all integrated in something like iTunes at first. This PC evolved from when I first opened the box - a CD-RW drive (actually, two, I think), a new modem to replace the fried one, and 128 MB more RAM so that I could better do my senior thesis project. It was my everyday computer until I bought a Sony laptop in 2002. After that, it has just been used very sparingly, usually when I just need another PC turned on for some odd reason.
The hardest part of this process is going to be figuring out just where to send it. It's too old for anyone who's accepting PC donations, and I can't just trash it. I guess I'll just try to offer it for free on Craigslist and see what happens.
39 minutes to go, and it'll all be over.
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