733 G4 Digital Audio, still in use! — #15

Post #15 by Schmoburger

Source Forum	733 G4 Digital Audio, still in use! — #15
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Mon, 8 Jul 2013 - 13:18
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/733-g4-digital-audio-still-in-use.27995/

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My grandmas old tower (HP Pavilion from 2005) worked great on XP. Stock, it had 3GHz Pentium 4, 512MB of RAM, and a 160GB 7200rpm HDD. She had it upgraded to 1.5GB of RAM in 2007 and it was used regularly until last year, when she donated it to a local computer shop that provides these computer to schools to have students tear them down and rebuild them. It is to fuel the next gen of geeks.
Also worth noting that this computer was thrown against a wall in 2006 when she got pissed at HP Tech Support after being on the phone for 16 HOURS. She now used a MacBook Pro 2010 model.

Most people are amused by the fact she knows how to use a computer, but at work she actually used an original IBM PC in the 1980's to the late 1990's and was one of the early adopters of America Online (and she still uses her original AOL email!).

My grandmother also adopted computers fairly early on in the piece... back in the P1 days, with a little push from my dad who was one of the two guys who set up our towns first locally run ISP. Nan was a writer, a lobbyist and also had a few penpals so her initial interest was in the PC as a tool to replace her Canon word processor (anybody remember that piece of ancient history?)... meanwhile I got my grandfather, a former private pilot, interested in MS Flight Sim which ive been a tragic for since very early childhood.

Well... come the turn of the century, email was taking a hold as a mainstream communications medium, and so she got herself a newer PII-based rig and connected to the net then familiarised herself with email and the rest of the netlife. a year or two later she decided to go buy a brand new P4 setup and got right into the groove of modern day computing at the time... blogging, forums, web-mailing lists, digital photography etc...she left my grandfather foundering in a basic knowledge of how to browse the web. When she passed away at the end of 2006 at the age of 71, she was among the most tech-savvy people I had ever seen. The way she embraced the technology truley amazed me.