Other BlogTV Shows & Random Stuff

There simply is not a whole lot you cannot do with a Compaq Deskpro EN...possibly one of the best little (or not so little) desktop computers ever.

An 866MHz P3, Intel 815 chipset and graphics, 512MB RAM, Windows 2000 Professional SP4 and a Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live round out this machine's hardware configuration. No, it doesn't play Crysis, Rigs of Rods or whatever it is the cool kids are playing this week. (If you must play a computer game, Rigs of Rods is probably what you should be playing.)

It seems that between the two of us, weasel2htm and I have inspired a number of people to do their own BlogTV show!

If you are interested, tune into the BlogTV streams shown in this video at:
http://www.blogtv.com/People/ADVproductions100
http://www.blogtv.com/People/Oldtime40s

Also: the Keykeeper finds a snake with a rattle at the wrong end, and I believe my good old Numark mixer may get a recapping in the not too distant future. I've never even opened it to see what is inside. Can you believe it?!

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[sandmanxo]

I always like your videos, but I'll never figure out the reason you run these road kill oem computers. It's too old to do much than surf the web, and too new to run classic dos games/apps. I keep a Socket 7 system and a 486 around just in case I want to run an old game or program, but I rarely use them.

[uxwbill]

@sandmanxo They're dirt cheap, cheerful, common and in this case, ceaselessly reliable. This does everything I want it to do for the application I have in mind. I use it as my service bench "general purpose" computer, to rescue data from dying and infested hard drives. I also use it to download manuals of all kinds and to look up information about solving the rare problem I cannot figure out.

It does what I want. It's paid for.

[CenTexVideo]

Wow! That is amazing. I used those when I worked in the booking office at the jail. They were pretty good.

[uxwbill]

@CenTexVideo They aren't glitzy, but they do get the job done. And they're well engineered...probably better than almost anything to have come from "HPaq" since.

I like stuff that "works and is paid for". :-)

[MagnusVideos]

I really annoys me that I can't go into a charity shop here in Ireland and pick up electronic equipment because of draconian "Health & Safety" laws, which have more to do with forcing folks to buy new electronic junk, than protecting people's health or safety.

[uxwbill]

@benno6664 The best advice I can offer...picking stuff up, fixing and tinkering with it is great. Getting too much stuff is a real problem...you can't keep it all, so some you just have to let go. As long as you can keep things within reason, and focus your collection on a few different items, there is nothing wrong with that.

Everything shown in these videos is used in some place or another. If not, and it's not part of a collection, I find it a new home.

[uxwbill]

@TheColinputer Sure, how much time you got?

VWestlife demonstrated his Deskpro EN editing and compressing a video, though I believe it was only standard definition.

[TheColinputer]

Id love to see that thing edit 8 tracks of simultaneous 1080P video :P

[talldude123]

@ncrdisabled 1 meg of RAM? Well...that thing would do better than yours for sure :P

[MyTechtime]

I Know One Thing A Deskpro Can't Do. Minecraft!

[benno6664]

@uxwbill haha well if i had my own space there would be lots of out of control ebay/thrift store , markets and curbside pickups! i cannot wait, Vintage audio is more my thing mainly stuff from the 70s -80s.