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I had to retitle this section because last summer I actually broke down
and bought a Pentium 233 motherboard and once again upgraded. Our main
computer which sits in the basement now consists of:
- Pentium 233MHz, 105 megs of RAM
- 32x CD-ROM
- 2x CD Burner
- 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro
- 33.6 Apache internal modem (for data connections - although it
rarely connects at faster than 26.4)
- 56 K-Flex external modem (you can dial this one voice at
618-462-6486 when the line is free.)
- 28.8 Apache internal modem (for fax connections)
- Color flatbed scanner
- Canon printer (The cheap ones you get at Wal-Mart)
- Iomega Zip Drive
- 3 1/2" Floppy Drive
- 4 Meg video and an Acer 14" SVGA monitor
- 8.5 gig internal IDE hard drive, 1 gig external scsi hard drive.
- Cable T.V. card (used mainly for my web cam)
Even though
it's only a 233, this computer is faster than anything I could possibly
ever need. I'm running Windows 98 and the only time it ever gets bogged
down is when I run the ZIP drive which isn't too often. The only thing I
ever do that requires a fast processor is liten to real audio and that's
pretty rare too.
I put my old motherboard into our living room computer which is a 486
100MHz, VGA 14" monitor, 32 megs of RAM and a 32x CD-ROM. It's also
running Windows 98 and is used primarily for Emily to play her CD-ROMs on.
She's tired of the old Dr. Seuss games and now spends most of her time
with preschool activity CDs, Fisher Price "people games" and a bunch of
weird farm animal games that she can sing along with.
I've now got the two computers networked now so I can check e-mail in
the evenings since I'm too afraid to enter our basement after dark. I'm in
the process of building a 3rd computer which will be a crappy 486 66MHz
and will be networked into our bedroom.
We also have two working laptop computers but they both bear a closer
resemblence to a briefcase than a notebook. One is a 386 with one meg of
RAM and a 3 1/2" floppy drive, no hard drive. I used to lug that one
around the house for simple word processing but now it's sitting under the
fax machine on a shelf and I think it's still running but I'm too lazy to
go unplug it.
The other computer is also a 386 laptop with one meg of RAM, a 3 1/2"
floppy and a 40 meg hard drive. I've been considering setting up a crappy
BBS on this one since we have a spare phone line but I'll probably never
get around to it.
My very first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 that my parents
won in some kind of mail order contest back in 1982. This beast was about
10" x 8" and about an inch think. It connected to my portable black &
white television, had an expansion slot in the back, hookups for a tape
player to store data on and was the only computer I ever owned that could
be run off of a 9 volt battery. It sucked but I loved it.
It came with a few games on cassette and I spent months modifying the
games and personalizing them for me and my brother. It came with a catalog
of external devices you could hook up to it like crappy little thermal
printers, 16k memory expansion cards, etc. What I really wanted
was the 300 baud modem for $50 but my dad refused to let me buy it even
after I managed to save up enough money for it. "What the heck would you
connect to?" he'd ask. I didn't know, I just wanted one - I
didn't even know that BBSes existed then. I think he was a little worried
about my infatuation with the movie Wargames and the fact that I watched
it every single time it came on HBO.
My 2nd computer wasn't mine, but I'm pretty sure that I spent more time
on it than anyone else ever did - it was the public library's Apple IIe. I
don't even remember what I did on it all day, I just know that my Timex
Sinclair wasn't cutting it anymore so I'd spend all day after school on
the library's Apple and sometimes I'd even skip my lunch at school to run
across the street to the library and sit in front of the Apple for 20
minutes.
In 1984, I think it was, I got my TRS-80 Color Computer from Radio
Shack as a Christmas or birthday present (I can't remember). 64k of
memory, tape deck storage, game cartidges and a whopping 8 color video if
I hooked it up to my color television. It didn't get any better than this.
I eventually blew $150.00 for a 5 1/4" disk drive and as usual, my dad
wouldn't allow me to buy an acoustic coupler modem for this one either. I
still played around on the Apple IIe constantly at the library and in the
junior high's computer lab, but when I happened to be home, I spent all my
time on the TRS-80. This computer lasted me until about 1989.
In 1989 at age 16 I'm working at the local movie theater and the
theater decides (and this is really stupid) that they're going to
"upgrade" by getting rid of their computers & modems entirely and
buying fax machines instead. After talking with the manager, I found out
they were selling the old Tandy 1000EX so I got to buy it for $300,
monitor and modem included!
After I got it set up I called up Plato's Computers (now Online
Computer) in Wood River and asked the guy there if there was anything in
the area that I could dial into with a modem. He gave me the store's BBS
number and from there on I because a BBS addict. My first login name was
VanHalenFan because I was heavily into Van Halen at the time. After I got
settled into the BBS world, I decided to pick the name Jane's Addiction
but found out it had already been taken by my girlfriend who'd bought the
computer and modem from the other movie theater. So I picked
RedHotChiliPepper instead and eventually upgraded to RedBoxChiliPepper
when I learned about red boxing.
My next computer came about a year later - it was a 286, color VGA
monitor, 1 meg of RAM and a 40 meg hard drive. I immediately set up a BBS
called Hotel California which stayed up for about a year. When I left home
and moved to Texas, I left the BBS running and it stayed up for about a
week until my parents noticed it and turned it off. In Texas I used my old
Tandy 1000EX and the computer lab at the community college.
Right before the summer of 1992 I bought another computer to replace my
Tandy which was a 286 laptop with no hard drive, just an LCD screen and a
couple of 3 1/2" drives. It wasn't much of an upgrade but it was portable
enough to take to South Carolina with me. This computer lasted me until I
reached Los Angeles in 1993 and it finally died.
I went computerless for an entire year until late 1994 when I bought a
486 laptop with 4 megs of RAM, 100 meg hard drive , color VGA screen and a
PCMCIA 250 meg removable drive. This one lasted me about 3 years until I
bartered it away for a 486 100MHz motherboard and some cash. I used the
motherboard to upgrade the old 386 we had.
There are a few classic movies I love watching over and over. It's
pretty sad when I mention one and nobody's ever heard of it and I couldn't
imagine living an entire life without seeing these movies. So do yourself
a favor and find the nearest video store and start asking for these
movies. You'll be a better person for it.
Midnight Madness: This is probably my all-time favorite movie.
It's a cheesy early-80's flick about a bunch of college kids who get duped
into participating in a weird all-night game where they drive all over Los
Angeles looking for clues to beat the other teams. Has Michael J. Fox
playing the lead guy's little brother and Pee Wee Herman playing a video
arcade owner. I finally found someone even crazier about this movie than I
am - go visit FAGABEFE:
The offcial Midnight Madness fun page. There's also an info
page I found that lists all the cast members and some other random
information.
Three O'Clock High: This is a classic movie about a nerdy kid
who angers the school bully who challenges him to a fight after school.
The nerdy kid's whole day is spent brain storming ideas to get him out of
the fight. Has a great ending.
A Girl to Kill For: This one is supposed to be a sort of
suspense movie but I just think it's kind of funny. It's about a college
girl who hates her uncle so she finds some kid at her school to kill him.
They start out by stealing food, breaking into office buildings, stealing
a car and running from the police, then she convinces him to kill her
uncle. It's sort of predictable, but worth it. Very low-budget.
Anything By John Hughes: I could do a review of each of his
movies but what's the point? You've probably already seen them all. John
is responsible for The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles,
Home Alone, Dutch, Curly Sue, National Lampoon's Vacations, Ferris
Beauller and a million others. The only thing I absolutely hated was
Baby's Day Out. I don't know what he was thinking when he made that movie.
Used to I
only watched an hour of TV per week which was my favorite show - Sliders!
Yes, that really cheesey, low-budget, crappy effects show that I mistook
for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the first time I saw it. But after
watching it a few times, I really got into it and then became an addict. I
loved that show. But then the Fox network decided it was a really dumb
show and dumped it. Immediately the Sci-fi Network picked 
it up and ordered them to make
another 70 shows (or something like that) which was great news except for
one thing - we don't have the sci-fi network and I refuse to pay the
outrageous prices to bring digital cable into our home.
Right now we're pricing some on the satellite systems to try and get it
back without spending $60 per month on digital. Keep your fingers crossed.
In the meantime, I watch Howard Stern 2 or 3 times a week and plenty of
PBS with Emily. So instead I just sit in from of a computer all day
working on my homepage.
Used to I
only watched an hour of TV per week which was my favorite show - Sliders!
Yes, that really cheesey, low-budget, crappy effects show that I mistook
for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the first time I saw it. But after
watching it a few times, I really got into it and then became an addict. I
loved that show. But then the Fox network decided it was a really dumb
show and dumped it. Immediately the Sci-fi Network picked it up and ordered them to make
another 70 shows (or something like that) which was great news except for
one thing - we don't have the sci-fi network and I refuse to pay the
outrageous prices to bring digital cable into our home.
Weird Al Yankovic: Definately my all-time favorite. The king of parody
has been at it for well over a decade now with classics like Eat It,
Smells Like Nirvana, Fat and Amish Paradise. I own everything by this guy.
Visit his webpage now.
Madness: A brittish group of about 7 guys you might remember from their
only hit (I think it was their only hit) Our House. I only have one of
their CDs but every song on it kicks ass.
Songs written or parodied by me:
Hotel
Cinema
Welcome to
the Movies
Mildred
Monday
Bell
Odysey
What I
Need
Hotel
Cinema
Welcome to
the Movies
Mildred
Monday
Bell
Odysey
What I
Need
