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+Episode: 2097
+Title: HPR2097: New Toys
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2097/hpr2097.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 14:16:44
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+Hello HPR listeners, this is Tony Hughes speaking from Blackpool in the United Kingdom.
+I did a show a few weeks ago about my Geek Bag but didn't talk about the desktop pieces
+I used and as I've just upgraded to a new used PC I thought I would tell you the story
+of my desktop pieces over the years. I was a late comment to the world of personal computing
+and been at school in the late 60s and early 70s when we hadn't even got calculators. If
+you were lucky to be able to work out the interest of it you may have had use of the slide
+rule. Even after calculators started to be more widely used I had a lecturer at college
+while studying marine engineering. It was so good with the slide rule and mental calculation
+he could and would often work out equations far faster than those of us using a calculator.
+I first came across my first IBM clone PC back at college in 1987 while studying a control
+systems course. This was an Intel 286 PC which the college ran CAD CAM software on and
+we used it to learn how to create engineering drawings electronically. This would be the
+last time I had a computer until the early 90s when by then I'd change career and become
+a registered nurse. I was working in a residential home and we had access to a Windows 3XX PC
+which I would use to create templates of the clinical paperwork we used for record keeping.
+On that time I met my wife to be and she needed a PC for the university course she was on so
+we obtained a used Intel 386 PC from a friend and upgraded the RAM from one megabyte to four megabyte
+which cost nearly half the price we paid for the PC. This was £120 which back in 1993 was a good
+junky cash. It was a time when there was a world shortage of RAM and offices were actually getting
+burgled just for the memory of the office PCs. While we had this PC in the house it didn't much
+interest me at the time. This was pre-internet days for the average user. We weren't online at work
+and the word processing software was DOS based and I hated using it so we'd do the odd things I
+needed at work during my break. Move forward five years and Windows 95 had taken over the world
+and there was this wonderful new OS called Windows 98 starting to appear in the shops. In September
+1998 I went back to do a nursing degree in my especially stereo practice and found that we were
+required to submit all our coursework in word process format no long hand written assignments this time
+around so I decided that I would invest in a new home PC. There were a couple of big box PC
+retailers in the UK at the time that advertised heavily in the press and on TV and I chose to go
+to one of those and bought a PC with the following specification. It was a Pentium 2 350 CPU 128
+Mega RAM which had actually agreed to upgrade from 64 Mega RAM. A 6 gig hard disk drive, 56K
+modem and a DVD ROM. It also came bundled with a scanner, inkjet printer and software included MS
+for small business. All that for the grand total of 1400 quid which at the time was about a
+month's take home pay so I had to pay for it with a flexible friend. For those of you too young
+that means credit card. I also signed up for an AOL account to access the internet over the 56K
+modem. Dog slow now but at the time was the only affordable way for us mere mortals could afford
+home internet access. I remember it could take a minute or two to render my bank's website when
+I started online banking back in 2001 and it was using and that was using compression software to
+reduce the bandwidth. I used that PC to write all my college work and with the help of a couple of
+friends started to tinker with the PC, getting a 120 zip drive for it and later adding a CD re-write
+drive for storing documents and photos that scanned and later taken with my digital camera.
+By 2002 the PC was starting to get a bit longer in the tooth and I decided it was time for an
+upgrade. I had a PC built for me by a local shop with a Pentium 4 2.5GHz processor, 40GHz drive
+and 512 megabyte of RAM which I later upgraded to 2GB. It also had a CD re-write drive and again
+I later upgraded this to a DVD re-write drive. This PC cost me half of what I paid for the P2
+for years previously and was to be the last PC I bought new. All the PCs including laptops I've
+owned since this PC have been secondhand, some given by family or friends, some built from parts
+from Freestyle or Freagle and lately PCs are bought at a local computer auction in the north
+west of the UK. The title of this podcast is New Toys and so to the juicy bit. My desktop for
+last six years has been a Lenovo Think Centre 7373 Core 2 Duo PC with a 2.6GHz CPU 250GB SSD
+and upgrade from the 160GB HDD it came with and 12GB of RAM also an upgrade from the 4GB it came with.
+That required a BIOS flash to get the motherboard to support up to 16GB. This rig has served me well
+but lately I found it starting to feel it's age and taking a long time to do things I now do
+regularly such as video and photo editing, audio editing for podcasts such as HVR and using virtual
+PCs in virtual box so I decided it was time to look around for an upgrade. As usual I was not in
+the market for a new PC I could afford one but I didn't like splashing the cash unnecessarily.
+As look would have it the monthly auction catalog included a HPE Compact Elite
+8300 i7 Micro Tower. I checked out the specs and like what I read. So on Monday the 1st of August
+I took a trip to the auction and as would look would have it I became the proud owner of the said
+PC for the princely sum of £212.80. Hammer price was £190 but it was commissioned to play.
+The full spec of the PC is i7 3.4GHz CPU on the 22nm architecture. It's got 4 cores but with 8 threads
+came with 8GB RAM and the bundleboard supports up to 32GB RAM and it came with a 500GB hard drive
+and a DVD writer and card reader for SD cards etc. It also came with a Windows 7 Pro COA on the box
+put no installed OS because the auction they always white the OS and they white the hard drive
+and they always come with no installed software. So I put Linux Mint 18 on it which took me about
+10 minutes to install and another 30 or so minutes to complete the updates and install
+other software that I use over and above the base install. It boots in just over a minute
+which is only slightly slower than the old PC that had an SSD in it so I guess it will boot
+mega fast with an SSD upgrade which is on the cards after a return from holiday as may
+be an upgrade to the RAM. I've already used some RAM from the old PC to increase it to 12GB
+but I need some matching 8GB RAM modules to go up to 16GB or higher. Well that charts my PC
+hardware journey over the last 20 odd years or so. It's amazing to think that one of my Raspberry
+Pi 3's I own has more processing power than most of the hardware I've had up to the core
+2Gero in 2010. That's progress for you. So it's telling you to sign off from this HBR
+podcast. Hope to see you soon. Bye!
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