On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:12:33 +0900, Bryan Parker
<puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>"Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov> said:
>
>>
>>"Bryan Parker" <puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:6a63kv4i04vjcj7ukrov84bav5n8h4u2uo@4ax.com...
>>> "Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov> said:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
>>> >news:ufg1kvsq4ruse7b1v8prneupu4puqgtcgd@4ax.com...
>>> >
>>> >> I bought all the components separately. The only exception being that
>>> >> the case had a 400w ATX power supply already installed.
>>> >
>>> >Isn't it more expensive doing it that way? Me, I buy the cheapest
>>computer
>>> >running the fastest processor I can find, and then wait until technology
>>> >makes the whole thing run slower than pigshit.
>>>
>>> Spoken like another true SOTEC fan. I'd tell you
>>> what model I'm using now but I don't know. I *do*
>>> know that it was cheap.
>>
>>Yep, my computer is a sotec. I bought it when 500mhz P3s were first
>>introduced. It cost about 70,000 yen. I was down at the local Yamada denki a
>>few days ago and saw they have a P4 tower sans monitor for 50,000. It has
>>all the goodies like oodles of ram, disk space, DVD player, CDRW...
>>
>>The nicest thing about a sotec is that you hope it blows up so your wife
>>will let you buy the newest model.
>
>This is the 3rd chat machine I've bought from that
>company and the only thing that'll keep me from
>buying another one is the desire to build one from
>scratch like Mike. 

It was astoundingly easy. All you need is a screwdriver. If you're out
of vodka, have some other drink instead.
>
>Uhhh.... never mind. Click on the Sotec at the top
>of the link and then on the "Value Up Option"
>button here:
>http://www1.pcdepot.co.jp/index.html
>
>Holy shit, Batman! How about 512 extra chunks of
>RAM and an additional 120GigaUnits of hard drive
>for 15,000 yen? By the time I'm ready to buy a new
>computer they'll be giving the shit away.

I think they're using those to dump their stock of 5400rpm hard
drives.




--

Michael Cash



"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College


http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/