I bought this computer in 2002 (I was 7 at the time) as
my first computer. I added a network card, and such. After a few years of good use both mine and my brothers (same computer) just stopped working because some OS files were missing? Now fast forward 5 years, I have more knowledge on computers, the computers didn't come with OS Cd's but my old laptop (also broken but being repaired) did, so i throw that disc in there hit F3 on startup, boot up from the CD, it starts up the HP Recovery System, sit 2 hours while the bar slowly progresses, up pops my desktop.
We already sold/recycled most of the cables and all I really had left was the computer and monitor (witch I has been using for dual screen) so I used the power cable from my desktop, and my old keyboard with a wireless USB mouse. I put some of the stuff on my 500Gig external drive to see what I had. I have some scanned images of crazy things I made back then. It is cool seeing what I used to do. I have bookmarks on sites that I don't even remember. And I have 80 files of scripts I used to make, it is a pretty intensive IRC bot, with over 10,000 questions for the trivia script I built. It is really cool I got this thing working.
I am going to clean it up soon, buy some necessary stuff, and run my new bot off of it.
