Seems like this was the week for clients to bring in their 8-10 year old machines. Surprisingly all of them had been upgraded from Windows 98 or Millennium Edition, to Windows XP. You could hear the hard drives in those machines across the office.

The clients just wanted us to tune them up, and possibly upgrade the memory. We always tell our customers that with a machine of that age, there is a high chance that their hard drive is going to start to fail (if it is not already). Long story short, throwing more money into this machine might be a bad idea. Same answer for all, just need the machine to get by for another couple months. With the economy like it is, I can understand that.

Day later, and maybe an additional stick of memory, machines were working better than ones twice the specs that just hit our bench. Their prices were $50, $75 if they needed some more RAM. They were very happy with the speed when we showed them running on our bench. Then we told them they could donate those machines to a museum when they were done with them. All joking aside… We love to make our customers smile, hopefully a laugh out of them too.

I remember when I wasn’t spoiled with so much computer gear, I had whatever my parents handed down to me. They got the job done, slowly but I couldn’t complain. I ran those computers to the grown.