Bill Roper (billroper) wrote,
Bill Roper
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New Toy

The new computer for the home office has arrived. Now, I get to set it up.

It's a dual processor Athlon MP 2800+ with a gigabyte of RAM and mirrored 160 GB hard disks running Windows XP. I think I'll add a DVD burner to it next week, since Krex has the new 8x NEC burner on sale for $99.

So far, I've managed to get Gretchen's and my logins correctly (?) configured and to get Gretchen and my e-mail programs back up and running. Now, I get to install software. Lots and lots of software...
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