Extensa
Posted at 9:20 pm on Thursday, January 15, 2009, in Technology, and tagged flickr, syracuse.
Saying goodbye is never easy, even if it is to a worthless piece of junk. I’m recycling my first laptop — the sturdy Acer Extensa 367T (the ‘t’ stands for TFT screen). I got it during the first semester of my freshman year in Syracuse, and I split the cost with my parents. I used the entire funds from a scholarship I received through my part-time job as a union cashier at a small grocery store. It was the best money I had spent to that point in my life.
I brought the laptop with me to California when I started graduate school in Berkeley, but I stopped using it once school started. I did all of my work — and internet surfing — in a computer lab on campus, which meant limitless printing on a never-working laser printer (until they imposed that nasty strict page limit). I haven’t used it since (except to strip the data from the hard-drive), and I am not entirely sure why I’ve kept it this long.
The Extensa 367T was a beast — 2.1 GB hard-drive, 32 MB of RAM (which led to a lot of colorful Ctrl-Alt-Deleting), 56k modem. There is nothing this guy could not do — Word, Excel, AOL instant messenger; you name the task, it did it with ease. All for $1500.
It also came with a detached floppy drive that connected via the printer port. I had swapped the disk drive with the printer so often, I learned something: I didn’t have to screw in the connectors. Did I mention that it only cost $1500 (plus the cost of Microsoft Office, plus the cost of the printer)?
But now it is time to say goodbye, to a friend, and to a simpler time…
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January 16th, 2009 at 5:51 am
hilarious post. I will always remember.