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butchsor said:
K7, The longest thread, and a guy/gal named POLARIS
Was a shame that forum got closed shortly afterwards because the moderators were sick of how quickly all the posts got out of control and personal.
I used to go by Grimlock but forgot my login and had to create a new one. No longer had the email address I created it with. Got started back in the day when I had an AMD K6-2 and a 8G hard drive was considered plenty. In those days I posted A LOT and had plenty of questions since I was a complete newbie and was figuring everything out along the way. Came across the site by doing a search.
Lots of good moderators and senior members here. Remember when ToolBox was quite active on here but I guess when you have a family that takes up plenty of time. Felt bad when I read that RangerAl had passed away. Very good guy.
Incident that's burned into my memory was a user who got carried away one time too many with his posts and finally took it too far. Got suspended and when a moderator decided he could come back under certain conditions his response was so nasty he got banned permanently.
Things have really reallly changed. It is a lot slower here than the Windows 95 days.
Same guy that was the only one to ever get banned from OCN?
I forget exactly how I got here, but judging from my signup date, it was probably something like... Q3arena.com (Quake 3 discussion board, first board I ever signed up at) -> Force3d.com (Q3arena/HWC/misc outcasts board) -> HWC
Either that or one of the ICQ groups related to the three...
I forget exactly how I got here, but judging from my signup date, it was probably something like... Q3arena.com (Quake 3 discussion board, first board I ever signed up at) -> Force3d.com (Q3arena/HWC/misc outcasts board) -> HWC
Either that or one of the ICQ groups related to the three...
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Females are probably in the habit of not mentioning their gender, lest they're singled out and inundated by unattached (or not) guys pampering them, defending them and being "extra" nice to them, aka: seedy.
If I recall, I did an AltaVista search (yes, there was another search engine, other than Google!) for a particular problem I had in 1999 (incidentally, the rash has cleared up), got the answer but discovered there were other questions I could answer, so I joined up and helped out.
If I recall, I did an AltaVista search (yes, there was another search engine, other than Google!) for a particular problem I had in 1999 (incidentally, the rash has cleared up
), got the answer but discovered there were other questions I could answer, so I joined up and helped out.
Not that it mattered because I was already married, but interesting just the same.
A female hardware junkie who likes to play video games and drink hard booze, every mans dream girl.
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I arrived here back in 2000 needing help with a Matrox, IIRC, graphics card for my Olivetti PC. The atmoshere here was a little different back then especially in the OT forum. I remember big battles between JJR512 and others but there were a lot of good things about the OT where everybody could let off some steam, it just got kinda out of hand in the end and then most of us went off in different directions however this place is like a magnet, eventually most 'older' members come back to see if it is still active and, although some might not admit it, are pleased to see it still here and still doing what it does best and that's help out those needing help and in return, hopefully, those helped stick around and help others.
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Haha! That's so true, when I first started playing GW I let my girlfriend create my character and guys would follow me around, offering money, helping me do quests, and giving me flowers and stuff.
I can't remember how I stumbled here, but good times for sure. The HWC members gallery made by Bink... That weird guy with all the RAM, haha he was good value. What's his name again? AlwaysEnoughTRAM or something?
I can't remember how I stumbled here, but good times for sure. The HWC members gallery made by Bink... That weird guy with all the RAM, haha he was good value. What's his name again? AlwaysEnoughTRAM or something?
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In the early '00s the Intel- AMD dispute was pretty fun to follow on this site.
I got a lot of usefull info on building computers from this site, mostly by searching the site. I built/rebuilt a few computers since 2002.
I remember around 2000, I had an HP computer that had some issues, I called them, they determined that it was something wrong with the harddrive. They offered to ship one to me, they asked if I can replace it. I said.... no.
My best catch from this site so far: the windows 7 software from the "New efficiency" event. Thanks!
I got a lot of usefull info on building computers from this site, mostly by searching the site. I built/rebuilt a few computers since 2002.
I remember around 2000, I had an HP computer that had some issues, I called them, they determined that it was something wrong with the harddrive. They offered to ship one to me, they asked if I can replace it. I said.... no.
My best catch from this site so far: the windows 7 software from the "New efficiency" event. Thanks!
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