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    Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/22/09

    In reply to Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World
    Donny and Jonny: Screw up and not only will I not give you another penis word, Jesus will make sure that's your cubicle. As in for the both of you.
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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    06/22/09

    In reply to Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World
    I worked for a start up. The first few days my desk was a cardboard box flipped over on the floor and a phone. A coffee pot was the first thing I got. What good is a desk with no coffee?
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    Image of daqman daqman
    06/22/09

    In reply to Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World
    That's nothin' we I wuz a lad we ad nowt but a box in th' middle o' th' road...
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    Image of brobot - Beboptimus Prime brobot - Beboptimus Prime
    06/22/09

    @daqman: you half disemvoweled yourself there.... hmm.. well I guess you half disconsonanted yourself too.


    +1?

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    Image of JCWhitless JCWhitless
    06/23/09

    @daqman: You 'ere lucky. I dreamed of 'avin me a box. I used to work fifteen odd hours a day in a back of a loo stall wit a RGB monitor and a Tandy 286 and had to use a ball mouse on my desk, but my desk was also a litter box filled with sand from the office kitty.
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    Image of brandeis1 brandeis1
    06/22/09

    In reply to Probably the Smallest Cubicle In the World
    I'd probably fit quite comfortably in there. Though I may end up providing my own stool. One of those camping ones would fit nicely.
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    06/22/09

    @brandeis1: It would be quite awkward if you provided someone elses stool.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    05/15/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    "Ether that, or we are talking to a time traveler from 20 years ago."


    Was that ad placed by John Titor?? I guess he doesn't need that IBM computer any more...

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    Image of snoop-blog snoop-blog
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    Darn and to think I just finished my i7 build...
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    So, uh, yeah. You might want to add a prank tag to it. I was a little bored at work today and decided to abuse the internet.


    Note to self: don't spoil your own pranks.


    Thanks to all who got the joke and to those genuinely wondering if it's real, ridiculous shit is not real!

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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of Rain-man Rain-man
    05/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Pretty funny. But there are already so many people abusing CL. Is this really helping?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    @Rain-man:


    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."

    "I will not try to break the internet."


    And now I have detention too.

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    Image of themikebrown themikebrown
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    Aww flagged for removal... anyone have a cached page link? I never got to see the Original post.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    @Mikebrown: I took a screenshot of it.
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    Image of CelfDestruk CelfDestruk
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    If it was Windows 3.11 Windows for Workgroups, I may actually consider it. . . or, if it was a PC made by Digital Equipment Co. (DEC)...well, I may take this seriously...
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    @CelfDestruk: Would you be surprised to know that I did have a Digital 486 computer?
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    WOOT KILLER.
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    Image of flapjacks flapjacks
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    After reading the ram article a few minutes ago, I see that OMG Ponies! is suspiciously silent...
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    @flapjacks: Always go with the gut instinct. It's usually right.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    I just got a response from the guy:


    "Is real sale. I need money to buy new Pentium computer that will run the new Windows 95 program. Is supposed to be better than Windows 3 but I don't know. Am too used to finding things in Program Manager. The modem is real fast (by US Robotics) and is much faster than 9600 baud. Even though is 14.4, I got it to run at 28.8 with a program i downloaded.


    Am willint to lower ask to $300 for if you have a Apple Mackintosh Quadra (850 preferable).


    Also, I have the Netscape Communicator Gold although I just use the browser on it because it reads GIF images and JPG images."

     Reply
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    Image of Jimmy Iovino Jimmy Iovino
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    This has to be a joke for a few reasons. The biggest one is the fact that he's talking about "K"s of RAM and a 486 DX 33Mhz would be looking at roughly 4mb. Cost of the RAM of course at the time running roughly $150/meg. Two other reasons, one, it would likely be running DOS 6.x seeing as it's running Windows 3.11 "For Workgroups" and lastly, 80mb is less than half of what most drives were at the time of the 486 DX 33 launch, WD's most popular drive at the time if I remember correctly was the 212mb.


    I swear I'm not that big of a nerd.


    Also, it just sounds like a joke. I think Giz just got trolled.

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    Image of PridgNYC PridgNYC
    05/14/09

    @Jimmy Iovino:


    Actually the specs look to be pretty accurate. My first pc which I built in 1992 was a 486DX2/66Mhz and it had pretty similar specs. Of course mine cost abotu $2500 to build back then although I went with the 19" Idek iiyama monitor which added $800 to the bill

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    Image of Jimmy Iovino Jimmy Iovino
    05/14/09

    @PridgNYC:


    Accurate minus the points I brought up. Trust me, I'm pretty sure they didn't even make RAM chips that low for those motherboards. Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was released around DOS 6.0, 6.1 time and 80mb was definitely more of a high end 386 HD / very low end 486 DX 25Mhz HD.


    There is no way in hell you had less than a meg of ram and only an 80mb HD on a 486 DX2 66.

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    Image of Jimmy Iovino Jimmy Iovino
    05/14/09

    @Jimmy Iovino: @PridgNYC:


    Also, let me add that he makes no mention of a CD-Rom drive or a sound card which would've likely been something a long the lines of a Sound Blaster Card or a 2x CD-Rom. Both which are important specs for this era of computing and would've been worth mentioning.

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    Jimmy Iovino was starred Jimmy Iovino was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    @Jimmy Iovino: Are you sure it's not this guy selling his old Gateway 2000?


    [justinsomnia.org]

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/14/09

    @Jimmy Iovino: And yes he does. He notes that there is an open bay to install a CD-ROM drive.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    This is awesome haha, and I applaud the intrepid Craigslister for his/her ambition.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Kung-Fu Kurtis supports Demon Child Research Kung-Fu Kurtis supports Demon Child Research
    05/14/09

    In reply to IBM PC With Windows 3.11, 486/33MHz Processor for $500: Get It While It's Hot!
    Turbo feature still working 100% functional.


    I picture a large red button to push.

     Reply
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    Image of closhedbb closhedbb
    05/14/09

    @Jimbuck is your daddy.: We had one of those on our family computer when I was in high school. We were on the bleeding edge of home computing when we got our first Pentium Processor with a 1GB HDD.


    What I always wondered is, why would you ever turn off the turbo?

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/14/09

    @closhedbb: It's because older software would not run on these "fast" machines. You could therefore slow the computer down to make the computer backwards compatible.
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