Question:
What is the crappiest Computer you ever had?
2008-07-30 08:43:37 UTC
What is the most crappiest Computer you ever had?
Twelve answers:
§abrina ♥♥
2008-07-30 08:52:28 UTC
About ten years ago I had one that I bought at Radio Shack.

We've sure gone a long way since then.
Frank N
2008-07-30 09:45:24 UTC
A Dell, last year I bought a Dell and it was a total piece of junk. When I received it the hard drive was faulty, after one and a half months they finally replaced it. Then when I finally got the hard drive and went to install Windows the CDR-RW drive would not read the recovery discs, I had to copy them and then they were readable to the unit. After some fighting Dell finally replaced the recovery disks. The new hard drive had bad sectors on it, and fighting with Dell got me nowhere, the replaced drive was used, and was all scratched up with one of the mounting holes stripped, it had been cross-threaded.

I will never buy anything from Dell again. I work on computers, and I have to say I work on more Dell than anything else, although I wish it wasn't so, because in my opinion, they are not even worth working on.



In the 1980's I had a Tandy Colour Computer, and if you want to call a computer useless, well that one was.

First it had no hard drive, you had to use a cassette recorder to save anything. There was no Windows only DOS, and it had a whopping 2 megabytes of RAM. It did however have a floppy disk, but it was 720 kilobytes only. Games were played by inserting a big plastic ROM in one side and the graphics were terrible, and you hooked it to a colour TV, there was no monitors made for it.

It was similar to the famous Commadore 64, and it was the same time period.

I had a few Tandy computers from Radio Shack, the second was a model 3 all in one computer, but black and white screen only, then a Tandy 1000HX the first that was IBM compatible, all these were before Windows was available, they were DOS machines only. Although Tandy did have an excellent word processor, they were not good for much of anything else.
DKHM
2008-07-30 09:13:09 UTC
Great question! I've been using computers since 1990, so I missed most of the fun of the really really old ones.



The worst one I've used is a VA linux box that you had to actually move a jumper to get into the BIOS. Then, you had to move it back when you were done because the function of the PC changed if you didn't. What a piece!



I must've spend about 80 hours on connecting it to an apple network printer. Nearly tore my hair out.



That was the second linux box that I've managed. The first one I never speak of because I hated it so much.



Linux has probably become better over time, but I'm still so unconvinced that all I use is Knoppix anymore.



PS: The best computer I've ever used is a time-share system way back in the early 1990's. Ahh, REXX, takes me back.. Local chat, as well as IRC, newsgroups that didn't have trolls... what you youngun's have missed!
2008-07-30 08:52:29 UTC
the first computer i had came with a cyrix 300 processor and 64mb of ram. it was such a piece of crap that the scanner would never work until i changed the processor to a amd. Then the on board video went bad twice with in the same year. It was a soyo board can't remember the model



http://bitsandbytescomputers.sytes.net
2008-07-30 08:52:18 UTC
A Spectrum plus 3 "with built in hard drive"!



Back in the 80s!
Ron M
2008-07-30 08:53:22 UTC
Compaq 7000 series.
plyant
2016-10-22 06:21:14 UTC
what number of human beings certainly use promotion for wallpaper on a computer? There are myriads of loose wallpaper on the web to examine your flavor, all you could do is stumble on.
Steve
2008-07-30 08:46:46 UTC
A Time computer years ago....
pinkpanthergirl
2008-07-30 08:50:39 UTC
DELL i hate it cant wait to get a mac someday
Dr Stupid
2008-07-30 08:48:22 UTC
I had one of those HAL 9000's



never again.
2008-07-30 09:06:30 UTC
windows xp dell home edition ram: 256KB not even MB
2008-07-30 08:46:55 UTC
I had a computer with windows ME on it once.. that was crappy.


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