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The new computer bits arrived yesterday. Tonight I install. This will be my first “ground up” computer build and I’m rather looking forward to it. (Sarah has conferences, so it’s just me and parts.)

For the record, I’ve got a new Abit IS7 motherboard and Intel P4 2.8 GHz CPU (7 times faster than what it’s replacing; a cool 100 times faster than my last computer and somewhere on the order of 800 times faster than my first computer [a Vic 20]). This is paired with two new 256 MB DDR PC3200 RAM sticks, our current Plextor CD-RW and Pioneer DVD drives, and a new 350 watt power supply. I will also be maintaining the current video card and hard drives. Not the newest and fastest, but they still work. (And the point of buying just a motherboard was that the rest of the components still work.)

I’ll post more later. Heck, I’ll even take pictures of the progress (not that anyone cares).