Thus marketh the end of a generation. My best college long friend, the legendary power house, Daystrom, has finally passed away. Although the causes of death are still not known, the autopsy reveled that it was the motherboard that failed. Now given that Daystrom was only about 3.5 years old, this death came rather unexpectedly. Motherboards should not fail that young, so the only explanation I could rationally devise was that it was just used really hard, I mean, Daystrom was rarely turned off during the course of that near 4 year period, and I multi-tasked like crazy.
Daystrom was no ordinary computer. It stood over all of its peers with decadence in its massive 11 bay server tower. It boasted external switching for left/right audio, 2 separate black lights, 6 fans, and a strobe light. It even had a huge side view window which was custom dremmeled by yours truly on a warm beautiful fall day early during my freshman year. All of its innards were custom assembled and wired for optimal efficiency. It truly was a sight to see.
Let it be known that no machine will ever be able to replace Daystrom no matter how much more powerful it may be. Daystrom will continue to live, in our hearts.
Though Daystrom is gone, the work that it did most certainly isn’t. So while nothing can replace it in spirit, something had to pick up where it left off. So the construction of a new PC had to begin.
This is Scotty, named to honor the man who inspired me to pursue my career in engineering. It contains mostly new parts and salvaged very little from Daystrom's working parts. This decision was made because some of Daystrom's old parts may have contributed to its untimely death thus all new parts were purchased for Scotty to reduce the chances of a copycat death. The only things carried over were the video cards, and the hard drives (so the memories of Daystrom were transplanted as well, much like how the memories of our beloved
Data were copied to
B-4 before his courageous death, to be continued...)
So Scotty has been running for about a week now. Currently it has 256mB of DDR Ram, a 2.4 GHz 478 socket Intel Pentium IV processor, a 533 MHz FSB Asus board, and a 600 Watt power supply to better handle the 6 hard drives. But like I said, even though Scotty is 700 MHz faster then Daystrom, it will never replace him. Rest in piece my friend.
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