Mmmm... brains.
Dec. 3rd, 2004 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI went down to J&R Music and Computer and Appliance and Personal Care* World yesterday. After a few false starts- I thought the stores were connected, and they're not- I made my way through the door of #15 Park Row, where they keep the computer stuff. It took me a while to find my way to the mezzanine, where processor sales are arranged. See, at this store they keep most of the inventory in the basement. You tell the salesdude what you're buying and they fill out a form and have you sign it. Then you take your copy down to the cashier and pay, and they put your form and their copy of your receipt (I think) into a pneumatic tube and shoot it elsewhere in the building, which I personally consider very cool. Once that's done you take your copy of the receipt and go stand at the pick-up counter, and the droids who sort through the remains of Jabba's discarded servitors in the basement send stuff up a belt, identified with the receipt copies that've been sent to them. You claim your item there.
I came home with an AMD Athlon XP 3200 processor, which waited fifteen minutes before I installed it in Mace- I'd just walked home in the cold and didn't want the contacts to have weird temperature problems. It took forever to get the fan into place on the CPU, but I did eventually. And now Mace has an even better brain than I intended for her from the beginning. I'm probably going to have to back up my data from the HD and format it and reinstall Windows, because she still can't get over the missing drive that used to be on IDE 0 and insists on having a CD in the drive before she'll let me boot, but that's okay. I'll deal. She's a damn sweet mover and that makes me happy.
*The collected J&R stores take up an entire city block near City Hall. They're all individually huge. And they've just added a personal-care items store; I am not making that up.
I came home with an AMD Athlon XP 3200 processor, which waited fifteen minutes before I installed it in Mace- I'd just walked home in the cold and didn't want the contacts to have weird temperature problems. It took forever to get the fan into place on the CPU, but I did eventually. And now Mace has an even better brain than I intended for her from the beginning. I'm probably going to have to back up my data from the HD and format it and reinstall Windows, because she still can't get over the missing drive that used to be on IDE 0 and insists on having a CD in the drive before she'll let me boot, but that's okay. I'll deal. She's a damn sweet mover and that makes me happy.
*The collected J&R stores take up an entire city block near City Hall. They're all individually huge. And they've just added a personal-care items store; I am not making that up.
