looking through old receipts etc

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Over last night, I am looking through my paperwork, trying to find some docs, and I decided to dig deeper into my old stuff, and I came across a whole load of recipts for purchases

I have a fair number of PCs, and over the years in these PCs I have gone through a fair number of PSUs too!

Most of the stuff has long gone, and so I think its time to get rid of ythe paperwork now ( I am a hoarder - I keep EVERYTHING )

Anyway, some of my favourite purchases are in teh list and I still have them.

My main PC is housed in a Thermaltake Armor. I have goen to half a dozen different cases since I have had it, but I have always gone back, usually withing the day, the last one only last week witha Mozart TX ( Now my server ). I got that in March the 3rd 2005.

I also found the receipt for my Ultra-X Connect PSU. This one I got in July 2005 from our own OCUK, and its still being used to this day. This was my frist ever modular PSU, and the only issue I have ever had with it, is that the 24pin Motherboard connector NEVER did work, and so I am forced to only use the 20Pin one. For most boards, this is not an issue, and to be honest, I have never had an issue only ANY board when I am forced to only use 20 pins but I avoid using it on the better Boards... Just in case.

Right now, its running in my linux PC and has been there for a couple of years.

If OCUK fancy looking, it was order umber DJ99BE10392954. Not that they will, but hey ho.

Other stuff I have from way way way back that are still working and really should not be, are :-

Abit KD7A-Raid Mobo, XP2200 + Corsair XMS 3500 RAM ( original 512MB but now added another a few years back ), and an nVidia Ti 4600.

This very setup, again from OCUK, I used it for a couple of years and then I gave it to my brother, who ran it without issue for some more years and then I got it back about 4 years ago, when I gave the GFX card to a mate and dumped the PC in the attic... About 2 years later I got my mates whole PC off him and the card I put back into the Abit PC and started her up and she went straight to the desktop and only moaned about the time being out but it righted itself and did some updates but other than that, it was perfect. I then gave that PC to a lady down teh road who still uses it to this day... ON THE VERY SAME XP INSTALL that I did all those years ago!

Marvellous.

I know I am borign you, but looking through thee old receipts, you kind of get to remember loads of tat that I bought too! and its just well, nice to remember the stuff I bought over the years no matter how good or bad.
 
I can't believe I actually spent £500 for a QDI dual-CPU motherboard and 2x Pentium II 400MHz at £700 each fifteen years ago when dual CPU setups were almost unheard of. I must have needed my head testing.

And now I'm using a laptop that is coming up to 7 years old. How times change.
 
I found a hand written one for an 128mb stick of ram and a K6-2 350mhz... When i had a good clear out a while back :P
 
I found a receipt for an old Radeon 9800Pro. All of which could be reliably flashed to the XT, good times.
 
I found my receipt and delivery note from Dell when I bought a Dell computer back in 2003 when I was moving stuff about a while ago.

I still have it filed away :D

I still have the Dell too although it hasn't been switched on in years.
 
LeeUK said:
I found my receipt and delivery note from Dell when I bought a Dell computer back in 2003 when I was moving stuff about a while ago.

I still have it filed away :D
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Ohh me too, a £1400 Dell receipt from around the same time. What on earth was I thinking. I saw the light and built my next computer though.
 
Sold my PS3 a few weeks back for £75 with loads of games had it since release when I looked inside the box it had the receipt OMG I paid so much for it was like £500+ with a dew games!
 
benjii said:
Ohh me too, a £1400 Dell receipt from around the same time. What on earth was I thinking. I saw the light and built my next computer though.
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Yep, paid £800 for a computer with less spec than something I could have built for less money with better spec at the time.

Now I build my own or buy used corporate on the cheap and upgrade them.
 
I normally keep the receipts for physical store bought games inside the game boxes.

When I went to trade in a load of PS2 games last year the lass behind the counter in the shop said it was not as uncommon as I had initially though.
 
One from OcUK in 2001:

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Enermax EG465P-VE 431W ATX 1 £72.50 £72.50
Power Supply
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Subtotal: £72.50
Shipping (Lynx Next Day Courier - UK Mainland): £7.15
VAT: £13.94
Total: £93.59


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Eye watering.

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Order Date:   2001/10/16 20:40

Shopping Cart (Prices in British Pounds)
 DESCRIPTION                     QUANTITY        PRICE         COST 
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 IBM 75GXP 75GB UDMA100                 1      £175.80      £175.80 
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                                             Subtotal:      £175.80
                          Shipping (Special Delivery):        £8.25
                                                  VAT:       £32.21
                                                Total:      £216.26

https://web.archive.org/web/2001100...talog/online_catalogue_ibm_ide_drives_37.html
 
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KIA said:
Eye watering.

Code: 
Order Date:   2001/10/16 20:40

Shopping Cart (Prices in British Pounds)
 DESCRIPTION                     QUANTITY        PRICE         COST 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 IBM 75GXP 75GB UDMA100                 1      £175.80      £175.80 
======================================================================
                                             Subtotal:      £175.80
                          Shipping (Special Delivery):        £8.25
                                                  VAT:       £32.21
                                                Total:      £216.26

https://web.archive.org/web/2001100...talog/online_catalogue_ibm_ide_drives_37.html
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Why did they move away from such an awesome web template? :confused::D
 
KIA said:
Eye watering.
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As an old man I remember buying a 40MB (no, that's not a typo) HDD in about 1992. The price had just dropped to an entirely reasonable £125.


As to the OP, I'm afraid that I carry out occasional culls of all my old receipts, so I only have the paperwork for stuff I still have. So all the really old stuff (OK, about 2000) has gone.
 
I have stuff going back to 1996... hoarding paperwork is a problem, almost ocd like. 2000 onwards is almost all OCUK stuff.

My fave build was based around an Abit KT7. All that is left now is the case, soundcard and globalwin fop cooler.
 
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