{"id":1095,"date":"2010-05-11T16:52:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T21:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.tedatum.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2010-05-16T08:45:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T13:45:22","slug":"cheap-shop-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Shop Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ordered a recertified* computer from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883147164\">NewEgg<\/a> to put in my shop for use with the CNC machines. It\u2019s old but has everything necessary to be a first class controller computer. The processor is a Pentium 4. It comes with a new install of Windows XP Pro which is a rock solid OS for use with<a href=\"http:\/\/machsupport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> MACH3 CNC controller software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MACH3 is probably the ONLY software other than the OS I will have on this machine. The really good part is it only cost $140.00 including shipping, keyboard and mouse.<\/p>\n<p>I may throw in some extra memory and maybe an old video card I have. I have boxes full of that old stuff here. The low price is unbelievable (but it IS an old, used machine.)<\/p>\n<p>*I think this means it was plugged in and it booted.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 Other buyers say they are dusty inside so these are pull outs from some corporate office, but perfect as a cheap controller computer. The benefit from buying it from Newegg is if it is broke, I can exchange it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">UPDATE: 5\/16\/10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The little PC is now listed as not available at Newegg. Got mine no problem. Works perfectly to fit my needs. It was dusty inside so I blew it out with my shop air gun. I do that with all my older computers. It only had 256 Meg of RAM so replaced it with one Gig I already owned. Video seems fine for my needs. It now runs the HB2 machine from a permanent location. It is a perfect machine controller. No need to even see the Internet. Long live XP Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ordered a recertified* computer from NewEgg to put in my shop for use with the CNC machines. It\u2019s old but has everything necessary to be a first class controller computer. The processor is a Pentium 4. It comes with a new install of Windows XP Pro which is a rock solid OS for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17,39],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshop","tag-computer","tag-mach3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}