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Upgrading my PC

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  The wallpaper is titled "Sea is for Cookie" from Redditt Yeah, so I've never been particularly knowledgeable when it came to computers.  I swear, I have some sort of curse where the worst that can happen does happen every time.  Particularly in the realm of data storage, in which I have never ever gotten a break.  So many corrupted files, hard drives, thumb drives, and SD cards.  It has created a level of digital paranoia that is quite concerning.  But floppys, zips, and CDs don't corrupt.  Neither do typewriters for that matter.  Fun fact, my keyboard is the same base keyboard as the one on the IBM 2500 series wheelwriter typewriters (among a few others as well). The Dell Dimension 4100 you see above was made the same year I was born, 2000.  I grew up in the age of good technology, Tube TVs, 1 hour photo at Walgreens, and VHS tapes.  I hit the sweet spot, remembering the fondest parts of analog tech, and watching the digital age sweep...