anyone got any spare memory?

[Harmonium]

I'm 18 and don't have a job, but I have talents and strengths I am striving to leverage. I play guitar and like music. I've taught myself guitar for over 4 years, and I also taught myself many many things to do with a computer.

I taught myself web programming and designing, etc. I want to start a web business to offer my services to people.

As I don't have a job, I don't have very much money. Not for guitar strings which my parents won't buy for me anymore, or for a decent computer to do design on.

My problem is that my computer is too slow to design on. I can't even run firefox and photoshop at the same time. I have a intel pentium 3, 1 gig processor, with 256 megs of ram...

If anyone has anything they can contribute to me, I'd be immensely grateful. If you have memory I could have, PM me and we can set it up, or if you don't have memory but would still like to help me, my paypal is [MOD: For paypal sent PM] I wasn't sure if I should include my paypal but I figure it can't hurt.

Peace & one love

[Plato]

Jesus, what are you, a beggar?

Get a job on $10 an hour and in less than 30 hours you can buy a nice new computer. I mean, doing what you love is great and that, but give yourself a chance to get going!

[Harmonium]

I'm pretty sure a $10/hour job is not a possibility. I'm not trying to beg haha, just putting myself out there seeing if anyone wants to throw me anything. As for a job in general, I don't have too much motivation to go get a menial labor job when there are other things I could be doing that I may enjoy applying myself intellectually and emotionally

[Desmond]

Perrrrhaps if you offer some work in exchange, people on this forum might be more willing to donate to you.

I can't though, I'm too young to legally own a paypal. haha

RAM is pretty cheap nowadays, you can get 2 gigs of DDR2 ram for 30 dollars. Unless your computer only supports DDR like mine, then 1 gig would cost you about a hundred dollars.

[Harmonium]

How do I know what kind of ram/memory my computer takes?

As for something in exchange... Well I could post guitar videos...

Who will donate if I nail eruption? haha....

[BlackFalcon]

Go find a job!

I started working at the age of 15!

[moriez]

Lol, this is kind of a funny request. I like your effort. A lot. To ask for a piece of memory thats just laying around somewhere I can imagine some Samaritan, or even me would give it to you. To include your paypal addy mate, WOOOT!?, thats some nerve.

[Teraleth]

Eww eww eww eww. Looking at what you mentioned, at that point I would just scrap the computer and buy a cheap new one for like $400. Look, if it's that old it's likely the motherboard doesn't support DDR2 let alone DDR3 memory, and that's all I have laying around. Even if I did have some ancient memory, I'd still ask you to pay for the shipping and handling at least. To find memory that old is actually more expensive than new memory because it's kinda rare now due to it being completely obsolete. As well as that, your processor speed is really slow. Yes, memory will help, but if you want Photoshop get a new computer. Also, eww at your basically begging, but props on having more initiative than apathy at least.

Here, I'll help you out. Whenever you decide to get a job or find some income source and can afford to shell out a couple hundred, let me know - I'll find parts and list a computer (basically linking you to individual parts you can buy online that'll work together to create a whole computer) that can do what you need for less than $400 including shipping and handling. Of course, this means that you have to build it yourself; if you don't want to research enough to be able to do that, I can also try to find a cheap computer at some computer store and hope they have it in stock near you. Less of a guarantee of quality and such in the latter case though. Just PM me if you want some help finding one. But I wouldn't try to run Photoshop or anything on a computer that old. =(

EDIT: I checked, no Pentium 3 compatible motherboards that support DDR2 memory were ever made. If you want only memory which I recommend against, you have to check the slot type your mobo takes. I'm too sleepy to tell you how to check it now. However, for comparison PC 133 (which is what I suspect you have) runs at about $30 for 512mb of ram. Most memory now runs at PC 6400 or PC 10666 (respectively also called DDR 800 to DDR 1600) which is a lot faster and is also cheaper because it's not as rare. The same $30 can get you 2gb of ram. If you wanted 1gb of PC133, you'd need $60 while 1gb of DDR2 800 is probably like $15 or so.