Loose rivets,
Do not worry about it. With computers, if you do not read the tech websites every night, you fall behind the technology.
I am going to give you a website that is one of the best E-Tailers in the U.S.:
New Egg
I order a lot of hardware from them since they have excellent customer service and they sell the hardware cheaper than I can get it from Tech Data, even as a reseller.
I would suggest in your case, ordering the hardware and building the computer yourself. You will find that building a computer is much easier than back in the day when you operated First Prompt.
Here are the links to a complete system for you:
AMD AthlonXP 2500+ Retail $90.00
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe $84.00 + $5.00 FedEx Shipping
MSI RX9800PRO-TD128 $194.00 + $1.95 FedEx Shipping
Mushkin 2x256Mb Blue PC-3200 Dual Pack $125.00 + $0.99 FedEx Shipping
Western Digital WD800JB 80Gb 7,200RPM 8Mb Cache $69.25 + $1.50 FedEx Shipping
NEC 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Drive $86.99 + $4.00 FedEx Shipping
Teac 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive $10.00 + $0.99 FedEx Shipping
ANTEC Performance Plus Case with 430W Power Supply $129.49
SAMSUNG 955DF-T/T 19" DynaFlat CRT Monitor $215.00 + $25.00 FedEx Shipping
Logitech Cordless MX Duo $69.00 + $6.99 FedEx Shipping
Logitech Z640 5.1 Speakers $43.00 + $8.99 FedEx Shipping
Total = $1,115.73 + $55.41 FedEx Shipping
If you want to upgrade above, I would look at:
Logitech THX Certified Z-680 5.1 500Watt Dolby Digital DTS Speakers $225.00 + 16.99 FedEx Shipping
2 X Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drives 2 X $113.00 + 2 X $1.99 FedEx Shipping
Mushkin 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 Level One Dual Pack $238.00 + $0.99 FedEx Shipping
The upgrades listed are for Digital Speakers, since nVidia's onboard Dolby Digital SoundStorm Audio is some of the best you will ever hear from a computer, especially when listening to music or watching movies in full Dolby Digital DTS with THX.
The Raptor Drives are fantastic at killing the Windows Disk Access Bottle Neck when on a SATA RAID with a 16k Stripe.
If you wanted the extra RAM, Mushkin has some of the best RAM in the business along with world class Customer Service.
Take Care,
Richard