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You'll get all kinds of definitions of 'hillbilly." Mine is my ma's family. She grew up on a 160 acre homesteaded hardscrabble farm in the Ozarks in Missouri, about 10 miles from the Arkansas border.
Hill country.
But I was born in Chicago, and ma had been citified. She had left to become a typist for the govenment during WW2, when she turned 18. Electricity came in after she left. I spent summers with her ma and dad in the 50's down there. Outhouse, bucket well water, and electric only for some lighting and a radio.
Wood for the pot-bellied stove and kitchen stove. Chickens running all over the place. Went to town to get ice for the icebox every couple weeks. Bathe in a wash tub. Run around naked until you're 5 years old. Never saw anybody else. Pick off ticks every night before turning in. Wake up with spider bites. It was all made up for by grandma's fried chicken and blackberry cobbler.
To me at least. Wouldn't want to live like that as an adult. I do like modern.
I went down to the old homestead some years ago and it's all changed. Still rural and backcountry, but there's a beautiful brick house there. All the conveniences. Nice couple owned it now. My ma's old house was still there, ready to fall down. Didn't go too close because the new owner was worried about liability and was about to tear it down. It looked so tiny compared to his brick house, which wasn't big at all. But I would never call the new owners hillbillys.
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Home Built
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU
QuadCore Intel Core i7 920, 2666 MHz (20 x 133)
Motherboard
Asus P6T
Memory
6134 MB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM)
Graphics Card(s)
(2 - SLI) NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (1024 MB)
Sound Card
Onboard Realtek ALC888/1200 @ Intel 82801JB IC
Monitor(s) Displays
HDMII
Screen Resolution
1280 x 800
Hard Drives
Crucial M4 (64 GB SSD)
WD Caviar Blacks
WD5001AALS-00J7B1 ATA Device (465 GB)
WD5001AALS-00J7B1 ATA Device (465 GB)
WD5001AALS-00L3B2 ATA Device (465 GB)
WD Elements USB External (250 GB)
PSU
Corsair 550
Case
iStarUSA S-10000BL Black
Hum bathe in a washtub sounds familiar to me too an old tin bath in front of the fire and while you had the luxury of electric lighting a lot of us still had the old gas lighting with the cloth mantels in them like those camping lights some times have, and the radios driven by lead acid batteries which we used to get charged up down in the village :geek:

Butter and cheese were sliced of blocks and bread baked in the village bakery. Tea was dished out of a large container into paper bags and the list goes on ;)
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Own build (new) Desk1 / Asus ROG Win 7 / Desk2 1st build
OS
Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
CPU
Desk1 i5 3750K / Laptop i7 GTX 860M / Desk2 i5 2500
Motherboard
Desk1 Asus P877-V / Desk2 Gigabyte H67 UD3H / Laptop ?
Memory
Desk1 8GB (1866) / Desk2 16GB (1333) / Laptop 8Gb DDR3
Graphics Card(s)
Desk 1& 2NVidia GTX 650 & Laptops on board Intel
Sound Card
Desk 1 & 2 -XONAR DG Realtek High Def audio Laptop
Monitor(s) Displays
Desk 1 Benq HD 2450 / Desk2 Philips 24" / Laptop 17.5"
Screen Resolution
1920x1080 D1 & D2 & Laptop 1
Hard Drives
Desk1 Samsung 120GB 830 SSD
Asus ROG 256GB 850 Pro SSD
Desk2 Samsung 840 256 SSD
Toshiba 120GB EVO
PSU
Desk 1 Corsair HX 1050/ Laptop ? / Desk 2 Corsair HX 650
Case
Desk 1 Cooler HAF XM ? Toshiba laptop / Desk2 Coolermaster
Cooling
Fans on all Desk1 -2 Desk2 - all Coolermasters 5 Laptop ?
Keyboard
Desk 1 MS Sidewinder X6 Desk 2 MS Sidewinder X 4
Mouse
Desk 1&2 - Gigabyte MS 900 gamer - laptop - Logitec wireless
Internet Speed
ADSL2+
Other Info
One other Desktop (tester) and spare Toshba laptop both with SSD's
Running Kaspersky 2016 ISS on all machines config'd identically
Logitec audio stereo systems on each machine (x3)
Canon MG5250MFC
Router/modem TP-Link running WPA2SK
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