-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 WC> The DIMM's on sale were of the wrong type :-(

 RJT> Wrong type?  Jeez...  What type were they,  and what did you need
 RJT> instead?

Well one sale item was PC133 and I can't use them and the other was
256 Meg per stick and this machine only takes 2 x's 128 sticks.

Detailed info on this machines and it's DIMMS is scarce, little to
nothing in the owners manual except 2 x's 128 max and how to remove
them. A search engine only returned something like 36 hits on
Pavilion 4483 one of which was "Crucial Memory"
which is suppsed to be good but it's 60 bucks a stick
and I think they only do online credit card orders.
All in all I think I'll look for a similar used machine
like the H.P. I saw in local classifieds for 200 bucks
with 128 meg RAM, 8 Gig drive, Pentium 3 and SVGA!
Had I what I'll have the first of the month I'd have snagged it!
Also I need to pull a stick and check out what's printed on them.
I think CompUSA has PC100 sticks that are compatable
for 40 dollars new and that appeals though I'll still
pull a stick and haul it up there in an antistatic bag
to see if the keys on the bottom of the stick match.

 RJT> I spent a couple solid hours today finding my car,  and digging it out.

I remember buried cars in my home town.

 RJT>  It'd have take somewhat longer if it hadn't been for a neighbor with a
 RJT> snowblower...

Ours usually took heavy snow and compacted it into a tube of ice
formed by the blower chute stalling the engine... break out the coal
shovel and wax :-(

 WC>  I recall the idiots that built a condo in my home town  just above
 WC> the waterline, a Northeaster would blow into the harbor about once
 WC> every two years break windows and soak the third floor units!

 RJT> Heh.

 RJT> I've never felt all that good about being right down there at the
 RJT> water.  If I want water,  I can drive to it...

Well it's not really a problem in Marblehead the whole town
being built on granite and with decent elevation except the one place
they chose to build the condo, anywhere else in town would have been
fine and until that condo was built be it northeaster
straight into the harbor or hurricane the damage was mostly
limited to boats in the harbor that weren't tied off to multiple
moorings for the storm.
I can't even understand how they got the variance to build that
piece of crud in historic old town right next to Fort Sewall.
That condo is virtuallythe only structure on the panarama
of the entire harbor that doesn't date back to as far
back as the mid 1600's. It's the _only_ structure that
I recall added in my lifetime and I can still look at the harbor
via webcam from here!
I do know one year a friend who lived on the 3rd floor twice complained
the windows broke and the carpets were soaked in salt water!
Even the docks were anchored with fairly steep ramps to get
from land to the floating dock, ramps were on wheels at
the dock  end that allowed for a degree of travel for the tides.
I was in the middle of a dirrect hurricane hit by a major
hurricane in the 60's there and our only damage was the lawn
furniture took off the patio in the general direction of Salem harbor
at a 45 degree ascent angle. Actually now recalling it they
probably all landed in the Atlantic such was the general
direction.

 RJT> We have family in NJ,  and at one point they lived in Ocean City,
 RJT> which is built on a narrow little strip of land,  with the ocean on one
 RJT> side and the bay on the other.  Except that at times the two met,  not
 RJT> a situation I'd wanna be there for.  Especially since during those
 RJT> times the ways out of there were also likely to be underwater.

That occurs here as well from time to time, Gulf of Mexico meets
Tampa bay. In Marblehead MA. only the causway which connects Marblehead
to Marblehead Neck, formerly an island, went under water which was
no big deal.


 WC> Still best advise to be had.

 RJT> I actually saw "fidonet echos" mentioned in an article I was just
 RJT> reading in Linux Journal!  Mentioned _before_ usenet newsgroups...
 RJT> :-)

Yeah here it's  10 percent crap and 90 percent spot on,
newsgroups it's reversed and you have to familiarize
yourself with the names of the technically profficient
and scan for their replies.
 
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