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Hello Wayne - 

WC> Fun project once other things get squared away. Will need
WC> to purchase a solder sucker for it though or perhaps
WC> another 486 _with_ a 16550 UART for the price of the solder
WC> sucker  

A friend who was the computer maintenance person for CAM
equipment once told me he just stripped braided copper wire to
suck solder since the sucker hardly ever cleared the pin holes.
He cleared those with a pin vise holding a wire-sized drill bit. 

CA>> Just teasing. I will be moving to a newer Windows version
CA>> some time in the near future myself. Lack of LFNs is
CA>> causing me to make mistakes and overwrite files here and
CA>> on the FTP servers I use. 

WC> And so the omens of doom for Windows 3.1 loom near ;-) 

No I doubt that any time soon. I like W31 too much to dump it. 

WC> BTW no problems so far loading huge fancy web pages with NS
WC> 7.0 and Sun Micro JAVA. 

Now for FLASH and some DirectX and and and ... ;-) 

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WC> I don't lose software. I want to install the DOS CD-ROM
WC> driver in the next couple of days, that and alter the
WC> CD-ROM drive to something other than M: 

Am told R: is good. Keeps it from being reshuffled later. 

CA>> ISPs got into the act and have arranged to box people in
CA>> along with their purchase of a computer. I find that
CA>> extremely annoying and think it should be illegal. 

WC> Agreed. There is a self extracting dialer for Netscape but
WC> I've not yet retreived it though I shall as the horribly
WC> clunky dialer I eventually found in all the stuff on the
WC> OEM install is truely horrible. 

I haven't seen the standard Windows DUN in ages. 

CA>> If you're going to download software for Windows and store
CA>> it on the hard drive just don't forget to unmount the
CA>> drive before you exit BasicLinux. ;-) 

WC> Why, I just use shutdown -rf now and it unmounts itself ;-)
WC> Yes I've done some editing of etc/fstab and /mtab.
WC> CNTRL-ALT-DEL does the same thing. 

I wrote some macros for myself to ease the 'pain'. 

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CA>> Wish I had the room for that. I would enjoy attempting to
CA>> make my own beer. 

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WC> Attempting? Dead easy and truely high quality as opposed to
WC> the crud generally offered in stores. 

Good, I know who to ask when I'm ready. :-) 

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WC> I've salvaged an old stereo stand which will be ideal for
WC> the full tower NEC Pentium. Now all I need to do is cut a
WC> piece of plywood to replace where the stereo sat on pegs to
WC> put the monitor and put the tower below in the glass
WC> fronted cabinate, I think I'll cut the plywood oversize so
WC> I can put a keyboard there too but must take care to secure
WC> it better than just resting there as I'm prone to
WC> unexpected falls and wouldn't want pieces of monitor strewn
WC> about. 

I was thinking of doing the same to the narrow desk I am using. 

WC> Sure hope someone with a circular saw stops by in the next
WC> few days as otherwise just cuting that one piece of plywood
WC> could take a day or two with a handsaw in the shape I'm in.
WC> I'm finding lots of workarounds for stuff these days of
WC> neccessity. Soon as I alter the cabinate for the computer I
WC> can rearrange my room to something far more reasonable than
WC> currently dictated. 

I've resigned myself to having an 'unusual' furniture
arrangement for the foreseeable future. 

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