-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH <=-

 RJT> That whole "modules" thing was a joke, you were expected to have a
 RJT> stock of them in your truck, but the ones needed were many, and
 RJT> that was only a practical course if you were a dealer that sold a
 RJT> lot of the same models. For a small independent shop it was
 RJT> another story entirely.

 CA> We've de-modularized computers now with lots of stuff incl on the
 CA> mb. Neither way is good IMO.

 RJT> Agreed.  The original idea was to give you lots of choices,  the thrust
 RJT> recently seems instead to give you a bundle of "stuff"
that'll work
 RJT> together, and be cheaper to make.

I'm for putting a lot of stuff on the motherboard BUT only
if you can disable it in CMOS and the motherboard has 
sufficient slots for the latest and greatest.
Given some of the low cost options on Ebay for SCSI I'm even giving 
that a looksee.
 
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