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

WC> Either that or the preamp you were planning to use was compensated
WC> for one type of input but not the one output by the pickup?

RJT> That too.  The receiver I have here is set up for a magnetic cartridge.

WC> The more common type.

RJT> Actually to my left is the smaller part of this L-shaped desk,  on
RJT> which sits, among much other junk,  the test fixture.  And a little
RJT> mono vga monitor.  I could move that out of there,  and have all that
RJT> space...   :-)

WC> My computer desk is a wreck today with butchered computer hardware 
WC> bits strewn about.

Oh,  I have some of that,  too.  Behind me is a 386 board with a video card
stuck in it,  sitting on a cardboard box,  and to the left of that is a
small file cabinet (dual 3x5) that has a P200 board,  assorted cards and
drives,  and other stuff on it,  then further toward the other end of the
room is a pizza box with a 486 board (?),  a power supply,  and several
cards plugged into it...

"Strewn about" seems like a good way to describe it.  :-)

WC> Recall me saying my 16 meg memory stick was getting flacky
WC> well it lost it's mind yesterday randomly loading 2024K, 3???K,
WC> 7???K, 11???K and 13??K instead of 16K.

I hate it when that happens.

WC> So I've an open case tower Pentium now equiped with a dirt
WC> slow Seagate  3,800 RPM drive in it.

I don't even know what the rpms are of any of the drives here.  Only one I
know is a seagate is the 6.4G that's in the linux box...

WC> Can you believe I searched out the specs on this drive a half hour 
WC> before the system became unusable and did a printscreen of specs 5 
WC> minutes before the memory or addressing went South? I had just hand 
WC> written the jumper settings for te hard drive on the printscreen 
WC> sheet when something fried.

Hm.  How's the power supply?  I would consider it suspect.

WC> Wiped myself out kludging this mess together to get back online. 
WC> Currently it's a somewhat confused system my having ripped out the
WC> Acer CD-ROM not having a driver for it, 

Got one of those,  and oakcdrom.sys (or whatever it was that w9x uses on
their install floppies) works just fine with it.

WC> switched Windows to VGA 3.0 because I don't have the ATI video 
WC> drivers, nor do I know if they exist for Win 3.1 yet. The 
WC> SoundBlaster Sound and CD-ROM won't get installed until after I 
WC> pick up a CMOS battery as the holder resides behind the CD drive 
WC> when installed and can't be reached.

What kind of battery does it take?

WC> I'll have to look and see if there're ACER and ATI drivers
WC> for this mess.

They're probably out there,  somewhere.

WC> Guess what, Linux boots fine but notes a Pentium error that's a
WC> known bug and dmesg says workaround installed!!!

Yeah,  I love seeing that kind of stuff go by.  

WC> I never had any bugs in my 486.

Nothing serious,  anyhow.

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