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

 WC> Moneys tight until the third of the month or I'd have jumped on a
 WC> Pentium LPX form factor board _with_ 64 meg EDO on it in computers
 WC> for sale echo just yesterday, 10 dollars and shipping.  I believe
 WC> the LPX is the Packard Bell form factor so I could have had a
 WC> backup box in my other case as well as the RAM had I snagged it.

 RJT> Looking just now,  yeah,  it does appear to be the same form factor.
 RJT> Hope your power supply is okay,  though.

Currently have two relatively stiff power supplies.
Landlady is giving me a computer one of her acquaintances
is having trouble with when she upgrades so I'll be back to 2 boxes
again and will have to do something about using that old stereo stand for
the tower and clearing the desk for the new system.
Currently still wiped out from getting this one up and
right, still haven't made up the audio cable to match.
Miss messing with Linux so after a few days of taking it easy...
Oh yeah the audio jack on the front of the CD drive, it was
just corrosion as all I needed to do was use it a few times and
the intermittant on the left channel cleared up just fine.
Seems the OEM  Win 95 disk likes the CD drive and NEC just fine and will
install so right now I'm torn between backing up C to 
the Colorado tape drive and trusting that or waiting for the month to
get the big hard drive. I see Promise Tech. is  offering up 
Ultra ATA 150 I/O cards so can new and faster drives be far behind?
I also noted from the web that the serial hard drives
are supported up to 150 as well!
Oddly just now as retailers locally are abandoning ATA100 
prices are up from what they was 2 months ago some
20 percent with one hard pressed to find a 60 Gig 5400 spindle
speed drive ATA100 for under 90 dollars at best locally.
Recall discussing that weird port on Walmart's el cheapo systems?
Seems there's a type of hard drive that advantages that also
so I guess the Microtel systems support an added drive that way.
Looking forward to snagging an ATX case and PS at the right price
and getting up into the 2 GHz CPU range as curently as usual I'm
lagging the bleeding edge by a  factor of 20 at 200MHz here.
After the drive I'll save for the 100 bucks in advance  
Internet junction wants for a years service, snag an archived 
Netscape 32 release, latest NS version 7 32 bit wants 64 meg RAM, 
and dump Verizon as a provider!!!
Should solve my authorization error on SMTP with Linux as well
thus giving me a boost in that direction.
I've already got the Dillo graphical browser binary here.
If I could access cheap parts here I might well start 
refurbishing a few systems a year here possibly through 
Ebay.
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