WC> By the time I get around to a CD burner DVD burners may be
WC> affordable?

 The darned things take a 600MHz or better PC
plus Win98 or higher. Unless things change in
newer DVD burners, I'll probably never have
one.

RJT> at this point I'm content to
RJT> hold off on that stuff a bit.  My one foray a couple of months back t
RJT> look at what was out there in terms of new MBs and such convinced me
RJT> that I wasn't ready to jump into that stuff just yet.

WC>  You'd be more prepared if you were online, read reviews
WC>  at Tom's Hardware site, www.motherboards.org and download
WC>  and read the manuals for the new boards.
WC>  They appear intimidating at first however once you've read the
WC>  manual all the strange terminology becomes apparent and in
WC>  fact is much simpler than what we're used to.

 Besides money, it's all the TIME it takes to
get back up to speed on this stuff, knowing
that tomorrow it'll all be different, again,
that is hard to find.

WC> readable. The NMRI's came through clear enough though, in fact
WC> I went to sleep in the machine which the nurse said she'd never
WC> seen before.

RJT> Heh.  I'm not that far from it myself at this point.  Been shorting
RJT> myself on sleep for days,  and I finally have a weekend at hand to ma
RJT> up for it!  :-)

WC> This was 8:30 A.M. and that loud clanking was going on as they
WC> energize the magnets but with the injury I _wake up_ exhasted.
WC> Mildly claustophbic too but they had to wake me up after
WC> the NMRI.

 Just FYI, MRI's magnets are always energized.
It costs us between $10K and $15K to restart a
magnet.

 I don't know specifically what causes the MRI
noises; but, they ARE very noisey when capturing
images. We give the patients headphones with a
choice of music to help relax and help mask the
noises.

 TTYL.

 Robert

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