-> WC>Older H.P. here, very reliable.
-> WC>Very good performance with Linux too with the Celeron 433
-> WC>and 256 Meg of RAM.

-> A little HP Celron 433 Tower was one of my Favorates. But I donated it
-> to some Senior Citizen when I came across a 550 Desktop I couldn't pass
-> on. I stil have it but don't real;ly have any ise for it any more. It
-> will be going to soem Senior Citizen at soem point i nhte future.

-> WC>Convinced it required proprietary memory I was informed otherwise
-> WC>and I upgraded it on the cheap.

-> HOP was at tiem picky abopt it's memory. Particualrly if trying to mix
-> different brands as I recall.

-> WC>Ripped out the combo software sound card - modem and using an external
-> WC>56K modem and Turtle Beach hardware sound card Knoppix Linux
-> WC>autodetects everything and provides the correct sound card drivers.

-> That combo modem sound card was the first thing that I disposed of
-> also. But then I far perfer External Modems anyow.

Well it was a software modem, goodbye.
Oddly the Turtle Beach sound card uses the exact same vortex
sound drivers the software combo card did
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