Hello Roy.

27 Apr 05 12:17, you wrote to me:

 RT> Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

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

 RT>> I have found Compaq and HP boxes to be reliable, but when they
 RT>> break, here we  chuck them away, as getting replacement parts is
 RT>> not worth it, so I avoid them as far as possible.

 RT> Got the one Compaq box here that's the windoze machine,  and we're
 RT> about to retire it,  if I ever get around to it.  No using much of
 RT> anything that's in there,  though I'll probably reformat the drives
 RT> and use them at some point,  since they're SCSI.  Also got this cute
 RT> little bitty case for an HP around someplace (probably in storage),  I
 RT> can't fit a standard power supply in it,  much less anything else.
 RT> I'll probably end up using it for a project box or something...

Why I dislike them ....

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

 RT>> No problem when one has enough slots to accomodate, normal bits
 RT>> an pieces.

 RT> Heh.  That one Compaq here is both PCI and VESA!  Never even saw any
 RT> VESA cards,  though...

Seen it a bit here, but then I have scrapped a few such boxes, and as you say, 
not much one can re-use. :-(

Russell

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