-=> TOM WALKER wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 -> I could still slap together a really good cutting edge
 -> bare bones system from Price Watch for 400 but that would be excluding
 -> H.D., RAM and CD. Decisions, decisions
 -> One really puzzling thing to me is they claim 2 _external_ open
 -> drive bays. Some new meaning to external?

 TW>  Nope. Been a standard term since the days of the PC, and perhaps
 TW> before.
 
 OK.

 TW> In the old days there were two 5 1/4 drive bays in machines. One
 TW> Internal(Fully Sourounded by the Computer) and Two External(Face plate
 TW> acessable). Of course the External Bays were necessary for the Floppy
 TW> drives. But some put a Hard Drive with a faceplate in the second
 TW> External bay instead of a second Floppy.
 TW> I still have several of those Hard Drive faceplates in my junk box.

I slapped a second hard drive in a 486 after removing the 5 1/4
as well as adding a CD-ROM in that face plate accessable 
bay you mention.
 
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