-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> Wish web sites would use standardized HTML. Looking for
 WC> prices I can log onto Best Buy and peruse most pages but
 WC> try their all hard drives link and my 4.08 Netscape locks
 WC> up tight :-(

 CA> Comical really. They don't want to remain 'anybrowser' friendly
 CA> for fear they will not appear to be 'with it' but the most
 CA> likely person to buy is one who is not already 'cutting edge'.
 CA> Those with newer hardware and newer browsers who can actually
 CA> 'see' their webpages already have new hardware. Stupid really -
 CA> very stupid.
 
 I hadn't thought of it that way before but you're absolutely
 correct. Very well put too.
 
 WC> The Pentium I've out front has 4 bays open once I replace
 WC> the drive. It's an NEC and a net search on it reveals it
 WC> wasn't very popular and some hateful remarks about it

 CA> I would guess that since NEC was proprietary and expensive a
 CA> good deal of the 'hate' was/is jealousy?

 It's like Packard Bell, for the most part the only proprietary 
 thing is the motherboard. Actually I believe they are one
 and the same only retagged as I opened a P.B. monitor
 and it was IDENTICAL on the inside.
 The NEC seems to share Packard Bell's proprietary
 motherboard form factor though I've not actually measured
 it.
 
 WC> but hey they say the same about Packard Bell but here's
 WC> mine almost 9 years later.

 CA> I'm OK so far with my two Compaq machines. I guess it's all in
 CA> what you expect them to do and what you think you can modify
 CA> them to do? I don't do a great deal of 'modification' to
 CA> hardware.

I've turned the hardware on my Packard Bell inside out, upside
down, adding to it and done all sorts of things.
It's old and slow but it's tweaked.
 
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