-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Unfortunately the nature of the problem I tend to have lately with my
 RJT> uucp dialup connection makes it more likely.  There will be an overrun
 RJT> error from time to time,  and if my end naks and the other end doesn't
 RJT> catch it,  it'll just keep on sending the wrong stuff.  I've seen that
 RJT> sort of thing happen a couple of times when I've been sitting here,
 RJT> and it degenerates to the point where my end is repeatedly sending naks
 RJT> to the other end and nothing at all comes back.  The software doesn't
 RJT> seem to be tuned in to this sort of thing at all,  and unfortunately
 RJT> there aren't a whole lot of choices of dos-based stuff for the purpose.
 RJT>  (One of the reasons I'm into moving on,  if I can get linux to do
 RJT> it...)  I've also had the experience where I didn't check the machine
 RJT> before heading out to work in the morning (I usually don't),  and it
 RJT> hung the machine up *all day long*,  from the midnight poll onwards,
 RJT> making me miss a couple of scheduled mail runs.

What's a naks? Can you see them at the zoo ;-)
Oh yeah, checked back on those Microtel minimalist computers
at Walmart and it seems there are better options I 
missed the first visit. You can get one with Duron or Athlon
processors and 1.3 GHZ with 2 open PCI slots an AGP and
one I've never heard of along with that 10/100 ethernet
and 56K modem however they penalize you in hardware if not
cost. They are still 300 dollars but the better hardware
options with PCI slots available and AMD costs you 2 USB ports,
128 instead of 256 RAM and a 10 instead of 40 Gig drive.
Oh yeah and one of them, not sure of the price with this option,
has a rw CD-ROM burner.
No software at all loaded on the lower cost AMD machines.
Unfortunately I think this may soon be the way to go 
as stuff goes obsolete so fast these days :-(
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?
 
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