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

 WC>  Next time I slave that damaged drive I'll have a look, if I
 WC> swapped the low profile case for my original one I could just leave
 WC> that drive in instead of sitting it on the power supply of the
 WC> open case.

 RJT> I've left stuff working with bits hanging out here and there.  And
 RJT> recall Matt saying something about not bothering with a case for some
 RJT> systems,  though I haven't gone quite that far yet.  :-)

 I prefer to keep the dog hair outta the motherboard, ect ;-)
 OTOH the Pentium won't get fully buttoned up for quite some time
 after I slap a drive in it but there I've got a cool solution in a
 cheap piece of stereo cabinat where the bottom will fit the
 tower with a glass front door and I can cut a piece of plywood to 
 sit on top of the pegs that currently hold the cheap receiver
 placing the monitor there.
 
 WC> Yes it supports X-Windows however never got past configuring that
 WC> Headlands Tech. video card, as I still have the disk likely no
 WC> problem on this motherboard and video card but just now I've only
 WC> 130 Meg. free on a small drive so...

 RJT> That's plenty of room for an older distro.  Newer ones seem to load you
 RJT> up on more "stuff"...

 Well I could always haul out the manual and check ;-)
 This distro of Slackware was a CD in a sleeve in the back of the book.

 WC>  Oh I've pretty much the same software as well however no longer
 WC> all the .ini files, .DLL's and registry entries from programs I've
 WC> previously deleted bloating things up, the registry is less than
 WC> half it's former size as well.

 RJT> There oughta be a way to fix that.  I can't remember now what it was
 RJT> that OS/2 used in place of a registry file,  but I remember
 RJT> encountering some cleanup utilities for that.  Anything out there like
 RJT> that for windoze that you know of?

Yup, have some of it on my system.
There's a clean system freeware utility for 3.1 which 
moves unused DLL's to a holding directory until you're sure
you really and truely don't need them than you can delete
and there's syntax available right off MickySoft's web site
to re-establish the original registry but of course than it's
up to you to link up any software that had been added
since than.  The .ini files you need you can _mostly_ figure  out
without help.

 RJT> Ever run a screen saver called Dazzle?  That does an amazingly complex
 RJT> display with all sorts of effects,  and never seems to repeat that I've
 RJT> noticed.  I even stuck a copy of it on the w98 box,  though I haven't a
 RJT> clue as to how to make an .exe into a screensaver there,  so I can't
 RJT> have it invoked automatically.

 WC> Sol Mirco_something or other_ offered an early high powered video
 WC> solution called the Dazzler which supported a program called "Life"
 WC> if that's what you're talking about.

 RJT> No,  that was a graphics card that Cromemco offered for the S100 bus
 RJT> machines. This isn't that,  it's a dos-based program,  though I also
 RJT> have it on the w98 box.  From the files list I get this:

 RJT> DAZZL51A.ZIP  178790 03-29-94  [   2] Kaleidoscopic screen saver

 Oh yeah, now the light goes on. I actually had this loaded way
 back when, I prefer my .JPG slideshow viewer ;-)
 
 RJT> spectrum of features offered by DAZZLE print out the DAZZLE.DOC User's
 RJT> Manual and enjoy mastering something the likes of which you have never
 RJT> seen.

 RJT> It's really kinda nifty...

I tired of it after a time, now with the monitor sleep 
feature enabled in CMOS it's a non-issue.
I rather suspect the CRT will last longer in sleep mode as the 
heater won't get the thermal shock from constant switching on 
and off, similar for transients and semiconductors.
 
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