WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 WC> Walking the dog this morning saw a discarded CRT type
 WC> 19 inch monitor.

Cool...     :-)

I've managed to accumulate more "junk",  and am still in the
process of trying to sort it out,  and to get things in this room to the
point where I can work on stuff again.

 WC> Seeing all sorts of brand new electronics equipment boxing
 WC> in the ajoining dumpster I figured it just might be there
 WC> as a result of upgrade and working.

 WC> Having a bad back and the thing being nearly a block away there  it
 WC> sat until afternoon when I decided to go for it.

 WC> Got it home and it works fine :-)

:-)

 WC> Now I've GOT to install that other small 340 Meg Seagate into the
 WC> Pentium, partition to save my Knoppix Linux settings
 WC> while operating Linux from the CD and ramdrive.

I have yet to deal with any drives in that size range.  I was going to go
for one some years back,  right around the time I switched away from MFM
drives,  but at that point the 540M was cheaper,  so I ended up going for
one of those. I still have it.  :-)  Currently I think it has OS/2 loaded
on it,  and is in a 486 box.

 WC> Guess I'll slap that Turtle Beach sound card in at the same time
 WC> removing the less than worthless software sound card - modem POS.

I've heard of that brand,  supposed to be pretty good except for being
rather odd in some ways.

 WC> I've now got three working SVGA, 2 of them 19 inch with one small
 WC> one and a VGA. ALL FREE except the VGA I purchased used LONG ago.

Nice when it works out that way.

 WC> Until I upgrade it's going to be one weird system. 433 Celeron 
 WC> with 256 Meg of RAM and 340 Meg hard drive running Windows 3.1 and 
 WC> Linux 

Heh.

 WC> Some time next week I think and when I yank the 486 I believe I'll
 WC> take out that motherboard NiCad as well and solder in some
 WC> pigtails to move the battery off board.

I still have a few around that are like that,  and should probably do
something about it in at least some cases,  there's one on the shelf behind
me that's starting to show signs of leakage.

 WC> I'm still going to keep the 486 going and it'll be restored to it's
 WC> original configuration possibly with one of those ISA networking
 WC> cards Jim H. sent along to me.

Networking cards are getting easier to come by as well.

 WC> I just have to remember to limit my time in doing this stuff so not
 WC> as to overdo.

Yes.

 WC> Perhaps a couple of weeks to get this stuff in some semblance of
 WC> order.

Gotta take your time,  there.

 WC> The hard drive is dead easy to install in the H.P. and it's
 WC> a big nothing to hook up the external hardware modem.

I have one internal modem I haven't even tried out yet,  dunno what it
needs in terms of the software or whether it's one of those winmodems or
not...

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