->  WC> The H.P. has one ISA slot occupied by an NE2000 network card.

-> I prefer the 3c509's since the ne2000's use extra cpu cycles to run them.  They
-> work good but the 3c509's are a noticable improvement (transfer speeds etc.).

Hey, lucked out as it seems I HAVE one of these cards, ISA too so that
lone slot can be used instead of one of the remaining 2 PCI.

It's used and acquired some time ago so it's status is as yet unknown
but it's labeled Ethernet III 3c509B :-)              

Gets bad when you have to overlap two sets of glasses to read that small
print on the green PC board 

Also looked into some Linux instalation instructions from the command
line and saved them to diskette.

There's considerable life in this old H.P. hardware yet :-)

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