WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to MAURICE KINAL:

-> I have no problem with them since I never use their stuff.  I don't 
-> like their stuff.  They can keep them.  :-)

WC> No use for them here either.                                 

-> I do 'steal' their ram though but treat their stuff as 
-> disposable/recyclable material.  I'd never buy any of that and don't 
-> appreciate the way they decided to do the bios (especially).

In what way?  That stuff-on-the HD?

-> Keyboards also seem to pack it in faster on Compaqs for whatever 
-> reason.  Perhaps they are overpowering the ps2 port?

This is a compaq-labeled keyboard I'm typing on at the moment,  one of the
few I have that has tactile response,  but then this one doesn't get as
much use as the IBMs that I have here.

WC> Same experience here.
WC>                      
WC> The bloody Hewlett Packard doesn't even HAVE a BIOS upgrade and I 
WC> think that stinks.

They don't?

WC> However I've made a decent machine of it by memory upgrade and soon 
WC> to be added hard drive.

WC> Tossed the H.P. software sound card - modem combo as refuse. Oddly
WC> a salvaged Turtle Beach Sound card uses precisely the same Vortex
WC> sound drivers and it's a hardware card :-)

Hm.  I got given a couple machines a while back that are probably gonna be
used as upgrades in the not-too-distant future,  one's a Compaq and one's
an HP.  :-0

I had yanked the chip out of the Compaq thinking that I'd put it in a box
here,  but then found that the MB jumpers for voltage won't go *quite* far
enough in the right direction, so it's sitting here..  Oh well.  I don't
want to use that box itself because it has a *teeny* little power supply in
there.

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