Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to JIM HOLSONBACK:

 MK> Hello JIM.

 MK> 19 Sep 03 18:00, you wrote to me:

 JH> Sounds good, and maybe by then the price will have come down a bit.
 JH> I have two friends who have bought new boards, both with that NVidia
 JH> chipset which supports both SATA hard drives and Dual-Channel DDR
 JH> memory. So far, neither of them has sprung for the new HDD, or for the
 JH> matched and pre-tested pair of DDR sticks.

 MK> I also know someone who went all the way on a new board with all
 MK> the latest and greatest.  He did spring for the matched pair of
 MK> DDRs and I must say that so far it is impressive.  He has a PIV
 MK> 3GHz jobber on there as well.  No SATA HD ... yet. Nice board. 
 MK> Myself if I were seriously thinking of a PC type board I'd opt out
 MK> for a dual PIII system.  I saw one not too long ago that was
 MK> inexpensive and was extremely tempted by it.  But first I'd like to
 MK> achieve what we set out to do over a year ago which is the PC/104
 MK> onboard wheelchair computer.  First things first and all that rot. 
 MK> Then I can think about fun again.  Who knows?  By that time I might
 MK> be able to get a dual PIII for a song.  La, la, la!  :-) 

Back around 1999 or 2000 or thereabouts,  when I was working at that
computer store in the area building systems,  this one guy there came up
with a board,  I think he'd found it on ebay or something.  I'm not sure if
it would've supported PIII or not,  though it did have two of those kinds
of slots.  _And_ it had all sorts of other stuff built on to that MB, 
including _three_ SCSI channels,  two regular ones and one
"wide".  And back then,  he ended up paying something like $75
for that board,  which was way less than what was typical for what those
guys were paying for MBs in those days.

I might have snagged one,  but didn't care to lock myself into intel stuff,
 since I tend to favor AMD over intel.  Still do.  And if I go beyond the
hardware I have now,  I'll probably get something with an AMD chip on it.

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