JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> Hello, Roy.  Awhile back, we were talking about - -

Yeah we were.  I was going to email you,  heard things are rather soggy in
your part of the world.  The news said something about 12 inches (!) of
rain in one day?!

 JH> I'm not networked here yet (lazy), but it would've been nice, when
 JH> earlier this week I needed to transfer a 6+ MB driver file from
 JH> this machine to another.  I could have dug out the laplink cable,
 JH> but ended up just using PKZip and spanning over about 5 diskettes.

 RJT> OTOH,  I've never bothered looking at what you had to do with pkzip to
 RJT> do that...  :-)

 JH> Its like bicycle or roller skates - - after you've done it, it is
 JH> easy.

Sure.  But still,  I just haven't gotten around to doing that for some reason.

 JH> Then I used "sneakernet" to transfer the files to the other 
 JH> machine.  I share the laser printer between machines, but right now
 JH> I'm not even using AB or ABCD switch - - just swapping cables.

 RJT> Want a switchbox?

 JH> No thanks.  Got 'em already.

I have a number of them,  and they're all sitting down in storage.  I used
to use one of them,  but that was a long time back...

 JH> I earlier had two of them back to back so I could send from either 
 JH> computer to either printer.  In moving some things around,  I 
 JH> dismantled the thing,  and haven't put it back together yet.  It 
 JH> makes for quite a nest of cables. For printer sharing, I think a 
 JH> LAN would be best, and I already have cards and a CAT5 crossover 
 JH> cable,  but - - - - (lazy, in the absence of necessity).

Agreed on the LAN part,  I think that once I get another printer going here
I'll probably end up taking the same approach.  Put it on one machine
(probably the primary linux box),  and share it with the others that way.

 JH> OK, if it is Intel, there will be an "S-Number" on bottom and top
 JH> of it. Post that, and I'll look up if it is Standard voltage or VRE
 JH> voltage. Example - -I'm looking at a P100,  "SY007", and looking it
 JH> up, that one uses Standard Voltage.  If it is Pentium MMX, it will
 JH> be dual voltage, with 2.8v core.

 RJT> I'm beginning to wonder if that's something I need to look at here?

 RJT> Got this P200 here that I've been fighting with to try and get 
 RJT> Slackware 8.1 intstalled to.  I thought I had problems with ram,  
 RJT> and have been swapping ram out to all sorts of different 
 RJT> configurations, but it seems to be getting worse and worse.  It 
 RJT> was fairly stable with a Slack 8.0 install and 4 4M parts in 
 RJT> there,  but...

 RJT> OTOH,  maybe it's time to use that last (FX) board out of the pizza
 RJT> box.  

Did that,  and was gonna use it,  but the keyboard connector showed up as
being behind some sheet metal,  so I'm holding off on using that until I
figure out some way to do so without having to mangle one of my cases.

 JH> Hee.  But, BIR you've since figured out what the problem was with
 JH> that P200 box.

I ended up snagging another socket 7 MB,  this one with a VIA chipset I
should look up.  And I've still not tested ram yet,  I need to do some
rearranging in here so I can set up another machine,  and plug it in and
let it rip.  At least I got as far as making the floppy...

And with that other MB,  and only 32M of ram in it I did manage to get the
whole way through an install,  and get it working,  though that box is off
to the side for the present time.  Again,  I need to do some serious
rearranging in here to get to the point where I can *use* more of this
stuff.

I'll get there...

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