Hello Roy.

29 Aug 03 20:01, you wrote to me:

 RT> Yeah,  but we're talking stuff under 1G here...

I just talked to a guy who bought a 1.6G for $5 - he thinks it is but wants
me to check the geometry etc for him.  Although I haven't looked at it yet
I thought $5 sounded like a fair price ... if it works that is.  That's two
CDs byte-wise plus change.  It would look good in my slidey tray thingy. 
:-)

 RT> The "sweet spot" (as I saw that break point described on one page
 RT> today) seems to be in the 60G or 80G units,  go bigger than that and
 RT> you end up paying more per GB.

Ah!  I haven't checked lately.  Sounds about right.

 RT> You and I are into some of the same "junk",  I think.  :-)

There definetly is common ground except that I am attempting to move away
from HDs, CD-ROMs, and the such.  I am not there yet but that definetly
seems to be the direction.  In the meantime I like playing around with the
"junk" to see what it can REALLY do and not what "they"
claim it can or cannot do.  Very interesting to see stuff happen that is
impossible to many, many others.  A 40G harddrive on an socket 7 is a very
good example.

Did I ever mention that I really like Slackware?  ;-)

Maurice

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