Niels, at 15:13 on Apr 24 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Did you see the message I x-posted, re a 1.2Gb HD for $220 ?

NP> Thank you for the posting, but I had already seen it.

No problem.  I think he's sold it now anyway.

NP> I was advised that a 1.2G  is only of use on my machine if the guy could 
NP> have supplied Disk Manager for that particular drive (or maxtor drives)
NP> I have DM for WD drives (I think)

Most HDs over 540Mb come with their own drivers these days, and those that
don't can generally use one of the generic drivers anyway.

NP> The price was great, and I would have got it like a shot if I could have 
NP> used its full capacity.

What type of CPU are you currently running?  If it will work in the
following (and not too many CPUs won't), it might be better economy to
upgrade to an LBA-capable motherboard, and take advantage of the much lower
prices (per Mb) being asked for the larger drives (1.6Gb WD for $365, for
example).

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For Sale
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1 x Soyo 486 Green VLB motherboard, 256Kb cache, 0Kb RAM, ZIF socket, no
CPU, uses 4 x 72-pin SIMM modules.  Takes 486SX/DX/DX2/DX4/SL/AMD/Cyrix M7
CPUs to 120MHz.  Has 7 x 16-bit slots and 3 x VLB slots, and takes both 5V
and 3.45V CPUs, jumper settable to 25/33/40/50MHz bus speeds.  Award BIOS
auto-detects IDE drives and supports LBA mode.  Only 6 months old, and
includes original packing and manual.  Extremely fast and reliable with
both OS/2 and Win95.

Price:  $100 postpaid.
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It's by far the best board I've ever used, but unfortunately, would not run
my AMD DX5/133 as a clock quadrupler, only a tripler (IOW, as a DX4/120
only).  I had to buy a new SIS board with (urk!) an AMI WinBIOS to run the
DX5, but at least it wasn't a total waste of time, as it overclocked to
160MHz happily.

If you're interested, let me know.  If not, go fuck yourself.  :)

Regards, Bill

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