Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:



RJT> Maybe when I get better situated, I'll consider that as I
RJT> don't currently have any room for acquiring any more
RJT> junk... Got too much (to the point of absurdity) in this
RJT> room, and a whole storage unit stuffed full. 

CA> Me either. I tossed one machine a few weeks ago and looks like I'm
CA> tossing two more this week. :-\

What did you get rid of?  And what are you getting rid of?

RJT> A number of years back I ran a small classified ad to try and get 
RJT> some repair work, and that didn't work too well, but I did end up 
RJT> with some old stuff. A complete IBM (!) pc with CGA (!) monitor. 
RJT> This actually turned out to be profitable, as a lady paid me $50 
RJT> for the monitor, to use with an AT&T 6300 machine... 

CA> I used the AT&T for 15 years or so. It required a special
CA> monitor that only certain Commodores used. Was a nice machine and I
CA> appreciate it being there for me. :-)

She had a different video card in it,  I think.  I remember that 25-pin
monitor connector,  now that you mention it.  It'd probably be possible to
make it work with more standard monitors if you wanted to make a cable, 
I'd guess.



CA>> Yes, it uses 'shared memory' for the 2 meg of video ram. :-\ 

RJT> I'd *really* like to avoid that if at all possible, when I get 
RJT> into newer hardware. Is it all headed that way, do you think?  Or 
RJT> is it likely I'll be able to find something I like which will give 
RJT> the video its own memory? 

CA> This one with the 16meg on the vid card is a 'whitebox' that cost
CA> about $2800 five years ago. 

CA> As I've said before, I think we will all be looking at 'server
CA> class' machines or accepting the everything but the sink on the
CA> motherboard type throwaway computers in the near future.

Put me in the former category.  :-)

CA> --8<--cut 

CA>> I have ESS on another '486 here and it does work well on
CA>> that one. :-) 

RJT>> Here's a tip if you get linux going on that box, there will be 
RJT>> several "extra" sliders showing up in the mixer in KDE, one of 
RJT>> them, I forget which one, is a "width" control, sorta
gives you a 
RJT>> synthesized echo/reverb effect, like fiddling with the room size. 

CA>> Sounds fun. 

RJT> It was handy, made some stuff sound better, others not. I would 
RJT> like to know if there's a way to program the effect to be used 
RJT> with specified tunes, or something.

CA> By recording the output to WAV files, yes.

Probably.  Mostly I used it to just play tapes and audio CDs.  I hadn't
really gotten going with recording stuff at the point when that thing went
bad.

CA> --8<--cut 

RJT>> Nice! 9G to play with?! 

CA>> On two drives no less. I'm thinking the 6gb could add to my main  
CA>> box and the 3gb would be enough for a Linux install of say Slack 
CA>> v7.1? 

RJT> Even 8.1 won't go much beyond a gig or so and that's if you 
RJT> install *everything*, which I wouldn't recommend. I did that the 
RJT> first time around for 4.0, just to check stuff out, but you end up 
RJT> with more than one thing for the same function (mail and news in 
RJT> particular) and it's a wasted. This last time around I didn't even 
RJT> install those functions at all, and won't until I get something 
RJT> set up with a connection. 

CA> Slack v8.1 would be my other choice, yes. 

Works for me!

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