Hello, Tom.

-=> TOM WALKER wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-

 ->  PW>  Guy down the street seems to be cleaning out his mess of 'puter stuff
 ->  PW> and has a pretty big pile out on the street. (jim would have fun i'll
 ->  PW> bet what w/ all the mini and mid tower cases that're out there)

 -> You'd best grab anything that looks like an ATX case, in hopes of
 -> eventually upgrading yourself beyond antiquated AT stuff from 1995 or
 -> so. For desktop, yer knockin' on a decade behind the times, laddie.
 -> 

 TW>  SO WHAT!!!!!!!
 TW>  It is terminaly Stuppid to throw away a perfectly service system jsut
 TW> becasue it is "A Decade Behind".

Whoa!  Calm down there, buckeroo - - I didn't tell Paul to throw
anything away.  Paul and I are personal friends (courtesy of this
echo), and we talk back and forth via email much more often than we
talk here in this echo.  I guess I should've sent him a pvt email
instead of posting here to encourage him to look for and grab an ATX
case, if there was one in that curbware he posted here about.

So, I knew (but you didn't know) that he already has a candidate
ATX mainboard, Intel PGA370 cpu chip, an Asus 'slotket' card, and etc.
for an "upgrade" to an ATX Slot1 system.  Still needed for his
"upgrade"
are an ATX PS and case. So that is why I encouraged him to look for an
ATX case in that pile of "curbware".

 TW> I have a 500 Mhz AT MB system running that will be perfectly servicable
 TW> for many years to come for what the "Typical Home Computer Does"

I agree - - AMD K6-2 500 system is OK for awhile yet.  But Paul's
current fastest "desktop" system is a peg or 3 below that 500MHz speed.

 TW> In fact I have a need for two or three More.

Similar where I volunteer -  we got plenty of AT cases, PS and etc, but
shortage of AT-compatible "Super 7"  mainboards and shortage of the
faster AMD chips.

I haven't bought any AMD K6-2 450 and faster chips recently - - what are
they now going for, and where to find those Super 7 Baby AT mainboards
to put them in, and at what cost?

Thanks - - -  JimH.

... Good old days?  Heck, Jim, what was good about them? - Bubba.
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