Charles Angelich wrote in a message to All:

 CA> Packard Bell with W2K installed (again). :-\

 CA> The fan quit in the power-supply and the owner didn't want to fix
 CA> it?

Wow.  Sure wish I could run across some stuff like that...     :-)

 CA>  Computer:
 CA>   Operating System         Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional  
 CA>  Motherboard:
 CA>   CPU Type                  Cyrix 6x86MX/MII, 225 MHz PR300
 CA>   Motherboard Name          Unknown
 CA>   Motherboard Chipset       SiS 5597
 CA>   System Memory             125 MB (SDRAM)

125?  Is that a typo,  perhaps for 128?  Or maybe there's some ram eaten
for video,  bios shadowing,  etc.?

 CA>   BIOS Type                 Award Modular (11/13/98)
 CA>   Communication Port        Communications Port (COM1)
 CA>   Communication Port        Printer Port (LPT1)

 CA>  Display:
 CA>   Video Adapter             SiS 5598/6326 (2 MB)
 CA>   Monitor                   Default Monitor

 CA>  Multimedia:
 CA>   Audio Adapter             ESS ES1869 AudioDrive
 CA>   Audio Adapter             ESS Integrated Audio Controller

That's a nice chipset,  excepting me having had one go bad here a while
back.  I also have a couple of boards here with 1868 chips on them.  Here's
a tip if you get linux going on that box,  there will be several
"extra" sliders showing up in the mixer in KDE,  one of them,  I
forget which one,  is a "width" control,  sorta gives you a
synthesized echo/reverb effect,  like fiddling with the room size.

 CA>  Storage:
 CA>   Floppy Drive              Floppy disk drive
 CA>   Disk Drive                FUJITSU MPC3032AT (3 GB, 5400 RPM,
 CA> Ultra-ATA/33)   Disk Drive                Maxtor 90683U2 (6 GB,
 CA> 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/66)   Optical Drive             GoldStar CD-ROM
 CA> CRD-8322B (32x CD-ROM)

Nice!  9G to play with?!

 CA> Has a 'winmodem' (naturally) but otherwise might make a good
 CA> dedicated Linux machine?

Yeah,  I'll say.  If you can't manage,  send it on over here and I'll give
it a good home.  :-)

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