Hi JIM HOLSONBACK, hope you are having a nice day

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

 Well that dell was the closest thing out there, all the rest were
at mini's, mid's and a full. And yes, were. I went back today and
got the rest of the cases.

 My guess is he's got rid of them for the reason that by now stuff
at the fleamkts are prob more atx than at so why keep the at around.
(miss going to those places too)

 Not that I'm keeping them but I wanted to go thru and see if there
were some better pwr supplies then the ones I've got now. The full
tower that had the 90mhz pentium (430nx) only had a 200w supply and
w/ 8 drivebays that I'd be filling plus the demands of perhaps that
mvp3 mobo w/ the k6-2/450 once loaded up well... ;>

 The mid tower is a nice case too, also w/ 8 bays so I should have
enough to put together a bbs system w/ plenty of filespace plus a
fileserver for the rest.

 The other reason I got them was I need a rocker type pwr switch for
the one full tower I have on hand. Seemed to be easier to just throw
them all in the wagon and deal w/ them as I feel like it.

JH>But, hey, I'll tell you like "she who must be obeyed" tells
me alla time
JH>- - you're supposed to be getting rid of this computer junk (in your
JH>case, before your impending move to the great state of Jawja), not
JH>dumpster-diving and dragging more and more of this kinda junk in all the
JH>time. 

 Well it's like w/ the pair of 19in monitors Jay dropped off earlier
this year. If I've got a choice 'tween hauling around a half dozen
15in monitors that I'm not sure I can fix or a pair of 19's that at
worst case need abt $15 of parts each (provided i can't find what i need
in a clunker) and I can fix in 15min well.... ];>

 The biggest prob I've seen w/ dead monitors is that either the 8pin
dip that drives the fet goes bad and/or the fet driven by it dies.

 The last monitor I was using had a bad chip, after I swapped it out
from a clunker it ran just fine 'til I blew out the text/640 sync trying
to get it matched up w/ a new video card. Still works but only at 800 and
1024. Prob fixable but it's a matter of do I want to deal w/ it.

 What I could use now is more dimms for the ones I can mix-n-match dimms
and simms on plus enough to put a decent amount on the ones I can't mix.
Would like to have 64meg at least on most of them and more on the better
boards like the mvp3, pc100, and the p2b especially. (got enough stuff to
make a few to sell, 'cept for mice, kybds and speakers)

PW>> Ethernet-InfiniBand Platform
PW>> www.omegaband.com
JH>Internet search here indicates Omegaband was based in Austin, TX.  They
JH>ceased operations in 12/02 and filed Chapter 7 in 3/03.

 That was quick.

PW>> My guess is it's either a firewall or something to go between a
PW>>highspeed line like a T1 or frac-T1 and a router/hub but dunno
PW>>for sure.
JH>Whuzzat?

 Basically it would be something that goes between the main phone
system lines and your ethernet setup. T1 and Frac-T1 (fractional-t1)
is something like having 1000 phonelines all in a single group.
Lots and lots of data carrying capacity, like a major business (t1)
or a large library (frac-t1) might use for inet access.

 Firewall otoh is what you use to keep unauthorized users out of
your system. I use a software one on the laptop but there are also
hardware ones you can get too.

JH>  "OmegaBand Announces First InfiniBand Edge Product
88
JH>  specification with version 1.0a in June 2001."

 Different contraption from what this is. Only a single dimm and
no provisions for mass storage like hd's or optical. It may still
be for gigabit ethernet use though. the board inside has silkscreening
of eGEM w/ the faceplate having EGEM1 so maybe ethernet to gigabit e-net.

JH>I did find one more clear writeup about InfiniBand, but the doggone
JH>Internet site wouldn't let me save the file, just let me email it, and
JH>all that came thru was an URL.

 If the page will display the writeup on your screen then it's possible
to still save it. Right click on the page and select `View Source' from
the list. Depending on your setup it should load the page into notepad
or write. From there you can save it to another file somewhere else.

 You will want to check first to make sure it has the same stuff as what's
in your browser though. ];>

 -=> Yours sincerely, Paul Williams <=-

... I like to keep all my internal organs internal. - ToddS
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