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Skriven 2010-04-23 14:37:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

Hello Maurice!

 > There ARE coming down in price!

 MK> Mostly everything is.  Amazingly quality has either held it's ground or
 MK> improved.  Having said this, the garbage remains garbage regardless of
 MK> cost.

 > Later the badder full ATX motherboard :-)

 MK> That is what I did.  First try and figure out what additions might be
 MK> attractive on a mATX board and then see if that can be had on a full
 MK> ATX.  In my particular situation I wanted hotswapping sata and had to
 MK> add that no matter what sized board since nobody made one that has the
 MK> SiL31{24|32}.  On the full sized ATX currently running here I went with
 MK> a pci-x 3124, which works with modern pci slots at 66MHz, simply
 MK> because of 4 ports.  As a bonus the SiL31{24|32}'s can add a 5 port
 MK> multiplier to each port potentially being able to add up to 20 drives
 MK> in the case of the SiL3124 but that really didn't influence my
 MK> decision. The hotswappability won me over.  Recently I saw a new Asus
 MK> ATX board with a SiL3132 onboard with two eSata ports.  However that
 MK> board would require a new cpu and ram which I am not in any position to
 MK> exploit at this point in time.  Interesting though.  Same could be said
 MK> about the many new Supermicro boards with onboard Matrox G200's.  

Any quality issues with the Supermicro boards?
I'll be off googling for info on them in any case.

 MK> A tad
 MK> too pricey for me at the moment but they sure know how to tempt me.

Well the onboard Matrox has me intrigued.
Thjey were big with a local dealership many years ago but that
shop was driven out by competition

 > And as I said I can snag later models of this sort of IBM for
 > $50 a pop.

 MK> Definetly a good deal.  P4's?

No idea but that's the price.
Not really having that need due to the reliability of that box I'd find out
if this box were to go south on me.

I really in my circumstance cannot do without a computer.

 > I think I had 98 on a machine

 MK> I've installed it in the past on others machines but never on anything
 MK> I had total control of.

 > I never gave a thought to dual booting 98, seeya bye!

 MK> I did that on a few machines but again nothing that I had total control
 MK> of.  By the time Win2k came out I had already abandoned intalling
 MK> anything from MS on anyone's machine.  My quote at the time was, "Have
 MK> fun." No regrets about it here.

 > my first was a Packard Bell with DOS 5.0 - Win 3.1.

 MK> I forget the manufacturer but mine was a 386 with a 20M hardrive.  It

PB came with a 340M Seagate, weird motherboard form factor and really odd
video and COM 1 tied to the rinky dink 8250 UART driven internal 2400 modem.

I figured out how to bypass that with a undocumented jumper and hook
a 14,400 modem on COM 1 then later just before the motherboard died salvaged
a similar Packard  Bell with a 1650 UART, rejumpered from 33MHz - 66
and went to a 28,800 modem.

It too had a dedicated modem but the same jumper trick worked on it as well,
remove the 20 pin internal modem header and jumper pin 10 to pin 11 freed up
the COM 1 port.

 MK> had an early MS-DOS preinstalled which didn't last long and was
 MK> replaced with an early version of PC-DOS.  Then I started hacking which
 MK> I learned how to do from a couple of Sparc's I had access to at the
 MK> time.

 > Despite that 486-66's limitations

 MK> I still like 486's.  They were the first PC's I started to like. Didn't
 MK> care much for the 386 but it came in handy as a home computer for
 MK> logging into a network I had access to back then.  Also BBS's that were
 MK> starting to show up on the local scene at the time.

 > Windows is malware IMO.

 MK> I think you're being too kind.  ;-)

I'd get moderated were I to express my true opion however one must respect
those that are happy with lesser operating systems, at least a little
for they know not the true light ;-)

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