Text 123, 86 rader
Skriven 2004-12-04 12:09:55 av Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615.0)
    Kommentar till text 111 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
Ärende: dying burner?
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CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

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->> People will part with some really good hardware once it
->> begins to give them problems. No one will part with a
->> working monitor now that they can buy a new computer
->> without a monitor. 

WC> I found 2 - 19 inchers left by the dumpster at the curb in
WC> the last year alone, both SVGA, both work fine :-) 

CA> You live in a parallel universe. :-)

What I've been thinking too.  Or at least near the right dumpster... :-)

CA> I should've said here in Mich no one gives up working monitors. :-)

Not too often around here,  either...

WC>>> Then too I could order a case, motherboard CPU combo and
WC>>> go from there but that would be a while off. 

->> Once you have a sufficiently large hard drive the rest is
->> comparatively easy or so it seems.

Yeah,  until it's "too slow".  :-)

WC> Yeah, that's sort of my plan. Tiger Direct has a Soyo
WC> boarded bare bones system, power supply, case, 512 meg RAM
WC> 40 or 60 Gig hard drive and 2.8 Gig AMD Athalon for $390.00. 

WC> Probably one of those boards with non-tantalum bypass caps
WC> prone to leaking but hey upgrade as you go. Comes as a kit
WC> in a box. It's ATX form factor so swapping boards no
WC> problem One thing I DO like is 5 free PCI slots and 4 & 8x
WC> AGP independent video card. No operating system. 

CA> I've seen deals on new machines with those specs plus a CDRW
CA> assembled and ready to use. I don't much care for the pricing of
CA> TigerDirect's 'kits'.

I had their mailing list coming at me for a while,  but eventually realized
that their prices weren't all that terrific.  I'm also wondering how this
compares (since I haven't looked lately) with that bare-bones walmart system.

CA> What most of us need to be 'forever' satisfied is something
CA> server-class with more wattage in the powersupply than we will
CA> _ever_ need and at least 1 gig of memory. THEN we will be
CA> satisfied (for awhile). :-)

Yeah,  until they change things around again...

WC>>>>> I do have one last hard drive in the 486 but it has
WC>>>>> important files on it so I can't put it at risk by
WC>>>>> swapping it around. 

WC>>> Never fried anything until the last few years but if I
WC>>> exceed a very limited time engaged in moving stuff around
WC>>> it's a near certainty I've come to acknowledge :-( 

->> Me too. 

WC> Kinda sucks getting old doesn't it? 

CA> I tell young people that all the time. They think I'm kidding.

Beats the alternative,  though!

WC> In a way it works out pretty well sometimes. By the time
WC> you're about to shuffle off you really don't mind. 

CA> If there was only myself to consider you would be right. I know you
CA> don't want to leave your dog behind to fend for himself and I am
CA> 'caretaker' of a dog that was abused by it's original
CA> owner and feel he deserves a decent home where he no longer has to
CA> be afraid - where he can 'rest'. Everyone loves Shelby
CA> (Shelbert Admiral Cliff) so far and I think my younger sister would
CA> jump at the chance to care for him so maybe my 'mission' here is
CA> finished? 

Not me!  I've got too darn much to do yet,  and haven't gotten around to
anywhere near as much of it as I want,  yet!

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