I dunno...I guess I kind of view it from a value of time perspective. I value my time tremendously--even so-called "free" time at home. I'd rather spend a few bucks than spend hours on hardware that old. I do spend time on projects...including a new NAS/home-SAN box based on a stack of rotting 250GB drives I had and an out-of-use dual-core Athlon X2 4400+ based system. But I'd never spend hours working on decade-old hardware. The difference is that at the end, I have a very usable appliance that I can use to play with current technologies. Even if you got that 440BX-based system operational, at the end, it's still (IMO) too old and too slow to be used for anything.
At the same time though, I guess if you get a kick out of messing around with that ancient stuff, more power to you. :) Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:47 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] eide/pata > > Greg, > Us old farts get much fun with old stuff that we have owned for a long > time. > I was not raised in the "Toss-away culture." > Perspective, maybe?.......... :) > Duncan > > At 18:20 10/18/2008 -0700, you wrote: > >what fun is that :-D > >fp > > > >At 06:16 PM 10/18/2008, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: > > >Or, even better, stop wasting so much valuable time on absolutely > ancient > > >hardware. :) > > > >-- > >Tallyho ! ]:8) > >Taglines below ! > >-- > >What's in a name, anyway? Everything and nothing.
