----- Original Message -----
From: David P. Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Brian J. Babiuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware
> On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Brian J. Babiuk wrote:
> <snip>
> > Packard Bell computers of any
> > > vintage. <snip> I have never experienced anything
> > > more likely to drop its MBR or a few clusters off the disk than
these
> > > babies.
>
> --I agree! Packard Bell, the Star Office of Computers <g>
> ROTFLMAO!!!
>
> David P. Greenberg
> Bitco Electronics
>
Maybe I have one of those 1 in 3 Packard Bells, so I needed to
interject. I believe that it is the newer Packard Bell pc's that are
really crap. I have a Packard Bell Legend 100CD that has built-in
Cirrus Logic 1 MB video, and a 480 MB Seagate harddrive (bought in mid
'95). By your standards, I should have been dead in the water. It is
true that I have made some hardware changes in that time (ie: upgraded
the 14.4 kbps faxmodem to a x2 56kbps faxmodem [now v.90], and a 50x
CD-ROM drive since the original Panasonic-Matsushita died, plus more
RAM). I also added a Maxtor 4.3 GB harddrive as a slave device (but
it is now the master), with my swap and /home partitions on the
original Seagate. I also dual boot. It is true indeed that I have
had some problems with linux, but nothing hardware related. I
understand that the original e-mail was just a start, but all of these
things can't just be automatically scratched out. Now if you say
there may be hardware that conflict with each other, that may be a bit
more acurate.
Manny Styles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----
__________________________________________
NetZero - Defenders of the Free World
Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at
http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
