On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Manny Styles wrote:
> ----- 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]
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