Hello Spike, Sunday, November 10, 2002, 1:06:42 PM, you wrote:
S> Hello Anne, S> On or about Sunday, November 10, 2002, 12:49:14 PM, in a galaxy S> far, far away, Anne wrote: <snip> S> In other words yes, I have this down to a science. I should, as S> I have been building my own machines since the first PC/XT S> clones. I've only purchased one "brand name" computer in my life, S> and it was a total unmitigated disaster. Proprietary EVERYTHING, S> and 300-400% higher to upgrade than generic. $195 for a $35 S> power supply when needed, floppy drives with backwards S> (non-standard) connections.......... <snip> So. Spike, if you want to move this discussion to tbot or correspond with me privately about it, I will be happy to do either. I'm about to hire my local ISP (who have given me reliable trustworthy service for 5 years) to build my dream machine for me. I think my monitor has about conked, I am tired of my win95B and my 2.99 GB hard drive, and my 32 MB RAM. I recently had to uninstall a little 1 MB clock program because it strained my system resources. And that's with 70% of the hard drive free. I know--everyone has now taught me the difference between hard drive and RAM and system resources. First off, I want it to support TBat! comfortably. I want a RW cd and a dvd and maybe the right chip and motherboard and cards and such to play movies on my computer screen. I mostly do word processing and e-mail. But I have a Kodak digital camera. And I have an HP 722C Deskjet to print out photos. And I havean HP Black-and-White Laserjet 6L printer for printing just text. And it's one big drag to swap out that 9-pin on the single serial port on this Compaq tower. Would you please be one of my consultants on what to ask the ISP to build for me? I do want generic parts, for easy fixing and replacing in future. And I want the local ISP to build it, because they will be here to make house calls and maintain it. Propritary makes--help is mostly overseas, and then one has to save the original boxes if it must be shipped back, etc., etc. Way off topic, and too long, I know. But I will greatly appreciate your reply. S> I'll be the first to admit that I'm an unusually well informed ... I believe you. So let me pick your brains? I'm sending this to your personal address as well as to you on tbudl, in case you want to move the discussion off tbudl. -- Best regards, Mary ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
