[backhoe]

Still, despite the racism and bigotry, I resent the characterization of M. Le Pen as "extreme right." I'm an extreme right-wing madman myself, and it takes one to know one....

D@mn Right!

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FYI, I'm holding forth from my "contingency PC"- which I use when my wife's on the "better" 486 in the kitchen.

I assembled this thing from old parts starting in January, and it's fought all of the way.
I began with an IBM 'opal' motherboard- 66 mHtz CPU, and 4 mb of RAM.... upgraded to 16, the max the board can hold without SIMM stackers.

The floppies were salvaged from a 386 used as a doorstop, the hard drive is a 210 mb Conner from a junk IBM, the modem's a USR 33.6k sportster. OS's have been DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, and finally Win 95, upgraded to 95a over the web.

And the keyboard sticks, the track ball is gritty, and the dang thing is slow.... but it works more or less like the other one.
and that's why there may be weird typos- it's hard to go back & correct easily!

[hang 'em]

I suggest you upgrade to a Commodore 64^TM.

[thirst4truth]

Backhoe, you need a new compute, I cannot believe you pieced together all that and got it to work!! I have some simm stackers we never used (we have been building systems since '84) they are for 30 pin simms.

I just checked where we keep all the old stuff and we have two motherboards and various cards with them. One of them has 200 cpu on it. Send me freep mail, I will tell you what I have and for shipping I will send you some of this, its you or the Goodwill!

[MeekOneGOP]

Wow, sounds like you're havin' fun with that "Heinz 57!" LOL! :O)
Good job!.........

[Illbay]

Why in heaven's name don't you just save up $300 bucks and go get a bargain basement PC that although two generations out of date now makes your dinosaur look like it's standing still?