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To: prognostigaator;Liz
Thanks, & BTW- fofob is Files On Friends Of Bill.... and:

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!

18 posted on 04/27/2002 6:51:08 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: backhoe
Imagine what you could do with a Pentium III 1.DGHzM, 15" Ultra X GA processor and screen with 250MB,
SDRAM, 133 M, 2 DIMM memory, 206 B2 ULTRA ATA primary hard drive, running Microsoft Windows XP?
19 posted on 04/27/2002 7:31:41 AM PDT by Liz
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