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What I have found out I use the CD-RW disk as storage and also you don't have to worry about losing the info due to a bad hard drive. Do it once and you've got it. Just thinking out loud a litttle.
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The only problem I've seen with CD-RW as far as data backup is that they're unreadable in CD-ROM. (Unless you have one of those whiz-bang all-in-one-CD drives). Never liked that. Usually put everything on CD-R--disadvantage of that is obvious; it's there and it ain't coming off. TDK stock
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Where's my Laptop, Oct 26th hum, 5 days later as you install the motherboard the goblins (US)will invade.
Been reading Delta gang, and put a BIG RED X on my calender for Oct 26, can't wait!!! Didn't partake in previous build but may offer some useless comments on this build......
Speaking of 486's (somebody was), I tinkered with one for about a month, could not get Win 95 loaded on the damn thing (BIOS was a 451G), and if you know anything bout this BIOS it was and is not Y2K compat...so Win 95 would not load. Hours and Hours wasted, then I finally figured out it was not Y2K as the time and date kept changing back after reboot duh.......
The motherboard made a great doorstop after its traveled down the stairs (it was out of the case)..... and when it was new was probably $1000 bucks.....
Enough rambling...hey I got a 133MHZ system sitting here that works...going up for sale....and it hasn't traveled down the stairs yet....
Well Delta Gang the pressure is on....better your 1st build....I'll keep ya all straight, or maybe you'll keep me straight (out of it).....
Geez, haven't got this excited since the 17" monitor came out.......
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https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ Murf...but I think you are going to have to pay for someone to take that 133....
murf
extra $$$$ too. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Hey I built this sucker (not what I'm using to type this) from spare parts laying around.
The sucker screams:
Man its got 64MB, 56K modem, 16X CDROM, 2GB (WOW) HDD, Floppy, Win 98, Office, man this is a steal better then the Zenith Z28, surf the net in blazing speed (even have time for a cup of coffee while its loading a web page)
$1.298 gets it all...what a deal....
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Hey Murf....if you paint a big green E on the side I bet Maxx will take it off your hands
A cup of coffee, 2 croissants and a 20 minute long-distance call to Cousin Louie...
better use 10-10-220 for that 20 minute call to cousin louie....all calls under 20 minutes are only a buck....he he
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Actually while we are waiting for the Delta Troops to dust off the cob webs of all the parts laying around and the big day OCT 26th...
Have a question:
Thinking, only Thinking (and thats dangerous) of doing a little upgraded to this thing I'm typing on (Home built - ya me), 500Mhz AMD, 256MB blah blah..
Looking at: Gigabyte 7IXE Slot A mobo with AMD 751 chipset, AMD Athlon 850 processor..
Any opinions???
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10-10-636
Only 5 cents a minute.........24/7
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Murf where ya finding that slot A 850....I am looking for a slot A 1ghz for a machine I want to upgrade that has a 750 in it....
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...u=MBM-TK7-850G
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bid 2¢ and you pay me. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Hi
in the past I had 'some things' mailed to me from the US
erm, things like like 6500 books in huge mailsacks and boxes, huge boxes with bargainpriced (older but useful) retail software, and such.
global priority on small envelopes, or so-called flat rate global, is not too prohibitive.
next comes surface mail, for larger shipments.
for people with modem connections, sending a CDRw is quite cost effective
well, in Europe it is, because many of us pay about two bucks per hour to be connected with a dial-up ISP (and that´s OFF peak...)
Goose, today I messed about with IBM drivetools.
I had the newest drive on a hotrod, and must have forgotten how to get filecopy on the boot floppy
(it is on the floppy as a windows installable file...)
what I also noticed was that in hotrod BIOS, I wasn´t offered which drive I wanted to boot from.
(I had disconnected the one in the tray, so that kinda figures)
while doing the disk, drivemanager did ask if I wanted to boot from this drive, and I said Yes.
I then used ghost i had on floppy to clone part to part
jeesh, I must have missed a step in preparing the IBM disktools...
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