On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:21:20 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
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> True enough. I could have upgraded long ago. But I like this old
> computer. It's been absolutely reliable for five years of daily use.
> Mostly tons of email from a shell account with Pine, for which a 386
> is perfectly adequate.
You mean to tell us that 5 years ago you upgraded to a 5 year old machine???
6 years ago I got this Pentium 150Mhz.
I still use the 486DX2-66 now and then, but the P150 is the every-day-machine.
Right now I have sitting in the back of my pickup truck... 6 complete
systems which were given to me for FREE. All I had to pay was $203 to
have them shipped here from a hospital in Montana.
The hospital administrators were going to send them to the dump.
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Subject: Used Computers Selected
Glenn --
This past day I was at our hospital's warehouse and selected some
computers for you, as follows:
(1) 466 DX2/Sp
(1) 425 SX
(2) Pentium 63 MHz (upgraded from 330 450 DX2)
(2) Pentium 100 MHz
For these three, I'm able to supply some old PS/2 monitors, if you
like. These are models 8513 (4), 8515 (1) and 8518 (1).
These systems will have keyboards, and I can also throw in an
unopened box of PC DOS 7.
At the moment, I'm busy with another few local folks' computers,
but I should be able to begin packing in about a week.
Let me know if this sounds alright.
Thanks!
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Subject: Used Computer Progress
Hi, Glenn --
Yesterday I packed your six computers and six monitors (12 boxes);
all that remains for me to do is tape them up, label them and weigh
them. In order to weigh them, however, I have to wait for a little
free time to bring a 100 lb. scale down from the hospital to the
offsite warehouse, weigh them there, tell you the amount, wait for
that to come, then notify the hospital to bring up your boxes to
shipping and receiving for mailing. It's not really all that
complicated -- just slower than I'd like because of the lack of
time I have available to do *everything* (almost) myself! :(
Anyway, more briefly: I should be able to tell you how much you
have to send in shipping in about one week; then, it will take
about another week (after we get your cashier's check) for your
order to get up to the hospital and sent out. So we're looking at
the first half of November before you actually receive them.
I only made one small adjustment to what I'm sending you, as a
result of my inspection of the inside of the CPU units. I
decided not to send you the 466DX2/Sp, because it had no RAM;
instead, I'll give you a 350 100 DX4, which should be just as
good, if not better. (By the way, the box holding that machine
will also have your shrink-wrapped PC DOS 7 box and paper form
to fill out what you've received -- more on that later.)
The other machines are the same as I've told you with keyboards
(not original keyboards, though).
Of the PS/2 color monitors, you'll be getting four 8513s, and one
each of the 8515s and 8518s, which range from about 12" to 14".
Some of these machines have over one gigabyte HDDs, so you'll
even be able to install WinXX on them, if you want.
Thanks for your patience! ;-)
Jerry >>>> USR Courier HST--V.32 | IBM PC/XT & PC Color Display <<<<
>>>>> PC DOS 3.3 & WordStar 3.30p | 20 MB HDD & 360K FDD <<<<<
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> Only recently have I felt this growing frustration webwise.
> Besides, upgrading is always work even if you get the machine for
> free.
You could make it easier if you use this method.
Place the HDD from your old machine into the one as drive C: and setup
the new HDD as drive D:
Now all you do is re-write the config.sys and autoexec.bat files.
(if they contain any hardware specific device driver lines)
Done!!! <vbg>
--
Glenn
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