Valerie- I'll second Jim's advice. Unfortunately, it is not worth upgrading a Pentium 100 - you'll put a substantial fraction of the cost of a new machine into it, and it will still be an obsolete, slow computer. It will cost as much to buy 32 Mb of RAM for your old Pentium 100 as it will to get 128 Mb of RAM in a new computer. Like Jim, I suggest you either buy from Dell or get a computer built locally - you should be able to get a machine that is 20 times the speed of your old one for $1,000 or less - significantly less, if you can still use your current monitor.
If you're interested in local businesses, I've had excellent experiences dealing with Cyberdata, on Exchange St. in Bangor, for upgrades, repairs, and new systems (including 4 for Helpnet members). The also sell used machines, but new ones are so cheap now that I think it's more cost-effective to buy new. Jon At 09:00 PM 1/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, Jon -- > > My six year old PC (Dell Dimension Pentium 100) here at home, >which I use for most of my political work, has been a wonderful >machine, but it is (nearly) obsolete and now it is driving me nuts. Jonathan Falk Pine Tree Folk School RR 2, Box 7162 Carmel, ME 04419 (207)848-2433 <http://www.ptfolkschool.org> **Folkschool-list archives are at: <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84vzQ.a9gqS3 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
