I understand the limitations you are working under,
plus the joy of bringing something back to life.
I've done the same, up to a point.
I will only buy (cheap) small parts to get an old machine running.
(BTW: I still run 233MMXs/Win95, (but almost never, and not for much!)
I broke up and ditched everything older last year to make space, except an ATT
DX4-100 Laptop.
I think what the others were trying to say, and what I have personally
experienced,
is that when done, I had very little I could (or wanted to do) with the
machines.
As long as you keep the costs down it should not matter.
The only thing I would do a little differently would be to seek out someplace
where
people were doing the same thing on a more consistent basis. Don't take that
wrong.
I often know there is an answer to a very old question, but for the life of me
the info
has escaped my gray matter years ago...
Philosophy aside, you can sometimes get a PCI MB to boot from a UltraATA
controller card
and use a HD larger than 137G (or so), but getting the right combination of MB
BIOS booting
options and chipset driver and OS compatibility can be a problem.
Like someone said, if you stay under 120G, you might not trip any limitations.
(Even the OSs will have HD size limitations...)
Mixing new with old can get messy fast...
Rick
Glazier
From: "DHSinclair"
So, here is a question: If I go get a 40-80GB new ATA100 hd, do you suppose
this OLD PC just might live another "few" years?
