> I have some reading to do, as to what makes up a 586 system.. > Do You have any suggestions ??
A contemporaneous "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" book of the era. I have Scott Mueller's 10th Edition for the old stuff. > What did You do to get all of the Experience that You have on these > older systems, (I know that not that long ago they were not considered > as being old), that You can pass on ?? My professional career was in programming and mainframe data centers systems management since the late '60's. Since I hand-built and kept upgrading my IMSAI in '76, I developed "skills": soldering, circuit reading, a smattering of electronics, and not being able to afford to keep up with the breakneck pace, I scrounged and salvaged old computers and made them work. Unfortunately it's not transferable, and as Euclid told Ptolemy, "There is no royal road to geometry." Learn by doing. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
