>>I give up! I joined.
>Patty, be sure to tell them about your PS/1 and what you are interested in
>doing with it and what operating system it's running. Best way to jump
>into the list.
>What type of monitor is it? I'm curious. Is it color, black and white, or
>monochrome (single color text on black)
>Yolanda
Oops.
OK -- IBM-brand PS/1 (not a clone), 386, 120 MB HD, Windows 3.1 1992, 2 MB
RAM (takes 72-pin SIMSS, can be upgraded to 32 MB if I find the hardware),
2400 modem (can be replaced -- modems are easy to find and cheap). Remind
me if I need to add information -- I'm not used to this.
I would like to use an earlier browser than current ones (I use a 5-year-old
version of Netscape on my Mac) (and assume they are available when I figure
out where to look for them), and do my e-mail and surfing on the PS/1
because it has such a big hard drive in proportion to my Mac's hard drive
(that is only 80 MB). I think Yolanda sent me a browser and e-mail package
for the PS/1 a few months ago over the 'net, but I haven't installed them or
checked them out, since there's practically no RAM in the PS/1 and it seems
pointless. Is it pointless? Now that I have found a monitor I feel much
better about the whole thing.
I feel helpless about getting the SIMMS. Living on disability, practically
no income, live 75 miles from the nearest city (Las Vegas -- no towns
between here and there), don't know how much they cost or how to locate
them. I bought the monitor from a guy who picked it up at a county salvage
auction. He doesn't know anything about computers.
There are two Computer Renaissance stores in Las Vegas (about 90 miles to
the nearest one). I have done upgrades on the Mac at Computer Renaissance
in South San Francisco, and they did good work. New equipment is out of the
question.
I was given this old IBM PS/1 and I found a monitor for it at the flea
market here is beautiful, downtown, totally rural Dolan Springs, Arizona.
The monitor is color and calls itself a "CTX 14-inch color monitor Model
CVP-5468NI." Manufactured April 1992. The screen lighting "shivers" on and
off a little, but I can stand to use it if I turn down the light. Funny, my
Mac screen has never been anything but steady. Probably cost a lot more
new.
The PS/1 has tutorials for Windows and MS Works in it, so I should be able
to learn to do some basic things when I have patience to study it.
Yesterday I had a major fight with it -- trying to set up a folder on the
"desktop" to keep my files in (documents), like I would do on the Mac. It
wouldn't let me move the files to where I wanted them, so I guess I need to
study up on how to do that. I just drag and drop on the equally old Mac.
Patty (totally clueless about IBMs and their clones)
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