On 1999-03-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>No, that was $10. He has all his old pc's priced at $50 and I
>bartered him down. It has a hard drive though so that's cool
>Prices here are higher and ppl think their old beasts have value.
I guess I forgot about the exchange rate.....I guess $50 Canadien would be
about $35 US.
>it is double long. it has long slide, short slide, long slide,
>short slide. Like if two ISA slots were lined end to end.
>Can't use the card.
What do you mean by "slide"? Do you mean the edge connector on the card is
too long? If so, it might be a VLB card.
>It was, a whole working 8088. I want to put the 386 motherboard
>into it. Except the case doesn't fit so I'll have to create
>something there.
Well, I meant a whole working 386, but I guess that might be expensive in
Canada.
>>If the computer you bought for parts is indeed an XT the
>>controller will be for a MFM drive.
>Yes, it had a hard drive and 5.5 drive (which is now in my main
>computer) both with slide connectors. I would like to use the hard
>drive, it has two slides and a power so I guess it's what you call
>MFM drive (don't know what that is) Anyway, I have a 400MB western
>digital Caviar I want to park with it.
MFM is one of the kinds of hard drives we had before IDE (Your WD Caviar is
probably IDE)
>>MB
>whuzzat?
motherboard
>>floppy/HD controller (soemtimes has serial and paralel too)
>>video card
>These two I need before I can do ANYTHING more
I thought you had a source for the HD controller for free? Unless you mean
a floppy controller, usually they are combined on one card nowdays.
>>floppy drive (3.5" 1.44meg should work fine on a 386)
>yes, need one of these, am looking some more.
I have one on Ebay :-)
>I have this crazy vision of it laid out all spidery on a tin coated
>piece of plywood and nailed up on the wall. Not very portable, but
>turns it into interesting art. Stays cool too. Maybe make a frame
>for it to dress it up, paint the tin in crazy colors, put paint on
>other paintable surfaces, get creative!
I would skip the tin.....too easy to short something if it isn't perfectly
flat.
>the item that badly. I wish we had local swap meets for computer
>pieces.
That would be nice. I get some stuff at the computer show which is held
about every 4 to 6 week, It is mainly for new stuff, but usually some old
stuff too. Goodwill will have something every once in a while, too.
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Test Drive
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