At 11:58 AM 3/1/99 +0500, you wrote:
>On 1999-03-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>I guess I forgot about the exchange rate.....I guess $50 Canadien would be
>about $35 US.
or less. Not only is there exchange consideration but it seems that even
after exchange the US dollar is worth more in terms of purchase power.
When all is said and done, you could buy about $25 worth of US stuff with
$50 CAN. Unless you actually go to the states with it exchanged at a fair
rate and smuggle the products back... Duty, exchange and money order fees,
shipping, sales tax on all of the above.
>
> >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.
>
Yes, it's like two isa connections end to end.
lemme try to draw it
|||| |||||||| |||| ||||||||
well, that's only close, and only if the lines will match up after I send
the mail....
>Well, I meant a whole working 386, but I guess that might be expensive in
>Canada.
>
Yup, a 286 is about $100, 386 about $250, 486 runs from $350 to $500
depending on what's in it. Monitors and keyboards and mice extra.
Printers not included.
>
>MFM is one of the kinds of hard drives we had before IDE (Your WD Caviar is
>probably IDE)
Yes, it is.
>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.
I have a source, but until I have the card I still need one. A source is
only a hope, never a fact. Only holding it in my hand is a fact. He could
change his mind and keep it, or give it to someone else or it could break
while he's moving house today. Might even get lost.
>I have one on Ebay :-)
that american purchase thing again, and I have no credit cards.
>I would skip the tin.....too easy to short something if it isn't perfectly
>flat.
Doesn't it need to be resting on metal so it'll ground properly? If not,
what's the trick to ensure it's all well grounded?
Goodwill will have something every once in a while, too.
This small city isn't very old and is surrounded by farmland. The area was
homesteaded only 100 years ago. the high tech stuff exists, but in small
quantity as mostly it's about rural services and people didn't charge into
the tech fields right away. The XTs at Handyman's Haven, tucked in behind
bathtubs and salvaged doors and other renovations junk are the system the
school board replaced with Pentiums recently to become Y2K compliant.
Nobody else in town will deal the stuff. I asked one fellow why and he
said that by the time it sells it's depreciated to less than he paid for it
and no way to make a profit on it.
bye,
Yolanda
UIN 4898262
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