> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 00:09:38 -0800
> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: new box?
> At 04:38 PM 2/28/99 +0500, you wrote:
>> On 1999-02-27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> >Went out yesterday and laid down forty dollars. Got a pc of
>> >ancient pre-86 vintage and a 3.5"floppy drive.
Time to learn the command line. hehehe.
Seriously though, Your 386 board will not fit into an XT box; even the
bus slots are spaced differently on most XTs, and you can damage your
expansion cards or even ruin them, not to mention the mounting slots
for the motherboard being different. And the MFM (or RTL) hard drive
is no where in the category of your IDE, and it is questionable as to
whether you can combine them in the same box. Others on the list
will know for sure whether their different kinds of controllers can work
together.
IMHO it is only good for a paperweight. I have about half a dozen and
they aren't worth the cost of shipping anywhere.
> lemme try to draw it
> |||| |||||||| |||| ||||||||
If you mean like this:
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then this is a VLB slot. If your card fits the 16 bit portion, you can
use it as a 16 bit bus slot. You need not use the extended part. If
you have a PCI card this will not work.
I assume that you make an occational trip to Winnepeg or some such
larger city from time to time. Do like I did when I lived on a farm in
Iowa (hometown of 250, including a few rabbits, and home county of
10000): Use the phone book and the want ads in the "big city" paper to
dig out resources there. (I had a helluva a time finding fancy guppies
on the Iowa prairie or any kind of tropical fish for that matter!)
Shipping and exchange rate would no longer be an issue for you.
Also an awful lot of farmers use and upgrade their computers
regularly. Your local Farm Bureau or whatever you have in Canada might
also be a resource. To farmers, it's just another piece of equipment.
Their used equipment has to go somewhere. It is usually a shock to
city folks, just how much of agriculture is computerized. It is no
accident that Gateway Computers started out at the Sioux City, Iowa,
stockyards.
End
Peace
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