At 10:56 AM 3/2/99 -0600, you wrote:
>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.
I wanted the powersupply, switches and floppy drives, the slots at the back
which are out of the case now are also useful and can be built into
whatever custom case I can create. I figure I'm going to spend ten dollars
on power unit, ten on the drive, ten on the hard drive and still need a lot
of odd little bits I can't just go out and buy. I got all that by buying
this machine. And the hard drive has mystery stuff on it maybe.
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.
Yeah, I realize that, oh well, no big deal, it's little anyway. All the
leftovers can be mixed and matched with other leftovers in the future. I'm
only just beginning my tech parts collection here. Anyone want a used mac
plus? (J/K)
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.
Great! I'll try it, maybe I can use that card to run the monitor. Would
be nice if possible.
>I assume that you make an occational trip to Winnepeg or some such
>larger city from time to time.
I'm in Saskatoon, the destination city for such trips. I do need to find
out where stuff lands, but farmers only really started adding computers
when windows came out and like I've said before, anything capable of
running windows is still premium, usually handed down to the kids or a
nephew. I have a line on a 486 for $50 if I can get the $50 together soon
enough. That's a good deal and then some!
bye,
Yolanda
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