On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:56:19 +0000, you wrote: >Hi Richard, > >On Sunday 15 January 2006 12:55, Richard King wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had the case open on my desktop, working on a spare disk, & noticed >> some (more) leaking capacitors! >> I fixed the problem, but I have to get a new PC darn quick! The >> current one is 6 years old now! > >Your complaining !! ;-) >I'm still getting good service out of ten and twelve year old or more >kit !! My network server is a 12 year old Dell !!!! > >I still have and use my original IBM 6MHz 286 AT. That must be at least >25 years old..........!!! The date on the hard drive is 1981 and it >still functions without problems. Can't do much with 5Mb though !!!
Are you sure? 286 didn't become available until around 1985 ish (could be wrong but the first I saw was a compaq running Autocad in 1986 then I bought an Opus 286 6Mhz with a 60Mb Hdd and 8Mb RAM and ran it till I finished my degree and 3 years on then sold it to a student's dad and bought a 486 50Mhz (didn't like the idea of a 486 2x33 = 66Mhz) then got an AMD chipped unit with a 4Gb Hdd and the rest is toytown history. Running P4 3.2Gz 1.5Gb SDRAM dual channel and upteen Hdds + 2 x AMD 512Mb units and a server using another AMD 2100 CPU (I think) better have a look and get the dust out of it! > >> For those of you interested, this is how I did it: >> http://users.skynet.be/lionheart/caps.html >> >> Regards, >> >> Richard.be > >-- >Best Regards: > Derrick. > Pontefract Linux Users Group. > plug at play-net.co.uk Sir Hugh of Bognor -- Remember. You may honestly belive that you understood everything you thought I said but what you thought you heard wasn't exactly what I said. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
