Re: Anyone taking bets.....


"max.it" <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I had a P75 (I bought 5 of them) fancy *** in their day.

The first "fast " PC I bought after the 286 was a s/h P75 dell
pizza box from Morgans for £60. I got two more off of ebay a
while later, for £30 each .
I upgraded 2 of them to 133 and I found one of the 133 chips
in a computer lying by the side of the road. Between the
cycle track and the pavement anyway. They have ZIF sockets,
just pull the lever and out they pop. Whoever stripped
out the drives and the PSU didn't seem to know this.
Or wasn't bothered. Worked first time anyway. The other one
was around £3. Still got two of them with H/Ds with 95 installed
although they're not plugged in.

Seeing all the PC World telly adverts for networks set me
thinking. I've got loads of 3Com etherlink cards from all
the s/h computers I've bought and so I decided to splash
out £2.50 for a 10 metre twisted pair cable. 3Com have
a great website with driver and installation discs, pdf
manuals the lot. Anyway to cut to the chase after a bit of
messing around with Windows I've now got the two towers
hooked up on a network, so I can swap files. Still trying to
get the internet link to work though. One upstairs one
downstairs. Oh I forgot the £1 postage as well. Make that
£3.50 total for the cable. eBay where else.

It's funny how on all the instructions and books they say
to earth yourself before touching any PC cards, and be very
careful how you handle them. etc etc. These were all jumbled
up in a cardboard box which has been dropped a few times
or were lying about on shelves getting covered in dust and
they still worked first time.



michael adams

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Internet access was expensive £200 / £400 per quarter,
and modem contention to deal with. Webspace was free,
unlimited and free. I had some cartoons on my webspace,
not on a web page just stored on my free webspace. Hard disks were
only 540 megs and someplace else to store stuff for free was great.
One day I got an email, my account was suspended, my files were
deleted, nobody ever told me why or how, apart from the isp email, and
another from the "copyright holders" of an (undisclosed) image,
telling me that an image I had stored had been stolen from them.
Imagine stealing a digital image.;)
The only image that anyone could have deemed to be offensive that I
had stored on the server was one with a swastika.

max.it (the orange cage)


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