Subj : 10 net
To   : JAY EMRIE
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 12:50 am

-> WC>-> WC>The H.P. has one ISA slot occupied by an NE2000 network card.
-> WC>-> WC>That gives me two spare PCI slots.


-> WC>-> My little HP Pavilion 4455 also has 1 ISA and 2 PCI
-> WC>-> The ISA has a Hardware v.92 Modem and 1 pci slot han a 2 port USB-2
-> WC>-> card. NO sound yet but that will fill it up. I am looking for an old
-> WC>-> Sound Blaster 16 PCI card

-> WC>Hmmph, my 4483 lacks USB 2.0 but has 1.1 instead :-(
-> WC>I've a SoundBlaster 16 sound card but it's ISA.
-> WC>The Turtle Beach hardware sound card is in one of my three PCI
-> WC>slots.
->      
-> WC>I've still got the OEM software sound card - modem here, it's PCI
-> WC>but it has this small daughter board just for the jacks that mounts at
-> WC>the top rear of the case.

-> WC>PITA just to remove the thing and Verizon no longer supports the
-> WC>software modem's protocols.

-> WC>Cheap ADSL has arrived here and soon as I slap the hard drive in this
-> WC>sucker I'm going DSL.
->                               
-> Then you will wonder how on earth you ever managed without it!!

Primarily for the Linux upgrades amd ISO images.
The USR 56k hardware modem is serving quite well
for all other purposes but would be a tad lacking for 1 Gig 
downloads <g>

One of those PCI slots may take a USB upgrade card once I
save back a bit more.
Not sure where the trend's going, USB or SATA, I'm currently guessing
SATA but a USB external hard drive or DVD-RW would be nice backup.

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