Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Dennisk
Date : Fri May 15 2020 09:21:00

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Moondog <=-

 -=> Moondog wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Mo> I'm wondering how the early Pentium hardware market will bear in a
 Mo> couple of years.  the pc recycling guys get more money recycling first
 Mo> and second gen Pentium board and cpu's due to the high gold content.

 pF> Those were good years; I went from a P166 to a P233/mmx, to a Pentium
 pF> Pro and those systems lasted way longer than I would have expected.
 pF> Didn't know about the gold content.

 pF> Anyone can do a clean looking PC install with SATA cabling -- making
 pF> one of those old ATA/floppy systems cabling look good took some skill.
 pF> :)

Having fixed up a few old systems, I can state that I utterly hate ribbon
cables, and now that those systems are set up, I never want to have to shift
drives around again.

.... Dennis Katsonis
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