Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Moondog
Date : Fri May 15 2020 11:59:00

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Thu May 14 2020 08:25 am

 > -=> 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.
 > 
 > Those were good years; I went from a P166 to a P233/mmx, to a Pentium Pro
 > and those systems lasted way longer than I would have expected. Didn't know
 > about the gold content.
 > 
 > Anyone can do a clean looking PC install with SATA cabling -- making one of
 > those old ATA/floppy systems cabling look good took some skill.  :)
 > 
 > 
 > ... Change nothing and continue consistently

Clean ATA/floppy cable runs involved having a bunch of spare oddball length an
d drive spacing combinations.  I recall one system I worked on had a spare
hdd slot on the side or above the psu instead of the front bay.  My gues is si 
nce it was a mini-tower, the hdd bay in the back would've allowed use of all t
he open 5.25 bays for removable media.  In the early Pentium days I recall
seeing pc builds that retained the 5.25" floppy, plus would have a CD reader
and a discrete CD burner.

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