Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Dennisk
From : Moondog
Date : Fri May 15 2020 12:07:00

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: Dennisk to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri May 15 2020 09:21 am

 > -=> 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

I find some humor in the board designers finallly placing ATA and floppy
headers on the edge of boards instead of the random spots in the middle, only
to see the devices that used them either e phased out or replaced with a
newer, thinner standard.  The only benefit I see for having the connectors
somewhere other than the edges is if the board was designed for specific
slimline case, and connector location was critical to the design.

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