Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Moondog
From : Dennisk
Date : Sat May 16 2020 20:18:00

-=> Moondog wrote to Dennisk <=-

 Mo>   Re: Re: Home Lab
 Mo>   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

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

With the roomy cases of the old XT system, it wasn't a problem.  You had room
to put a small dog in the case.  I lost a partition due to a faulty IDE ribbon
cable.  I must have pulled it in and out of a drive too many times, and
something came loose, which I didn't realise until the FAT table got scrambled.
 SATA connectors are not designed to be pulled in and out much either, but they
do plug and unplug easier.


.... Dennis Katsonis
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