In case you haven't received a comment on where to get parts. Their are many sites to order parts from. A good place to start is shopper.com or zdnet.com. some of your local stores may also have parts. i agree with you that its better to build your own system. Its cheaper and more satisfying to know exactly what's in the machine. At 07:05 AM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks to all who have responded with answers, questions etc. > >This is a tower model. I got a NIC card with it but still have the modem >since I need it to dial in to work but probably won't use it for Linux >unless the NIC card can't be gotten to work. I use a sound blaster live >sound card because that is the one they sold with multi-channel sound. >I would have preferred to build my own machine for Linux and that still >might not be a bad idea but I don't know where to begin to get the >components. > >I think for now I will persue a dual track and see which approach I can get >to work first. There is something very appealing about having a dedicated >machine for Linux and it shouldn't be that expensive. > >Thanks again to all who have responded to this message. > >Enjoy! >Bruce > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
