How large of a hard drive would a 486 recognize? At 11:57 AM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Bruce. >It just so happens that I had a 486 machine that was sitting around, >which I turned into a dedicated Linux bx. It was an 80 MHZ machine, so >it wasn't the fastest for use with Windows, and it doesn't have to do a >lot with Linux, but it seems to work well with my Cable Modem. My point >is that you probably could use a used machine that's not the fastest, >with the biggest HD, and gobbs of memory, that is unless you have a >specific need for it. >On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bruce Noblick 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 >> > >Dan Murphy >micq UIN 93344915 >http://home.nycap.rr.com/mweeby > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
