Re: TI-H: Re: Hardware upgrades

To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: Hardware upgrades
From: "Robert Brack" <reb@netride.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 21:54:02 -0500
Delivered-To: ti-hardware-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org

Okay, your's is in worse shape than mine :)  Although, it took me 2 weeks to
get it to boot off of the recycled 2.1GB harddrive, you see, I could boot
off of a floppy and see the harddrive, but it was impossible to get the
harddrive to boot itself.  So I went to the manufacturer's home page on the
net, and found out it was still under warranty.  I emailed them, and they
told me it needed special software to work, and that the drive was in good
condition.  So I emailed back saying where is it?  They emailed it to me
(2MB), and it worked, end of story.  BTW, don't buy maxtor harddrives 8~()


>Okay...  Now how about you find out that its not a real 486, but a 386sx16
>that has been upgraded.  Then you findout its got a B/W screen.  Then you
>find out its got 2400 serial ports.  Then you find out the BIOS hates
>drives over 500MB.  Then you find out it uses *XT* keyboards.  Then you
>findout only 1 of the 3 disk drives works with windows, and no matter what,
>the vga card makes windows crancy everytime you start up...  :)  This
>machine is in sad shape...  Right it can give is 40k.  (40k after
>installing a www server).  I know even my 386dx20 is faster than this
>thing...
>
>WinNT 4?  Now thats too easy.  Try compiling a BSD kernal to work correctly
>with a $20 ethernet card from china...  :)
>
>What type of ehternet are you using?  (You have to be using some type of
>network...)
>
>Oh yeah...  I just leave the top off the computer...  Everyone thinks that
>if they get near, they will be shocked to death...  Better than any horn.
>:)
>
>Why do you use a proxy?  I hate them....  :)
>
>Do you actually get 12.8kb a second through that thing?  What ISP do you
>have?  Does anyone here use Micronet ISDN and think its fast?  I need
>something real fast...  My friends and I are starting a city wide wireless
>lan and I was the chosen person for the servers and internet connections...
>I have to handle 4 of my own servers, as well as 2 others for commercial
>people...  It gets hard when you only have 30k per sec, and 5 people trying
>to get 10k a sec...  :)  It gets real slow transfering PhotoShop, Mist,
>200MB of MP3s to the thing...  :)
>
>Most of the fun was setting it up anyway...  Now, I hope the FCC doesn't
>catch me and my xmitters...  :)
>
>Looks like your computer is better...  I tried to hook my 28.8 modem to it,
>and got errors at 9600...  :(  We are going to try to get a better one from
>someone in anchorage...  Too bad all we can get right now is a 486sx33
>tower from church...  Someday I will transfer all the WarEz off the server
>so I can open it to the public, not just me and 3 other people...  :)
>
>btw, it barely does 'Mouse Keys'...  :)
>
>>Ok, I have Win95, WinNT SERVER 4.0, Microsoft Internet Information
Services
>>(HTTP server) Exchange Server, Internet E-mail server (forgot the name),
>>WinProxy, all running on the same 486 machine.  Did I mention it has a
128K
>>ISDN internet connection, proxied over the network, and a 7-CD CD-ROM
tower
>>as an information server?  All on 6 MB ram :(  It sits in my basement, and
>>if anyone gets within 10 feet of it, without hitting a button on my
keychain
>>remote, a loud siren goes off, and lights flash on my desk, and my mom's
>>desk.  (My mom is usually the one to mess with it though, she resets it
and
>>doesn't restart all the apps :(  )
>>
>>
>>>To use my time this weekend, I spent my time installing win95 and redhat
on
>>>a 486sx 33 with 4MB of ram and making the two OSs talk to each other...
>>>First of all, It doesn't have any Ebios (EDPT BIOS) so I had to find a
bios
>>>upgrade for it (or use 503 of my 1.23GB hd).  Then RedHat didn't like my
>>>SCSI cd player, so I had to take the one out of my other PC.  Then I got
>>>everything working, fired up Win95.  All went well untill I started
Serv-U.
>>>It died.  :)
>>>
>>>I installed Win95 all over again and now have it running WarFtp.  Man,
the
>>>thing only takes 570,000bps...  :(  (57k).  It should be more like 150k,
>>>but I'm using Win95, not linux...  :)

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