Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:41:39 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: More trials with FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.980724063050.-92553C-100000@direct-source.com.direct-source.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980723234704.drmarsh@bigfoot.com>
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Ok, David's message got me to thinking. This mailing list dosen't have enough traffic! :) So, I'm going to bore you all with my latest round of FreeBSD related fun. It all started innocently enough. I noticed the extremly low price of AMD K6-233 chips, coupled with the low price of 32 meg SDRM, coupled with the fact that my Dual-P5-166 was getting seriously outdated, and the fact that a brand spanking new credit card with an untouched $2500 limit had fallen into my hands. Of course, one thing led to another, and a new processor, motherboard and memory chip all happened to appear in my parts closet. Then I found an extremly good deal on a Quantum 4.5gig SCSI hard drive. Which prompted me to upgrade my Asus SC-200 SCSI card to a brand new Ultra Wide, ASUS SC-875! Two days ago I finally had the time to put all this into my full tower case. Now, I my old Dual-Pentium motherboard had plenty of room for very large PCI cards, namely my video and network cards. The new cards did not exactly fit on the new (much smaller) motherboard. A pity. So I bought a new AGP video card, and a Kingston 40BT Network card. After installing them, I get the bright idea that this machine will still play games pretty dang well so I decide that with 4.5 gigs of hard drive space, Windows 95 would take up a very small part of that. 15 hours later, and nearly $1000 dollars more (I also bought a nice flatbed scanner...) my credit card is smoking, and I've got a very nicely running FreeBSD machine hooked up to my Pentium-90 FreeBSD modem server.... And K6-300's are looking mighty cheap this week... :) Rick PS, Anybody know if GIMP will run a HP4c Scanner? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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