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|    TOM WALKER to ED VANCE    |
|    Re: Backup software    |
|    19 Sep 13 14:38:00    |
      EV> BK> @MSGID: <52304884.843.windowsb@capcity2.synchro.net>       EV> BK> My original desktop was a 486sx25 with 4mb ram and a 165mb       EV> BK> hard       EV> BK> drive, IIRC. Over the years I had that I slowly upgraded it to       EV> BK> a       EV> BK> 486DX4-100 and maybe 2Gig HD. The ultimate upgrade was the       EV> BK> Vesa       EV> BK> Local Bus motherboard. After that I replaced the individual       EV> BK> cards as I found them at a price I could afford. Eventually I       EV> BK> had something lik 32MB ram and all my cards VLB.              EV>Bob,              EV>When my first 486VL-BUS was built I asked for a Orchid VL-BUS       EV>Video board because of my reading of it in Computer Shopper Magazine..       EV>Some years later I got a SIIG VLB Controller Card and put it in.                     I had a SIIG in my VLB bus machine also.       Adn as a side note I stil have one of the Late Issues(March 1997) of the       Bigger than a Phone Book Computer Shopper.                     EV> BK> Then Intel came out with upgrades for the CPU.I finally got a       EV> BK> pentium overdrive chip, which ran at 83MHZ, but was 32 bit and       EV> BK> beat the heck out of the 486DX100. Then I could watch live       EV> BK> streaming video the size of a large postage stamp. Wow!              ---        þ SLMR 2.1a þ Typo Tom Strkes Again        * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 Join Us: www.DocsPlace.org (1:123/140)    |
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