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D Larsen · Guest

Patty,

I've finally gotten around to re-assembling my basement computer, using
the KT7-RAID board you sent me. Man, once I put in a new power supply,
and got your recapped board, this machine is working like a charm !
Thank you again for "parting" with your recapped board <g> !

This whole experience reminds me that I don't need the "latest and
greatest" to do the simple things I want....hey, I'm a simple guy <g> !
In fact, I swear this machine is the fastest in the house, running Win
98 Gold with it's Duron 800 CPU....I'm beginning to think I should
follow O_QED's lead and just run my machines with DOS 6.2 <g>

Right now, I'm dumping old backup tapes from a Ditto drive and a Sony
(Aiwa) Superstation drive to the Abit system's HD....much of the stuff
craps out as "unreadable", but this exercise is only because I'm curious
as to what my computer history is <g> !

Thanks again for giving your KT7-RAID a new home <g> !

Dean....

Bird Janitor® · Guest

D Larsen wrote:
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| Patty,
|
| I've finally gotten around to re-assembling my basement computer,
| using the KT7-RAID board you sent me. Man, once I put in a new
| power supply, and got your recapped board, this machine is working
| like a charm ! Thank you again for "parting" with your recapped
| board <g> !
|
| This whole experience reminds me that I don't need the "latest and
| greatest" to do the simple things I want....hey, I'm a simple guy <g> !
| In fact, I swear this machine is the fastest in the house, running Win
| 98 Gold with it's Duron 800 CPU....I'm beginning to think I should
| follow O_QED's lead and just run my machines with DOS 6.2 <g>
|
| Right now, I'm dumping old backup tapes from a Ditto drive and a
| Sony (Aiwa) Superstation drive to the Abit system's HD....much
| of the stuff craps out as "unreadable", but this exercise is only
| because I'm curious as to what my computer history is <g> !
|
| Thanks again for giving your KT7-RAID a new home <g> !
|
| Dean....

Dean -

Coolness and, again, extra special good Karma to Patty for helping you out!

I think I still have the diskettes for Windows 1.0 around here somewhere, if
you'd like to try that out on your system. <g>

Jef

Bird Janitor® · Guest

D Larsen · Guest

.....and I DO still have my Word Perfect and Xtree floppies <g> ! What
more do I need <g> ?

Dean....

D Larsen wrote:

D Larsen · Guest

Jef,

I was in San Fran all this week, so I'm REALLY scr**ed up on "time" <g>
My brain is mush so I'll tackle this issue later <g>....

Sorry to hear you need the winning numbers, but here they are (we'll
split it, okay ?....) :

Mega Millions : 6 - 15 - 21 - 35 - 38 - Mega ball 04

Oh....no.....wait....those are what I played, NOT what won.... !

Dean....

"Bird Janitor®" wrote:

Bird Janitor® · Guest

D Larsen wrote:
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| Jef,
|
| I was in San Fran all this week, so I'm REALLY scr**ed up on
| "time" <g> My brain is mush so I'll tackle this issue later <g>....
|
| Sorry to hear you need the winning numbers, but here they are
| (we'll split it, okay ?....) :
|
| Mega Millions : 6 - 15 - 21 - 35 - 38 - Mega ball 04
|
| Oh....no.....wait....those are what I played, NOT what won.... !
|
| Dean....
|

Hi Dean -

My mind wasn't all that was mush the last time I spent a week in San
Francisco. I came home not only in the wrong time zone, but, also, without
so much as a mythology...

Thy will be done in Heaven, as it is on Earth.

Lynch mob. Lie detector. Forced drugging. The third degree.

A bomb, a burn, a baby.

Now there's Soma, the miracle drug.

Have you tried Soma, the miracle drug? It's the turn of the century.

No more lows. No dulls. No nerves. Just an endless ride. No more sick.
No more hell. No more confusion. Now there's Soma.

The world is stable now. People are happy. People get what they want and
they never want what they cannot get. They're well off. They're safe.
They're never ill. They're not afraid of death. They're blissfully
ignorant. They're ignorant of passion and old age. They're plagued with no
fathers or mothers. No wives or loves or children to feel strongly about.
They're so well conditioned that they can't help behaving as they ought to
behave.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink
enormous quantities of alcohol.

There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.

But they used to take morphia and cocaine.

Two thousand pharmacologists and bio-chemists were subsidized. Six years
later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug. Euphoric,
narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant. All the advantages of Christianity and
alcohol; none of their defects.

Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much
as a headache or even a mythology.

Stability was practically assured. It only remained to conquer old age.

Gonadal hormones, transfusion of young blood, magnesium salts... All the
physiological stigmata of old age have been abolished. And along with them,
of course all the old man's mental peculiarities. Characters remain
constant throughout a whole lifetime.

Now - such is progress - the old men work, the old men copulate, the old men
have no time, no leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think -
or if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the
solid substance of their distractions, there is always Soma, delicious Soma,
half a grammme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for
a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon;
returning whence they find themselves on the other side of the crevice, safe
on the solid ground of daily labour and distraction, scampering from feely
to feely, from girl to pneumatic girl...

No more lows. No dulls. No nerves, just an endless ride. No more sick.
No more hell. No more confusion. Now there's Soma.

(Holy Wars/Tuxedomoon - Brave New World/Aldous Huxley)

....

Now .. since you won't help with the Lotto numbers, I guess you better fix
the time zone on your clock!

Jef

P.S. .. I think I've posted this *** too many times... every time there's a
slight remembrance of my insidious past...

Patty · Guest

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:53:55 -0500, D Larsen wrote:

Patty · Guest

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:02:38 -0700, Bird Janitor® wrote:

Bird Janitor® · Guest

Patty wrote:
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| I sure could use the good Karma right now Jef! <s>
|
| I just got rid of some 5 1/4 disks that had DOS 3.3 on them. Yeah, I
| know, I need to clean those cupboards out more frequently. <g>
|
| Patty

Hi Patty -

After a pack-rat "gift" of 25 years of obsolete software and manuals ("Just
keep what you want and give the rest to your friends"), starting with
TRS-DOS on 8" floppy diskettes and moving forward through personal computer
history, I was reminded of my rules for living in a 680 square foot two
bedroom house:

.. If it hasn't been used in six months, it's out.
.. Anything new comes in, something old goes out.

Anything "out" is either donated, given away, thrown away or recycled ..
depending on value.

The "rules" have kept my natural habit of wanting to accumulate stuff in
check for sixteen years in these close quarters.

Jef

Patty · Guest

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:47:20 GMT, Bird Janitor® wrote:

Bird Janitor® · Guest

D Larsen wrote:
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| Patty,
|
| Tell us what you need....perhaps Jef and I have those parts lying
| around (although it sounds like Jef has a pretty strict "regime" for
| clearing the decks....unlike me) <g> !
|
| Dean....
|

Hi Dean -

Bingo! I'm the only old unwanted thing left in the house. Something new
comes in and out I go. ;-}

Jef

Patty · Guest

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:07:40 GMT, Bird Janitor® wrote:

Patty · Guest

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:58:55 -0500, D Larsen wrote:

D Larsen · Guest

Patty,

Tell us what you need....perhaps Jef and I have those parts lying around
(although it sounds like Jef has a pretty strict "regime" for clearing
the decks....unlike me) <g> !

Dean....

Patty wrote:

Bird Janitor® · Guest

Patty wrote:
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| Well, mostly I need RAM (DDR), and an Athlon version processor and a
| case as well as a decent power supply, but I might be able to get by with
| one of the 300 watts that I already have. Too much to need, I know.
| *sigh*
|
| Life has been crazy, my husband lost his job of 30 years last month, but
| no one wants to hear my sob story. That's why I told Jef, I REALLY need
| that good karma right now! *S*
|
| Patty

Hi Patty -

Sorry to hear of your husband's job problems. 30 years and it's gone is
sad, indeed.

In any event... looking through my little box-o-bits, I find I have a 256MB
stick of Samsung PC2100 DDR RAM and an Athlon 2000+ (if I read the die
correctly .. *** middle aged eyes) processor.

Interested?

They're yours for nothing if you want them.

If you're interested, send me an email .. remove all the bits between the
underscores (inclusive) from my munged email address.

Jef