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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> I probably had some messages from this list in mind last week, when I
> picked up a desktop (flat-case) computer and a 15" monitor from the
> trash.
>
> I have found that the PC is a Dell, from about 1995, with lots of dust in
> it, and 5 ISA and 2 PCI slots  (all empty) on a funny little board at
> right angles to the main board.
>
> I haven't yet found the CPU, but some of the big flat chips say Intel
> *something) chipset".
> It probably has built-in video?
>
> 3-1/2" floppy, no hard drive or modem.
>
> About as barebones as it gets.
>
> 8Mb RAM.
>
> Boots floppy BL 2.1  to RAMdisk just fine.
>
> It's 100MHz CPU speed.

Congratulations.  But I did better :) .  I pulled a similar machine
(100Mhz) from the trash and found it had 128MB RAM (simms).  The hard
drive sounds about ready to give up the ghost, though, and the CD drive
was kaput.  There was a monitor in the trash there as well, but I couldn't
bring myself to drag home *yet another* 14/15" CRT monitor - even though
this one was probably better than some others I have.

James