On Fri, August 17, 2007 1:53 pm, Karl Larsen wrote: > Looking at Google I found The Biostar Geforce 6100-m9 NVIDIA Socket > 939 micro ATX USB 2.0/ Serial ATA/ RAID for $65.00 and a barebones kit > with mb and cpu and case 350 watt ps for $130.00. > It has a floppy drive and serial port on the mb. With all the other > stuff. This would be my cheapest new computer unless you know why it is > bad. > Why are you getting a new computer? What would the new one do that your current one does not do? How old is your current computer?

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:13:06 -0600 Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com&gt; wrote: > Erich Zigler wrote: >> On Fri, August 17, 2007 1:53 pm, Karl Larsen wrote: >> >> >>> Looking at Google I found The Biostar Geforce 6100-m9 NVIDIA >>> Socket 939 micro ATX USB 2.0/ Serial ATA/ RAID for $65.00 >>> and a barebones kit with mb and cpu and case 350 watt ps for >>> $130.00. It has a floppy drive and serial port on the mb. >>> With all the other stuff. This would be my cheapest new >>> computer unless you know why it is bad. >>> >> Why are you getting a new computer? What would the new one do >> that your current one does not do? How old is your current >> computer? >> >> > My current computer I made 5 1/2 years ago. It was made before > USB 2.0 and Serial were invented. Now it has slow USB two > replaced fans a replaced power supply and has two old hard > drives. > > This new one lets me buy new hard drives of the fast 3.0 GB/sec > serial type and the cpu is twice as fast as this one. I don't > really need that. The box I buy has new fans and is half the size > of my current one. >

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On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:13 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Erich Zigler wrote: > >> On Fri, August 17, 2007 1:53 pm, Karl Larsen wrote: >> >> >> >>> Looking at Google I found The Biostar Geforce 6100-m9 NVIDIA Socket >>> 939 micro ATX USB 2.0/ Serial ATA/ RAID for $65.00 and a barebones kit >>> with mb and cpu and case 350 watt ps for $130.00. >>> It has a floppy drive and serial port on the mb. With all the other >>> stuff. This would be my cheapest new computer unless you know why it is >>> bad. >>> >>> >> Why are you getting a new computer? What would the new one do that your >> current one does not do? How old is your current computer? >> >> >> > My current computer I made 5 1/2 years ago. It was made before USB > 2.0 and Serial were invented. Now it has slow USB two replaced fans a > replaced power supply and has two old hard drives. > > Looks like buying anew computer is a good idea but serial ports were invented more than 5-1/2 years ago. Just trivia. > This new one lets me buy new hard drives of the fast 3.0 GB/sec > serial type and the cpu is twice as fast as this one. I don't really > need that. The box I buy has new fans and is half the size of my current > one. > > > -- > > Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI > Linux User > #450462 http://counter.li.org. > > -- ======================================================================= Every silver lining has a cloud around it. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net