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- Subject: Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?
- From: "Voytek Eymont" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:37:32 +1000 (EST)
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On Tue, June 24, 2008 3:17 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> you know you can get a dualcore amd, ram, disk, all on board mboard and
> case for like $350?
Dean,
but, apart from injecting $350 into economy, what benefit is there ?
> Voytek Eymont wrote:
>
>> On Tue, June 24, 2008 2:11 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote:
>>
>>>> I really like to utilize my hardware till it drops, and, utilize
>>>> every interface till there is no holes left vacant, I still use
>>>> 486SL (which I
>>>> think is a 386 with math co-pro?) as a fax server/answering
>>>> machine/file server
>>> You are thinking of a 386DX, 486SL is the powersaver/mobile version
>>> of the 486DX.
>>
>> thanks, Dean
>>
>> actually, I was thinking of 75MHz 486 'SLC' IBM's Blue Lightning CPU +
>> mboard, my mistake, it's the 75MHz Blue Lightning that I still use,
>> still works just as well as the day I bought it
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_386SLC
>>
>>
>>
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