OTA hatred?

[Paul King]

I have an Acer 486DX266, and the only upgrade was memory and the hard disk. 
Completely original hardware. It is my "project" computer which I am simply 
constructing out of spare parts. I run slackware on it. It has its plusses and 
minuses. A strong plus is that the entire computer was designed to be taken 
apart completely by hand with few exceptions (the MB, the cards and the HD for 
example). On the minus side, the box is too small, and can't fit a second 
drive.

Paul King

Date sent:      	Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:41:08 -0500
To:             	tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject:        	Re: [TLUG]: OTA hatred?
From:           	Jeremy Wakeman <cael-JTkAzvGkdyMrpQx6IzTi3laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
Send reply to:  	tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:06:01AM -0500, T. Alex Beamish wrote:
> <snip>
> > I bought my first PC at OTA, back when I had the tough decision of a
> > 486/50 or a fully loaded 486/66 (still got it, gonna try one of the
> > lighter distros on it when I have time). With 8M RAM it ran OS/2 quite
> > happily.
> > 
> > I've gone back in there a few times since, but there prices always
> > seemed to be a little higher than everyone else, and without someone
> > coming up to strike up a conversation or bargain a little, I'm not
> > interested. I'm loyal, but I try not to be foolish with my money.
> > 
> > 
> > The CTO at my full-time job turned me on to Sonnam, and they some good
> > stuff. I bought a $300 PC from them (Ahtlon 1800, I think) which we put
> > together ourselves. The power supply blew, so I extracted it from the
> > machine and returned it. They were a little surprised, because normally
> > customers bring the entire box in .. that also insures that it was
> > their power supply .. but they replaced it (I had the receipt) no
> > questions asked.
> > 
> > 
> > The other place I've gone is .. um .. the wholesale place, Canada
> > Computers or something like that. Same area. I bought a $220 used
> > computer but couldn't get it to boot with the Mandrake 9 CDs that I
> > had. I brought it back on a Sunday at twenty to five and the head tech
> > worked with me to get it working .. I finally upgraded to a $250 box,
> > paying the difference, and glad to, because that one worked.
> > 
> > They could have given me a flat 'no', they could have told me to come
> > back another day, but instead they worked on solving the problem. Trust
> > ne, I'm a big fan of that attitude. They made $30 off me that
> > afternoon, but they also bought lots of customer loyalty. Some of their
> > used boxes look like hell, but for $200 or so they are fantastic to run
> > Linux on.
> > 
> > Alex
> </snip>
> 
> Yay for old hardware!  I wonder what the oldest/crappiest daily used box
> is on the list.  I'm sure many people have this beat, but I've got a twice
> rebuilt/upgraded UniNet 386 (now p166) that's still limping along on orig ps (no
> drives except floppy).  It has been running w/o reboot since I moved my
> computers two weeks ago.
> 
> Someone's gotta have a 386 or a non math cp 486 that does routing or sth.
> 
> -Jeremy
> 
> 
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