15 Jul
1998
15 Jul
'98
4:19 a.m.
Let me tell you why one of my keyboards now has an 'enter' key with the
corner smashed off by a hammer: the damn Packard Bell with all
integrated serial ports, hard disk controller, etc. wouldn't let me set
my modem up on COM2 or COM4. Plus, this took very long to verify because
the hard disk controller makes the IDE act like a C= 1541.
> I will say this, though: At this point in the
evolution of computers,
if
> you find users of your systems are wanting
regularly to add on more
than
> three (or so) cards or sidecar modules, you have
drastically
misevaluated
> your target market and deserve to start
haemorrhaging market share.
IMO.
No way!. Maybe for the average consumer PC (build the disk controllers,
serial/parallel ports, etc into the motherboard), but in my case I'll
want all sorts of strange special-purpose cards (user I/O, ADC, I2C,
special disk controllers, etc, etc, etc).
I've managed to fill the 14 slots in a PC/XT+expansion chassis and
still
wanted more!.
BTW, is it possible to build one of those? How does it work?
> Those don't count. (: Even the monitor and
power supply hookups are
BERG
> strips. Sick.
What is a BERG strip?
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