'90s era PC recommendation.

[Grant Taylor]

On 05/07/2018 10:07 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> P3s are a dime a dozen, still, so paying a premium for PPro doesn't make 
> much sense today, unless someone just *gives* you a system.

Sadly, I have long had a soft spot for Pentium Pros.  Which probably 
means that I'll pay through the nose for one some day.

I wish that I still had one of the Compaq ProLiant 2500s that were dual 
P-Pros.  (I don't know what they had for an expansion bus.)

> It's hard to beat old Compaq stuff.  I've got an old Deskpro tower with a 
> P3 (upgraded with a slocket to 1.4GHz). 440BX chipset   Nice thing--the 
> expansion cards are on a slide-out sub-chassis.  Heavy bugger, though. 
> I liked some of the old HP towers as well for ease of access.

;-)



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