486slc-33 PC

• [John, what's the speed of your Pentium?]
• 20 meg RAM
• SVGA video with 1 meg RAM
• external expansion chassis
  • Quantum 730 meg SCSI disk
  • Fujitsu 450 meg SCSI disk
  • Quantum 250 meg SCSI disk
    • for the non math inclined, that is a toal of 1430 meg of SCSI disk space
  • Exabyte 2.3 gig Tape backup SCSI
• Toshibia 3501 4x CD Rom drive SCSI
• 3com 3c509 NIC w/ Lantastic and TCP/IP
• [2nd ethernet card]
• Cannon BJC-4000 Color Bubble Jet Printer
• Windows 95

486DX2-50 PC

True love: computer geek buys computer for his significant other, and she ends up with a better computer than he has.

It started simply enough, Chris strongly hinted that she wanted a specfic program for Christmas. After I had purchased it, I discovered it required Windows and at least a 386 to run, her machine was a 286-8. So I went and got her a replacement motherboard, getting a good deal non a 486DX-50. After I got it home, I discovered that it wouldn't fit in the old chassis. So I went out and got a mini-tower case. As I was building the system, I found her old 40 meg HD couldn't hold her old programs, Windows and the new program. So I went out and got her a 200 meg SCSI drive.

Chris' new system:

• Clone 486DX2-50
• 4 meg of RAM (another 4 meg of RAM currently costs more then the MB.)
• Maxtor 200 meg SCSI HD.
• Diamond SpeedStar SVGA video
  • Moved from my system because Linux doesn't understand it.
• 3com 3c503 NIC w/ Lantastic and TCP/IP
• Scanman color hand scanner
• Windows 95

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