Mark,
    Speaking of SCSI Scanners, would you reccommend that type over the
Parallel type?
My HP 5e started grinding on me, and it's probably time for replacement.
Sounds like
some gears stripping inside.  It's right at 5 years old now, and was bought
at a model
close-out sale at CompUSA at that time.  Are they reparable at all?
System = W98, Intel PIII 800 (or 850?)
Ken Hollingsworth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rode" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Power Consumption--just out of curiosity


> At 05:17 PM 9/9/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Good point, but I don't do it to save electricity.  If IBM did a 5-year
> >study, the study lasted longer than most people keep their computers. In
5
> >years this computer will be a modern day 286 along with all the
peripherals.
>
> Well, I am viewing this on a 5 year old high end 17 inch IIyama Vision
> Master Pro 9017E that I paid $700.00 for in August of 1996. It is sitting
> next to my very high end 10 month old, 22 inch Mitsubishi 2040u monitor
and
> the picture is almost as good, and sometimes seems better. I am hoping to
> continue using the IIyama for another 5 years! I also own a really crummy
> 14 inch SVGA monitor that came with a AST 486 Advantage Pro I purchased in
> 1993. I wouldn't want to use that monitor in windows for any lengthy
> viewing, but it still functions adequately on my diagnostic bench in the
> garage.
>
> Hard drives never really become completely obsolescent. Storage is
storage,
> and even a small one can function as a big floppy in a mobile drive bay.
My
> old 486, which has a 500 meg Maxtor IDE drive running NT4 SP6a with
> ZoneAlarm Pro and Sygate, runs as a backup NAT server for my Netgear RT314
> router /switch. And it does a very good job!
>
> A old 286 AT case too old to be useful ? There is a company that now sells
> motherboards that will support a 1.2 GB AMD Duron in a AT case
> http://www.amamax.com/812lmr1.html. I noticed this because I also have a
> old 233 MMX in a Tomcat IIII motherboard running in a original IBM 286
> desktop case with an original 200 watt PS. It runs as my answering machine
> using Talkworks Pro 3.0 and as a network scan manger for my SCSI scanner.
>
>
> Rode
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