Thanks for the advice here, Colin.

This has been very helpful.

Will keep you posted.

Best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: computer question


> tom:
> Depending upon how many slots the mother board has in it, most have 3, you
> can up grade the machine with how ever much you want, short of a gig in
each
> slot that is.
>
> If you are looking at another 128MB or even another 256MB, your only going
> to pay about 15 to 20 bucks per stick of ram.
> If you leave the existing 128 and put in another 2 128MB  chips, or
another
> single 256 chip, your only going to be paying up to probably $35 for them
> all together...a 256MB chip is around $30 or 35.
> If you know the actual model of the machine then you can easily check
online
> for what sort of ram it takes, or phone HP directly and they can look it
up
> for you.
> My guess is probably PC133 184 pin.
> If you want a new machine thats ok, but it will be much much cheaper to
get
> more ram and even add another hard drive for way way less then a new
> machine.
> You could put another 20 or 40 gigs of hard drive space pluss another
256MB
> of ram all for less then $100.
> You might find a machine on ebay for that much that is faster, but you
will
> still have to pay shipping and install windows xp/98 and all your other
> programs after you get it.
> And your not going to find anything cheaply that will make a substantial
> difference, you would have to upgrade probably to a 1.5 or 1.6GB machine
> before you would notice any difference from your 566.
>
> A note on RAM, there are usually several different kinds out there,
ranging
> in price of course.  Unless you plan on doing heavy processing or allot of
> heavily graphics bassed gaming, the cheapest ram is going to suffice. For
a
> 128MB stick of PC133, you are looking at anywhere from $15 at the lower
end,
> up to probably over $100 for the very high end ram.  The $15 will do just
> fine for most things that most of us do with computers.
>  73
> Colin, V A6BKX
>