Re: TI-H: Re: Hardware upgrades

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: Hardware upgrades
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 18:20:55 -0700
Delivered-To: ti-hardware-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org

Okay...  Now how about you find out that its not a real 486, but a 386sx16
that has been upgraded.  Then you findout its got a B/W screen.  Then you
find out its got 2400 serial ports.  Then you find out the BIOS hates
drives over 500MB.  Then you find out it uses *XT* keyboards.  Then you
findout only 1 of the 3 disk drives works with windows, and no matter what,
the vga card makes windows crancy everytime you start up...  :)  This
machine is in sad shape...  Right it can give is 40k.  (40k after
installing a www server).  I know even my 386dx20 is faster than this
thing...

WinNT 4?  Now thats too easy.  Try compiling a BSD kernal to work correctly
with a $20 ethernet card from china...  :)

What type of ehternet are you using?  (You have to be using some type of
network...)

Oh yeah...  I just leave the top off the computer...  Everyone thinks that
if they get near, they will be shocked to death...  Better than any horn.
:)

Why do you use a proxy?  I hate them....  :)

Do you actually get 12.8kb a second through that thing?  What ISP do you
have?  Does anyone here use Micronet ISDN and think its fast?  I need
something real fast...  My friends and I are starting a city wide wireless
lan and I was the chosen person for the servers and internet connections...
I have to handle 4 of my own servers, as well as 2 others for commercial
people...  It gets hard when you only have 30k per sec, and 5 people trying
to get 10k a sec...  :)  It gets real slow transfering PhotoShop, Mist,
200MB of MP3s to the thing...  :)

Most of the fun was setting it up anyway...  Now, I hope the FCC doesn't
catch me and my xmitters...  :)

Looks like your computer is better...  I tried to hook my 28.8 modem to it,
and got errors at 9600...  :(  We are going to try to get a better one from
someone in anchorage...  Too bad all we can get right now is a 486sx33
tower from church...  Someday I will transfer all the WarEz off the server
so I can open it to the public, not just me and 3 other people...  :)

btw, it barely does 'Mouse Keys'...  :)

>Ok, I have Win95, WinNT SERVER 4.0, Microsoft Internet Information Services
>(HTTP server) Exchange Server, Internet E-mail server (forgot the name),
>WinProxy, all running on the same 486 machine.  Did I mention it has a 128K
>ISDN internet connection, proxied over the network, and a 7-CD CD-ROM tower
>as an information server?  All on 6 MB ram :(  It sits in my basement, and
>if anyone gets within 10 feet of it, without hitting a button on my keychain
>remote, a loud siren goes off, and lights flash on my desk, and my mom's
>desk.  (My mom is usually the one to mess with it though, she resets it and
>doesn't restart all the apps :(  )
>
>
>>To use my time this weekend, I spent my time installing win95 and redhat on
>>a 486sx 33 with 4MB of ram and making the two OSs talk to each other...
>>First of all, It doesn't have any Ebios (EDPT BIOS) so I had to find a bios
>>upgrade for it (or use 503 of my 1.23GB hd).  Then RedHat didn't like my
>>SCSI cd player, so I had to take the one out of my other PC.  Then I got
>>everything working, fired up Win95.  All went well untill I started Serv-U.
>>It died.  :)
>>
>>I installed Win95 all over again and now have it running WarFtp.  Man, the
>>thing only takes 570,000bps...  :(  (57k).  It should be more like 150k,
>>but I'm using Win95, not linux...  :)
>
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