From: Maxim Belooussov (m.belooussov@chello.nl)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 09:30:15 CET
Hello Bob,
Thursday, February 08, 2001, 4:42:49 AM, you wrote:
Here in Eindhoven, NL, the second-hands are rather cheap, provided you
buy them from private person. In a shop it's double the price. 486
with 8+ RAM, 15' monitor, 200+ MB hard-drive, CD and sometimes some
devices like printer cost at about 100-300 NLF (50-150 US $).
(check out the info at www.2dehands.nl)
2 years ago I've been lucky to buy a P-100, 32 RAM, 1,2 GB harddisk,
CDrom, 15 inch monitor + sound card + 2400 modem for just 600 NLF. Now
this system would cost about 300-400 NLF when bought from a private person.
But not getting a cable modem on P-100? It's VERY strange that those
technicians refused. When I was getting my cable modem, it's been a
breeze to get it all installed. They even said that Linux would work
fine, but I'd have to get the network drivers for 2.2 at their server
first via ftp (they had only windows drivers CD/diskettes). That type
of thing you would not even expect from Chello people!!
However, muLinux has been the first distro I've used with internet.
All thanks to Michele instructions on network drivers and
semi-automatic setup process.
BR> Over here on my side of the pond just the opposite is occuring.
BR> There's thousands of old boards being scrapped.
BR> You see in order to get a high speed connection (cable or DSL)
BR> The service providers have imposed minimum system requirements*grumble*(here P-166 32Megs and windows95/98)
BR> Anything less or other than and they will not do the install.....period
BR> Recently I had a cable setup installed at a location and when the time to do the install came, the installers (two chimpanzees in a truck) refused to install the cable modem because the customer
BR> "only" had a P-100............
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