Re: OT: PCI vs. PCI-X for added serial ports

Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:04:17 GMT, the renowned "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All my systems still have the PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports

I think that's a very good idea.. a couple of times I've run into
problems where a PS/2 keyboard has gotten me out of. Not sure what
would have happened if the motherboard had no PS/2 port. You can work
around having no mouse, but not a missing keyboard. Asus seems to
agree- this one has a keyboard PS/2 but not a mouse.

, and I have
printers scattered all over the network, (Including some real oldies,
like the IBM 4019 laser printers) so so far I have only needed one, four
port hub to keep from using the front panel USB ports on the old Windows
ME computer I use to stream WSM online. It started out as an Emachines
733 E-Tower, which was the last new computer I bought, while i was
working. It is on its second used motherboard, from the pile of
un-repairable computers I rebuild.

I've got an old Gateway like that. Only the case and power supply is
original. Built like iron. It still works fine browsing the web or
whatever.


The original case was solid, but had custom curved faces on the cdrom
drive, so it was the first thing to be replaced. I wanted to add a CDROM
burner, but nothing matched that case. I'm on at least the fourth case,
maybe more. OTOH, I always have plenty of empty cases around, from
scrapped systems.



You're welcome. A lot of the time its quicker to find the MB manual
at Tiger Direct, rather than the OEM sites. BTW, I have archived a lot
of MB manuals, because they have a short online life.

Yes, I keep whatever I can get on disk for products I own. A couple of
times my IT consultant neighbor has given me a left overcomputer and
I've usually been able to find manuals online, but it's not


I am collecting every system restore disk, and device driver disk I
can find, for my archives.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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