RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] News Alert from NYTimes.com: Hewlett-Packard to Buy Compaq

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

COMPAQ 486 MID tower has heck alot of room.
ESP comparing against COMPAQ 486 Desktop boxes
You can put both feet in that box and hook your cables up.

COMPAQ 486 Desktop boxes, the drive bay lifts up like Car hood.
so you can put your cables underneath ISA Riser card bus, or the 
shet metal that riser card screwed on.
yea.. no room what so ever, you're cables can easly be 
damaged, even cut by its own sheet metal.

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Ross, Matt wrote:

> Compaq seems to follow Packard Bells lead.  My motherboard could only handle
> 40 mb of memory, the A: drive could only be a special order from Compaq (or
> McGuiver'd in, as I didn't want to pay for one), the motherboard itself is
> inaccessible with hands larger than an infants, and the BIOS is inaccessible
> for all practical purposes.  Lucky for me, torque wrenches work on it, so I
> was able to install my 56k modem (which lightning took out less than two
> weeks later).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Miller [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:42 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] News Alert from NYTimes.com:
> Hewlett-Packard to Buy Compaq
> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Jan 1904, Neil Bradshaw wrote:
> 
> > I believe Hacker's Hell, eh, Packard Bell is slated for a comeback.
> > Why wouldn't NEC just let them die, why?
> 
> I wish they had!  My dad bought an NEC a couple of years ago.  I was
> shocked and disappointed when I opened it up and saw that it was basically
> "Packard Bell Inside": hideous, bizarre motherboard with zero possibility
> of future upgrade.
> 
> Mike
> 
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