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

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mine's a P1 166mhz. It came with 16 mb, I've installed another 16, and it
came with a 33.6, a 16x cd, and Win95 C.  The shell comes off with three
torque screws in the back, and a slot in the front which magically only
allows it to be pulled out, but not back in. You then are left with a
squared off box with an open top and right side.  The left wall -is- the
motherboard. With removing two torque screws, you can hinge the motherboard
about 10 degrees (more if you don't care about the cords). The motherboard
would have to be removed to access the Hard Drive for removal, the A: drive
is set back over an inch, thus its eject button has to be that long, the
tray it's in doesn't allow removal without telekinesis, the cable for the A:
drive doesn't reach the slots above (where my replacement A: is).  Oddly
enough, inside the box is all Phillips screws, with the exception of the
motherboard wall. The tower itself is topheavy, in that all but the slots
are in the top 1/3 of the box.  The bottom is empty, but the cables are
positioned to go up into the top 1/3, so the space is useless.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Engelbrecht [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:00 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] News Alert from NYTimes.com:
Hewlett-Pack ard to Buy Compaq


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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