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

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

GAWD!! You got me beat
on both 486 Desktop/Tower, you got 3 big Nuts you can un-screw
with your hands or with flathead screw driver, rest of the scrwws thats
used, you have to use a star screw driver bit, or small flathead screw
driver bit. 

but once you slide the sheet metal off/on, thats it, 
like the Gateway Desktop, Motherboard is on the left side, which is like
3/4ths of the Desktop box, then on your right, you have power supply in
back, and your drive bay in thr front, its the room between the power
supply and the drive bay is where you have very little room. 
but theres a lever you can pull to lift the drive bay up like a car hood,
and you can have easy access to the interface and power slot that way,
only.

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

> 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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