[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Why do people give you crap about compaq (was: connecting a computer to a sound system)

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

> Any way, it 
> sound like they must have had your outputs marked wrong on 
> your Compaq. :-)

More likely I read it wrong.  Green has always been 'line out' on the many
computers I've seen over the years, so I assumed the black slot was
headphones.  Both had a musical note by them.

> Why is it that people give you crap about buying Compaq's any 
> way? :-) They might be strange, but the quality has always 
> been decent from what I can see.

Not always.  The 166 machine I'm mentioning was a POS.  The CD-ROM went bad
within a year and the floppy drive in two years.  The floppy drive was
awfully fun.  It has an eject button that is just under an inch long, so
that it can stick out through the inexplicably thick front of the case - ie.
you can't replace it with a standard drive.  I got around this by putting a
standard floppy in the second 5" bay with half a pill bottle to support it.
The 'sleep' button is both essential (as you can't turn off the timer for
sleep mode), and non-functional.  I finally found out that you have to press
this pattern to wake up the computer: sleep, volume up, sleep, volume up,
sleep.  The memory was barely upgradeable, with most of it on the
motherboard.  Everything except the modem was built into the motherboard.
The case requires a phillips screwdriver, and two sizes of torque wrenches
to remove 7 screws, 5 on the outside, and two on the motherboard to let you
open it the 2 inches it will hinge open.  The hard drive and floppy drive
are unremovable without disassembling the case and motherboard fully,
including some pins which would have to be cut to remove.  I have found
workarounds to many of the problems, but many require the case to remain
open.
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