[ale] Well "Rumour Corrected"

[jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com]

Last week, Joe helped me get a computer with a bad CPU and a bad monitor
going again for only about $58 and it would have been less if only I had
brought my leftover hardware in.

My main computer at home runs Win95 and I really can't spare the disk space
to make it a dual-boot machine (its two drives are usually full of hundreds
of meg worth of .wav files for a massive CD-R recording project).  I
managed to get this 486 given BACK to me (it was a gift from us to my
in-laws originally, then they replaced it) and after I popped out its
100MHz Overdrive chip and put it in my main computer (it does noise
reductions on .WAV files about 3 times faster with the Overdrive) I
discovered that the second computer wouldn't boot with its original
486/DX33.   Anyway, the point is that the Linux General Store made the
difference between me having a working second computer and not, so I say
BRAVO!

Imagine how much CompUSA would have wanted to fix my machine!

Oh, and by the way, the REAL work began when I took that 486/DX33 machine
home and started to install RH 5.2!  It took several tries - I had problems
with my first disk drive.  It didn't work until I removed EZ-Drive and put
the master/slave jumper in the "alternate" position.

- Jeff






joe <joe at linuxgeneralstore.com> on 02/08/99 07:03:28 PM

Please respond to joe at linuxgeneralstore.com

To:   Michael B Golden <naugrim at juno.com>
cc:   ale at ale.org (bcc: Jeff Hubbs/Tower)

Subject:  Re: [ale] Well "Rumour Corrected"




On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Michael B Golden wrote:
>
> >You can bring this buy on tues nights.
>
> So I can get free labor on it provided I can purchase any new parts
> needed? If the problem happens to be found, would I be required to buy at
> the LGS (which I would prefer to be able to do), or could I just be told
> the problem and order new parts somewhere else (which in all probability
> would be less expensive, therefore making them the most reasonable
> solution for me)?
>
Michael,
maybe this can can clear up the Rumours

The linux Hardware Forum was created to provide a weekly
forum for new linux users to get people together in an informal
hands-on atmosphere. There is plenty of spare hardware to do component
swapping along with a good crew of people who volunteer their time to
help solve problems.  Not to be confused with the monthly ALE meeting,
which is the second Thursday of each month.  The Linux General Store
hosts this weekly event; it is the users who help one another for free
and trade hardware, swap stories and ideas and eat pizza and hang out.
Although the store is open for business, no one is required to buy
anything, or pay any fee at the door.
A

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