Tom Brinkman wrote:
> .....and yes, seems ISA slots are fixin to be history. Tho
> there are some mobo's of the current crop that still advertise an
> ISA/PCI combo slot. I'm lookin hard at a CUSL2 (Asus), to go over
> a gig with'a P-3e, it still has a pci/isa combo slot. So I'll need
> a new sound card or modem ;-)
Don't overlook legacy hardware, I was surprised how durable mother
boards are. My roommate and I fished a lot of systems out of the Raritan
River last year, after Hurricane Floyd, and all the mom boards worked
after we dried them out, and just now I'm getting around to testing the
monitors, so they may work too.
The only component that had 100% failure rate where the hard drives.
We'd test them by removing them from the system, and shaking them, if
they made a "swish, swish" sound we trashed them, after we put them in
the dehydrator for a week, which didn't work either.
This mom board is river salvage, it still has a fine deposition of mud
on the solder side of the board, but it's working fine. (knock knock)
(yes, yes, I know all about heat dissipation etc... but the component
side of the board is clean, so that isn't an issue.)
So my point is, the box of old mom boards you see at a hamfest, or
computer swap meet, may have serviceable boards in it. And at at .25c a
board, it's hard to go wrong.
Darryl Gibson
Linux Neophyte (tm)
RLU # 182668
This computer is 100% Microsoft FREE
