----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 11:14 PM Subject: Re: OT: CD-RW Question
> In a message dated 11/11/01 8:45:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > So far, I have replaced ~everything~ other than the box and > > motherboard. > > > Here's a thought, Bill. > > A new MOBO, the FR33-Socket 370 w/1GIG Plll processor for $250. You might > want to stuff a 7200rpm, 20 GIG HDD in it for another $99. > Then stuff the case full of your old OS(s) and go from there. If you don't > need the HHD or more RAM*r*, you're into a 1GIG machine for well under $300 > (US). > *r*The FR33 takes 1.1GIG of DIMM RAM. Its a nice thought. I had enough trouble getting what I built past the war department. What happened was a friend emigrated the Britain, and left us her dog (now renamed Portra) and her computer. I thought I would us it for imaging, as it is a fairly fast machine (PIII 667). What happened though was that I discovered that the build was junky, hence the component replacement. I am hoping to not have to buy a new mother board, and as this processor is nearly 3 times faster than my Pentium 266, I will surely be content for a while. What got me started on this was my new printer, which I ended up getting because a friend leaned on my old one hard enough to bend the chassis. I did a little shopping around and ended up with an Epson C80. I scanned a negative into Photoshop with my old HP Photosmart and after about 5 minutes of twiddling, which was mostly spotting the dust that I hadn't cleaned off of the negative, I hit print. Frankly, I was quite astonished with what came out. Different from a traditional wet print, for sure. Equivalent to a traditional wet print.... In many ways yes, in some ways not. Certainly a viable alternative though. Quite expensive compared to a wet print if you are doing your own printing, probably 4 times more expensive. If you are paying someone to do printing, then suddenly it looks pretty good from a cost standpoint also. One of the things that decided me was that the dyes that this printer uses are pigment based, and acording to Henry Wilhelm, have a life expectancy of 75 years if framed under glass, using whatever criteria he uses. This is actually better than what he says for a lot of the wet process colour papers. There is a lot of potential with this stuff now to create some really nice work. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
