Red's Place

So I've cancelled the poxy plumber, hopefully I won't get a bill for the 20mins he was here yesterday, as he was on the phone about 50% of the time!

Discovered today that the intel i810 chipset (early P3) cannot cope with PC133 memory. The i815 chipset can, but the i810 in this eMachines P3-866 gets horribly confused and randomly crashes. Had tried to upgrade the box from 64mb to 256mb, so the OS could go from winME to winXP. No go.

Hopefully I've found somewhere that will swap my pc133 memory for pc100, and I can try again, or the machine is totally useless. At least the wireless LAN card worked fine, so it can pick up the broadband that should be enabled this week.

I notice the Phut talking about the Commodore 64. Ahh, those were the days. I remember those who wanted to play games were worried about graphics and sound, such as the c64, and those of us who were actually interested in computers had Sinclair Spectrums and were trying to program. :-)

A few years later, the game players had Commodore Amigas, whilst us techno-heads were very much learning DOS on ancient PCs or DOS-compatible machines. (TRS-80, Apricot, or similar). :-)