Subj : Re: New BBS User!
To   : Jimmy Anderson
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat May 10 2025 08:24 am

-=> Jimmy Anderson wrote to Foriest Jan Smith <=-

JA> Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into a working PC... Did it
JA> for family when they needed a new computer. Save them some money; I
JA> learned a lot. :-)

JA> Before the days of the $100 HP/Compaq that is...

Yeah, I liked the corner computer stores in San Francisco in the '90s,
they'd build white-box servers and desktops to spec and usually just
charge their usual markup on parts. If you bought a server, you could
buy their burn-in service.

I custom-spec'ed a Pentium from a store and got to select everything
from the number of memory sticks to the brand of video card. Needed to
back then to find a system that Linux supported...



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