[ale] Brookhaven-area PC shop recommendations?

[Jeff Lightner]

Of course Compaq isn't really Compaq any more - its one of the two HP PC
brands - HP bought them back around 2000.  

Oddly enough they forced out Carly Fiorina over that but due to it
they're still number one in PC sales.   It was funny over the weekend to
see that McCain has tapped Carly to help him get the vote of women in
the upcoming election.  Hadn't seen her name in a while.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ed
L. Cashin
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:16 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Brookhaven-area PC shop recommendations?

2008/6/16 Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net>:
...
> Glad to hear that it worked out for you.
> What version of Linux do you run?  What are the specs on the new
machine?

I'm running debian testing (lenny).  The old machine had an
AMD Athlon @ 1 GHz with 400 or so MB of RAM.  The
new machine is  a Pentium 4 @ 2.2 GHz with 512 MB RAM.

The refurb came with a 40 GB PATA drive, but I installed
my 250 GB drive from the old machine.

The refurb had a Compaq motherboard that actually looks
pretty cool.  (I swore off Compaq in the late nineties, so I
don't know what I expected.)  The chassis is also neat.  It
has subassemblies that fold out from the main box for easy
access to parts.  The space savings from the smaller chassis
are nice.

-- 
 Ed L. Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
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