[svlug] help

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya george...

> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
> 
> > I hope this is what you were looking for...
> > 
> > davez
> > 
> > Right off the web site from a cut and paste in X:
> > 
> > NetTop Box
> >                                     $589.00
> >                                                           BUY!
> >    The most cost effective NetTop box
> >    intended for remote or NC style
> >    applications. This system does not
> >    include a CD drive. Includes Linux.
> >                                     Motherboard
> >                                     266MHz K6 CPU
> >                                     32MB RAM - 2.1GB disk
> >                                     Extra memory
> 
> 
> That is what I thought I was buying ... came with a C6, not a K6. I

you also said it was a NetDeskTop box....I think they are playing games
here.... 

george....tsk tsk tsk...
	hope these are not the 200 of them boxes you were planning on buying

and it's bad....too that the MB does not specify manufacturer & model
and similarly for ram or edo or sdram or etc... and disk too...
as the price can easily be doubled or halved depending on if one
uses cheap verses "real thing"...
	and worst of all...what version of linux....hehehehe....

I just bought a k6-2-300 and runs nicely...only after several days/trips to frys:
	- 1st thing is the case was all wacky and non-standard - get new case...ok...
	- 2st buying a wrong mb to replace the dell pentpro-200mz mb...ooopss..booboo...
	- than the k6-2-300 cpu for the board I had good for up to 266Mhz....double oopss...
	- than the sram was only good for 66Mhz(?) that came from the PPro-200...triple opps...
	( bought the el-cheapo pp200 w/ thought of upgrading...did it past weekend )

but now, the new machine humms nicely again...

oh well....to build/upgrade it yourself or buy it prebuilt...
	- always better to build it yourself for "what you want"
		( except don't upgrade a non-standard dell-ppro-200 )
	- always better to buy it prebuilt if you want *cheap* and no time

> probably would not have noticed right away if one of the fans had not come
> off the CPU in shipping. We heard it rattle when we took a unit from its
> box. Opened it up and saw that it had a WinChip CPU. It was a 200Mhz chip
> too, not 266. Looked at all the units that arrived today ... they all had
> C6 CPU's too. All previous units had the CPU that they advertized so we
> thought their vendor might have slipped them some junk. Now it turns out
> that they slipped them to us on purpose.
> 
> I just got email from them with an apology for not confirming with us
> about the CPU switch. I don't know what to think. My personal opinion is
> that if I paid for a K6-266, I should get a K6-266.

is it k6-266 or k6-2-266 ?? heheheeh...

have fun
alvin

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