From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 23:34:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82C614CEE for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA23539; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 23:56:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Fweep Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <19991026054102.26733.qmail@nwcst287.netaddress.usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Oct 1999, Fweep wrote: > Wow, those were some quick replies. I didn't expect it to be that quick. > > The thing is that I haven't bought the computer yet, I plan on buying a > lower-class Pentium to run FreeBBS on, but I don't wish to buy one that won't > work with FreeBBS. > > Here are the specs that the place displayed: > > Integrated Items include these: > Integrated 16-bit audio > Integrated 10Base-T/10Base-2 networking > Integrated PIO Mode 4 disk controller > Graphics just says PCI Video > > It's a Pentium Pro 180 32megs of RAM, 8x cdrom. The place doesn't listen much > more than what I showed. > Sorry if that's no help. I'm sorry but this is totally useless, you haven't pin-pointed down a _single_ part for us to even check. > Any feedback would be appreciated as to what I should do...get the computer, > not get the computer, etc. If this is all the info you can get from the vendor then don't buy it, you're probably just as likely to get a box of bricks in the mail from someone advertising a system with a description like that. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message