From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 5 17:15:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA27112 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 17:15:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper7b.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.64]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA27105 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 17:15:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA06902; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 20:15:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 20:15:24 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good buy or not? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > I wonder if anyone on the list may have experience with Packard > Bell machines, running FreeBSD? I haven't, but the two that I tried to load OS/2 on wouldn't boot it. > The reason for the question is, a local > store is selling excess stock that didn't sell during the holiday season Is the public starting to wise up?? :) > at a price that is very, very, tempting. Actually, the price is only a > little more than the cost of a decent motherboard, and it is for a > complete system, including monitor, 4X CD-ROM, etc. Forget the motherboard, are the other components (i.e. those from real manufacturers) worth what they are asking? > The processor is a > 75Mhz Pentium. I don't know the whole story of the Pentium line, but > would it be reasonable to assume that the cpu could be readily upgraded? AKAIK, the 75Mhz is the only Pentium that uses a 50Mhz motherboard clock and a 25Mhz PCI bus clock. I doubt that the PH motherboard has adjustable clock speed, so short of a 150, 166, or 200Mhz Pentium the best you'd end up with would be a 100Mhz. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------