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To: Street Walker who wrote (1020)	6/3/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: LTBH	Respond to of 14778

Tape controller, modem, sound, game controller, old SCSI controller and use the old HDs as extra archive space. These are a few of the things. Networm

To: Street Walker who wrote (1020)	6/3/1998 10:10:00 AM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Indeed, the Asus P2B-L board has been hard to come by, but it's just starting to get wide release. If you're settled on this or another Asus board, you might check out Rick Lindsay's page at jump.net. He specializes in Asus, and carries the very nice Asus 10 tower case and PII fan. He might be a hair pricier now than ESC (also a very good and reputable vendor), but Asus is pretty much all he does, and he knows his products inside and out. He might also dicker with you. He says he has every version of the board _but_ the L in stock, and will get it soon. Agreed with you on keeping the other slots. They are _precious_, and will become increasingly so. I wish Asus would have gone with one more PCI and one less ISA, like on their LX boards. ISA slots: I use internal modems and a sound card. But these have their drawbacks--configuration hassles, etc. especially under NT--and PCI modems and sound cards have been released with allieviate that. If you have an external modem, I'd consider leaving the ISA slots unfilled and getting the cheap Ensoniq PCI sound card. The drivers are now mature, and you won't have the hassles that my name-band Sound blaster 64 AWE value edition has been giving me. :) Good luck & feel free to follow up, Dave