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To: Street Walker who wrote (1820)	7/31/1998 6:48:00 AM
From: rob jones	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

How does this system sound ? Its a refurb and comes with a 90 day on site warranty. HP Pavilion 8290 P II 400 Mhz 100mhz front side bus 12.0 gb harddrive 64mg SDRAM DVD 2-x speed w/ MPEG2 movie playback K56 flex dvsd modem Ans machine/voice mail/video phone send/recieve Premium polk audio speakers hardware wavetable 32 bit surround sound dolby stero sound ATI RAGE PRO AGP and 3D display graphics AGP 4 SGRAM video memory TV out Windows 95 & extensive software Whats this system worth ? $2000 ? $1800 ? 1600 ? $1500 ? Less ? What would I need to get 2 monitors going ? Thanks for helping a newbie out.

To: Street Walker who wrote (1820)	7/31/1998 12:20:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Is there a major disadvantage to an isa ethernet card?<< Yes, Sean answered this question previously. I don't remember which reply it was. But it had to do with a PCI ethernet card having bus mastering capability and an ISA ethernet card not having bus mastering capability. This means an ISA ethernet card uses a lot more CPU clock cycles.

To: Street Walker who wrote (1820)	7/31/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Len	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Len has suggested this earlier. Maybe he can expound: Can you have different resolutions on each monitor? Does it remember what things you had running on each monitor each time you turn on the computer? Software configuration issues? Less tweeking involved than the Millenium II multimonitor solution? (Using the Millenium and Win NT - how many monitors will work - just two?) SW...Sorry I missed this post... here's the details... No, resolutions must be the same with the Vipers. Yes, remembers where a main window last was at shutdown. Of course, if you open a browser and multiple windows of it, you will still need to position each of them the first time you open them, since only the first browser window is remembered, just like in a single monitor situation. No software configuration issues that I have come across. Don't know the tweaking involved with the Matrox cards, but here's some good news. Matrox has developed NT drivers that allow multiple monitors using any combination of the Matrox Millenium I and II, and the Mystique. Matrox allows up to four monitors , as does the Viper, in NT. And as you know, Viper requires you to use only Viper PCI cards in a MM setup in NT. By the way, Diamond is releasing an 8MB version of the Viper soon, but as I mentioned to you prior, IMHO I don't think an 8MB card is necessary in a general or trading system. Unless you are an avid gamer, or do CAD or Design work, I think 4MB is plenty. Hope this helps you in your quest. Len

To: Street Walker who wrote (1820)	8/6/1998 9:39:00 PM
From: Alf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Street Walker Not quite sure but thought that it was you who put up this site for the new Matrox Productiva G100 matrox.com That page says that it will not be available until Sep. I just got 2 catalogs today in the mail and both have these cards listed Comp USA $109.95 MicroWarehouse $84.95 Could these be the same as the ones on this site ? Has anyone ever used or seen Sceptre monitors ? They seem to be a good deal and would like some comments. sceptretech.com Thanks Guys Tim