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To: Stitch who wrote (677)	8/4/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2025

Stitch, <<In the early 50s it was simple ownership of a TV, then later in the decade owning two cars that brought status. In the 60s it was having a personal guru and in the 70's it was golf club memberships and personal accountants. The eighties saw the currency of wine collections, BMW's and other euro sedans rise. Now in the nineties, with the internet well entrenched in the pop psyche, it is "geekism". What a wonderfully absurd world we live in.>> Let's see-- too young, too young, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. Oh Lord, I'm a running dog capitalist, conformist, elitist, yuppie, geek. Abbie Hoffman is spinning in his grave <g> Yogi

To: Stitch who wrote (677)	8/4/1998 7:38:00 PM
From: Frodo Baxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

re: geekism... A call for help. So I had my Dell Pentium II 233 for the requisite 6 months and I needed an upgrade. The 100mhz 440BX chipset just came out, and I wanted to a) see if I could overclock my components and b) lay the groundworks for my upgrade path. I bought myself an Abit BX6 ATX motherboard. Since I thought everybody had standardized on the ATX architecture, swapping out the motherboard should be no problem for a old hand like myself. And everything went fine, until I had to connect my power switch. My power switch?!??!! You old geezers who've messed around inside the standard PC case know that there are all sorts of two-line wires connecting various case LEDs and buttons to the motherboard. No biggie. Only thing was, that the Dell/Intel motherboard has this neat OEM feature where all the little wires are bundled into a 8x2 cable (it looks sort of like a mini-IDE cable). I guess it would be great for the Dell assemblers, for they only have to plug A into B, rather than A, B, C, D into E, F, G, H. Only problem is, I can't connect this damn gizmo into my new motherboard. I tried going to radio shack, bought some circuit wires, and attempted to hot-wire the incompatible plugs. For reasons that are beyond me, I still can't manage to get this thing going. The new motherboard has been sitting quietly in the side of the room for a while now. Hrmph.