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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5924)	2/5/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: Gary E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Anyone Please, I have been told by STB, (they make a video card that will allow me to attach two monitors to my 486 computer), This card fits in a PCI slot. How can I tell if my computer has this slot ? How will I tell the differance between a PCI slot and what the other kind is ? Can anyone help with this ? size, dimensions, etc ? Thanks HG

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5924)	2/5/1999 7:50:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Brittanica According to my literature (which I've had rained on me, owning the 98 version), the DVD and multimedia CD rom edition are the same, except, of course, for swapping CDs in the CDrom version. I figured out how to avoid that last year; I'm guessing not much has changed. It didn't look like a security measure but a convenience one. If you get it and are curious I can give more details. Original Britannica CD cost upwards of $1000 and had a dongle with virtually no pictures (for a laugh, the Americana had zero pictures -- country flags were presented by descriptive text! Hard to believe. Shameful, too). Looks like they've seen the light of the $-sign glowing in the consumer tunnel instead of pandering to their book-and-bookcase sales force.