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

To: Paul K who wrote (6234)	2/11/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Install includes the NIC Yeah, a 10-dollar NIC to scramble your 2000-dollar computer. Maybe it'll work out, but don't get too excited. What's that NIC going to do to your other IRQs? Is it a PCI NIC? Bet it's ISA. Do you have an ISA slot? What's going to happen when the weenie starts fiddling with your bios settings? In short, nothing's free <g>. (Edit) Sorry, maybe too negative. But I wouldn't let 'em so much as fondle the power cord on MY systems, though the rest of the package might be useful. Bell Atlantic is offering that kind of package too. I'd let 'em in to put in the modem and tell me a few details, then hand me the NIC and close the door on your way out. If my experience with phone Co. deedles is any guide. The jerk-off that installed my frame relay sat in the basement for three hours while he "ran tests". In a pigs eye. He ran a twenty minute test and slept the rest of the time (actually, he slept through the test too). I know, I had to step over him to get to the fridge for beer ... <ggg>.