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

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6956)	4/8/1999 1:00:00 AM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Clarence -- Thanks for the URL on DataPort. The products do look good. I will explore some there. Due to the total of six or seven machines I have in mind accessing, I feel an external will be needed as there will be a hole in the face of the box when I'm somewhere else. I know "absolutely nothing" about USB, but that function seems to be the coming thing.....you or anyone have any thoughts about it? I've read here several times from different posters that it's not a good prospect but why not ? Back in the old days (8086, 8088, 286 and 386), I had a homemade rig that I used which was an old external drive box with a IDE 300 mg hd .... for the day and time, it was pretty useful.... remember the old "park" command ? Most of the youngsters I know don't ...... one of the fastest and best for its' time was a speedball from Tandy using a 80186 chip ..... yep, that is correct, a 186 .... I've still got that relic around here somewhere. Now, I've gotten to carrying a laptop, but my fading eyesight doesn't take kindly to those little bitty screens these days ...ggggg... so I got to thinking about building a new portable drive ..... Thanks again for the help. Nemer