[NBLUG/talk] Modems and other parts..

[Edward Mendoza]

ISA?!

Have you had any archaeologists knocking at your door? I was at the
Metropolitan Museum in New York last month and saw a 4000 year old Egyptian
statue. Your ISA modem should be carefully encased right next to it. Where
did you find it?! That is an amazing discovery and will make front page
news.

Edward

  -----Original Message-----
  From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
Nadina
  Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:13 AM
  To: talk at nblug.org
  Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Modems and other parts..


  Well - how's this for embarassing - I thought that my modem was PCI (going
from memory), but when I finally decided to take a good look at it, I
discover that it's an ISA card.  Oops.  I still can't find much about the
model (Zoom Faxmodem 2929) and I found an internal hard modem that looks
like it will work.

  Now I just have to work on getting it to actually print something!

  I was looking through the games that come with the install and found Tux
Racer - system slowed way down when I started it up. I thought at first it
was the graphics card which only has 8 MB of RAM.  Nope, popped in one with
32 MB and it didn't help.  Hmmm...wonder why it's so slow - finally decided
to look at the system requirements for running RH9 under the graphical mode
and my system just barely meets requirements.  I have planned to install
Linux for so long that it hadn't occurred to me that the system I was going
to put it on might not run the lastest version real well.  I know I could
get it run under text mode, but I like the idea of having the graphical mode
until I can learn more about the commands.  For the most it's runs on this
system (and as long as I don't start a couple of the games).  I am going to
swap out the motherboard/CPU and it should be fine.

  Once I get it running smoothly on the desktop, I would like to try to get
it installed on my laptop - and woo hoo!! no more Windows!

  Nadina


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