[geeks] I am week

[Kevin]

I bought a Vectra dual PPro 200 new back in 1996.  From my
understandings the Vectra's and the Kayaks were very closely
related.  That Vectra 6/200 was a very well built unit, as far
as PCs go.  The BIOS sucks when it comes to recognizing IDE
drives but it has onboard SCSI so who cares :)  Other than
that i have never had an issue with it in the past seven
years.

I remember buying it mostly due to an article in Byte that
stated something about the bus bandwidth between the memory
and the CPUs being higher than it's competitors (i was mostly
comparing it to ALR's offerings at the time), but i don't
remember much about it and have no idea if there is any truth
to it anyway.  For what it's worth, i do remember that the
DIMMS (ECC) had to be installed in pairs.  This was
somewhat uncommon at the time.

Point being, if the Kayak in reference is built to the
same quality as the Vectra i am referring to, i would keep it
around.

/KRM


On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:44:48 -0400
Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 07:28 AM, Lionel Peterson
> wrote:
> 
> > Honestly, a P2-300 machine like you describe may make a
> > good donor system to a new MB/chassis - Kayaks (IIRC, and
> > I may not RC) are low-end, minimally engineered machines
> > (i.e. small SP, limited expansion, etc.)... Maybe you
> > should look for a new/known good P2 MB & case to
> > transplant CPU, RAM, HD, CD, etc...
> >
> As far as I remember it goes like this for HP x86.
> 
> 			Consumer	Professional
> Low end		Brio				Vectra
> Desktop
> 
> Workstation	Pavilion (overlaps)	Kayak
> 
> Server		-				Netserver (small, medium, and large)
> 
> I have a pdf that details the Netserver L families in the
> three areas..
> 
> Andrew
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