[geeks] I am week

[Andrew Weiss]

I have the Vectra 6/200 cheapo version under my desk at work.  We have 
a bunch in the office the last one I had had a bad ISA controller 
(crashed upon playing any sounds or accessing the floppy).  It's easy 
to open and relatively modular but it is still a piece of crap.  It has 
no onboard SCSI, takes SIMMS (up to 3 pairs), and is extremely slow.  I 
actually run it headless and use RDP to talk to it.  I only have it for 
one application our company uses (CRM).

Andrew

On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 11:04 PM, Kevin wrote:

> 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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