🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 7 May 2000 17:56:31 +0000, martin@chiron-s.demon.co.uk (Martin
Smith) wrote:

>In article <+nsMdECPURF5Ewg+@jasper.org.uk>, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
>>You have what is known as a "PC2000".  (it's in a mini-tower case?)

Yes.

>>These were produced by IBM for a major contract (I think it may have
>>been the MoD) but the deal fell through and the machines were sold off
>>on the open market.  Time Computers bought a load of them and sold them
>>under the 'Colossus' brand.

This one came from Morgan Computers, which is consistent with this
theory.

>>They're not particularly good or reliable machines.

It served a relatively undemanding user for 5 or 6 years without giving
any trouble, but I'm not relying on it having much residual value except
as a platform to do some Linux stuff on.  I have installed a few
different Linux distributions on my main machine but always as a dual
boot arrangement, which effectively means that I don't use Linux when
I'm going to be downloading and reading news and mail, which is every
day...

>Yes, I scrapped a couple of those earlier this year, all that was useful
>was one 4x cdrom, mobo's were utter shite, everything built in, one
>bit fails and you are stuffed, you will however get an average AT
>motherboard in the case... good luck

Do you think I can?  I had assumed that the piggyback arrangement would
mean that an average AT board wouldn't match up to the expansion slots
in the case.  If I can get an AT board in, then I would be better off
putting in the DX4/100 board that I have.

Thanks to everyone who has responded to this - I'll let you know how it
ends up.
-- 
Stuart Baldwin