🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 11 May 2000 01:18:36 +0100, Stuart Baldwin
<stuart@boxatrix.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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.

If I were in your situation I think I would just buy a cheap AT case,
they go for ~15UKP. If you do this, remember to run a file around the
metal edges to preserve your fingers ;-).

Mark