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In article: <357574242wnr@naismith.demon.co.uk>  John Naismith
<John@naismith.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> In article: <PL6nxJA4yQfxEwE5@mwb.u-net.com>  Marcus Bainbridge
> <marcus@mwb.u-net.com> writes:
>
> > Also, Micro$oft are rumoured to be working (or have working) a
> > proper FAT system which uses 512byte clusters, but it only works
> > for Win95.
>
> They do indeed (miracles will never cease - MS are actually in the
> 1990's!).
>
> However it will *not* be a retrofit option for existing Win95 setups,
> but will only be available for newly purchased copies of Win95. ie.
> from what I can gather, if you already have Win95 you will not be
> able to use this "new" FAT system - you'll have to purchase a new
> copy.
>
Do you know when this enhanced Win95 is scheduled to be available?
It sounds like a reason for selecting the Win95 option instead of the
DOS + WfWG alternative which is included in the Evesham base price.

Thanks to everyone who replied to my posting at the start of this thread
and sent me emails to help me in my big decision about what to buy next.
As requested by several emails I attach below my current planned system,
but I still have not had a reply from Evesham to my email of 22/4/96 so
although I want to buy maybe they don't want my money.

Platinum Triton SE (Base Price UKP1799) note: all prices are excluding VAT.
  + Intel advanced Endeavour motherboard
  + Intel 430FX PCIset
  + Corsair 512kb Pipeline-Burst cache
  + Intel 166MHz Pentium processor  (Extra + UKP199 over base P133)
  + 32MB EDO RAM (Extra + UKP199 over base 16MB)
  + Creative Integrated sound using Creative Labs vibra 16 chipset
  + Intel socket 7 for processor upgrades
  + 3xPCI, 1xPCI/16-bit, 2x16-bit expansion slots
  + EPP and ECP capable printer port
  + Two 16550 compatible UART driven high speed ports
  + Joystick port
  + On-board Fast PCI enhanced IDE mode 4 hard drive controller
  + 2MB IDE hard drive (Seagate ST32140A ?) (Extra + UKP100 over base 1GB)
  + Matrox Millennium 4MB video card (Extra + UKP185 over base 2MB D.Stealth)
  + Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17" (Extra + UKP160 over base 17" Vale EcoScan)
  + TEAC CD-56E six speed CD-ROM
  + Panasonic 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
  + Microsoft Mouse version 2.0
  + Keytronic "Windows95" keyboard
  + Glitch Master Uninterruptible Power Supply
  + Omega Ditto Tape Drive 800MB (Parallel Port Unit) (Extra + UKP149)
  + 5x Ditto 800MB tapes (Extra + UKP145)
  + V34 2880bps Fax Modem - which one ? (Extra upto + UKP200)
  + Microsoft Media '96 (Extra + UKP149)
      *Works 3 (for Windows 3.1) or Works 4 (for Windows95), *Money,
      *Fine Artist, *Explorapedia, *Encarta 96 *Dinosaurs, *Golf,
      *Scenes, *Windows Entertainment Pack, *Fury (trial version)

As the choice of either Windows95 or MS-Dos6.2 and WfWG 3.11 is included
in the base price, I will probably chose not to take Windows95 at this
time and upgrade to this at some time in the future when the latest
planned enhancements are included.

The only big decision to be made is which Fax Modem to pick. I have never
had any problems with my USR Robotics Sportster 14400 Fax Modem which I
bought from Demon when I joined two years ago but this seems definately
to be slow compared to the 28800 bps results that I have seen posted on
this newsgroup.  But which one should I go for???

I am not the world's greatest at figuring what goes where so if there
are any obvious problems with the above planned system such as not
enough places to put what I want to install then please tell me.

A possible future enhancement is to scrap the on-board sound and get
a proper Creative Labs AWE 32 card or Sound Blaster AWE 32 do I have
a port to put one in and can I turn off the on-board sound?

As I have an IBM PS/2 model 60 at present I am very happy with my full
tower unit which has lots of unused slots and it fits well between my
desk and printer stand. I  don't want a desktop unit as I like the
monitor sitting on the desk but I don't know whether the full-tower
unit will give me anything over the 'included in base price' mini-tower
case as unlike the MCA bus the number of available slots does not seem
to increase going from mini-tower to full tower. Can anybody give me a
reason to pay UKP50 for a full-tower unit?

Thanks a lot to everyone who has assisted me so far.

-- 
Ian Wilson
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England