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RE: [TenTec] Basic question - Long

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Subject: RE: [TenTec] Basic question - Long
From: Steve Weber <kd9bo@mac.com>
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 07:47:01 -0500
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From scratch?

So.... How many wafers do you get from your home grown silicon crystals? Are you using a Meyer+Berger diamond I.D. slicer? What kind of polisher? Dicer? How many pentiums (pentii?) from each wafer and what is your etching process? etc. etc. etc.

Steve


Actually, some of us do - from scratch!

Dave K5WNV

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long


Golly Gee!


You built your own computer???  Really???  You went to the beach,
brought home a bucket of sand and made your own chips?  Mined and
smelted your own copper?  Designed and built your own microprocessor?
Mined your own iron ore, made steel, rolled it into sheets to make
the chassis?

Or did you plug a bunch of prefabricated subassemblies into a
prefabricated motherboard, mount them into a prefabricated case with
a prefabricated power supply.

Lighten up already. None of us build our own computers.

Sheesh!


> Don't stop...since we can't talk about the Orion firmware
  on the Ten Tec
  reflector...we can bash computers!

ok.


  Yep, it was Gates who once said that...I think that was >
  way before  there
  was an orange..er..an apple...

Apple existed way before gates.




  Hmmmm...where can I get some Apple software that will run
  385 servers
  spread
  across the country...that will NOT fail?

Try BEA.



And, oh yes, don't try to have those windows servers actually try to do something other than the occasional file sharing. They will crash. I have seen systems that repeatedly crashed windows (NT) because they could not service requests fast enough, then recompile those systems for unix without one line change and have the unix boxes run at 35% cpu utilization. Windows is ok if you don't actually use it, or need to make changes. maybe.



What COM ports? Only reason we
  need
  COM ports now is to run ham software.

So, how is the support guy gonna connect? Most sites still need to have the warm fuzzy feeling that they can hang up the telephone rather then opening their network up for remote connects.


  OH yea, I've been running WinXPpro
  on
  my three home made PC's also for three years with NO
crashes.

I refer you to my earlier comment about actually using it.

  By the
  way,
  did you build your MAC?

No, I didn't have to. What exactly did you actually build?

this is fun..

73,
bill w6eet
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