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Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:05:36 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: USB kbd (was warp 4 install diskettes)

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In <20030602163609.YQNE4147.fed1mtao03.cox.net@eyeleica>, on 06/02/03
at 09:35 AM, eyeleica@lvcm.com said:

>I agree. I mentioned that to the bios company rep on the phone. They
>have called me 3 times and the price is down to $19.95 for updated bios.

I really don't have that much of a quibble with their original asking
price for the BIOS. They don't sell many of them and there's costs
involved in maintaining the knowledge and facilities to burn the chips.
I've purchased items like this for older equipment when there was not
chance of swapping in newer hardware. This often happens in production
systems for several reasons.

>harder with os/2 than Windows. Also, I can give back these old computers
>to the school I got them from. They were throwing them out, but with
>os/2 installed, it would be a good teaching tool for the computer club
>and for the computer insturctors.

I agree with all of the above. What I do with this kind of equipment is
scrap what doesn't work and use the rest. I may end up with one less box
or so, but the end results are usually better. Given what usually breaks
hardware, if a MB has one problem, it's likely to have another you don't
know about yet.

Steven

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