Michael Fischer wrote:
Time to drop a bunch of money on a new machine, and pray I can figure a way to save all my files.
You have two things going for you now: (a) a new machine doesn't take much money anymore, and (b) it's easy to slip an existing drive into an external USB case and plug it in to the new computer after you get it built. The ones I bought were from acomdata, and were around $30 each during a closeout sale at Computer City. The computers died, but my old correspondence, software, and tax records live on. It was great to be able to junk the old hardware, but save the disks and get the files I needed onto the new machine that easily and cheaply. And with that done, it doesn't hurt to have spare 65 GB and 150 GB external drives for the odd backup or transfer job. (I use one of mine to store a bunch of VMs now when I'm not using them.) If your old case and power supply are still serviceable, you can probably put in a new motherboard, fast dual core 64-bit AMD, and a couple GB of memory for $300 or so. Add another hundred for a huge, fast new hard drive, and you're ready to go for the price of about three bottles of decent scotch. I remember my first off-brand XT clone ("American XT") at $3,000, with a small monochrome monitor and 10 MB drive. Now we can get ten times the computer for about 1/10 the money. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org