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- From: krw@together.net
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Internal vs, External ?
- Date: 4 Apr 1996 03:59:55 GMT
- Organization: TGF Internet Services
- Message-ID: <4jvhfr$57s@bristlecone.together.net>
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- In <315D05E4.F4F@ihug.co.nz>, Jimmy Chen <jimmyc@ihug.co.nz> writes:
- >
- >Hmm... that's true... but what about the real estate *in* the computer ?
- >which is arguably more expensive then the little space occupies outside.
- >an internal one occupies an ISA slot... which many computer have only 3 or
- >4 nowdays. A sound blaster, an IDE interface (as it happens, the HDD port
- >on the motherboard is SCSI for my computer.), maybe a MPEG card, or a video
- >capture card..and oops I've just run out of slots....or just filled all the
- >slots afer the modem comes in....
-
- OK, my nogoodnik clone has 4 ISA and 4 PCI slots. I have two PCI cards,
- the display adapter and the multi-function card. Of the four ISA slots
- I only have one filled. I cannot imagine the need for more than two more
- PCI slots and three more ISA slots before this system is a memory. This
- is not like the '70's where every function needed a card.
- >
- /----------------------------------------------------------
- / Keith R. Williams
- / krw@together.net
- / Burlington Vermont
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