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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: how to build your own PC?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.051253.22760@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul20.131330.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1992Jul21.014038.39504@datamark.co.nz>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:12:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.014038.39504@datamark.co.nz> tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul20.131330.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> ptalmadge@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
- >>Does anybody out there know of any books or articles that explain how to go
- >>about building one's own PC (say a 486 based PC). Also, I would like to know
- >>where to find (buy) the necessary hardware. Please respond via e-mail if you
- >>can help. Thanks,
-
- Check out your local library for books by Winn Rosch, and for books about
- "Building" and "Upgrading" PCs. I thing there is one called "Build your own
- 386" or something similar. Look in computer shopper magazine for parts.
-
- >First find a beach with lots of silicon... :-)
- >
- >Seriously, what do you want to do?
- >
- >Buying a motherboard and plugging cards into it is generally pretty
- >trivial. I found it harder to set the time on my video recorder. Speak
- >to your local supplier of computer bits.
- >
- >Actually designing circuit boards and the like is pretty tricky. I
- >think Byte magazine had an article about building your own PC using an
- >'AT on a chip' chipset. I imagine that there are more recent versions
- >of this around too.
-
- Anyone know which issue?
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