Sorry for the delay, Mark...

On 09/26/2005 11:06 pm, Mark Henigan thus wrote :

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Hello Lewis:

Leider nicht...  I have some major tasks that conflict
with the Warpstock schedule this year.  Also, I have a
T30 but was hoping that the card that worked in the T23
would do so in the T30.

Yeah, I hate when that happens. You don't get the dreaded, "illegal card detected" message, do you? There's a quick fix for that one.

I agree with most of what you say here.  However, my K6-III
at 400MHz on an FIC PA2013 is faster than my T30.  I'm
guessing that this is because of the cpu that many have
told me is a poorly designed model.  

I'm currently using a T30 with a 1.8GHz P4M. I had a chat with Knut some time back about this, and he told me that the Centrino chips are just more efficient than the P4M's. That said, with a gig of RAM in my T30, it's pretty snappy.

I notice the difference between 512MB and 1GB, but I suppose it depends upon how much stuff you run concurrently.

By the way, I have the same processor.  It's
quick enough with most tasks but underpowered for VPC.

Agreed.

Most of my comparisons are based on using PMView and
WP51DOS, two programs that I consider pretty nimble.

Gotta love those slim DOS apps, huh? MS Word 5.0 sings (and it's a bound app; it runs in 16-bit OS/2 mode as well as DOS). That's probably the last MS program I really liked... ;-)

For me, however, things are a bit more involved. I usually have Mozilla running with a dozen or so tabs open, Mozilla Mail, Citrix, Lotus Organizer, and probably a handful of other things and I rotate between them fairly regularly. I do try to keep some of the constantly-polling DOS apps shut down until I need them (Lotus 1-2-3 2.4, is an example), and I've taken to running most of the Win16 apps under W2K in the Citrix session. This saves me CPU cycles as well as RAM resources.

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...Right now, I'm waiting for my Intel SE7501WV2-
SCSI320 board to arrive while I try to find a pair of
cpus and at least 1GB of memory that I can afford.
It should allow me to get some work done, at least
when I'm at home.

This is a nice board (just looked it up), though discontinued. I'm curious as to its OS/2 compatibility (though with SCSI, you're probably safe). The last Intel server board I picked up (bundled in an Intel-supplied 1U case) was completely intolerant of OS/2 (it was an ATA-100 RAID unit, and I'm not fond of IDE servers, anyway). I couldn;t even get the OS to install.

I can check with my suppliers about CPUs and RAM for you, if you like. I get fairly decent pricing on RAM, and average pricing on CPUs. Let me know if I may be of any help.