colinm@ccs.carleton.ca (Colin McFadyen) (03/01/91)
Hello all, I am thinking about buying a 3b1. As far as I know it has a 20Mb drive and half/Mb ram (not sure about the ram) and is running 3.51. Any comments and/or info about this machine would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Colin McFadyen, Carleton U. Computing and Communications Services Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1S 5B6 colinm@ccs.carleton.ca
anthony@unix.cis.pitt.edu (M. Kapolka) (03/01/91)
In article <1991Feb28.201501.1431@ccs.carleton.ca> colinm@ccs.carleton.ca (Colin McFadyen) writes: >Hello all, I am thinking about buying a 3b1. As far as I know >it has a 20Mb drive and half/Mb ram (not sure about the ram) and >is running 3.51. Any comments and/or info about this machine >would be very appreciated. I'm not sure what you want to hear, especially as readers of this group are probably biased. :-) Check to see how much memory it has on the motherboard. If it only has .5 meg, you can upgrade to 2 but that is *alot* of work. I used a machine with only a half meg of RAM in it for awhile and the performance was awful due to swapping. Adding more memory is a must. Boards are available to add .5 meg (anyone have one for sale- please let me know!) 1.5 meg, and 2 meg, up to a 4 meg grand total (2 on the motherboard, 2 on cards). A 20 meg drive is adequate, but barely so. It is easy enough to upgrade that when the time comes to a 67 megger (or even larger with hardware mods). I'd suggest you ftp the FAQ (Freq Asked Questions) file from cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu in the pub/att7300 directory. Read that and you'll probably have some more specific questions. -- Anthony Kapolka anthony@cs.pitt.edu