Grammatical proprieties aside, I'll toss in some additional considerations for ya' - - I'm sure the humor won't be lost on most of the list..! * The previous 'puter here was a P-133, built from pieces/parts -- 8-meg RAM, 200-meg HD, which, with DOS 5.0 and Win3.1, was pretty much of a screamer (well, compared to the old 486-25... ha !) Got a hankering one day to add a 1.6gig HD... Western Digital provided a very good install disk and booklet that explained technical issues of BIOS and block sizes and the like... I give 'em high marks. I partitioned that drive into 200-meg chunks of C:\ -thru- L:\ ( yeah, ten ! ), which, for "housekeeping" purposes suited the circumstances very well -- Loaded up Win3.1 as dual-boot on D:\, and it played like a champ. Even ran AOL 3.x at 28.8 without a whimper. Great machine. Then I bought W95. It *refused* to even install without 16-meg of RAM. I added 16 (24 total). It loaded, but to say it "ran" would be generous. It sucked. Even allowing a whole 200-meg partition for Virtual Memory didn't help much. At 32-meg, it was *not so bad*, but I believe the old 8088 PC was faster! Moral of the story: I wouldn't even THINK of trying to run W95 on the P-60. Make friends with a small computer store -- NOT the Big-Box guys. Ask a lot of damn-fool questions (they LOVE to chat) -- maybe spend a few bucks... Look for a cheap (auction or trade-in) P-200 or better MoBo/carcass, maybe with a 1-gig HD that has W95 already loaded -- buy as much RAM as you can afford, and transplant your other components as needed. READ everything you can get your hands on. Knowledge is everything in this game -- you can learn it yourself, or pay somebody else who does.. ;-) Good Luck. R Scott Gilmore N8BQN Saginaw MI USA ------------------------------------------------------------ Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! - Ben Franklin -1759 On Sat, 04 Aug 2001 05:37:02 EDT David Ames <worldrecord@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > So my question is this: how do I determine the compatibility of available hard drives with my Pentium-60? I believe I have something like 60MB. I wouldn't want to buy a 20GB drive and find out that it's not compatible.>> To unsubscribe, send a message to listar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe juno_accmail" in the body or subject. OR visit http://freelists.dhs.org ~*~