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Subject:Re: more power, more speed From:Judith Grobe Sachs <judygs -at- UIC -dot- EDU> Date:Wed, 2 Aug 1995 08:31:03 CDT
... or how I got my dream pc.
I work for a computer center at a university, and I am just about
the only person here who does technical writing, so my experience
probably isn't typical. But maybe someone might find it a useful
approach.
About two and a half years ago, I finally got a 486sx25, complete
with a lousy 14" monitor. (I will not tell you what I had prior to
that. Suffice it to say that the chip was known by letters, not
numbers. It still works, though!) I use it as an X station, for
terminal emulation, to work on our WWW site (http://www.uic.edu/),
and I so some SGML. (Or at least, I hope I will be doing that
shortly.) I also use Quark for our newsletter.
Anyway, a short while after I got that PC, I asked for and received
more memory -- from 8M to 20M. Last summer I asked to have it
upgraded to a faster 486 with a coprocessor. Then my hard disk
went and I asked for a larger one -- I only had 120M to start with.
That required a new bios. Finally, earlier this year, I went in to
ask for a larger monitor and a better video card. Their response to
that was to suggest I just order a new PC, which I finally did last
week. (I had to wait until what I wanted was under $5000, otherwise
it would have to go out on bids. Then I'd never get it.)
I ordered a Pentium 90, 24M memory (32M was too expensive), 1.2G
hard drive, and a spiffy video card and a 21" monitor. I would rather
have had a 19" monitor, but they don't make them any more. (I
wonder why? 17 inches is not quite large enough for one page of our
newsletter to "fit to window" and be readable.)
I guess my method was somewhat like torture by drops of water.
But it did work for me.
Judy
Judith Grobe Sachs +*+ Computer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
(312)996-3758, fax 996-6834 +*****+ If you don't get everything you want,
judygs -at- uic -dot- edu +*+ think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
