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Well, not really.

If you've got a spare drive and some free time, give it a twirl. But I wouldn't go to the effort of trying to bust the protections. Unless you've access to the developer's lists, trying to trace the boot sequence is a lost cause. Then you have to track down generic versions of the files to...

I wouldn't think they would have. PCI and secondary IDE slots entered the market pretty much at the same time.

Be grateful they didn't link it to Al Queada. Then they could use the new homeland security dept to track and trace all those millions of hits and search and sieze the owners machines.

I don't buy anything from anyone unless I can get my hands around their neck. And I make it clear from the start that I will.

Well, I had to keep it handy in case Nixy showed up. You know. For ransom.

Or you could just click on the desktop icon on the quickstart bar of any 98 or better machine. Y'know, that little button right beside the start button? Try it.

Um, there is another way. Track down an old sound card with an ide interface. I used that to run 4 hds and a cdrom all on one machine. Until the ps gave out.

Most new OEM versions read the bios to get the machine type. You could spend the time digging through it all to remove all the encoding, if you know the sequence all the fiels are run in, but you'd be faster just tracking down a corporate version.

Is it just 98 not recognising the extra? Or the motherboard?

I beat together a stack of 486s into a beowulf cluster a while back. Last I saw of it, it was taking a final ride in a compactor.

Nixy, please keep your dirty panties to yourself.

Well, which one did you build?

I thought you were Justin.

I keep a large bungee cord beside the driver's seat. If it gets noisy in back, I threaten to tie one of them to the roof. Instant silence.

A brand new tranny would need to run in a bit. Were you told to bring it back in about 500 miles for a fluid change?

*Clean up crew member valiantly hurls himself into the line of fire* Na na. Missed me. * Snaps a wet towel at Nixy's butt.

It was mine. They wouldn't dare.

They want it taller than the CN tower? That thing really gnaws at you yanks, doesn't it?

Well, I guess it falls to me to speak ill of the dead, so here goes. Fred 'McFeely' Rogers. McFeely? Do I even have to discuss it? And the guys an ordained minister. We all know what that means, don't we? Naw, I can't maintain it. He was the real thing, and the next generation of...