Did I say dust hippos? Definitely LARGER than THAT! I've NEVER seen such a MASSIVE cloud of dust exit a computer like this. 8-o
But it does boot into '95, the CD works in read mode and the ZIP drive wanted to reformat a Mac Zip, so all's good so far on that front.

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Just for kicks, I tried to choke the WinTel sucker (POS) to death with the ubuntu FULL distrib CD, it actually got the background up and what looked like top and bottom (blank of course) menu bars before . . .

. . . dropping as dead as if it had been pole-axed! HeHeHeh!!!!! }

That BlueBerry thing is lookin' more & more like plastic fish housing every minute . . . >

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That Blueberry, Tripod Mounted CRT might not be quite ready for the gutting knife yet, I get a full five minutes out of it before I ever see a jitter and then I've only seen one pop/zoom event/thingie after it had been running for over 15 minutes.

Once I get a B&W G-3 (none too soon, due to $ constraints) or its temporary substitute online as a plotter server, I can just set the screen to blank after 3 or 4 minutes, it doesn't take long to get a job rolling, so I don't need the monitor any longer than that.

Whatcha think, gang?