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[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips] ATX? Do I throw away my Super Tower?
On 17 Dec 1997 10:55:01 -0700, in alt.humor.best-of-usenet Robert
Server <[email protected]> wrote:
>Subject: Re: ATX? Do I throw away my Super Tower?
>From: Mark <[email protected]>
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
>
>Timothy Huey wrote:
>>
>> I have a Super Tower 3.5 foot high case with a 300 watt power supply. Do
>> I have to throw them away and buy new to use a ATX motherboard?
>
>You'll need an ATX case/power supply for an ATX motherboard; but you
>don't actually have to throw away the AT stuff. Allocate a large closet,
>or a small room, and begin piling up all of the computer hardware
>remnants from each upgrade. Soon you'll be supplying all of your family,
>friends and pets with computers and still have an expanding home LAN of
>your own. But be warned, eventually you'll be branded a 'computer geek'.
>You'll grow a beard and wear your hair in a pony tail, and you'll attend
>all of the local computer shows. You'll have subscribed to a least four
>computer related magazines, and will be required to have a large stack
>of computer related material on the seat of your car at any given time.
>You can keep some of your compscience text books and test equipment in
>the trunk. If your wife or girlfriend begins to get repulsed by your
>'overindugence', don't worry. Start working out at the gym and take up
>some type of verile activity, such as motorcycle drag-racing and/or
>skydiving. There are also many effective medications available to help
>reduce obsessive-compulsive type tendencies. Or, you could just stick
>with the AT format. Most boards are available in both AT and ATX.
>
>regards .. ;-)
>
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