On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:49:51 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:43:46 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Jim, you might want to check these guys out:

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/

They have some pretty damned fast preconfigured machines, and I have
found them reliable and priced fairly.

I would venture a guess that about half of the reason Jim is building the
computer is for the joy of doing it with his son. That joy doesn't occur
when one just opens a box.


Monarch sells pieces and parts, too. But if you look through their
configurators, you get a good idea of what works well together.

Once you get the motherboard into the box, it takes about an hour for an
O.F. blind person like me to assemble the rest of it. I would imagine it
would take a slick teenager about 20 minutes.

I haven't put one together since the Pentium 166mhz was around. Is it still
necessary to set a dozen or two jumpers? That was always a fun thing to do
with a kid, let him read and figure out how to set the jumpers. For one
who's built a few, it's pretty routine (or *was* anyway), but for a kid,
it's a challenge.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."