"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:af2uev4nc4q9uu49r7sr2r4qoej3f7mrcs@4ax.com...
>
> Installed one of those about a month and a half ago. Also have a
> 120gig external drive, as well as a 20gig external that isn't being
> used currently. The D drive is the original 10gig, so all together I
> have 250gigs hooked up. I also recently increased the memory to 448mb.
> Not that 98 had the slightest fucking idea how to manage it, of
> course. XP seems to be doing well with it, though.
>
> >Keep the existing drive as a slave.
>
> I kept the original C drive (10gig), and someday it will probably go
> back in the computer. I'm going to pull the CD/DVD-ROM drive sometime
> in the future and put in a DVD burner instead. It has a separate
> CD-R/RW drive. One that I had to replace since the original went tits
> up on me.
>
> I'm thinking that for my next computer I would like to attempt to
> build one myself, so the current 120gig C drive and the upcoming
> CD/DVD burner will be pulled from this one and put into the one I
> attempt to build. Then the original C drive and DVD-ROM drive will go
> back into this one and the kids can have it.
>

Sounds like you've fairly rapidly grasped the usefulness of XP.  As well as
the obvious response to those that criticize it's appetite for computer
resources - just stuff the machine with more and faster hardware.  It's not
as if it's prohibitively expensive to do so in Japan.

jonathan