[ale] RAM and Harddrives

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

JK wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
>> I don't see any reason to further complicate things by trying to put a
>> SATA drive in the machine.
> I meant, he can't just go out and buy any new drive; he needs a PATA one,
> unless SATA drives are backward-compatible with old PATA  interfaces.
> So this is one more constraint.

It's not like you can't find pata drives, easily found.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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