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| mccall:
I'd say the nic card is a necessity it's really the only way to get stuff on there unless you like burning a ton of cds. I'd also put the floppy in because you can live without a floppy until the one time you need it. Then you think to yourself i spent a $1000 on this computer but i was too cheap to buy an $8 floppy drive. Actually a NIC is not a necessity, and neither is a floppy or CD drive. Plenty of people run computers in their cabs without them. In my opinion the easiest way to upgrade/update, especially when you don't have a box in your cab, is to have your hard drive in a removable caddy. Pull the tray, put in main box, upgrade/update, place back in cab. He already has another computer (hence the NIC) and removable trays and caddies are very cheap. You can also do it without the caddy, as many do, but I prefer the caddy as I find it gives a good mounting platform as well as giving the hard drive some (limited) protection from dirt and such. |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: mccall on June 19, 2003, 11:41:45 pm ---Actually a NIC is not a necessity, and neither is a floppy or CD drive. Plenty of people run computers in their cabs without them. --- End quote --- Personally, I'd either get a nic or a motherboard with network included onboard. Then share the cab's harddrive, so you can drag and drop upgrades from the other computer, no need to physically move any CDs or HDs. *shrug* As for floppy & CD/DVD drive, I'd get one or the other, just for the one in a thousand chance I couldn't boot from the HD at some point. And since you're going to do daphne anyway, DVD is a good choice instead of a plain CDrom, if you have the original stuff on DVD. I wouldn't need any of these, but they would keep things easier and quicker. --- Quote ---In my opinion the easiest way to upgrade/update, especially when you don't have a box in your cab, is to have your hard drive in a removable caddy. Pull the tray, put in main box, upgrade/update, place back in cab. He already has another computer (hence the NIC) and removable trays and caddies are very cheap. You can also do it without the caddy, as many do, but I prefer the caddy as I find it gives a good mounting platform as well as giving the hard drive some (limited) protection from dirt and such. --- End quote --- IMO, the only thing this would make easier would be updating the OS, and that only if both machines were identical so I could boot on the portable HD on the desktop computer. Otherwise I think a local network would be faster and easier. And less chance of dropping the HD and breaking it (I'm accident prone). |
| paigeoliver:
Hee hee. You don't even NEED a hard drive. I recall seeing a bootable CDROM Mame setup in the past, and someout out there has a Ms. Pac-Mame machine that only has one drive, a floppy drive. (I think he called the project Ms. Stacy, or something like that). |
| Mike:
--- Quote from: mccall on June 19, 2003, 11:41:45 pm ---I'd say the nic card is a necessity it's really the only way to get stuff on there unless you like burning a ton of cds. I'd also put the floppy in because you can live without a floppy until the one time you need it. Then you think to yourself i spent a $1000 on this computer but i was too cheap to buy an $8 floppy drive. Actually a NIC is not a necessity, and neither is a floppy or CD drive. Plenty of people run computers in their cabs without them. In my opinion the easiest way to upgrade/update, especially when you don't have a box in your cab, is to have your hard drive in a removable caddy. Pull the tray, put in main box, upgrade/update, place back in cab. He already has another computer (hence the NIC) and removable trays and caddies are very cheap. You can also do it without the caddy, as many do, but I prefer the caddy as I find it gives a good mounting platform as well as giving the hard drive some (limited) protection from dirt and such. --- End quote --- 2 removable caddy's are gonna cost you $20 while a nic costs you $10. So you'd rather spend double the money and make it harder to do. Really if you can't afford to spend $10 on a nic aren't you in the wrong hobby anyways. From a local place where I live(www.emicrox.com) I just got an Asus mobo(with sony bios) $45 integrated nic and sound, Celeron 1.7ghz $60, 256mb ddr $30, 80gb harddrive $80, cdrom $20, floppy $8, ATI rage 128 $24, fans $4 and a case $25. $296 total for a full computer, it will cost you more if you order from them because I have a corporate account there but if you go to pricewatch you should be able to get similar or better prices. This isn't used in my mame cabinet it's for my mom's birthday but I think it's still a good deal and powerful enough to play most games in mame. |
| meta87:
Another interesting way (but probably not needed) is to by a flashcard converter thingy (can't remember the name) which will make a flashcard into a hardrive. They cost about 15 dollars on ebay. You can then just remove it and plug it into a usb port on another computer to upgrade. |
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