B., but I should tell you that the name's James. Do you have any suggestions?Ī-I've had worse Dear John letters, Mr. I have tried to contact Compaq on its support telephone line for help and get the usual 'Blah, blah, press one,' or 'Blah, blah, press two.' I finally got a number to call which was a toll-call number and have been that route before, which cost me mucho dollars. It is a plug and play and the computer shows that the driver it is using for this display is 'Trident Blade 3D/MVP4.' Attempts to raise the resolution to 800圆00 or above with 16-bit high color or higher results only in a lined screen. However, I have not been able to get anything above the lowest setting of 640x480. It is an EVEREX Model TCM-0440 14' Super VGA color monitor and according to the manual can accommodate 640x480 to 1024x768 resolution.

I kept the monitor I had been using with my old computer. I recently bought a new Compaq Presario 500mHz AMD k6-2. Keep in mind, too, that the stock market, especially as it is played by many with on-line accounts, is a form of investing that has a lot in common with riverboat casinos where you can lose big as well as win.

The fact that only a few consumer electronics retailers offer it is one sign that the E*Trade deal is better than letting Microsoft Network or CompuServe bleed you for 3 years at $20 per month.Īs I have pointed out before, chances are great that most Americans will have access to far faster cable modem or DSL Internet access long before those 3-year deals for clunky telephone dial-up connections run their course.īut keep in mind that there is no free lunch at E*Trade (either and that you are going to feel substantial pressure from here on to make further investments.

The account has already gone up $150.īob Sears the time I read your note and its publication today, the Nasdaq has been sleeping with the fishes and I'll bet your initial $150 profit is kelp by now.īut your point is superb for anybody willing to view investing as a long-term prospect that will last a lot longer than a $799 cut-rate PC. Now I have my computer for $400 and an E*Trade account for $1,400.

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