Urrrr? I'm not upgrading my mother's Dell. Noooo. Those parts are going into the Megatower 2000.
That's a 12 bay full tower case I bought in 2000, this'll be the third major overhaul for it. It was originally a 300Mhz Slot One Pentium III, then it became a Socket A system (with a brand new board that had a defective sec. IDE port out of the box), then got a new ABIT KG7-RAID board which it's had for at least two years while the rest remained pretty much the same and slowly aquired an accretion of hard drives and other peripherals.*
Sadly, last year I had to retire 'Old Putty'. That was the very first 1.44M floppy drive I ever owned, bought him brand new around 1992 or 1993. As he aged and was moved from PC to PC, his putty colored faceplate stood out distinctively against a parade of various shades of white, eggshell and beige case fronts. But he eventually developed vision problems and had trouble reading, even after wiping his glasses with cleaning fluid, then his mind went and he could no longer remember that he'd switched disks and kept repeating the same table of contents over and over.
At least temporarily, the Megatower 2000 V3.0 will have one of those two-in-one 1.4M/1.2M 5.25" floppy drives installed. I've some software on 5.25" disks I want to save. I hope my new board will have BIOS support for 5.25" floppy drives.
*It maxed at six IDE hard drives, IDE DVD burner, IDE CD-RW, one SCSI hard drive, SCSI Zip 100, SCSI 640 meg MO drive, PCI modem, PCI NIC, AGP videocard, PCI USB 2.0 card, PCI Soundblaster Live! and I tried to shoehorn in a PCI Firewire card but it absolutely refused to share resources between one PCI slot and the onboard Highpoint RAID controller. And of course a custom BIOS with the final code release for the RAID controller that ABIT refused to integrate into their official BIOS.
