"Buying A Home Computer" Guides

• This OLD PC (http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/archive/column/1,1026,6,00.html) - PCs for the cheap (finding and selling cheap computers, cheap software and other tips)
• Dave's Guide to Buying A Home Computer (http://www.css.msu.edu/pc-guide.html)- Looking Under the Hood|Installing Adapter Cards|Adding More Memory|Installing a Hard Drive|Installing a Tape Drive|Installing a CD-R OM Drive|Replacing the Battery|Upgrading the Microprocessor
• Build Your Own PC (http://www.verinet.com/pc/) - Selecting Components|Buying the Hardware|Putting it all together|The Operating System
• PC-Clone UNIX Hardware Buyer's Guide (http://www.ccil.org/~esr/clone-hw-guide/contents.html)- (by Eric S. Raymond)