Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RJT> That box _was_ a 386dx40 a while back,  now it's a 486dx2/66.

MK> I like 486's.  386's are a tad slow plus too hard to get any decent
MK> parts for.  A well built 486 is worth keeping.  They work great.

Got three more boxes sitting not too far from where I'm sitting at the
moment,  if I find a use for them...

RJT> That box has a 56k modem and a 10baseT LAN connection.  No "high 
RJT> speed" here, I can't afford it.

MK> Right.  I do but can't afford it either.  Oh well.  No phone line
MK> though so I tend to use the internet to keep in touch instead. 
MK> Probably works out the same costwise or perhaps a bit more. 
MK> Certainly more useful then a POTs connection.

There are a bunch of factors that come into play that rule that option out for me...

RJT> Perhaps at some point I can upgrade the LAN to 100...

MK> Certainly cheap enough these days.  Cabling is probably the largest
MK> part of the investment but if you already have that covered with
MK> the 10 then it isn't that much more to upgrade.

I'd just need to sort the cards I have out into which ones will handle 100
(there are only a couple of them),  and get another hub -- the current one
has 16 ports,  but the newer ones don't seem to go that high for some
reason.

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