Lawrence Garvin wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 LG> The Etherlink III cards have consistently been rated better on 
 LG> performance than any other 16-bit NIC since their first 
 LG> appearance.
Cool...
 RJT> And what are you going to do with those old cards?  :-)
 LG> From a guy who already has more 3Coms than I do? :)
 LG> Don't know yet, Roy. I'm trying to keep this SOHO network down 
 LG> to a manageable size, but boy it sure wants to grow. Sad part 
 LG> is that I've already got a 486DX2/66 chip, a 486DX/33 chip, a 
 LG> 386DX/40 systemboard, a 386DX/20 systemboard, and a couple of 
 LG> 286 systemboards -- not to mention the Tandy 1000HX I acquired 
 LG> (which I don't know why or what for yet).
I won't list what I have here,  as I've not tested most of it and some of it 
might turn out to be nonfunctional...
 LG> Every one of 'em is dying to get juiced back up and put on the 
 LG> network "just because I can". 

Yeah,  and I've got this 16-port hub with all these unused connectors on it.
 LG> In the meantime, I'm giving serious though to upgrading my two 
 LG> remaining 486 systems to 5x86/133 (found a local source at 
 LG> $50/board w/chip), which would give me two more 486 
 LG> systemboards. 
That's not a bad price,  not at all!  Does this source do mail-order? :-)
 LG> What I really need is to acquire some slimline desktop chassis, 
 LG> like the old Compaq Deskpro, or the more recent Prolinea, and 
 LG> stack them up and make them dedicated nodes on the Fido system, 
 LG> and then use my minitowers, etc. as servers and personal 
 LG> workstations.
Minitowers stack well to,  I've noticed.  My biggest obstacle to getting a 
bunch of this stuff going right now (once I get past some of the intial stuff 
anyhow) is going to be figuring out how to best use what I have here for ram 
and drives.  Never seems to be enough of either,  I suppose.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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