Hey Sean!

Mar 01 08:31 06, Sean Rima wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 SR> Oh I can never have enough :) I just seem to keep finding old boxes 
 SR> somewhere to do jobs :)

That isn't a problem here either.  I've got two boxes sitting on the floor
next to me for a couple of weeks now that I probably could get working in
short order.  Also the neighbour has a storage area filled with them and I
am sure there are more then a few there that could be fired up if there was
a need.

 SR> Mine is a basic 486 PC nothing fancy just does the firewall and isdn 
 SR> dialup, wish we had some form of broadband here

That sounds excellent.  Even with broadband a 486 can easily keep up as far
as connecting local machines to the outside world goes.  The only slowdown
I have noticed is on 100Mb network interfaces but there we don't do
masquerading/firewalling so it isn't an issue.  I think for your cause the
486 is the way to go.  They tend to be rock solid dependable machines
especially for grunt work.  I have to get mine back online again but have
been distracted by a few things as of late.

Life is good,
Maurice

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