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Re: 486-33 8Mb
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Date: 
Tue, 2 Sep 2003 02:52:36 GMT
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Chris Magno wrote:

derek, you can turn your 486 into a real nice router, WITH a printserver. with
nothing more than win95 and a sml prg called NAT.


Please, for the cost of the out dated hardware I'd need to make this
thing network ready I could buy something 10 times more powerful that
was already network ready.

You know I'm not even sure I can lift it that high, it's a really big
dumpster.

Derek



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(...) Faster than you can say "Dumpster", I found a HP Pavilion Celeron 400 with 192MB and 5+8 GByte of hard disks. I'm running memtest86 and everything's kosher. The machine was sitting next to a dumpster near our building at the University. Is it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) that's a very noble thought... BUT (start rant) in the REAL cruel hard world, no one wants them. I've got 2 or 3 guts to pentium 166 and "under" and the best i can hope for is some one takes it from the trash pile come garbage day. (which (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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