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Re: 486-33 8Mb
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Wed, 3 Sep 2003 04:47:20 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Derek Raycraft wrote:
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.

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 me or kids have too much money these days?

Calum
(stares at my P2/400 desktop at home.  Man, I'm behind the times.)



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(...) Was it full of concrete. :-) Derek (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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