On Saturday 15 October 2005 08:50 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Duncan Anderson wrote: > > I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you live > > in the "first world", but spare a thought for people in places where a > > P1 with a 1GB hd is something amazing, even with Win98 on it. > > (Preferably something like Debian 2.1, though.) > > I do live in the "first world" but I just maxed out a credit card while > moving cross-country, I am unemployed, I have a 4 year old daughter and > my wife's salary as a librarian does NOT cover the bills. Virtually ANY > outlay is too much at this time. > > -- > Marc Shapiro > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a 486 66 MHz box (with 3 NIC) with ipcop installed for my firewall. I have a PII 200 MHz acting as my fileserver, print server for a 400 MHz PII Windows XP box, a 10 year old mac clone, and a laptop. I bought 6 400 MHz PII for $20 a piece a year ago, and converted one to an XP box, the others are for playing around with linux. I get a kick out of seeing these old machines work in some productive way. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
