> Motherboard connectors are plentiful as people often bring in bad PS's,
> and I have been cutting off the connectors as of late. Though of course
> this involves bulk soldering :(, but that was the "fair amount of work" I
> mentioned.
Why not just use the "lo-tech" wire nut? :-)
> They will have only a floppy attached, which will run once (at boot up).
Are these basically just "NC's", with a boot floppy and a network Windows 95
location?
I went on vacation and when I got back, Christmas had come early. We got a
shipment of 40 PC's in (mostly 166's). We only had to use about 10 of them,
so the other 30 I get to setup however I want. My boss told me "Aaron, I
want those computers looking for prime numbers", (I kid you not) so now I
have to figure out the best way to do it.
I can't hook these machines up to our network...they're on a completely
different floor of our building with no network drops there. Otherwise, I'd
do what I did with about 5 other machines and setup a mini network next to
my desk with it's own hub. Not enough IP addresses for them all, so I used
a private IP range and used a spare server with 2 NIC's and loaded a NAT
program onto it. Beauty.
But for these, I have enough hubs (I think) to get them all connected, but
to assign work to them, I'm dreading having to check out exponents manually
and distribute them manually to 30 machines. Ick.
Is that copy of the older Primenet server still available? Could it be used
to assign exponents to v18 clients for double checks? If so, that'd be
nice. I could lug that machine up to my floor, plug it into the network,
let it get exponents and send results every now and then, then lug it back
down to the private network.
Aaron
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