[techtalk] Re: Crappy hardware being useful
- From: Paul Ferguson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TechTalk <techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:50:51 +0100
Hi Gavin
On 15-Mar-04, Gavin Kinsey wrote:
> There's a good one. What's the worst hardware you have still
> performing a useful job? I've got an old K6-500 machine running as a
> fileserver. There's two 80GB drives in it that are incredibly loud and
> so can't live in my main box. If I could just get WOL to work on it it
> would be perfect :-).
I thought I would do pretty well in this but I'm beaten well and truly ;)
My current worst (still working 100%) is a PCChips M590 based
AMD K6/2 350 running as a small file server. Also operational are a
PIII 500 which is currently running Fedora, and a K6/3 450 upstairs
that I built for testing a DVD writer (wanted a clean OS installation)
Beside my desk I have my Tyan Tiger 2 x XP1300 and an Athlon 2500+
Other than that I have another 350 in bits, and a few odds and sods
including a Pentium 233 and another unidentified machine, both in bits.
Not that long ago I had a P100 NT server and a P166 MMX
Linux FTP box but they both suffered disk failures and I needed
the space, so they were canibalised and binned.
And thats not counting the rest of the family's machines ;)
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Cheers,
*Paul*
//GO.SYSIN DD #, DOODAH, DOODAH
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