The whole notion of what's outdated has certainly come
a long way since I first registered Arachne in '97. I
seem to recall at that time that Michael was doing all
development on a 386DX-40.
Well, I've been thinking for a while that I should get
an old bang-around machine for a firewall, so I bid on a
computer at e-bay, and it arrived last night. I'm really
happy with what I got, and what I paid for it!
It's an old Veteran's Administration machine:
Zeos Pentium 90
(cooling fan mounted in case to blow across the CPU
heat sink instead of being mounted directly on it)
16 MB RAM
1GB Conner SCSI Hard Drive
2MB Diamond Stealth 64 PCI video card
3�" Floppy
Mitsumi 4x CDROM
5 ISA slots
3 PCI slots
1 AGP slot
6 DIMM slots
When I got it, it had Windows 3.11 installed and
working. Even though I loathe Windows, I still had
to play with it a bit, and was actually somewhat
reticent to format the drive. ;-)
The price? Well, the winning bid was $16.50. Add
$20 for shipping, and I got it for a grand total of
$36.50 and a one-week wait.
Now I have a real dilemma. This machine is much too
good to just serve as a firewall! ;-)
- Steve
