why of course! many of us use the mfh2002 Pentium system! ( machine from hell 2002)
have a nice config running on a 166 w/ 64meg and a 20 gig drive at the museum office.. only weird thing I have noticed is hat server manager and aol seem to collide... (hint.... start server manager first then aol...) another running on a pile of boards on a table top ( anyone got an extra atx case the museum can use? or better yet a rack mount one?! dents, scraped paint etc.. are OK!) this unit has 40 or so megs Pentium 233 and a 8 gig drive. initially this system was running 16 megs... NOT GOOD! with 16 megs it just sortta sat thee and thrashed the drive swapping almost all the time when there was any activity and was very slow..... ( remember though this system was assembled out of junk brought to us from various dumpsters by homeless people that like being involved in the project here) A friendly dealer threw us some memory to bring this to 40 or so meg and nice now! tonight's experiment was an emachine 333k unit. uses amd k6 has 8 gig quantum drive on it, 64 megs and seems to work nice. Heh Heh! the poor thing this morning was just an emachine case and mother board and powersupply ( which is the weak point on the 333k < so if someone has any extra emachine carcasses we are collecting spare parts> We took this stripped out thing on a road trip around town and scrounged the cd rom, the 8 gig drive ( we were given a box of drives that were *unknown* working ability and sorted them down... first thing to do was to pick out the big ones and pass the 1 gig and below out to some kids that haunt us here that like projects... out of the 3 large drives got 2 working ones... so are old machines good to use? yes, but the main thing is the amount of memory..... forget using 486 or p60 systems, yea they will work.... but....... sloooowww! ed sharpe archivist for smecc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg J. Zartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greg Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Some wish-list ideas for version 6.0 > > Sorta. Most of the customers I've seen so far don't go and shell out > > on any new hardware. They just use whatever junk is lying around which > > > I highly doubt this is the norm. Unless a person is just playing around > with SME at home, I have a hard time believing that the average > "customer" would setup a server on just any ole piece of junk computer > that is lying around. > > However, I do see the logic in using a system that one already owns. > Why not... You don't need a P4 2Ghz machine with 1gb of RAM to run SME > for the average small business network. > > > > One needs it because down-time costs them a lot; the other doesn't > > have anyone on site to fix anything -- the nearest technical person > > > Maybe someone should have convinced them not to use that old pentium 90 > that was collecting dust in the closet. ;-> > > > -- > Greg J. Zartman, P.E. > Vice-President > > Logging Engineering International, Inc. > 1243 West 7th Avenue > Eugene, Oregon 97402 > 541-683-8383 541-683-8144 > www.leiinc.com > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
