I'm thinking in that direction, but need to wait until the budget improves.
I have three AT cabinets with AMD K6-2 processors, 450 and 500 MHz. They are fine for word processing under Windows and Linux routine tasks. To use the newer technology would call for starting over with a new system -- an investment of $600 to $700 if I deal with a good shop that specializes in motherboard bundles, which would get motherboard, CPU, memory, fast hard drive, and ATX case. I've got plenty of floppy drives, etc in the junk box. Could pull a ZIP and CD-RW drive out of one of these systems, or get a CD-RW drive with the box for $99, a Sony as least as good as the one in my Linux box. However we're about to start building a house and will be going a bit deep in debt to pay for it. Might even have to look for a job again, and I don't think my Linux skills are yet up to resumé level -- I wouldn't hire me to manage a system just yet. Could handle a VAX under VMS in my sleep and probably would. Think I would do well to concentrate on running Cat 5 cable for most rooms before they get around to closing the inside walls. Plan for server in the kitchen, where there is room near the center of the house, with printer near the coffee pot. Athlon XP is the latest and fastest in the AMD line, and really calls for DDR memory. Choppy At 12:06 AM 11/1/01 -0600, Shannon Roddy wrote: >I used to have al kinds of problems with IRQ's. Since about three years >ago I have never had another problem. You must be running this stuff on >OLD hardware huh? I used to have nightmares about Win95 and IRQ >problems. I remember having to pull out all the hardware with jumpers, >set those, then run the plug-n-play setup software on the 28.8 cardinal >modem till I was blue in the face! > >Maybe you should just upgrade the hardware? MB's are really cheap now. >You should look into the Abit boards with the 4 ide ports = 8 drives. 4 >of the ports are UDMA 66. you can probably find a board and a chip with >ram for $75 now. ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
