I did this when I was looking at my last-but-one upgrade. There is now a Pentium II 266 MHz system with 4GB of hard drive doing nothing but serving a printer and scanner, and being used for compressed backups of data, including emails and address books. Oh, and it runs an old but very stable fax system too!
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:32 AM Subject: Re: Back from the Grave > I've been thinking lately of a set-up where my old computer could be a > networked drive box. I could put it wherever in my house and just have it > networked wired (or wireless) to my main system. I'd have a couple drives > in there and not much else. This would allow me to have another whole > computer box somewhere with all my data backed-up. > Of course, I haven't DONE this yet but hey, I'm still in the planning stage. > Next stage- acquisition. > > Cory Waters > wishes it wasn't 95 degrees F outside.
