Subj : FreeBSD To : Roy J. Tellason From : Russell Tiedt Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 09:21 am Hi Roy, RJT> Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: RJT>> Well, there's that, a couple of other 286 boards I have here, a RJT>> couple of 386sx/20 Dell machines, a Dell 486sx/25, and assorted RJT>> other MBs I have in boxes. Dunno what I'm gonna do with that stuff. RJT>> RT>> Chuck it away, it seems you don't have time to play with it, or RT>> find a sucker who thinks he need them. (No not me) RJT> Nah, at worst I can get some usable parts out of that stuff. Or I RJT> can use 'em for terminals, or something... Believe me, you can only use so much and do so much and nothing more, strip the usable parts and junk the rest, earn a little pocket money and sell them as scrap metal. RJT>> I did build a box around a 386dx40, stuffed with 20M of ram thanks RJT>> to being able to get a hold of some 4M 30 pin parts, and I plan to RJT>> try and make a firewall out of that one. We'll see how it goes... RT>> That should work great. RJT> Yeah, particularly since it's not going to be expected to actually RJT> *do* all that much except pass data between the modem and a network RJT> card, in both directions. I am currently running my Internet server and Gateway on a 486DX2 66 with 24M RAM, and it works great. 30 pin parts are nigh on unobtainable here and 72 pin parts are not much better and horribly expensive when youy do find them. I have just spoilt myself - last week I bought a 256M DIMM for my PIII-450 for less than I was quoted a week before on a 16M 72 pin part. :-(( Russell --- Msged/NT TE 05 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .