Subj : FreeBSD To : Russell Tiedt From : Roy J. Tellason Date : Tue Nov 27 2001 08:16 pm Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: RJT> Nah, at worst I can get some usable parts out of that stuff. Or I RJT> can use 'em for terminals, or something... RT> Believe me, you can only use so much and do so much and nothing RT> more, strip the usable parts and junk the rest, earn a little RT> pocket money and sell them as scrap metal. It may come down to that. We'll see... :-) 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. RT> I am currently running my Internet server and Gateway on a 486DX2 RT> 66 with 24M RAM, and it works great. 30 pin parts are nigh on RT> unobtainable here and 72 pin parts are not much better and horribly RT> expensive when youy do find them. I've accumulated a few 30-pin parts, mostly 1M but am looking at finding some more 4M parts too if I can. And I have a few 72-pin parts of assorted sizes on hand too, they're not entirely all that scarce here yet. RT> I have just spoilt myself - last week I bought a 256M DIMM for my RT> PIII-450 for less than I was quoted a week before on a 16M 72 pin RT> part. :-(( Isn't it crazy, the way this stuff works sometimes? I don't believe some of the prices I'm seeing for 512M parts. --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) .