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Ya`akov N Miles (ynmiles@ibm.net)
Sun, 09 May 1999 21:19:12 -0700
My Digital Equipment VT-100 has died. Someone let all the smoke out :)
I am looking to replace it with an inexpensive computer, hooked up either
via the serial port (as the VT-100 is now) running TELIX under MS-DOS 6.22
or installing Linux on it and running some kind of local area network,
possibly with ethernet or something. Speed is not an issue. If I put
Linux up on it, I might consider setting it up as a firewall...
Does anybody have any 486's kicking around with monitors that they might
want to sell at a reasonable price? I got a quote of $1000+ including
taxes for a Packard-Bell K300 with 32 meg memory, 15 inch monitor, Tseng
laboratory graphics card (which I know Linux supports) a 56K FAX modem
(the salesman assured me it was not a winmodem), a 32x CD-ROM, and all
sorts of software from MicroCrap (is there a way to get a refund on
pre-installed software? I thought I saw a bunch of Linux users doing
just that).
-- Linux - it isn't just for breakfast anymore... mailto:ynmiles@ibm.net Note http://www.cheapbytes.com for (almost) free Linux & freeBSD CD-ROMs and http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/xiphmont/cdparanoia for CD ripper Lookie http://www.bigbrotherinside.org/ Intel will code unique ID on PIII
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