These are all old machines out of peoples' closets.

----- Original Message -----
From: <mbsmith@dstsystems.com>
To: <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: MicroCenter Systems

> I'm amazed someone can still put together such low spec machines. 100MHz??
>  1.7GB HD??  They must have come across an old stockpile of parts.  I
> imagine you could add $100 and come up with a machine at least 5 times as
> fast/large.  Your A) scenario would not fly.
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> Cheers
> Mark Smith
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> Seth Dimbert <s.dimbert@fhmr.com>
> Sent by: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> 09/18/2002 11:28 AM
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>         To:     kclug@kclug.org
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>         Subject:        MicroCenter Systems
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> MicroCenter is selling OS'less systems for $99. The package includes a
> monitor and PC, spec'ed at:
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>  - Pentium 100mhz
>  - 35mb RAM
>  - 1.7gb HDD
>  - FDD
>  - No CD-ROM
>  - NIC
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> Assuming I have a CD-ROM drive, can this system run a modern distro of
> Linux? I'm looking for either:
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> A) a home/office machine with StarOffice and a GUI, or
> B) a command-line-only httpd/ftp server with all the bells and whistles
> (php, mySQL, Perl, etc).
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> These machines worth $100?
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> -SD
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