MicroCenter Systems

[Lucas Peet]

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Lets keep in mind here that back in the day, many people and companies
were using boxes just like this as 'High-End' servers.  It would run
Text-mode Linux just great, and probably a light weight Window Manager
pretty well too.

- -Lucas

zscoundrel wrote:
| I don't know, I have a 433mhz PII that I am getting read to give to the
| kids.  100mhz seems a little slow for desktop work. Running a GUI seems
| to slow things up a bit.
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| As a DNS/file/printer server it would work great with a little more
| memory!  Leave the 1.2 gb drive in for the swap file and as a place to
| backup important data and add another hard drive for primary and it
| would be a decent server.
|
| Dustin Decker wrote:
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|> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 mbsmith at dstsystems.com wrote:
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|>> 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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|> Clarification is obviously missing, but my hunch is these are the
|> systems at MicroCenter up front near the exit.  If I'm correct, then
|> we're talking about used systems here - not new hardware.
|> As such you know the drill, no warranty, etc.
|>
|> Let us all know - if they're really "new" I might bite.
|> Dustin
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