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Time to replace the Linux box? - ECSNorway - 09-09-2009
It's a P133, 64 megs of ram, 2 gig HD, running SuSE 8.x.... the case came from a 486 and the CD-ROM slot may have originally held a 5.25-inch floppy drive.
The video card is a POS Special, and the NIC is so old it has a COAX jack.
The NIC appears to have finally given up the ghost.
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- Bluemage - 09-09-2009
And how did this machine survive the asteroid, all those years ago? You know, the one that supposedly killed off all the dinosaurs.
Seriously, though, a computer is a computer, and it's always sad to see them (start to) die. How many boxen do you have?
(I have 2 laptops from that epoch, both running Win98, which are only broken out when I want to play an old DOS or Windows game that won't run on XP.)
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- Wiregeek - 09-09-2009
ECS, I would reccomend replacing the NIC - if you've kept up with your kernel updates, you should be able to stuff 'anything that says 3Com' in it,
and it'll Just Work.
That's a VERY impressive Old Computer.
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- ECSNorway - 09-10-2009
That assumes that the Nic is what's wrong with it... which might be right or not, I haven't got a console on it yet.
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