New (but selling used) computer shop, and hauls

From: linc fessenden <lincoln.fessenden_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat Jul 20 23:58:00 2002

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, John Boffemmyer IV wrote:

> Mike, got any P133 or higher ATX machines (standard clones) laying around?
> I finally give up on this goddamned Compaq ProLiant 1500 (P-100, 96MB ram,
> 2.1GB scsi, 1GB scsi, scsi 8x cd-rom, all eisa and pci, Compaq proprietary
> crap as usual). Slackware versions 7.1-8.1 and even the latest with the
> 2.4.18 kernel don't work happy on it. boot refusals, lilo getting stuck at
> li randomly, intermittently working with hardware that is known good,
> failing proper network configurations and connections and blowing up the
> routing. I'd just dumped about 43+ hours into this thing and it still isn't
> happy. Time to scrap it and dumpster the rest. Any luck on finding a nice
> standard machine? Looking to do smtp, apache web serving, routing between
> token ring and ethernet and file management. I know, i'm probly reaching,
> but it's worth a try.
> -John

Slap a copy of SCO on there. Should work fine.

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-Linc Fessenden
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