[Imc-tech] Front windows machine...

[michael dean brunelle]

One more thing, sorry, I snagged a bunch of memory for the remaining
compaq- the simms should still be on top of the box; I'm not sure how big
the SCSI HDD is in it, but it could be useful as a server, or perhaps a
minimal workstation.  If we're not going to use it, Prairienet could use
that memory back-we have a bunch of those compaqs almost ready to be
distributed.

and BTW, has anybody heard anthing about a company called newdeal; they
make a os/application suite that apparently does a  good gob of simulating
a M$ environment, but runs on as little as a 286 - their website is
http://www.newdealinc.com; this might be another way to improve the
functionality of our access stations (don't know how much $$, but there's
a 45 day demo available)

-MB

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Paul Riismandel wrote:

> Hmm interesting.  The P233 is already slated to be our file server and Dave
> is working on that.
>
> Aside from that we have various PCs+parts in the back room -- Mike B knows
> the lay of the land back there.
>
> --Paul
>
> At 12:44 AM 7/19/2001 -0500, Mike Perry wrote:
> >Ok, I took a shot at installing the front windows machine with Linux,
> >but it has a non-standard CD-ROM drive, so I have to try again once I
> >get find second floppy.
> >
> >I also think there's something else wrong with it other than windows. I
> >put in a 180Mhz Pentium chip, and windows was still crawling, and the
> >beginning of the Linux install (as far as I could get with just a bootdisk)
> >wasn't very quick either. I only have a K6-300 here at home, and its easily a
> >dozen times faster than that thing, maybe more. The menus that were
> >taking 30 or 40 seconds to come up on the Linux install on it are
> >almost instantaneous here.
> >
> >I saw someone had put together a 200-233Mhz pentium MMX minus a nic? (or was
> >that mislabeled?) Perhaps we could scrap the computer in the front, put
> >its ram and nic into that one and see if its any better?
> >
> >--
> >Mike Perry
> >Hacker in Chief
> >fscked.org enterprises, inc
> >
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