[NCLUG] suggestions on building a box

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Sat Jan 13 07:26:19 MST 2001


On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, S. Luke Jones wrote:

> I wouldn't recommend it for everyone, but for my modest means, I've
> found I can do pretty well buying the end-of-life $300-range boxes
> from compgeek/tccomputers/onsale etc. and then spending a small
> amount to upgrade (or reuse from an existing computer) the parts I
> just can't stomach.

... or ebay -- just picked up an HP Netserver E50 - PPro 200,
64M, 2x4G SCSI, Adaptec controller, CD, NIC and built loke a
tank --- It will hang at my colo site with a couple other
Netservers, and run forever.  $160

-- Russ





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