[Gllug] 486sx 25 machine - thoughts and comments

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Friday 12 Apr 2002 11:33 pm, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Fri 12 Apr, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > I have a 486sx-25 box with an adaptec scsi card and a 240mb disk (there
> > was a 500mb disk but I have already put that in another box). The machine
> > has some sentimental value (I've had it since 93) - as well as 32MB of
> > memory: which was big for that time.
> >
> > It has an isa bus and no network card.
> >
> > Question is: should I chuck it or is there a real use for it?
> >
> > I have three other boxes - all running Linux and networked (including my
> > Dreamcast).
> >
> > Any thoughts? Anybody got an ISA NIC they would like to give me or sell
> > me for very little.
>
>    Is it fast enough for a firewall? An ISA 10baseT NIC is not difficult to
> find, and you don't have the usual low memory problem, (computers around
> that age often take the very short SIMMs, and you are limited to about 4MB
> of RAM). Fit two NIC's for an ADSL ethernet to ethernet firewall? Or should
> it be a 486DX to get sufficient speed?

I have thought about this, but my "ADSL" provider is Homechoice, and so its 
serial port.

What is more the 93 machine is *very* loud. Not as loud as the original 
Amstrad 1386 machine that was my first PC - in 1990 - but still much louder 
than today's machines.

As the ADSL box is in the bedroom this is a serious matter!

I have thought of using it as a domestic httpd machine....


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