On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 16:57 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 8-28-2008 4:15 PM William L. Maltby spake the following: > > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:50 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > >> <snip> > > > >> I have motherboards in my garage older than you! ;-D > > > > PIKER! I've mobos still running (when I fire 'em up). Although I'm > > seriously considering ditching the 386SX with Win 3.11. Don't find any > > reason to fire it up anymore. > > > > Hell, even at my age I've got more memory left than it ever had! :-)) > > > >> <snip> > > > I don't think I kept anything lower than a 486. You never know if you might > need it! I have a 486DX fully configured and ready to step in as my fallback IPCop gateway if the primary should fail. The primary is a 200MHz Pentium. With the 10Mbit ethernet cards and standard Road Runner cable modem service, it used to get about 600MB/sec. The 486 would do about 75% of that (450MB/sec). A good enough backup I think. > <snip> -- Bill