Helen Borrie wrote:

> One of my Mandriva servers is running as a replicator target on a
> circa1999 ~400 MHz P2Mobile IBM Thinkpad w. 256Mb and a 20 Gb 52K rpm
> hard disk, that I bought *very* second-hand for $90 AUD last
> year. With 6 other clients connected it still keeps going. It's
> just used as a lab machine most of the time, though. I don't think
> I'd try using it as a back-end for Amazon or eBay. :-) Still, if
> need be, I can get a 2-channel PCMCIA cardbus for $69 and put SATA
> drives on it. ;-)
>
> ./hb
>
>

So I win !

I have a customer running FB + SAMBA on an AMD K6 ~450Mhz (was this the
name ?) with 64MB RAM serving 7 clients with a 70MB database.

I really try to convince my customer to change this "server" but he
complains and says "Why should I change ???? I just works !"

Well.. I hope those cheaps IDE disks runs for more than 8 years without
a fail :-)

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br