Older cptrs

[JJ Neff]

The NFLUG's very first project that we got involved in was Coyote Linux, I ran
one at home (until work paid for a Linsys -mandatory for telecommute) and
that's the hardware I'm bringing my old P75 Coyote routers.  WE have a coyoute
router at the NFLUG group now but we haven't used it in a few weeks because the
cable is suspected bad.

JJN
--- Charles Rishel <chaz03 at localnet.com> wrote:
> You know, one of these days I am gonna have to burn a vacation day and make 
> a meeting..
> 
> Heck, I got spare floppy drive and we could setup a coyote 
> firewall/router.  I setup mine and it rocks.. virtually forget that its 
> there most of the time.  That is until I tried to Xfer a file in Mirc LOL.. 
> then I had to redo my port forwarding scripts to redirect the ports for my 
> machine.  Did get it accomplished though.. working fine now.
> 
> Sounds to me like that would be a great use for those machines... I did 
> mine with my first "real" computer.. Micron 166Mhz.. now has a 133 Intel 
> proc in it though..
> I say my first "real" computer, cuz my first computer was the TRS80 
> COCOII.. was more of a glorified keyboard.. but worked for programming in 
> basic real nicely... till I turned it off that is.. see, had no tape 
> drive.. but DID buy a modem for it.. LOL
> 
> Chaz®
> 
> At 11:36 AM 3/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi, JJ!
> >
> >GREAT Idea!
> >I have some old ISA & VLB VGA cards, but don't expect to run X very 
> >well.  Are the
> >boards are ISA or >GASP!< VLB??  Some DEC Etherworks3 ISA NICs ... not 
> >much other
> >hardware.  Maybe some 4 Meg 72 pin SIMMs ... LOTS of 30 pin 1 Meg 
> >SIMMs!  (Remember
> >them??)  Maybe a 40 MEG HD, but nothing larger, and only 5.25" floppy 
> >drives, not
> >very helpful in that department.  :-(  I'll bring the 10baseT hub again.
> >
> >BTW, speaking of old hardware ... I found a "gotcha" in the Mandrake 8.1 
> >install
> >... The DEFAULT monitor is a High Frequency Super VGA monitor, well, 
> >that's NOT
> >what I have, and because it's Xwindows, you CAN'T easily change it if you 
> >blindly
> >accept it!  The default video mode drives older SVGA monitors berserk and 
> >may very
> >well blow them out!  I'm not impressed w/ an install that can seriously do 
> >damage
> >to hardware just by accepting the default.  Good thing I was working on 
> >the other
> >computer (which also has an incompatable monitor!) while my daugher was 
> >running the
> >install and rescued things before any damage was done.  A rank newbie 
> >would just be
> >appalled and confused and SOL if the monitor blew.  I tried to fix things 
> >using
> >xf86config, but Mandrake blissfully ignored any changes I tried to 
> >make!   Just one
> >of the "hazards" of installing the newer distros on older hardware I 
> >guess.  It's
> >back to good ol' reliable :-D Slackware! :-D for my daughter and me!  By 
> >the time
> >she shows up for the next meeting, she'll be a "Slackware Babe"! ;-)
> >
> >-Greg
> >
> > > I have two smaller tower cases that have MB and ~P75 chips and a little 
> > memory, they
> > > have video (1 does) and I can slap on some ISA nics.  THey need floppy 
> > drives and
> > > hard drives.
> > >
> > > I will brig them Sunday and donate them to teh group for people the use
> and
> > > practive on.  If anyone has strange hardware or old hard drives they 
> > can doante
> > > bring them along, sound cards old speakers etc will also be welcome...
> > >
> > >
> > > JJN
> > >
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