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What To Do With a Working Compaq 2266
I have an old Compaq 2266, and am trying to find a use for
it...firewall, router, ?? I don't know what current OS it will support, and the RAM is limited to 128Mb (I tried more..it won't work. There are reports on this issue on the net.) IDE disk is 4Gb. So what is this thing good for, except maybe to play solitair on ? Any ideas..... |
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What To Do With a Working Compaq 2266
If you have high speed internet access. The 2266 has an open PCI slot. Put a
$20 NIC in it and surf the net. It shipped with Windows 98. HH wrote in message ups.com... I have an old Compaq 2266, and am trying to find a use for it...firewall, router, ?? I don't know what current OS it will support, and the RAM is limited to 128Mb (I tried more..it won't work. There are reports on this issue on the net.) IDE disk is 4Gb. So what is this thing good for, except maybe to play solitair on ? Any ideas..... |
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What To Do With a Working Compaq 2266
wrote in message ups.com... I have an old Compaq 2266, and am trying to find a use for it...firewall, router, ?? I don't know what current OS it will support, and the RAM is limited to 128Mb (I tried more..it won't work. There are reports on this issue on the net.) IDE disk is 4Gb. So what is this thing good for, except maybe to play solitair on ? Any ideas..... Hi, I think you pretty much answered your own question.. Turning it into some sort of headless device is probably the most efficient use you will get out of that thing. If you are looking for another device idea, I have an old Deskpro that I use as an email gateway. It fetchmails all my POP3 emails, procmails them, runs sendmail, has a web interface, ect. Works well and is convienent. GNU/Linux or FreeBSD will work fine on that boat anchor.. |
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What To Do With a Working Compaq 2266
wrote in message ups.com... I have an old Compaq 2266, and am trying to find a use for it...firewall, router, ?? I don't know what current OS it will support, and the RAM is limited to 128Mb (I tried more..it won't work. There are reports on this issue on the net.) IDE disk is 4Gb. So what is this thing good for, except maybe to play solitair on ? Any ideas..... Hi, I think you pretty much answered your own question.. Turning it into some sort of headless device is probably the most efficient use you will get out of that thing. If you are looking for another device idea, I have an old Deskpro that I use as an email gateway. It fetchmails all my POP3 emails, procmails them, runs sendmail, httpd, has a web interface, ect. Works well and is convienent. GNU/Linux or FreeBSD will work fine on that boat anchor.. |
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What To Do With a Working Compaq 2266
if youre interested in selling the old presario 2266 I would like to
purchase it. I used to have one with the Cyrix CPU as a kid, unfortunately I got rid of it some years ago. I would like to get one just to remind me of it Let me know. -- ---------------------------------------------- Posted with NewsLeecher v3.0 Final * Binary Usenet Leeching Made Easy * http://www.newsleecher.com/?usenet ---------------------------------------------- |
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