[rescue] home "server rooms"

[Kris Kirby]

On 20 Jun 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> The bulk of my collection all came to me in one shot.  About $55 for a
> tractor trailer load of stuff that schools were discarding.  Mosty macs
> of various vintage.  Even I have my limits, so the Apple II's went to
> the dump.  Everything from LC on up to PowerMac 5400 found a new home
> with me.

*boggle*. But that aside... QUICK!! GET A MEDIC! pwargo HAS HIT THE
FLOOR!

> There was a significant number of Pentium computers as well (P100 to
> P133).  They are terribly useful for firewalling and other odd jobs.
> I've been selling most of those off though since I only need a small
> handful of X86 boxen.

> Well I have enough ports now to run a few dozen machines at a time.  All
> but 16 of them at 100Mbps.  At least the 10Mbps ports are switched (with
> a 100Mbps uplink).  And I think those 68K macs only do 10Mbps anyway.
> Realistically it's going to take me a long time to get all those
> machines up anyway so I might just be satisfied with "only" a few dozen
> ports hot at a time.

Do you need extra 10Mbit ports, even if it's by hubs?

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