On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:58:38PM -0400, scott wrote:

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> I believe it was mentioned aways back in the message stream, but perhaps

> it's worth reconsidering at this juncture...

>

> Keep the low emi/rfi 386 machine user-proximity but convert it to an X

> server with the more capable X client (app server) machine farther away.

Sure that suggestion was made.  Currently, the X server is my Athlon64

and is 60 feet away from my wife and its still too close.  I have been

given a dual P-133 Tyan board which will become the

application/file/whatever server and we'll see how close to it my wife

can be once I get it set up in a good steel case (I'm looking at

addtronics steel cases since this board is Baby-AT).  I'll save the

Athlon box for things that only it can do conveniently (editing or

retouching picture, watching DVDs, graphical web-browsing).
Note that none of my old boxes are low enough in RAM to need a custom

kernel.  The Tyan board will take a max of 512 MB (8 x 64 MB EDO ECC

SIMMS) once I get them.  My IBM 486 takes 4 x 32 MB once I get them.

The biggest issue is boot drives: I may be using CF cards for boot and

then adding a scsi card to the Tyan and use SCSI drives for the data

archive.
Doug.