[K12OSN] Pentium 166 mHz Machines as Clients?

[Jason Neiffer]

I had the same situation: 10 P166 machines that ran Windows 95 well, but
that's about it.  I upgraded the RAM to 64MB and they run amazingly well as
clients on my K12LTSP 4.0 setup.  I don't think you need to upgrade at all.

Jason

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From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of bullet at sc.rr.com
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 11:09 AM
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Subject: [K12OSN] Pentium 166 mHz Machines as Clients?

Hi:

I just rolled in a handtruck load of IBM 300GL machines that were slated
for disposal and was wondering how well suited they might be for use as
clients? They are currently set up with P-166 processors, 64 MB of PC-66 (I
think) RAM and Old Skool Soundblaster 16-bit sound cards. Got to go look to
see if the network cards are 10BASE-T or 100, but most stuff around here
seems to be the latter, so I am hopeful.

 I figure there is a good probability that I can successfuly overclock
these machines at the max 200 mHz the MB will support, or I can buy the
processors at near-scrap value, whatever. 

Will these things do OK as clients?, What do y'all think? Ive got nine of
them, and the price was certainly right.

TIA
-Tom
Orangeburg, Sunny SC


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