I've bitten the bullet & bought the hardware - well, most of it. All prices
include taxes & shipping.
FIC PA-2013, AMD K6-II 450 $161 TufShop
http://www.tufshop.com
64Mb PC100 SDRAM ECC(4x72),
ATI Express 98 8Mb,
keyboad, PS/2 3-button mouse $209 PCCost
http://www.pccost.com
Teac FDD, Bigfoot 8.4Gb HDD,
Hitachi 4x DVD $190 CompGeeks
http://www.compgeeks.com
medium ATX tower,
AOpen FM56-ITU/2 modem $ 98 Axion
http://www.axiontech.com
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$658
Still to buy:-
- monitor (CompGeeks have a 15" Hyundai)
- tape drive
- UPS <--- pref. APC cos they have a great Linux UPS-handling app
- sound card <-- SB32, pref. non-PnP; I forgot to order it
(These last few items can wait.)
I'll build the beast & post the results in a fortnight or so.
Did I miss anything? All advice is appreciated.
Hugo
P.S. Here is a summary of the Red Hat List's advice on hard drives:-
- buy IBM; it's expensive but it works
- don't buy Maxtor, it sucks
- buy Maxtor, it's great; avoid Western Digital
- Maxtor tech support sucks, esp. in Germany
- there is too much police activity on the US East coast
:^)
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