It has a Seagate Medalist 1276a (the one with the aluminium tape around it) that I dug out of a broken packard bell somewhere around 1999. I have, for example, a 200MMX with 64MB SDRAM on which I installed Red Hat linux 8.0 when it just came out, it has been running pretty much 24/7 ever since in various roles: web server, packet filter nat router, network bridge, samba master browser and wins server, squid with huge lfuda cache, some custom monitoring stuff, direct connect hub, mysql database, etc etc etc. (except when you really want something specific it seems) Until I found this forum, I did not realize "retro" computing was a thing I thought some people just use old stuff for various reasons, some not even for hobbyist nature. I really enjoy the detailed discussions about what hardware people use for what purpose and their knowledgeable discussions about it and their experiences with it, just for the sake of reading it. I have been scanning and reading the old hardware section piece by piece for the last month as I have time, now up to page 180. Given what has become of the internet lately, even more so. I am absolutely delighted to have discovered this forum.
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