13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
3:39 p.m.
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Allison wrote:
Another good choice is the 4" tall Dell Pizza
boxes such as the 425/np
though 466/np. Theses are small, use PS2 connectors for keyboard
and mouse and the board supports most floppies (x2), IDE disks to 500mb
and S3 VGA video. There is room enough to add a CDrom or 5.25 floppy.
I have 2 of these, and they're quite nice. You can run 25, 50, 33 and 60
MHz chips in them with the right rejumpering (so my 425s are running 66Mhz
now). Dell even had the motherboard docs online, last I checked. There's
only one problem: the BIOS won't boot off any non-FAT formatted floppies,
though it's happy to boot anything off the HD. This makes putting a
'modern' OS (linux, in my case) on them a bit of a challenge. I've stuffed
one full of ne2k, intel and 3com cards and use it as a firewall.
Alexey