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On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Stephen Fisher wrote:

> a Pentium 133 be?  Is it worth it?  Or maybe a totally different system.

Yes, currently, get a 166.

> Bus: PCI most likely.  I use VLB right now.

PCI.

> RAM: 16 meg to start with, maybe 32, There aren't any special 

32megs minimum.

> Mother Board: I've seen that ASUS MBs are very nice but their home pages 
> don't list prices which probably means they're high priced;)  About how 

I've heard these are very good for FreeBSD.

> SCSI Controller: Adaptec 2940/PCI.  This appears to be a good mid-range 

Get the wide.

> Disk: SCSI 1.08GIG Conner (it's in my Linux server right now).

Either use this, or get a 2gig+ Quantum.

> Network: 3c509B.  This is what I have now and it seems to be a very good 
> card.

Yes, the 3c509 card is good, you might want to look into the 3c5x PCI 
cards.

> CDROM: SCSI 2x

Get a 4X, MINIMUM.

> Tape backup: SCSI.. I have no idea what is best, I am using a cheap 
> and slow floppy-tape drives right now and haven't been very pleased.  

I've heard that the ExaByte 4gigs are very nice.

>  - Steve
>   - Systems Manager

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