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Subject: Re: Slowest machine [Was: TCP/IP ick!]
In-Reply-To: <199612072115.WAA22796@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 7, 96 10:15:44 pm"
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From: Rob Misiak-Rishaw <rob@arpa.com>
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J Wunsch wrote ...
  > 
  > Sigh, yep, the good ol' machines are dying away...  My old 386/sx16
  > scratchbox with its proud 6 MB of RAM has been upgraded recently to a
  > (donated) 386/dx40, and i had to add another couple of Meg of RAM
  > then...  Of course, i've kept the old MDA, plus the (For Tests Only)
  > QIC-40 drive, plus the Wangtek 5150EQ QIC-24 drive, plus the old
  > AHA-1540*A*. ;-)  Ah, forgot, there's a fine WD8003 ethernet card in
  > it...

A couple months ago, a friend of mine decided that he wanted to have
the slowest machine on the internet, and set up his old Sun 2/120 :)
Average ping time from the ethernet is 120ms. The 2/120 takes up
roughly half as much power as the rest of the machines on the entire LAN do
combined :)

The slowest machine that I have at my house, besides the Windows machine :)
is a Sun 3/60. It has 20MB RAM in it (had to use 20 1 meg SIMMs!), and it
makes more noise than my microwave oven. I'm not planning on replacing
it any time soon, though. People collect old stamps, old coins, old
furniture... why not old computers? ;)

Rob