[ale] New system...

mute wonder mutewonder at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 08:54:41 EDT 2008


I second the thrift stores, since your needs sound pretty minimal.  Lot of
old towers end up there.  I suggest you bring a live CD and floppy Linux
distros.  And a power cord.  You could walk out of there with a perfectly
usable system for $25.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:

> > I need to find a very cheap replacement.  It only
> > needs to run iptables, apache2
> > and a couple little daemons.  I've looked at the bare bones systems
> > from newegg but they all
> > seem to have great prices but again, being barebones, nothing in
> > them.
>
> Thrift stores, e.g. Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc., is your friend.
>  Sometimes pawn shops but they're usually overpriced.  It doesn't sound like
> you really need any peripherals in them that you couldn't use from the other
> system, so I'd go the newegg route if you don't find anything at the local
> thrift store.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert Reese~
>
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