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To: Boplicity who wrote (63671)	9/4/1998 9:54:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

OT Old Computers What server software to you use and what ethernet cards??? I use Windows95 as the server software, except on some really old 25Mhz 386 machines where I use Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. I use whatever network card was cheap at the time (usually around $29). If you use Windows 3.11 be sure to get a card old enough to have drivers. Since I started a while back I have 10Mhz ethernet (on coax) but you may want to consider a high speed network to begin with. It's great for multiplayer game sessions too! TP

To: Boplicity who wrote (63671)	9/4/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 176387

<<OT>> Greg - W95 is "network ready" (remember "plug and play?") Well, it's more like "plug and pray" but you can get W95 running nicely on a 486/66 with 16M RAM. 10Mb Ethernet works great on good twisted-pair cabling, and you should be able to pick up everything you need from one trip to the store (or a call to someone like Black Box). DVD's are another world, man - I'd hold another month and see how much less they become. What you'll find out is that you're going to want to use it for movies and sound so you'll be shown all kinds of neat TV and audio things to connect it to. Hope you're into high-end sound stuff - you'll love it! Mr. K.