Hi, I'm with Lenz on the ram, bring them up to 32 MB. Consider making 3 moderately high powered servers and 3 small clients. New disks and cd-roms for the servers, double up the old disks in the clients. Any cash left over might best be spent on ram. Software...? My reasoning is that the clients will have access to the servers resources and a large single drive is cheaper than two smaller ones. (I'm making the assumption that the three schools are not going to be connected.) I think expanding is easier with this model, since you only need to clone the clients. The downside is that the clients can't do much on their own should the server go down. Good luck, Tim

-----Original Message----- From: Lenz Grimmer [SMTP:grimmer@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 3:13 PM On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Jim Bruer wrote:

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I have 6 486Dx2 boxes that are going to be sent to 3 high schools in Ethiopia from the US. 16megs of 72pin ram, 200Mbytes hard drives, no cd-roms. I do have a budget fo up to $150 per machine for upgrades. Seeking input from the group on what an ideal configuration, both hardware and software, might be for this use. The schools have nothing at present.

Depends, what theses boxes are supposed to do. More RAM and hard disk space is what I would recommend. Have at least 32MB, if you want to get some serious work done. 200MB is also very tight, if you want to use them as workstations.

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