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macphoria

Feb 18, 2003, 02:10 AM

I have old PowerPC 8100/100 gathering dust in my room. Any suggestions on what I should do with my old work horse?

zoetropeuk

Feb 18, 2003, 03:11 AM

they make brilliant email and dns servers

macphoria

Feb 18, 2003, 03:20 AM

What hardware upgrade do you recommend, if it is needed at all? And software recommendation? It currently has little over 90Mb RAM, 2Gb HD running OS 8.5.

zoetropeuk

Feb 18, 2003, 03:33 AM

For email I'd use http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/ which is think has a free version and for DNS I'd use products from mice and men (http://www.miceandmen) but they're quite expensive.
Your current hardware should be fine to run both of these programs.

macphoria

Feb 18, 2003, 04:42 AM

Thanks for the information!

cubist

Feb 18, 2003, 11:57 AM

I got AppleShare IP latest version, not sure of the number, from MacResQ. It includes file, mail and web servers. It seems to be extremely slow as a file server, however. Maybe I don't have enough RAM, I don't have as much as you.