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I'd think the most expensive component would be the wavelan card......
(at $440 for a WL200, that's why i'm not on the air yet)....
<p>The 486's could be picked up for free...... I've thrown enough of them
out/ donated them from past jobs.....
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<p>David Arnold wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>-->"Barry" == Barry Park <bpark@theage.fairfax.com.au>
writes:
<p> Barry> Nice idea, but what's the incentive?
<p>for me, the real incentive is not having the software set up for me,
<br>but that the hardware i'd like to use is not off-the-swapmeet boxes.
<p>my ideal setup is a small watertight box, roughly brick-sized or
<br>smaller, which has a single 10baseT cable incoming, using POE (power
<br>over ethernet) from my second-floor flat, up to the antenna mast on
<br>top of the block (roughly 25 metres).
<p>that box should contain a 486-586 class CPU, a 10M wired ether port,
<br>16M RAM, a 32M flash card (for filesystem), and the capacity for at
<br>least two and preferably optional capacity for 4 or 6 wavelan cards
<br>(so i can run a local onmi, and several point-to-point backbone
<br>links).
<p>looking at what's out there, a PC/104-based system with several
<br>stackable dual-PCMCIA slots seems ideal. some of the better
<br>motherboards have single-source power, RAM + CPU + ether on the board,
<br>etc.
<p>but in single quantities, these things cost an insane amount.
<p>if we were able to do a deal, and get several hundred motherboards and
<br>a few more PCMCIA boards direct from Taiwan, it'd be a lot more
<br>feasible.
<p>d
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