Small SCO box for filePro

[John Esak]

Okay,
Everyone will hate me for suggesting this... but... I just put a small shop
up on a Dell box. It cost $299 with the $50 rebate (started at $349).  It
came with a monitor, keyboard, mouse, 2.8Gb Celeron CPU, 256Mb of RAM,
10/100  net card on board, a CD writer and no floppy. I took the 80Gb drive
out.... and will replace it with a SCSI 35Gb drive and Adaptec controller.
This puts the total price of the box at about $600 (or less). It will work
absolutely fine for a store with about 6 or 7 concurrent users... in fact,
it would handle WAY more *stuff*. I'll be transferring their multi-user card
for some serial printers they have from ages ago. But they are now mostly
running PC emulation into the SCO box.

Now, everyone will yell that a Celeron is no good, etc., etc. However, this
system will be just fine for years to come... running SCO 5.6... and as far
as that goes... it will be infinitely better than the Pentium 100, 4Gb
drive, 64mb RAM machine it is replacing.

If you truly need a small machine, don't worry about SCO compatibility. It
is all going to work fine. The biggest problem is always the network card.
Try and stay with something well-known... Intel Pro-100 or something known
to be in the SCO netconfig utility.

John Esak


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Rodgers
> Hemer
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 4:35 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Small SCO box for filePro
>
>
> I need to move a filePro system from an old box running SCO 5.0.5 to
> new hardware, upgrading the OS if necessary.  Finding a *very* small
> box would be most useful in this situation, but I haven't been able to
> locate a source for one.  I would prefer not to go to a laptop but will
> if necessary.  I have no need for multiple drives, internal backup
> drive or extra slots, as long as the box has the standard ports.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion(s) where such SCO compatible hardware
> might be found?   I have searched the Internet but failed to find a
> source.  The SCO approved hardware list did not seem to be of any help.
>
> Thanks very much for whatever help that might be available.
>
> Rodgers Hemer
> r.hemer at w-link.net
>
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