>>I must confess a weakness for rather Spartan system configurations. Only the volume control and the date/time. No wallpaper, a simple screen saver. Gotta conserve those resources.:-) Yeah right. A PII 350 with 128Mb and a 13 Gb hard drive, and I'm conserving resources. I attribute it to starting my computing experience on a 16K Atari 400 (you had to hunch over to program:-)).
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>You started on big iron - my first work was on a PDP 8i with 4K of 12 bit core...

LoL:-)
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>I'm a bit spoiled at home. I like SuperMicro's motherboards, especially the ones with the Adaptec SCSI chip on-board. The Win98 box is just a PII/333, but 256MB, and 'only' 8GB of disk space, but it's a pair of Quantum Atlas XP34450Ws on an AIC 7880 chip on the motherboard (the same as an Adaptec 2940UW HA) and a Jaz drive. This is the older P6DLS, which is an LX chipset and won't take the faster PII processors
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>The NT boxes are bigger, and based on the more recent P6DGS and P6DGU; the one running NT Workstation is the DGU with dual PII/350s, 256MB and an old XP32150W and an XP39100W; the server is bigger, with dual PII/400s, 2 XP39100Ws and an array of 5 CP2107s (the motherboard is SuperMicro's P6DGS, dual processor, dual channel UW SCSI) and the ARO1130SA RAIDPort. Everything has a 3C905B in it, and I switched to a 100Mbit hub a few weeks ago, so everything is nice and quick!
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>I've been impressed with the SuperMicro boards; they're fast, and have not given me any compatibility problems except with a Diamond Viper V550 AGP card. All three will support ECC SDRAM, and the DGU and DGS in particular make nice, solid workgroup or small enterprise servers; both have hardware RAID options, and will take up to 2GB and two processors.

And I thought I had a nice system here at the office.:-) My home system is a 200 w/MMX, 48 Mb, and a 2 Gb drive. I'm going to try to make it last at least one more year. Can't afford to have to upgrade the machine every year.