>So I'm also looking at these nice cheap HUGE ultra-66 jobbies, first as a C: drive but also as a place to backup stuff on the SCSI drive(s) I would have there.

Hi, Jim. See my message 008008 for a cheap Compaq machine with an Ultra 66. You can go bigger on the HD. No idea if you can hang a SCSI.

The only time I have lost a HD is when I added a Western Digital Caviar drive to an older DEC Pentium box. With this one exception my rule-of-thumb has been to buy an integrated system from a top-echelon manufacturer (Compaq, HP, IBM, Dell) and keep my hands off it. As I said, the only time I have ever had a machine fail is when I violated this rule.

I know, magical thinking, but it works for me.

Why not keep your old systems as they are and network them.

Peter Robinson