When going to university, I decided I had to get myself a more solid computer than my trusty, but outdated 286. Between the choices of 486DX4, Pentium with 5V or 3.3V, I ended up with the Pentium 90 - which silly me bought at Vobis. It got upgraded along the way. I did try to get the CPU replaced when it became apparent that it was subject to the FDIV bug, but I never managed this through Vobis. Via Intel directly, I'd have needed a credit card (as a security for them that you'd send in the buggy CPU), and so I ended up keeping the FDIV-bugged CPU.

When a friend of mine let me a case, I re-mounted this mainboard/CPU/RAM into it, and made a gateway out of the system. I did fiddle with IPCop and other distributions. My network certainly never had any intrusions. Still, I ended up replacing the noisy box by a Linksys WRT54G, which did all the same and more - with a lot less noise and energy consumption.

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ISA NIC 3Com

PCI Graphics Card ATI Graphics Pro Turbo 2MB VRAM