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Article #381Re: Buying practice system?
From: Marxman
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:00
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In article <36a0b7f7.0@news3.ibm.net>, nospam@nospam.nospam says... > If you're putting this together to go after mcse, then you'd do better to go > down to your local liquidator or computer show and pick up four 486 or > low-spec Pentium machines. To do _all_ the exercises in the MCSE training > you need four boxes (W9x workstation, NT workstation, NT Server, Novell > server--you can get a 3-user Netware 5 for $18.00, so don't let this last > throw you) and none of these should be the machine that you use to do useful > work. The local liquidator has IBM 486 machines for about 80 bucks and IBM > and Compaq Pentium machines for about 200. Add a keyboard, monitor, > switchbox, CD-ROM drives, and some network cards and cable, and you're > there, for maybe $1400 total. > > If you're going to build a box, then go over to Microsoft's site and check > the NT Server compatibility list before you buy _anything_. > > Also, make sure that your "any ol' hard drive" is big enough to hold the > pieces you need. 500 meg would be good, a gig would be better. > > -- > > -- > Greetings Nate, Where does on aquire a three node license from NOvell? Please post any info as i'm running two nt boxes studying for my mcse40.track marxman > --John > > Reply to jclarke at eye bee em dot net > Nathan Emerson <Nate@Eisle.com> wrote in message > news:369cbc2f.0@news1.ibm.net... > >I'm about to buy the parts for a 2nd system in order to practice > networking. > >I thought I'd check in with the experts before I take the plunge. This is > >the plan: > > 300A Celeron--Overclocked to 450 > > Abit BH6 Mboard > > 64 100Sdram > > Any ol' hard drive > > > >Any advice, before I start looking for the lowest price per part? > > > >Nate > > > > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa2c1,bccf47f366d34585 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa2c1,public X-Google-Thread: 100597,bccf47f366d34585 X-Google-Attributes: gid100597,public X-Google-Thread: 10869b,bccf47f366d34585 X-Google-Attributes: gid10869b,public X-Google-Thread: 108143,bccf47f366d34585 X-Google-Attributes: gid108143,public From: marxman@symetsys.com (Marxman) Subject: Re: Buying practice system? Date: 1999/01/23 Message-ID: <MPG.1113a671483dcdf1989680@news.earthlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 435995837 References: <369cbc2f.0@news1.ibm.net> <36a0b7f7.0@news3.ibm.net> X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail X-ELN-Date: 23 Jan 1999 14:28:55 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Sat Jan 23 06:35:07 1999 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Newsgroups: alt.certification.mcse,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,han.comp.periphs.networking