[ILUG] [OT] Cheap-ish 1U or 2U rackable PCs

[Liam Bedford]

I assume penguin don't have a UK distributor?
(www.penguincomputing.com)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Colm
> Buckley
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 2:17 PM
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] [OT] Cheap-ish 1U or 2U rackable PCs
>
>
>
> Hey folks -
>
> Yet another OT request, but this one is mildly interesting.  I'm looking
> into putting "lots of Linux boxes" in a rack, and I need a source of
> cheap low- to mid-range PCs (say Celeron 500s with 128MB) which come in
> a small (1U or 2U) rack format.  The higher-end stuff is covered by
> something like the Dell PE2450 (yummy, btw), but I also need a couple of
> low-end boxes like this to do firewalling/NATting duty.
>
> I got a couple of 1U boxes from Sight Systems in the UK last year, but
> I'm not amazingly happy with them.  ISTR seeing some Intel 2U boxes
> somewhere; anyone got further information?
>
>          Colm
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