John, I'm telling ya. You can slap together a used system for nothing and almost nothing these days. My linux system was
100% free, built with parts no one wanted anymore (P3 866) and firewalls my whole lan. Is brilliant.
Computer shops are doing upgrades all the time and have 'junk' laying about taking up space. They'll laugh at you when you ask for the stuff, as who would ever want it..
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