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Looks like Newegg has 80 Gig HDD for 35.00...either IDE or SATA from Seagate or Western Digital.

OEM will not have any anything other than the drive.

Thanks for your further input. I am holding off on spending money other then for very needed home repairs etc., at present. I don't know if I want to get back into Linux. I had since it's early days put together a number of systems using Linux. It was the flag ship of the little company I tried to get started with another guy, that failed.
I understand the virtues of Linux being a UNIX person for many years, administrating, being sole root user on some, etc..
Perhaps If I can stand to work at Home Depot for another year and get over the hump in the large amounts of money I lost in past, I will look into a new system. I got three PC's sitting next to me, and two old Linux servers as it be, just mostly collecting dust due to their age.
Think first releases of Red Hat Linux. That is when I got into Linux for personal use as well as the business end.
None of my hardware is of recent vintage, quite limited.
But again thanks for your offers.