Good advice, and thank you to all. This box is a 1.6G P4 with 1G of RAM. I may need new BIOS but I’m gonna try and use it. If all that fails, new box time. What the hell, that is only a few hundred bux.
Speed should be enough,...more memory might be nice....
I think you should start with a recent Puppy Linux....has some nice capabilities....ought to perform on that machine...and will hunt pretty good for your hardware...