[zog]

--OK! I'm game! hardware, yes, MO POWER! What's your sugggestions for used hardware for someone on a hotchocolate and instant coffee level budget?

[B Knotts]

Well, you can certainly pick up an old Sun or something, but bang-for-the-buck-wise, it's awfully tough to beat an AMD Duron and a KT7 motherboard. You can build such a box for a few hundred dollars, and the performance (particularly as a workstation) will far outstrip what you could find in a used Sun for the same price.