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Old 14th April 2009
DrJ DrJ is offline
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You might also consider something like a Sun Ultra 5. They are plenty fast enough to serve between a local network and the internet, and they have PCI slots so that you can add Ethernet cards. These are old SPARC chip units, and not of the usual Sun quality, but compared to anything modern they are pretty well made.

You can often find them at University surplus sales outlets. Most Universities have one, and I've picked all sorts of interesting things from them. I got an Ultra 5 that was perfectly functional for $30 a few years ago, complete with keyboard, monitor and mouse. And Solaris too, but it was under lock and key so the disk was wiped clean.
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