We have a wireless network in our house, there are three of us living there.
We've got the network set up nicely, and one of the things that we often access from each other's shared drives is music. I was in my local computer shop the other day, that deals with secondhand computer bits, and saw a PII rackmount server - he wanted 40 quid for it, and I was tempted to get it, so we can have a machine that is always on to store music/video that we can all access - thus freeing up space on our local hard drives, and somewhere where we can store files that we're all likely to use - such as zipped installs of common windows applications, and also somewhere we can all back up data from our hard drives. But what I was wondering, is what sort of system would I need as a minimum to do this?
Two systems I have lying around that I could use to do this are an A1200 with Blizzard 1260 and SCSI kit, or a PPC Mac (604). Or should I plump for a PC?
