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> Hi-I have an HP 166Mhz server less the hard drive.  OS was UNIX.
> I know nothing of UNIX.  Wondering:  can I install new hard drive
> (ide?-scsi), use windows and use server for Mp3 and other
> assorted data storage?  Thanks for any advice.

        Well that would depend on what exactly it is. Do you know what processor it
uses? If it's an Intel x86 based platform I don't see why you couldn't get
windows or any other x86 OS working on it. If OTOH it has a different
processor then running windows becomes much more unlikely. However you will
almost certainly find a Linux distro that would work on it. Also since it's
a server most likely it uses SCSI drives, it might have IDE support but IDE
is pretty much useless in a server environment. TTYL

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