<br>I'm and old motherboard fan too. I've got an old Gateway Pentium 75MHz machine that has a special place in my heart since it survived a fire that burned the house down (PS, MBO, CPU & disk drives worked fine though not the CD. The floppy works at least some of the time). I've upgraded the memory from to 128MB (from 96MB). It runs Windows 98 (boo!) and Ubuntu Linux :-) [1]. With the added Linksys PCI Ethernet card it has access over the network to a few hundred GB of NFS drive space on the other in house machines.
<br><br>It has extra PCI slots so I could stick a Hauppauge 150 or 1600 in the box. Push comes to shove and I could probably add a SATA card and a couple of drives.<br><br>The machine isn't doing much otherwise except collecting dust in the basement.
<br>Can I run MythTV on it? (I really don't want to spend a week and a few hundred $ attempting this if its a lost cause).<br><br>1. Though I wouldn't say it is exactly speedy about booting up X.<br><br>