Turning older g4 tower into a server at work

At my work we have a 466mhz g4 tower with 640mb of ram running os9. Some people were wondering if we could turn it into somewhat of a server. I was thinking of putting two large hard drives in it and hooking it up to our network. We would just use it in our graphics department to place our clip art images and things like that on. Would this be worth it or should it just get the boot out of the office. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks guys.

Hi,
Sure, you could do that easily. Just install the drives, the OS and connect it to the network. For a few dollars more though, you could buy a network drive (ethernet) that would be less trouble (and cheaper) to run and probably faster too.
John

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