Hardware:
I configured these from the boards up, back when they were state-of-the-art:

• Motherboard: Pentium 75MHz, Intel Triton, PCI
  
• BIOS: December 26, 1995; PnP v1.0a Award
  
• RAM: 32 Mb
  
• Video: Trident 9440 with 1M (BIOS: 18-Apr-1995)
• SCSI: Adaptec 2940W v1.16
• Disks:
• Seagate ST11200N 1.1Gb
• Conner 1.1Gb
• CD: Toshiba XM-5401TA (2x)

• Kernel: Slackware 1.3.68-ELF (this required 20 minutes to recompile)
• Compiler: gcc 2.7.0
• X11: XFree86 3.1.2D
• web server: Apache 1.0.3
• Browser: Netscape Navigator 2.02
• FTP server: wu-ftpd 2.4
• MTA: sendmail 8.6.12
• Security: ISS, COPS, and tripwire, but I could never 'make' SATAN on this kernel)