![]() 04/23/2016 at 22:04 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Found this on Craigslist, poster wanted money for it. Ended up trading some old DVD movies for it (8 total). It’s a massive old high end computer from 1996. It sports a 200MHz Pentium, 128mb RAM, a 4mb Matrox Millenia PCI video card, a SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA sound card with SIMM RAM, a 3COM network card... and a slew of SCSI drives. No SCSI card though.
So, the things it needs are...
An AT/DIN to PS2 keyboard adapter so I can use a regular PS/2 keyboard with it
A PCI SCSI-2 card for those SCSI HDs (it did not come with one)
Maybe an IDE HD as well
Some more pictures
Check out these hard drives!
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and you’re going to do what with this thing, exactly?
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3D modeling, video editing, game design, data crunching, Photoshop, and compiling code + data
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You’re geeking out the same way I do when I find a rare 3 wheeler.
I love it!
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no, I mean, really.
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DOS machine so I can oppo on the best OS ever
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Where were you when I was throwing out shit a few years ago? I let an Athlon system go to ewaste because nobody wanted it. Along with a ton of SCSI stuff. Both narrow and U2w
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Dammmnnnn that’s big!
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I wish I still had that Window NT disk to send you.
Seriously nice find though, I would totally use that as a rad retro case with a Xeon set up.
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you ain’t shit unless you can use Lynx
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true dat
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Hehe it will look awesome next to my HP Z620
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twss
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Hack time
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I don’t really do P4s and Athlons... those are at a weird cycle where they’re too new to be retro but too old to be useful :P
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I’m jelly!
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I still have a PPro on a 450KX board with I think 64MB ecc and an IBM A/T board with 640kB socketed in piggy back style because I like the style.
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Proper!
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The 450kx interleaved the banks and had an errata where it was too slow when all four weren’t populated. Fix? Install more RAM.
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More RAM is always the answer.
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What are you planning on using such outdated hardware for? That thing probably can't even play 480p video.
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Yeah! Love the HP Z series, a couple clients ago I had one to set up a virtual environment so I could test WDS for them.
It was an interesting client because I had to interface with the service desk team and their manager hated that I was “a special flower” in IT. Really he lost a shit ton of projects to me coming in to preform those jobs as his team was unequipped to do it. I was able to get caught up on a couple of the projects and get the service desk team organized. When they fired the boss I stepped in as a temp supervisor but left soon after. That place was a mess due to poor management and I had a chance to leave on positive terms so I took it.
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Hell yeah! Time to bust out the Red Alert, Doom, and Descent.
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Oh wow, never knew the name Barracuda for their drives went back that far.
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What a beast!
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That’s like the time I considered buying an SGI Octane off of eBay. Then I stopped and thought “why am I about to buy a computer that is loud and slow and can’t run any software I have?”
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You know, I think I still have a pair of 1MB Pentium Pros in a box somewhere...
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I used to have so much stuff like this. That case is gorgeous.
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Aww yeah. I just cleaned it and it looks remarkably good for its age.
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aww yea
check if you do and then we can be pentium bros
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dat height
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Y U NO INTO L-SHAPED ENTER KEY
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USA KEYBOARDS FTW
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Any update on your retro rig?
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Not really, just that it exists. Can’t really do much right now because I don’t have a compatible monitor. I’m only getting 16 colors on my 32" TV.
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Didja install the gfx card drivers? That sounds more like the issue... is it connected to TV via VGA?
That’s what I was doing; I had a 23" 1080p Samsung TV and it had a VGA port so it worked perfectly as a monitor.
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Yeah I’m using VGA. Where do I get these drivers?
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Find out what gfx card you have first, you might have to open it up.
While you’re there, tell me what network card, modem, and sound card you have... and the desktop mdoel #
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also I got that MOTHERFUCKIN’ GIANT ASS HD to work! It plays nicely with my SCSI card.
It... has no data in it but it works fine.
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Do you .js? You could have some fun.
https://www.smore.com/clippy-js
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dude wtf
I was literally playing around with processing right now
How the fuck did you know...
but yeah that clippy.js thing is amazing
we should embed it in kinja
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Me IRL
I was considering editing the local page source with clippy.js for my own amusement, but then I realised how sad that was.