SCOREEEEEE

"Nibby" (nibby68)
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!

DISCUSSION (44)

jimz > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:07

and you’re going to do what with this thing, exactly?

Nibby > jimz
04/23/2016 at 22:09

3D modeling, video editing, game design, data crunching, Photoshop, and compiling code + data

Birddog > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:09

You’re geeking out the same way I do when I find a rare 3 wheeler.

I love it!

jimz > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:10

no, I mean, really.

Nibby > jimz
04/23/2016 at 22:11

DOS machine so I can oppo on the best OS ever

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:12

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

TheHondaBro > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:12

Dammmnnnn that’s big!

SOCdriver > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:12

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.

jimz > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:13

you ain’t shit unless you can use Lynx

Nibby > jimz
04/23/2016 at 22:14

true dat

Nibby > SOCdriver
04/23/2016 at 22:14

Hehe it will look awesome next to my HP Z620

Nibby > TheHondaBro
04/23/2016 at 22:14

twss

LongbowMkII > jimz
04/23/2016 at 22:15

Hack time

Nibby > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
04/23/2016 at 22:15

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

. . > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:17

I’m jelly!

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:17

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.

Nibby > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
04/23/2016 at 22:18

Proper!

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:19

The 450kx interleaved the banks and had an errata where it was too slow when all four weren’t populated. Fix? Install more RAM.

Nibby > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
04/23/2016 at 22:28

More RAM is always the answer.

Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord. > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:41

What are you planning on using such outdated hardware for? That thing probably can't even play 480p video.

SOCdriver > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 22:45

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.

Alfalfa > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 23:10

Hell yeah! Time to bust out the Red Alert, Doom, and Descent.

Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna > Nibby
04/23/2016 at 23:11

Oh wow, never knew the name Barracuda for their drives went back that far.

Jewish Stig > Nibby
04/24/2016 at 02:33

What a beast!

jimz > Panther Brown Tdi Volvo Shooting Brake Manual Miata RWD Wagon Stole HondaBro's Accord.
04/24/2016 at 06:54

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?”

jimz > Nibby
04/24/2016 at 07:00

You know, I think I still have a pair of 1MB Pentium Pros in a box somewhere...