Yesterday, I picked up a nice little server: dual cpu xeon 500mhz system, with 1gb ecc registered pc100 168-pin SDRAM, 120gb 7200RPM 2mb cache ide hard drive, 10/100 network card, ati video card (3-d compatible in linux/xwindows, out of the box), integrated scsi (4 ports), scsi tape drive, scsi cd-rom drive, and a huge case - for, believe it or not, $30!
No clue what I'm going to do with it, although it could be a good linux or windows 2000 workstation.
2 17" monitors in nice shape $4 apiece
Today, I found a wrt54g wireless-g linksys router for $9.99. It was about halfway bricked, but I was able to do a hard reset, upgrade the firmware, and save it. It was like new otherwise and included the box, cd, power supply, antennas..
Also bought a 16 track digital multi-track recorder. The damn thing has so many buttons, knobs, levelers, and features that it'll take me 6 months to figure out how to use it. It has a cd-rw in it and scsi output for zip drives and such and even has spdif output, which is a good way to have a digital connection from the recorder to a mixdown recorder, monitors, or a receiver. No, I didn't get a deal on this one.... but I really wanted it :/
Just picked up some junk recently
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Re: Just picked up some junk recently
Sounds like some pretty good -junk-Malakai wrote:Yesterday, I picked up a nice little server: dual cpu xeon 500mhz system, with 1gb ecc registered pc100 168-pin SDRAM, 120gb 7200RPM 2mb cache ide hard drive, 10/100 network card, ati video card (3-d compatible in linux/xwindows, out of the box), integrated scsi (4 ports), scsi tape drive, scsi cd-rom drive, and a huge case - for, believe it or not, $30!
No clue what I'm going to do with it, although it could be a good linux or windows 2000 workstation.
2 17" monitors in nice shape $4 apiece
Today, I found a wrt54g wireless-g linksys router for $9.99. It was about halfway bricked, but I was able to do a hard reset, upgrade the firmware, and save it. It was like new otherwise and included the box, cd, power supply, antennas..
Also bought a 16 track digital multi-track recorder. The damn thing has so many buttons, knobs, levelers, and features that it'll take me 6 months to figure out how to use it. It has a cd-rw in it and scsi output for zip drives and such and even has spdif output, which is a good way to have a digital connection from the recorder to a mixdown recorder, monitors, or a receiver. No, I didn't get a deal on this one.... but I really wanted it :/
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Re: Just picked up some junk recently
yeah considering my newest motherboard was 550 by itself no fan no cpuToyduck wrote:Sounds like some pretty good -junk-Malakai wrote:Yesterday, I picked up a nice little server: dual cpu xeon 500mhz system, with 1gb ecc registered pc100 168-pin SDRAM, 120gb 7200RPM 2mb cache ide hard drive, 10/100 network card, ati video card (3-d compatible in linux/xwindows, out of the box), integrated scsi (4 ports), scsi tape drive, scsi cd-rom drive, and a huge case - for, believe it or not, $30!
No clue what I'm going to do with it, although it could be a good linux or windows 2000 workstation.
2 17" monitors in nice shape $4 apiece
Today, I found a wrt54g wireless-g linksys router for $9.99. It was about halfway bricked, but I was able to do a hard reset, upgrade the firmware, and save it. It was like new otherwise and included the box, cd, power supply, antennas..
Also bought a 16 track digital multi-track recorder. The damn thing has so many buttons, knobs, levelers, and features that it'll take me 6 months to figure out how to use it. It has a cd-rw in it and scsi output for zip drives and such and even has spdif output, which is a good way to have a digital connection from the recorder to a mixdown recorder, monitors, or a receiver. No, I didn't get a deal on this one.... but I really wanted it :/
TD
This bad boy has an 80mm fan on the cpus. I've actually got 3 15gb SCSI hard drives and just need the right SCSI cable to connect atleast two of them in it and use the 120gb for myself. Might use the 120gb hard drive in my modded xbox - only have a 36gb in it and it doesn't store very much stuff..
I've got mandrake 8.2 linux on it now but not sure what's going to stay in it.
I've got mandrake 8.2 linux on it now but not sure what's going to stay in it.
i'd get rid of mandrake 8.2 and upgrade to mandriva.Malakai wrote:This bad boy has an 80mm fan on the cpus. I've actually got 3 15gb SCSI hard drives and just need the right SCSI cable to connect atleast two of them in it and use the 120gb for myself. Might use the 120gb hard drive in my modded xbox - only have a 36gb in it and it doesn't store very much stuff..
I've got mandrake 8.2 linux on it now but not sure what's going to stay in it.
i got an SCSI card and cable if ya need it.
I just got through installing windows xp pro on the system, and it seems like it's just as fast, if not faster, than my 1.26ghz system. The difference being the 1.26ghz eserver uses regular piii cpus, and the new system uses xeon 500mhz cpus with 2mb of L2 cache ram. That cache ram must make a lot of difference. I'm almost tempted to test worldgroup on the new system and see if it performs any better...
the scsi cable i need is an internal 68-pin lvd/se cable, with atleast 3 device inputs on it and a terminator. If that's what you've got, let me know how much you want for it (shipped).
the scsi cable i need is an internal 68-pin lvd/se cable, with atleast 3 device inputs on it and a terminator. If that's what you've got, let me know how much you want for it (shipped).
WG handles quite well on a similiar system i had here at the shop.Malakai wrote:I just got through installing windows xp pro on the system, and it seems like it's just as fast, if not faster, than my 1.26ghz system. The difference being the 1.26ghz eserver uses regular piii cpus, and the new system uses xeon 500mhz cpus with 2mb of L2 cache ram. That cache ram must make a lot of difference. I'm almost tempted to test worldgroup on the new system and see if it performs any better...
the scsi cable i need is an internal 68-pin lvd/se cable, with atleast 3 device inputs on it and a terminator. If that's what you've got, let me know how much you want for it (shipped).
the SCSI cable is:
SCSI LVD/SE
has 4 device inputs on it, and a terminator.