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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 25341 of 52354, by luckybob

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I am green with envy about those IBM units. If I had the money to ship those to the US, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

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Reply 25342 of 52354, by Predator99

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Saw this in an overpriced scrap pile and asked the seller to sell it for 20€ separately...he agreed 😎

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Seems to be a dual-Socket 5/7 EISA AT board. Looks really interesting.

Dont know about the cards, seems to be some network/graphics combo.

Reply 25343 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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Fancy, especially those video/network cards.

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Reply 25344 of 52354, by stamasd

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Actually it's the dual pentium board I'd be more excited about.

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Reply 25345 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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It also looks like it was a server board at one point in time (NT, perhaps)?

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Reply 25346 of 52354, by stamasd

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bjwil1991 wrote:

It also looks like it was a server board at one point in time (NT, perhaps)?

Yes, NT as none of the W9x versions of the epoch would work with dual CPUs. Or Unix of some sort.

I/O, I/O,
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Reply 25347 of 52354, by oeuvre

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Nice haul! Please make another detailed post at some point with pictures + specs.

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Reply 25348 of 52354, by dionb

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Predator99 wrote:
Saw this in an overpriced scrap pile and asked the seller to sell it for 20€ separately...he agreed :cool: […]
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Saw this in an overpriced scrap pile and asked the seller to sell it for 20€ separately...he agreed 😎

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Seems to be a dual-Socket 5/7 EISA AT board. Looks really interesting.

Dont know about the cards, seems to be some network/graphics combo.

Those cards look like some dedicated video conferencing stuff.

As for the board, it's dual So5 with i430NX chipset. Slow as hell, FPM memory only, but supports 256MB and can cache all of it (slowly). EISA is always nice though - but all in all this is mainly a curiosity, not a practical machine, even by retro standards. The only sensible use case is if you have some multi-threaded processes, or multi-process workloads, that need an x86 (in these days, Sparc, Mips & Alpha could run rings around a Pentium) and like WinNT. So basically, if you want to run an early IIS webserver (if so: masochist!), this is your machine 😉

That said, for EUR 20 I'd take it too 😜

Reply 25349 of 52354, by DaveJustDave

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If he was going to throw it all in the trash anyways, why didn't he just give it to you for free, seeing as at least it'll be going to a good home.. $180 isn't bad, but still.

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So I was suppose to get a p4 and a pentium, but I asked the guy why are you selling? He said I am going to throw it anyway but didn’t have time to sell more, so I asked if I can take what he was throwing? And the answer was yes... so I ended up with two ibm pentium pro servers and a dell desktop pentium pro, everything for around $180

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Reply 25351 of 52354, by bjwil1991

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blurks wrote:

Sure it's EISA? Looks like some kind of Asus Media Bus slots to me but I might be wrong.

It's EISA. The ASUS Media Bus slot was common on some of the boards (the slot that's at a PCI slot) for multimedia cards (sound card, video, and, in most cases, networking). The EISA and PCI have one thing in common: the bus runs at 32-bit.

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Reply 25352 of 52354, by Thermalwrong

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Predator99 wrote:

Saw this in an overpriced scrap pile and asked the seller to sell it for 20€ separately...he agreed 😎
Seems to be a dual-Socket 5/7 EISA AT board. Looks really interesting.

Dont know about the cards, seems to be some network/graphics combo.

The cards are remote access cards for servers, like a Dell DRAC (remote access card) or HP iLO from around 2003, the ATI mobility radeon chips give it away. They're embedded computers for remote access / power cycling of the server they're attached to.
Here you go

Very cool board, I havent seen many dual socket 7 boards

Reply 25353 of 52354, by Bancho

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Picked this up yesterday. Its a Viglen Contender 2 650. Tower, 17" Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse and All manuals.

Its a Pentium III 650 (100mhz) On a MSI 6119 1.6 BX board, 256mb ram, Geforce 256 SDR card, SB Live. Its in excellent contition for its age! Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor with it also!

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Reply 25355 of 52354, by probnot

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Bancho wrote:

Picked this up yesterday. Its a Viglen Contender 2 650. Tower, 17" Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse and All manuals.

Its a Pentium III 650 (100mhz) On a MSI 6119 1.6 BX board, 256mb ram, Geforce 256 SDR card, SB Live. Its in excellent contition for its age! Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor with it also!

That monitor is a great find!

Reply 25356 of 52354, by badmojo

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Bancho wrote:

Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor with it also!

Holy smokes look at the geometry on that thing! Beautiful 😎

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Reply 25357 of 52354, by DaveJustDave

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love all the straight lines and angles on this! super clean

Bancho wrote:

Picked this up yesterday. Its a Viglen Contender 2 650. Tower, 17" Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse and All manuals.

Its a Pentium III 650 (100mhz) On a MSI 6119 1.6 BX board, 256mb ram, Geforce 256 SDR card, SB Live. Its in excellent contition for its age! Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor with it also!

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Reply 25358 of 52354, by DaveJustDave

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I haven't done SLI since the time i had a pair of 8800GTs!

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Reply 25359 of 52354, by Murugan

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DaveJustDave wrote:

I haven't done SLI since the time i had a pair of 8800GTs!

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Never had Voodoo and last week did my first SLI 😀 2x CT6670

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