Found this today!!! difficult to carry home

theelf wrote on 2023-12-04, 21:56:

Found this today!!! difficult to carry home

You need a trailer!

Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-12-04, 22:14:

theelf wrote on 2023-12-04, 21:56:

Found this today!!! difficult to carry home

You need a trailer!

jaja and all i have is a electric scooter

Anyways finally i carry home all, my wife was not happy today

PD2JK wrote on 2023-12-04, 21:48:

Another 'machine' saved from the bin.

DSC_7221.JPG

Turns out it's an Athlon Thunderbird B 1200 MHz (100FSB), Biostar M7VKB, 2x 64 + 256 MB RAM and a GeForce2 MX. Still needs testing if anything works...

pc looks like the first one i cobbled together with parts i bought online 15 years ago. nostalgia brings me back, 256mb ram and a nvidia gforce, i forgot which model

Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-12-04, 22:14:

theelf wrote on 2023-12-04, 21:56:

Found this today!!! difficult to carry home

You need a trailer!

"In A World where people stopped caring about vintage hardware, and started to carelessly dump their neglected treasures on the streets, one brave retro collector is setting out on a quest..."

Oh, wait, not that kind of trailer? 😀

digger wrote on 2023-12-07, 12:16:

Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-12-04, 22:14:

theelf wrote on 2023-12-04, 21:56:

Found this today!!! difficult to carry home

You need a trailer!

"In A World where people stopped caring about vintage hardware, and started to carelessly dump their neglected treasures on the streets, one brave retro collector is setting out on a quest..."

Oh, wait, not that kind of trailer? 😀

That was funny and I would totally see that movie.

twiz11 wrote on 2023-12-06, 00:02:

PD2JK wrote on 2023-12-04, 21:48:

Another 'machine' saved from the bin.

DSC_7221.JPG

Turns out it's an Athlon Thunderbird B 1200 MHz (100FSB), Biostar M7VKB, 2x 64 + 256 MB RAM and a GeForce2 MX. Still needs testing if anything works...

pc looks like the first one i cobbled together with parts i bought online 15 years ago. nostalgia brings me back, 256mb ram and a nvidia gforce, i forgot which model

Update: The system is working without problems. The system is from Dreamsys model(?) EX.

digger wrote on 2023-12-07, 12:16:

Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-12-04, 22:14:

theelf wrote on 2023-12-04, 21:56:

Found this today!!! difficult to carry home

You need a trailer!

"In A World where people stopped caring about vintage hardware, and started to carelessly dump their neglected treasures on the streets, one brave retro collector is setting out on a quest..."

Oh, wait, not that kind of trailer? 😀

Funny, but I was imagining a small trailer that could be attached to and towed by an electric scooter.

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling centre. Would have been a shame...

Turns out to be a great find:
VLB motherboard, supporting both 386 and 486
Cyrix DX2-80
8MB ram in 1MB 30p simms
Conner 400MB disk
ET4000AX graphics
Some early atapi cdrom

Came along with some dull Pentium 4-2,6 system in pretty OK case, the coolest Philips 107T5 CRT and meh Lexmark inkjet printer.

waterbeesje wrote on 2023-12-07, 18:44:

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling cen […]
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Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling centre. Would have been a shame...
IMG_20231130_190642.jpg

Turns out to be a great find:
VLB motherboard, supporting both 386 and 486
Cyrix DX2-80
8MB ram in 1MB 30p simms
Conner 400MB disk
ET4000AX graphics
Some early atapi cdrom

Came along with some dull Pentium 4-2,6 system in pretty OK case, the coolest Philips 107T5 CRT and meh Lexmark inkjet printer.

Awesome, that's a nice clean looking little unit.

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-12-07, 18:51:

waterbeesje wrote on 2023-12-07, 18:44:

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling cen […]
Show full quote

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling centre. Would have been a shame...
IMG_20231130_190642.jpg

Turns out to be a great find:
VLB motherboard, supporting both 386 and 486
Cyrix DX2-80
8MB ram in 1MB 30p simms
Conner 400MB disk
ET4000AX graphics
Some early atapi cdrom

Came along with some dull Pentium 4-2,6 system in pretty OK case, the coolest Philips 107T5 CRT and meh Lexmark inkjet printer.

Awesome, that's a nice clean looking little unit.

It had been on an attic for years, with next to no light zo Theres hardly any decolourisation. Best of all: Theres a an external battery, the onboard barrel had no leakage at all. Gonna snip it next weekend any way ofc.

waterbeesje wrote on 2023-12-07, 18:44:

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling cen […]
Show full quote

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling centre. Would have been a shame...
IMG_20231130_190642.jpg

Turns out to be a great find:
VLB motherboard, supporting both 386 and 486
Cyrix DX2-80
8MB ram in 1MB 30p simms
Conner 400MB disk
ET4000AX graphics
Some early atapi cdrom

Came along with some dull Pentium 4-2,6 system in pretty OK case, the coolest Philips 107T5 CRT and meh Lexmark inkjet printer.

Cool rig! Especially the name "Megapower" sounds like a cartoon villain 🤣

waterbeesje wrote on 2023-12-07, 18:44:

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling cen […]
Show full quote

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling centre. Would have been a shame...
IMG_20231130_190642.jpg

Turns out to be a great find:
VLB motherboard, supporting both 386 and 486
Cyrix DX2-80
8MB ram in 1MB 30p simms
Conner 400MB disk
ET4000AX graphics
Some early atapi cdrom

Came along with some dull Pentium 4-2,6 system in pretty OK case, the coolest Philips 107T5 CRT and meh Lexmark inkjet printer.

WOW this computer is amazing!!!

theelf wrote on 2023-12-07, 20:26:

waterbeesje wrote on 2023-12-07, 18:44:

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling cen […]
Show full quote

Not exactly my own find, my my father in law did. He found this little beasty, getting ready to be deported to the recycling centre. Would have been a shame...
IMG_20231130_190642.jpg

Turns out to be a great find:
VLB motherboard, supporting both 386 and 486
Cyrix DX2-80
8MB ram in 1MB 30p simms
Conner 400MB disk
ET4000AX graphics
Some early atapi cdrom

Came along with some dull Pentium 4-2,6 system in pretty OK case, the coolest Philips 107T5 CRT and meh Lexmark inkjet printer.

WOW this computer is amazing!!!

i'd say save it for retro gaming or totally in control modern linux operating system with total hardware control, no ime no windows no uefi

Nice find !

I was offered a old security system for free ... wich i of course couldnt resist.

The main thing i am interested in are 6 monitors with a ton of inputs (BNC, composite, component, dvi, vga, hdmi... in different combination).
Most of the stuff is from BOSCH and thats probably why it is still working after all the years 😁
One power supply of a monitor integrated into the stand is broken but was already replaced by an external one years ago... and the monitor works. The rest is flawless.
4 Cameras, a 4 in 1 video combiner, a 4 to 8 video splitter, 6 monitors, a alarm central, a remote access panel, documentation, cables and a UPS for the alarm system with working batteries...
I can now live very secure... but i will probably just use the monitors for my retro needs with all the sweet inputs...
The cameras are composite output and have quite a nice picture... for the time they were made in...

I am glad i have saved all the struff from the dump.

Why would anyone throw away an SGI Octane.

edit: has 2 73GB SCSI drives, 1 Tape streamer.
What looks like a dual cpu & 4GB ram on a 030-1467-001 rev D
a 030-1403-003 for video/graphics output for which an adapter will be needed to hook up any sort of display.
and a 060-0035-002 PSU.
The machine was used by a heavy smoker.

Now to find the pinout for the display output.

weedeewee wrote on 2024-01-03, 18:42:

Why would anyone throw away an SGI Octane.

Because Jurassic Park gave them nightmares as a kid? (-:

Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-01-04, 01:09:

weedeewee wrote on 2024-01-03, 18:42:

Why would anyone throw away an SGI Octane.

Because Jurassic Park gave them nightmares as a kid? (-:

was that the pc the girl was accessing unix on?

twiz11 wrote on 2024-01-04, 23:59:

Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-01-04, 01:09:

weedeewee wrote on 2024-01-03, 18:42:

Why would anyone throw away an SGI Octane.

Because Jurassic Park gave them nightmares as a kid? (-:

was that the pc the girl was accessing unix on?

Yeah. It had a bunch of SGI related stuff: http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/jpark.html