Picked today:

Intel SE7320SP2/SE7525GP2 board from goldscraper in unknown condition coz i'm out of 604 Xeons atm.

And this nice Repotec hub from late '90s with coaxial,don't ask why i just like it looks and it works well

Alright,get some stuff for tests and as collection update:

Pci-e x4 FC cards and PRO/1000XT nic.

Some Xeons:

Pair of 3333MP Potomac with 8mb l3

Quadruplet of 3066DP Prestonia with 512kb l2

Pair of 1266 P3-S Tualatins

Pair of ...umm HP Superdome (chipsets or hubs as i thought) not a cpu for sure

And 4x1gb registered ddr1 Samsung branded

I'm wondering if that chip is the CC ASIC...

Get dell PowerVault 110T today together with sealed 40/80gb tape drive.
Pretty old,so this is max capacity for this model,but still cost as wing from a plane tho.

Scored pair of this thin clients,6$ each (they was with bulged caps and did not turning on) first i wanna play with PXE some and then probably use em as lil DOSBox.

I like the idea of those thin clients. Are they C3-based or something? Anyway, what's this?

Oh? A big- ass box? Maybe it's a big load of parts. Nope! This is the single biggest piece of computer hardware i have ever purchased (well, privately anyway). Let's see what's inside...

Is a bit of a beast. Longer, wider and (a bit) taller then a standard ATX case. Yes, it's a server: an HP tc3100 to be precise. Let's look inside:

What's that? Integrated SCSI and an empty 370-pin socket? That can only mean one thing. Wait for it...

One bad-ass SCSI controller, with SDRAM for caching and the venerable i960 at the helm. And finally:

Yep, it's a Tualatin. I'm very excited, as it's my first SMP system. I mean really i have no practical use for this thing, as the cost of acquiring drives that would get anywhere near 2TB would be prohibitive. And noisy. And power- hungry. Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting W2K Server running on this and putting in the extra CPU.

How much did shipping cost on that!?
But welcome to the club! SMP is indeed totally not efficient in any way what so ever, but its just so cool!

chinny22 wrote:

How much did shipping cost on that!?
But welcome to the club! SMP is indeed totally not efficient in any way what so ever, but its just so cool!

Shipping was free! I don't know how but it was. Probably the only reason i decided to go for it.

brassicGamer wrote:

I like the idea of those thin clients. Are they C3-based or something?

Aye forgot about spex:
via eden esp 4000 400mhz
128mb sdram
32mb cf with some adopted linux(sad but system corrupted at both)
uses 12v 3a external psu or this adapter,that was with one of em:

And nice haul btw! 😀

I have two tc3100s, and used one as my main file server for years. The motherboard is actually just a rebranded ASUS TR-DLS, so you can put it in any E-ATX sized case with a regular ATX PSU. I ran my server in a case with 8 removable SATA drive bays and a PCI-X RAID card. I also got the remote management card that goes with the model. Very cool machines, but a little too slow for serious work nowadays.

Errius wrote:

I have two tc3100s, and used one as my main file server for years. The motherboard is actually just a rebranded ASUS TR-DLS, so you can put it in any E-ATX sized case with a regular ATX PSU. I ran my server in a case with 8 removable SATA drive bays and a PCI-X RAID card. I also got the remote management card that goes with the model. Very cool machines, but a little too slow for serious work nowadays.

It's a little too big for me to use as my main server but, as you say, it's a standard motherboard. This was the first thing I checked when I received it - none of this proprietary IBM or Dell rubbish. I've put the chassis into storage for later, and will rehouse the motherboard. I was considering using it as my full time server (because it supports Server 2003 and is only dishing out files) but how long do you think such a system would last before giving up? It seems to have been decommissioned only recently so has probably served 13-15 years already. I'd rather preserve it than run it into the ground.

Mine was in daily use for four years (2010-2014) and was still going strong when I retired it. It was already well-used when it came to me, though I don't know its past history. I also had a spare so wasn't too concerned if it failed. You may want to preserve yours.

I also ran Windows Server 2003, though a problem I never solved was how to shut it down from within Windows. Selecting "shut down" just causes it to reboot. The only reliable way to remotely shut it down is via the Remote Management card. (The ProLiant that replaced it also has this 'feature' - you have to log into the iLO to shut down.) There's probably a Windows setting somewhere that disables this behavior but I haven't been able to find it. (Debian Linux shuts down without problem so it's clearly an OS issue.)

ETA: I have discovered the cause of this shutdown issue. It is in fact a problem with the Acer USB 2.0/FireWire 400 card I was using in both machines. Remove the card, and the machines shutdown correctly. IDK why Debian was not affected.

I think this qualifies although it's not officially called a server, and it has no networking capabilities according to modern standards, but it's a central computer that allows connecting other computers to it with cables in a sort of network, so here goes.

Recently got this System/36 IBM 5364 computer together with other standard 80's PC stuff:

It has 2x 5.25" full-height HDDs of unknown capacity (possibly between 40-65MB each). It also has a RAM board (the long one) and a receiver board that allows a IBM PC to connect to it and serve as console to perform various maintenance tasks. The computer terminals that were used for actual work would connect via the 2 twinaxial connectors on the back. It appears to have been manufactured in the first half of 1987 in Italy.

There's a single 5.25" floppy disk marked Sys36. No other related hardware or software items were included, so I don't think I'll ever be able to interact with it since I lack the required hardware unfortunately.

Did I kill this thread? Or no one has been buying server or networking hardware?

devius wrote:

Did I kill this thread? Or no one has been buying server or networking hardware?

You didn't kill it, you nailed it!

Lack of replies is because the topic is more restrictive than "vintage hardware" so less people are implicated.
Give them time. This is a nice topic 😀

Bump! 😈

2x Xeon MP Foster 1.6 GHz - 1MB L3 cache (left)
2x Xeon MP Gallatin 3.0 GHz - 4MB L3 cache (right)

With some luck both should fit my Asus i875P board. 😀

IBM Intellistation M (03N2499) dual slot 1 motherboard. I know some dont recomend buying oem boards, but for £31 included shipping i take that risk. Just put it in a frame and put on a wall if i cannot use it 😊

Scraphoarder wrote:

IBM Intellistation M (03N2499) dual slot 1 motherboard. I know some dont recomend buying oem boards, but for £31 included shipping i take that risk. Just put it in a frame and put on a wall if i cannot use it 😊

IBM Intellistation M.jpg

Interesting,reminds me ASUS PCH-DL a bit.

Also found photo of my "old" NT system how i mounted non standard mobo in usual ATX case kinda ugly and not a perfect photo but meh

rein_ein wrote:

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Scraphoarder wrote:

IBM Intellistation M (03N2499) dual slot 1 motherboard. I know some dont recomend buying oem boards, but for £31 included shipping i take that risk. Just put it in a frame and put on a wall if i cannot use it 😊

IBM Intellistation M.jpg

Interesting,reminds me ASUS PCH-DL a bit.

Also found photo of my "old" NT system how i mounted non standard mobo in usual ATX case kinda ugly and not a perfect photo but meh

Yes those are some big beasts. Your is a true server board without any AGP slot. Later they came with PCI-X and no ISA, so for me they are pretty useless without any option to use a dedicated graphics card excpet for pci. Oh and that lone swan from Matrox 😵

£23 inc shipping. Compaq Smart Array 2-E Controller. Will go in my quad P166 Proliant 4500 that has only EISA slots.
Funny print of the little $ Pig on the cache board. Yes i think these controllers costed a fortune 20 years ago 😊