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First post, by freekymachine

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heyo

Since i used one from 2001 to 2009 (best machine i ever had) - and still look around sometimes i found here someone who wants one.
But i didnt see those machines for over 12 Years.

Here is the one who searches one ; (where i answered and checked my 2x SP750, if they are still alive [yes i got 2, i bought 2nd back then, just in case i fry my first one, which never happened])
Re: Looking for a Compaq SP750 Workstation

And here we might have workaround of the PSU ;
Compaq SP750 PSU pinout?

AAnd here we have the needed Parts to make it run ;
https://www.ebay.com/itm/394010506723?hash=it … ABk9SR9Kbpfn6YA SP750 Mainboard - Alan-Compu has like 3 auctions running with total of 5 ?! Mainboards

AAnd most important - the memory board ;
https://www.ebay.com/itm/373999358537?hash=it … ABk9SR4z3i_f6YA
He has 5 ?!

And PSU seem to exist aswell, but pricey and not 100% if those are the correct ones ;
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134275625332?hash=it … ABk9SR9Sbpfn6YA
https://www.ebay.com/itm/125558160922?hash=it … ABk9SR9Sbpfn6YA

All heavy pricey, but i already talked to alan-tech, lets see what they do, they must realize, this machine is 21 years old, noone in the right mind buys that machine to do his taxes or medical exam on that. Noone needs single alone spareparts for such old machines which have left most companies over 15 years ago.

But yeah, enjoy, there you have it, the part numbers too - go get SP750, last chance, if those are gone, i have rare hope to see em again..
Dont fight over it, dont hype Alan or so ^^, be cool, enjoy and good luck to us all 😀 make sure you/we dont outbid ourselves and go pricey for no reason over ancient tech [i wont buy ofc, i have my stuff]

i have found deep in web one auction in romania, who had one of those untestet, no idea what happened to it, but those machines are basically non-existant anymore - those are the last parts you find on the complete web, ofc maybe im wrong, but i am famous for finding even stuff multiple times, where others say like "IBM Power 5 MCM" - "you wont find any of them anymore" [i took personally and found 7 within 7 months for like 50 dollar to 75 dollar ...pfff, "rare" - rare is, if you search one year and find it maybe only twice 😜 ...OR840, iWill DF400SN, P3C-D, Cray, Acer Board from 1994, Power 5's, True Copper cooler, EVGA SR-2, 1970 memory matrix...whatever, ill surf from europe to korea, small check subforums china, to japan, usa, kenian scrap-metal guys in the outback of africa, back to europe.

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Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

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Thanks for the info. Interesting and Might be cool to build one if I had the time but am too old/lack of time to build another from scratch old proprietary computer 😁

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 2 of 2, by chinny22

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I've already got Slot A, dual Slot 1 so do need a Slot 2 rig to complete the trio.
BUT with a move 1/2 way round the world happening I'm supposed to be downsizing 🙁

I'm already fearing the fate of a Prolient 1600 and S604 era workstations which need recapping so doubt will take with me and demand for such hardware is so low 🙁