First post, by jlrice54
I've been searching for drivers and a possible BIOS update for my AOpen XC Cube Model EZ65-310 which has an AOpn UX4XG-1394 motherboard and a P4 2.8ghz cpu, 512k ram and an ancient IDE Samsung 80Gb hard drive. It's currently running XP Pro SP3 and I was thinking about installing faster P4 chip, a pair of larger SATA drives and 2GB ram to make it a small Linux workstation or possibly a NAS box. The cube has been sitting in storage since 2011 gbut it fired right up after I inspected it for swollen caps and blew the gray felt insulation out of the case and fans.
I found that the AOpen ftp is no more all over the world. I was technical director at a medical software VAR from 1999 to 2009 and purchased millions worth of AOpen hardware from the Dallas AOpen Tech Center until it closed around that time. I still have more Aopen hardware in storage and since I'm now 72 and retired I have started playing with some of my old hardware from Tandy 1000's, Commodore 128D running C/PM 3, Fat Mac 512, various old 68K Macs, a NeXTstation and a SGI Indy. One of my AutoCAD stations in my shop is a Dell Dimension XPS Pro running Win98 on a Pentium Pro 200 and runs AutoCAD 11 for DOS, AutoCad 12 for Windows and AutoCAD 2000, all left over from my first career as a electrical, control and instrumentation contractor. Anyway, I was kind of shocked to see how diminished AOpen has become and to find trhe ftp site vanished.
So after determining that the ftp site would not help, I started searching an found this forum with its discussion about downloading the site before it disappeared. Did anyone ever publish the files that were salvaged before they pulled the plug? I know that running and admisistering an ftp site can be a hassle. I ran ftp.blackcube.org for NeXT hardware, NeXTstep images and hardware documentation plus around 100Gb of Sun, SGI and Mac information for around 6 years until I left the Medisoft VAR and lost my hosting arrangement. Strangely I still have the old web and ftp servers from that site in storage. I used a SGI Origin 200 for the web server and an a SGI Intel box as the ftp server. I've actually been considering setting it all up again but not on the Origin as it eats a few hundred dollars of kilowatts per month.
So if anyone know about an online mirror of the AOpen ftp site please drop a clue for me. Thanks.
