First post, by eisapc
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For the beginning I will post some info on my Compaq Proliant 4500 I started seting up last night. Its not a gaming rig, but an ancient fileserver. Specs are as follows:
4x P100 CPU on separate CPU boards
16 slots of PS/2 memory currently holding 192 MB of parity SIMMs
onboard wide SCSI and SVGA video
SMART RAID EISA SCSI controller
Netflex 3 EISA ethernet controller
List price of this one with dual P100 and 160 MB RAM and 10GB disk space was $31,934 in 1995, I got it from company scrap for free.
It took me some time to get a working CDROM as the original one had a broken belt and the Compaq Smartstart CDs (needed to configure the box) refuse to boot on a non Compaq labeled drive. System was also picky with the CPU boards. Partnumber 163832-001 from a Proliant 2000/4000 was refused. Still have to add some hot plug disk storage, but I have all my old style disk trays stored elsewhere.
Planning to install Windows NT on it, as Linux does not support these systems, as they are not SMP but Compaq proprietary Flex-MP using a dedicated HAL.
eisapc