Gigabyte 8IG1000 Pro from an discarded AGFA D-Lab thingy. The whole monster ran two PCs, one was a MPU and a PPU if I remember correctly. Wouldn't connect properly anymore so it was discarded, and I managed to snag the 8IG1000 Pro specifically.
Had to update the BIOS from the modified AGFA dlab BIOS on it (FGx I think it was, not sure) to the latest one available on Gigabyte's website (FI, dated 09 Sept. 2004) and so far it's been powering one of my XP retro rigs just fine. Gotta find a suitable PSU and HSF for it though as I took the rather uninspired choice to go with a 3GHz HT Prescott...
One of the AT machines I own was finally discarded last year by its original owner after being in service for almost 20 years. Used with XP to drive some big cut plotter.
Generic AT machine w/ PCChips M726MRT, Celeron 533MHz if I remember correctly, about 256MB of RAM, a 10GB Quantum LCT10 (I also have the 15GB variant of that drive.), ASTI 200W PSU made by L&C/Deer (which got rebuilt a few days before I left for my 2nd year finals), one of those CSX-917D cases (that's supposedly been sought after by some of the members here, from what I recall seeing a few years ago), and originally came with some broken and totally nonfunctional LG and Philips DVD drives which have been since replaced by a single ASUS DRW-1814BL DVD-RW drive I had around.
Pretty much these two were mostly the few I've seen. The second one I know it's not a PC in disguise, but I would've expected something else to drive a very big cut plotter, not some standard PC (and a baby-AT machine w/ a PCChips mobo at that.)
Vynix wrote on 2022-06-19, 01:25:
I recall some Astaro (laher Sophos) security gateways were built around Pentium 4 motherboards, and with a little fiddling you could get them to boot a different OS.
There's another one that I don't remember pretty well (I think it was the Cisco PIX 506E?) at the moment that used a Celeron 300A PPGA, although unlike the Astaro/Sophos gateways this one used a plain ol' Celeron but the rest of the architecture was more or less custom and as such can't be modded to be turned into a plain PC.. So in a way I guess this last one doesn't count?
Speaking of SBCs, IIRC one of Sony's PS2 TOOL machines was literally a SBC based Pentium 233 MMX, although I've heard of units that were upgraded to Celeron/Pentium 3 SBCs.
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