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Reply 20 of 30, by pentiumspeed

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cyclone3d wrote on 2022-06-19, 19:17:
pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-06-19, 18:50:

I have pair of boards using TX chipset, socketed pentium mmx 266 using low profile wide heatsink that was used in phone routing system. Fairly common on ebay and web search if you want to look for these to harvest parts and 266MMX processors.

These boards is non-standard factor, cannot be adapted to the ISA/PCI configuration.

Cheers,

Mind telling us what system exactly?

Certainly!

Google or ebay for these: "Marconi SCP-P5-266 Switch Control Processor"

Marconi SCP-P5-266 Pentium 266 MHz- 64 MB DRAM Switch Control Processor, came out like this:
http://doc.netz-komponenten.net/Marconi/SCP.pdf

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Reply 22 of 30, by creepingnet

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Had a job ripping out a PBX System from a Bellevue Washington company about 15 years ago. The main controller of the PBX was a 486 DX-33 with a pretty standard ISA motherboard in a boring gray utility box. The Floppy Drive was INSIDE the Utility box! I wish I had the chance to take it home. It would have been hilarious to have that thing running Monkey Island on my desk!

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Reply 23 of 30, by Standard Def Steve

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Way back in 1999-2001 or so, one of the music stores at the mall here had a huge video display. I think it must’ve been at least 70”, was definitely 16x9, and probably rear projection CRT-based. That thing would just play music videos and movie trailers all day long, and you could hear it across the mall. Anyway, I used to pass that thing on my way to work every day, and thought that it was just looping a laserdisc or DVD.

Well, one day as I was passing by, that big old screen was proudly displaying… a Win9x style ScanDisk in all of its blue and yellow glory! “Because your computer was not properly shut down…”

I was thoroughly amused. 😊

Anyway, it finished ScanDisk, booted into Windows, and automatically launched what appeared to be custom software. It then started blasting the usual music videos and trailers. So yeah, I thought it was kinda neat at the time. Of course, these days, you’d expect such a display to be PC-driven.

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Reply 24 of 30, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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Acquired an old piece of broadcast video gear a year or two back which was based on an Iwill DP533-S dual socket 603 Xeon board, and apparently part of the control / management systems for Philips CT scanners ran on a dual Tualatin Intel SDS2 board

Reply 25 of 30, by Rikintosh

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Standard Def Steve wrote on 2022-06-19, 23:31:
Way back in 1999-2001 or so, one of the music stores at the mall here had a huge video display. I think it must’ve been at least […]
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Way back in 1999-2001 or so, one of the music stores at the mall here had a huge video display. I think it must’ve been at least 70”, was definitely 16x9, and probably rear projection CRT-based. That thing would just play music videos and movie trailers all day long, and you could hear it across the mall. Anyway, I used to pass that thing on my way to work every day, and thought that it was just looping a laserdisc or DVD.

Well, one day as I was passing by, that big old screen was proudly displaying… a Win9x style ScanDisk in all of its blue and yellow glory! “Because your computer was not properly shut down…”

I was thoroughly amused. 😊

Anyway, it finished ScanDisk, booted into Windows, and automatically launched what appeared to be custom software. It then started blasting the usual music videos and trailers. So yeah, I thought it was kinda neat at the time. Of course, these days, you’d expect such a display to be PC-driven.

It reminded me of something similar, also in a mall, but there were several CRTs of approximately 20 inches, in a huge "panel", each CRT displayed a part of the image. It was controlled by a computer, and apparently each CRT had a resolution of 320x240 or something, as the pixels were distinctly large. It generated a lot of heat, and there was a thick power cord that powered it all.

He would stay at the mall's cinemark, showing movie trailers, and sometimes showing 20-minute snippets of movies in theaters. Every time I see a crts on large panels I remember the smell of movie theater popcorn...🤣

Anyway, there was a regular computer (Pentium 1 MMX or Pentium 2), with an MPEG card, whose output used only one cable, which went to an electronic thing that shared the image for all those CRT TVs.

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Reply 26 of 30, by Jasin Natael

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I have harvested K6 chips from a few Sonic Wall routers over the years. Unfortunately this is no longer the case with the newer ones being MIPS and the like. But I always check.

Reply 27 of 30, by Rikintosh

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Jasin Natael wrote on 2022-06-20, 21:12:

I have harvested K6 chips from a few Sonic Wall routers over the years. Unfortunately this is no longer the case with the newer ones being MIPS and the like. But I always check.

I've never seen a sonicwall with x86, only mips. Could you tell me what the model was?

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Reply 29 of 30, by Zup

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Older black and white Xerox copiers (165, 232, 56xx without TAG 40) could have an MBC attached to the lower back. It was a x86 thing (AMD Geode?) that had VGA and even some PCI ports, but I don't remember if it had PS/2 ports. It booted a custom BIOS that allowed serial connection.

I don't know if they can be repurposed into a PC configuration.

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Reply 30 of 30, by Jasin Natael

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Rikintosh wrote on 2022-06-20, 21:41:
Jasin Natael wrote on 2022-06-20, 21:12:

I have harvested K6 chips from a few Sonic Wall routers over the years. Unfortunately this is no longer the case with the newer ones being MIPS and the like. But I always check.

I've never seen a sonicwall with x86, only mips. Could you tell me what the model was?

No I wish I could remember, and I could be wrong and it wasn't a Sonic Wall but I seem to recall that it was.
I had like three or four of them that we replaced and out of curiosity I cracked one and there it was.
But it has been 5-6 years ago. I could be wrong on the brand. It was quite old at the time however.