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The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

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Reply 40 of 169, by liqmat

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KCompRoom2000 wrote:
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Yeah, I was planning on giving it away in the Discord channel via a contest, but before I did, scan it in so everyone could make their own down the road. I think what I will do is just scan it in at a very high DPI, as is, and then someone with good graphics skills can make their own from the scan.

Once you've scanned it and made it readily available, how about I make a silver Pentium Pro case badge (similar style to Pentium MMX-4) just for fun? 😉

I would love that. I'll scan it in tonight.

Reply 41 of 169, by liqmat

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KCompRoom2000 wrote:

Once you've scanned it and made it readily available, how about I make a silver Pentium Pro case badge (similar style to Pentium MMX-4) just for fun? 😉

Here it is @ 1200dpi. Let me know if this will do. Thanks & I will buy a few for sure.

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Reply 42 of 169, by KCompRoom2000

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Thank you. I'll look into modifying it to look like the newer Pentium stickers where silver stickers were used.

I haven't ordered silver/metallic sticker paper yet, but when I order a set of it soon, I'll definitely post a photo of the results (as well as a photo of replicas of other metallic Intel/Windows stickers).

Reply 43 of 169, by liqmat

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KCompRoom2000 wrote:

Thank you. I'll look into modifying it to look like the newer Pentium stickers where silver stickers were used.

I haven't ordered silver/metallic sticker paper yet, but when I order a set of it soon, I'll definitely post a photo of the results (as well as a photo of replicas of other metallic Intel/Windows stickers).

Outstanding! I know a few people who will order them from you, including me.

Reply 44 of 169, by Scraphoarder

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Awsome, im stunned! Were those ALR 6x6 rebranded to Unisys Aquantas? I always believed the ALR units had black/dark grey towers. I bought the second last Unisys NOS unit that were from the lot on eBay. The last one also got to a Vogons member in Europe.

Reply 45 of 169, by liqmat

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As I've been going through the boxes from this haul, which I am about 40% done, I have run into some leaking batteries. Luckily, so far, no permanent damage and everything has been saved minus one 486 board. Here is a stack of eleven hard to find new old stock ALR dual socket Pentium Pro motherboards I saved from their jumbo size barrel batteries. No traces were damaged and only a few of the boards even show very minor signs there was leakage. Whew, catastrophe averted.

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Reply 46 of 169, by KCompRoom2000

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liqmat wrote:
KCompRoom2000 wrote:

Thank you. I'll look into modifying it to look like the newer Pentium stickers where silver stickers were used.

I haven't ordered silver/metallic sticker paper yet, but when I order a set of it soon, I'll definitely post a photo of the results (as well as a photo of replicas of other metallic Intel/Windows stickers).

Outstanding! I know a few people who will order them from you, including me.

Well guys, I've finally done it. I got a set of Avery silver sticker paper to print the stickers on. As a bonus, here's a recreation of the sticker that was posted since I've noticed a proper vector the Pentium Pro logo is next to impossible to find (Note: this is not a vector recreation, but it should be sufficient for printing out replicas of the sticker).

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One of the stickers with a Pentium 4 sticker next to it for comparison
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^ This is the sticker when applied to something (in this case: the top of my Sony DVD player). Sorry about the uneven edges, I used my scissors to quickly cut it, I'll be sure to practice making more even cuts which should be an easy task since I have 35 of these to spare.

If posting Amazon links is permitted, I can link to the Avery sheet that I've used, otherwise I'll just mention the product number (Avery 4396).

The goal of this was to make a Intel Pentium Pro sticker set that resembles the metallic Intel stickers used in the Pentium II-4 eras.

Reply 47 of 169, by Thallanor

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KCompRoom2000 wrote:

Well guys, I've finally done it. I got a set of Avery silver sticker paper to print the stickers on. As a bonus, here's a recreation of the sticker that was posted since I've noticed a proper vector the Pentium Pro logo is next to impossible to find (Note: this is not a vector recreation, but it should be sufficient for printing out replicas of the sticker).

I have done a quick vector mock-up. I'm happy with it in general though the "R" in the trademark circles looks a little wonk. But it's close!

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Reply 50 of 169, by sunaiac

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Wow. Just wow. One of my hen's teeth haha

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Reply 53 of 169, by sunaiac

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Where ?

R9 3900X/X470 Taichi/32GB 3600CL15/5700XT AE/Marantz PM7005
i7 980X/R9 290X/X-Fi titanium | FX-57/X1950XTX/Audigy 2ZS
Athlon 1000T Slot A/GeForce 3/AWE64G | K5 PR 200/ET6000/AWE32
Ppro 200 1M/Voodoo 3 2000/AWE 32 | iDX4 100/S3 864 VLB/SB16

Reply 54 of 169, by liqmat

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Once again, Discord invites are CLOSED for now. This is a hobby of mine and NOT a job so I don't need the stress of too many people in the Discord channel. Invites will happen again at a later date once I catch up. There still will be the occasional hardware giveaway here at Vogons so look for that in the near future as well.

Reply 55 of 169, by bjwil1991

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You, sir, are amazing, as well as luckybob. Thanks for the wireless card, sound card bundle, and the heatsink for the GPU.

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Reply 56 of 169, by liqmat

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A very interesting RAID card, to me anyway. A nice fat ceramic i960 CPU on the card. New old stock from the haul. Also has a battery pack that comes with it still sealed. Have no idea if that pack is still good. Also has a socketed Dallas and both 68-pin and 50-pin connections.

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Reply 58 of 169, by bjwil1991

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I had that SCSI RAID card that was in a Dell PowerEdge 6300 server, and I used it in my K6/2-300 system until I killed the card when I was updating the BIOS (never do that). I still have the RAM and the battery pack.

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