Somehow found this old Dell Optiplex GX100 in the e-waste bin at my hospital job in 2023...it's pretty rough but I felt compelled to save it anyway.

Interesting, does it have some kind of fancy capture card for xray cameras in it or something?

edit: Ooooh, if it's still got it, might have some card for driving laser scanners.. which is pretty useless unless you've got one in the shed, BUT.. it might have a FPGA on it.. which, subject to a whole string of maybes, could possibly take hardware emulator code for MISTer or similar projects... when soldered onto another PCB tho.

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Some things I dug up in the basement I helped to clean, and guy let me take them away because they were destined to a scrap otherwise...

Floppy boxes are always welcome... Two of these already found a new owners...

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Motherboards I need to test, although I don't have high hopes.

CPUs are almost always OK...

And I tested the Graphic Adapters and all of them work fine. Nothing special, but the spare CT6710 will come in handy (I still have my original CT6710 from the 90s and it's good to have a spare just in case).

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EvieSigma wrote on 2023-01-26, 21:43:

Somehow found this old Dell Optiplex GX100 in the e-waste bin at my hospital job in 2023...it's pretty rough but I felt compelled to save it anyway.

and rightly so! hopefully a fairly straightforward rescue

HanJammer wrote on 2023-01-27, 13:58:

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all good things! hope that oscilloscope is working, they can be worth something too

gerry wrote on 2023-01-27, 15:09:

HanJammer wrote on 2023-01-27, 13:58:

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all good things! hope that oscilloscope is working, they can be worth something too

Guy who wanted to get rid of it said it is working I didn't tested it yet though.

HanJammer wrote on 2023-01-27, 13:57:

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Motherboards I need to test, although I don't have high hopes.

CPUs are almost always OK...

And I tested the Graphic Adapters and all of them work fine. Nothing special, but the spare CT6710 will come in handy (I still have my original CT6710 from the 90s and it's good to have a spare just in case).

Quite a haul, congrats. Those ST cpus, I've messed with one or two back in the day, the impression they gave me was "What if there was a Cyrix, that was a cyrix to Cyrix?" i.e. cheaper and not quite as tight on quality. Meaning in effect that you need a good for the time heatsink and fan to keep it from crashing, while the Cyrix and IBM parts only needed the passive heatsinks.

gerry wrote on 2023-01-27, 15:08:

EvieSigma wrote on 2023-01-26, 21:43:

Somehow found this old Dell Optiplex GX100 in the e-waste bin at my hospital job in 2023...it's pretty rough but I felt compelled to save it anyway.

and rightly so! hopefully a fairly straightforward rescue

Unfortunately the case seems to be tweaked so much that the side panel won't even fit properly any more, but hopefully it still functions electronically at least.

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-01-27, 04:10:

Interesting, does it have some kind of fancy capture card for xray cameras in it or something?

The PACS stickers indeed seem to suggest that. If that's the case, more pictures EvieSigma.. pretty please 😉

pbagain wrote on 2023-01-27, 22:30:

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-01-27, 04:10:

Interesting, does it have some kind of fancy capture card for xray cameras in it or something?

The PACS stickers indeed seem to suggest that. If that's the case, more pictures EvieSigma.. pretty please 😉

Unfortunately it's been stripped of...basically everything by the time it ended up in my hands, no interesting cards...no cards at all, in fact.

Hmmm go careful testing it then, if retired gracefully it might have been more complete, if it failed in service, then the parts were needed to put in the new machine.

I struck Beige!

The Oak VGA, Logitech Mouse card and Caviar 280 suggest an early '90s 486 or late 386.

The case, gigabyte-ga-586t2 mobo, K6-166 CPU and samsung hard drive seem 1997

And then they upgraded to this heavy as hell Sony P4 a few years later. The case has a hole though the middle.

Found them together in the snow with a generic Dell Core 2.

Looks like 30 years of computing history in a pile.

I'm going to wait until it dries off before testing

I didn't know they did a *squint* 12bit busmouse card, heh, probably just an extra IRQ or two to pick from.

I got this Silverstone Raven RV01 case from a friend of mine (he wanted to trash it)

Also got this bunch of PSION organizers in various version from a daughter of an electronics professor who passed away due to COVID. All do seem to work. Apparently he was building some expansions because I also got a bunch of empty expansion shells and developer kits... It was again "You take it or I will throw it away" kind of a deal and she didn't wanted any money for it saying her father would be glad if somebody will have some fun with this stuff.

Think they've got a flat file database and also have been used for stock-keeping duties, so maybe useful to catalog parts on.

HanJammer wrote on 2023-02-02, 15:00:

I got this Silverstone Raven RV01 case from a friend of mine (he wanted to trash it)

Also got this bunch of PSION organizers in various version from a daughter of an electronics professor who passed away due to COVID. All do seem to work. Apparently he was building some expansions because I also got a bunch of empty expansion shells and developer kits... It was again "You take it or I will throw it away" kind of a deal and she didn't wanted any money for it saying her father would be glad if somebody will have some fun with this stuff.

That's a very nice haul you got. Those cases are really nice and from what I remember rather easy to build in as well.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2023-02-02, 15:45:

That's a very nice haul you got. Those cases are really nice and from what I remember rather easy to build in as well.

I have an idea to use it in some not-so-modern build at work. Which I may do because the nice feature is the I/O ports are easily accessible from the top which may come in handy for the guys in the laboratories... We will see.

Trash picker alert, 20ns 4x64 SRAM "cache" spotted on 14.4 Fax modems, guess you'll need to find two of them and be okay with sub 33Mhz use... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fax_M … Baud_AT-Bus.jpg