VOGONS


Quite a SCI-FI thing

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First post, by Shodan486

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Playing Tiberian Sun on this machine is soooooo awesome 😁.

AMD K6-III 400MHz 66MHz FSB
PC66 ECC 256MB RAM
Chips & Tech. 69000 VGA
ST 7GB HDD
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Many features that yet need to be explored

-Just to add to the VGA, it's quite possibly the most advanced 2D chip ever, integrating 2MB VRAM & TFT+CRT(LCD) logic + RAMDAC, GPU & VRAM at 83MHz...Is there something better?

MOBO: PVI-486SP3 Rev 1.2
CPU: POD-83
RAM: 2x16MB
VIDEO: Matrox Millenium 2MB/Voodoo2 12MB/Video Blaster VT300
AUDIO: SB Vibra16 FM
SCSI: 72GB 15k RPM HDD/YAMAHA CD-RW 16x/ZIP drive + FDD drive
NIC: 3Com Etherlink III
PSU: 230W Generic
OS: Win95 OSR2.5

Reply 2 of 30, by Shodan486

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forgot to mention an audio chip and a SCSI, although that needs to be examined first, seeing no port...

MOBO: PVI-486SP3 Rev 1.2
CPU: POD-83
RAM: 2x16MB
VIDEO: Matrox Millenium 2MB/Voodoo2 12MB/Video Blaster VT300
AUDIO: SB Vibra16 FM
SCSI: 72GB 15k RPM HDD/YAMAHA CD-RW 16x/ZIP drive + FDD drive
NIC: 3Com Etherlink III
PSU: 230W Generic
OS: Win95 OSR2.5

Reply 5 of 30, by DonutKing

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It's a specially designed anti-theft laptop.

Too heavy to steal, even if someone was to try you could just hit them with it and break their skull 😜

If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble.

Reply 6 of 30, by Tetrium

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

It's a Schlepptop 😜

LMAO!!!

Otoh, maybe it was made after an old design from the cold war era, you could schlepp, I mean carry that laptop into your nuclear bunker so you could continue to email and download pron until the nuclear winter is over 😁

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Reply 8 of 30, by Shodan486

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The goldish plug is used for connecting directly to the nuclear power plant monitoring system 😁

Swaaye & I share the same sense of humor, anti-theft laptop is great and after googling for the ''schlep'', my lungs just got a ''Schleppbreath" 😁 😁 😁

Besides the funny topic, it's an old rugged PC with a specific modules used to monitor and localize potential problems in LAN, WAN, MAN - you name it, upon a HW level, so it can tell approximately where the cable is cut etc., and many more abilities yet need to be explored. Made by Agilent Technologies, earlier versions were HP/Agilent - this one is the latest guys ! And most powerful 😀.

MOBO: PVI-486SP3 Rev 1.2
CPU: POD-83
RAM: 2x16MB
VIDEO: Matrox Millenium 2MB/Voodoo2 12MB/Video Blaster VT300
AUDIO: SB Vibra16 FM
SCSI: 72GB 15k RPM HDD/YAMAHA CD-RW 16x/ZIP drive + FDD drive
NIC: 3Com Etherlink III
PSU: 230W Generic
OS: Win95 OSR2.5

Reply 9 of 30, by Shodan486

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swaaye wrote:

I'd love to take that thing to the local public wireless hotspot.

No battery, need to take a loooooooooooooooong power cable with you also 😀 - uses standard grounded 3 pin plug.

MOBO: PVI-486SP3 Rev 1.2
CPU: POD-83
RAM: 2x16MB
VIDEO: Matrox Millenium 2MB/Voodoo2 12MB/Video Blaster VT300
AUDIO: SB Vibra16 FM
SCSI: 72GB 15k RPM HDD/YAMAHA CD-RW 16x/ZIP drive + FDD drive
NIC: 3Com Etherlink III
PSU: 230W Generic
OS: Win95 OSR2.5

Reply 10 of 30, by Mau1wurf1977

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I dare you to take this with you on an international flight 😜

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Reply 11 of 30, by leileilol

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I think a laptop of a girth of even over one half an inch would raise suspicion nowadays 🙁 The DOS on a plane days are over, because when you're at C:\>, you're HACKING

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Reply 12 of 30, by DonutKing

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

I dare you to take this with you on an international flight 😜

Do this and once you're on the plane open it up so people around you can see the screen and load this page:

http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

Reply 13 of 30, by Mau1wurf1977

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DonutKing wrote:

Do this and once you're on the plane open it up so people around you can see the screen and load this page:

http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

Hahahah

Never gets old 😁

Reply 14 of 30, by Shodan486

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leileilol wrote:

The DOS on a plane days are over, because when you're at C:\>, you're HACKING

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!?!?! Now there is an official statement about this or what???

MOBO: PVI-486SP3 Rev 1.2
CPU: POD-83
RAM: 2x16MB
VIDEO: Matrox Millenium 2MB/Voodoo2 12MB/Video Blaster VT300
AUDIO: SB Vibra16 FM
SCSI: 72GB 15k RPM HDD/YAMAHA CD-RW 16x/ZIP drive + FDD drive
NIC: 3Com Etherlink III
PSU: 230W Generic
OS: Win95 OSR2.5

Reply 16 of 30, by BigBodZod

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Shodan486 wrote:
leileilol wrote:

The DOS on a plane days are over, because when you're at C:\>, you're HACKING

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!?!?! Now there is an official statement about this or what???

I'm sure here in the states the TSA thinks so 😜

Anything other then a GUI is hacking for security sake 😢

I wonder how that would come over if you are using DOSBOX on you Netbook to play a classic title or something...

No matter where you go, there you are...

Reply 17 of 30, by luckybob

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That's awesome looking, seriously. I'm going to bet its some sort of network manamge machine. because if I'm not mistaken, at the hinge there is a v.35 connector. And if memory serves me, I only saw those kinds of connectors on T1 systems.
http://www.telebyteusa.com/catalog/refinfo/ref2.htm

I wouldn't be surprised if that "laptop" has a csu/dsu internal with a freaking router.

Have you tried to ring out the serial ports?

Reply 18 of 30, by Dant

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What's the exact model number of this? I can't find it on the manufacturer's site for the life of me. 🤣

Anyone else tempted to get one of these and mess with random people by claiming you're a world-renouned anti-hacker trying to track down some fictional virus and destroy it? 😏

Reply 19 of 30, by Shodan486

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This particularly is J2300E. There are a lot of other models, such as J2301B, which is a full equipped 486 version with onboard 16MB ram, others are J2300x, which may have a smaller display of it is based on first generation TFT technology, not all of them have the same features and so. If you prompt ''Internet Advisor'' into ebay, you'll find many more, easy to get I say 😀 (except these ''high-end'' J2300E).

It is a pity, due to some U.S. domestic law, that J2300E-s can't be sent outside the U.S. borders that easy - I myself had to sign some sheet to specify the purpose of my purchase and scan it back to the seller. Could be the only one in Europe 😀

I will try all it's features as soon as I leave my research on physx drivers I currently play with (and my original Ageia card). I surely will require any assistance if you possess such skills as cisco networking and so...

MOBO: PVI-486SP3 Rev 1.2
CPU: POD-83
RAM: 2x16MB
VIDEO: Matrox Millenium 2MB/Voodoo2 12MB/Video Blaster VT300
AUDIO: SB Vibra16 FM
SCSI: 72GB 15k RPM HDD/YAMAHA CD-RW 16x/ZIP drive + FDD drive
NIC: 3Com Etherlink III
PSU: 230W Generic
OS: Win95 OSR2.5