bjwil1991 wrote:

@oeuvre: How'd you get the Facebook reaction emoji?

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Baoran wrote:

The cathode ray tube and the electron gun won't turn on if there is no power plugged in which means there is no load even if the switch would be just a dumb switch. The cathode ray tube is the only load the high voltage power supply has inside a crt.
There are instructions online how to drain capacitors of a crt before trying to repair one. Do you think those instructions would be necessary if it would be that simple to drain them by just pressing the power button?

Indeed, after looking into it, i found out that crt technicians have a special tool that is more or less a fancy version of the ghetto method with the screwdriver and cable with alligator clips i referred to earlier. By the way, yesterday i managed to turn the brightness up on my old monitor (while on) using a long insulated screwdriver, wearing two pairs of latex gloves and keeping one hand behind my back. I wouldn't advise for anyone unqualified (like myself) to do this... 😒

Found all of this at the local outdoors recycle drop off point last week. Covered in snow. Had to dry them out as best I could and then wait a good solid 24+ hours to make sure they had dried out.

15" Digital model PCXCV-BW Build date July 1998 (just after compaq bought them)
19" Samsung SyncMaster 997DF Build date October 2004
dell ps/2 keyboard, leveno usb mouse (still in wrapper at the time)

Not pictured also a pc

MSI KT3 ultra 2 motherboard
Athlon xp 1800+
256 mb ddr
MSI GF4 Mx440 64mb agp
SB Live 5.1
40gb maxtor (10 bad sectors)
US robotics 56k
Linksys 10/100 lan card
cd burner, Dvd drive and floppy all working

Congratulations, you are now in posession of the best Socket A motherboard as far as I am concerned.. (still looking for one myself)

My colleagues found this in the dumpster and gave it to me as a present:

NEC JB-902M(E) Character Display

It has a simple mono composite-in, and as you can see it works happily with my ATi Small Wonder in Hercules mode. Skeletor approves. If I want to use this seriously (to whatever degree a 9" green composite monitor can be considered 'serious'), I do need a far, far better composite cable, as the one I now use suffers from awful ingress from the rest of the system, resulting in interference banding rolling up the screen.

marry your coworkers

🤣
nice screen dionb , you can re-live the authentic Hercules experience!

oeuvre wrote:

marry your coworkers

Nah, there's a reason they're all divorced 😜

dionb wrote:

My colleagues found this in the dumpster and gave it to me as a present:

NEC JB-902M(E) Character Display

It has a simple mono composite-in, and as you can see it works happily with my ATi Small Wonder in Hercules mode. Skeletor approves. If I want to use this seriously (to whatever degree a 9" green composite monitor can be considered 'serious'), I do need a far, far better composite cable, as the one I now use suffers from awful ingress from the rest of the system, resulting in interference banding rolling up the screen.

Indeed very nice 😉 Whats the manufacturing date?

Predator99 wrote:

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Indeed very nice 😉 Whats the manufacturing date?

Not sure. There's a code "24776202" on the sticker on the back, which might imply 1977 week 24, but the only pic I can find online of the same sticker shows "24776201". Either that indicates the massive coincidence that these two rolled of the assembly line consecutively back then, or it's just a model/revision number, not a date or s/n.

Here's that pic:
quartdepomme.fr/quartdepomme/Hardware_A ... (E).html#5

dionb wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

marry your coworkers

Nah, there's a reason they're all divorced 😜

Their spouses wouldn't let them hoard old hardware?

liqmat wrote:

The data center I worked in the early 00s had hundreds of these and they were all eventually auctioned off. Never in a million years would I have thought people would find these heavy, noisy ass beasts desirable. After racking and unracking these for years I can thank some of these models for my lower back problems I have today. We replaced them all with Dell rack servers. Out of all the Proliant rack models of the time I found the 1U DL360 G1 my favorite. Small, lightweight and reliable with decent specs and we would setup rows of them in load balancing scenarios.

Yeah, it took two of us to load that Proliant 3000 into my truck. I could barely get it into the house by myself! The other two aren't too bad. I can manage moving them around myself, but not that monster. Good grief.

Funny thing is I just scrapped a DL360 G2 last week. I did keep the two 36.4GB drives, and the two Pentium III-S 1.4GHz Tualitins though!

luckybob wrote:

Oh man, I just feel how heavy those beasts are from Denver.

Glorious.

Indeed glorious. The sound coming from that PL1600R with all 4 10k RPM SCSI drives spinning is Heavenly. 😁

chinny22 wrote:

Awesome! Here's my 16oo tower. Proliant 1600 Barn (well shop office) Find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDx2ZM44JU […]
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Awesome!
Here's my 16oo tower.
Proliant 1600 Barn (well shop office) Find
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmDx2ZM44JU

I've upgraded mine a fair bit, pretty much maxed out now. I'll have to update the post, but you can mount the LCD the correct way, it just clips in.

I'd love to convert both of those 1600s to towers, but finding their pedestals and bezels would likely be next to impossible. As for the LCD I found that odd too that someone would mount it sideways for some unapparent reason, unless that person enjoyed looking at things from a different perspective from time to time. 🤣

I was driving through a posh suburb today - where of course they have posh hard-rubbish - and noticed a nice 17" Sony CRT monitor, VCR, Stereo system, etc. Sadly the copper jerks had cut all the cables off, so I left it all there.

I had access to a decent haul the other day, but almost every cable had been cut. Copper prices must have just gone up. There were cable ends everywhere.

Seriously, how much copper do you get out of a mouse cable, anyway? A quarter penny?

I had no idea cable cutting was a thing. How lame. I do remember reading about thieves who were actually taking apart people's A/C condenser units while they were sleeping for the copper. The homeowners would wake up to a non-functioning A/C. You have to be pretty freakin desperate to pull these kind of stunts.

liqmat wrote:

I had no idea cable cutting was a thing. How lame. I do remember reading about thieves who were actually taking apart people's A/C condenser units while they were sleeping for the copper. The homeowners would wake up to a non-functioning A/C. You have to be pretty freakin desperate to pull these kind of stunts.

Now and then there's a major electricity outage at the local railways because copper thieves stole some cables from the railroad track...

More rarely, a fried thief is found next to it. 😵

E-waste pile was stacked again

couple of dell machines and an older Emachine. Dell XPS 8700 and an optiplex 790 and a lone Evga geforce 6200 512mb AGP card.

Emachine had two sticks of pc-100 unknown size for both sticks, one has NEC chips the other samsung. and a Celeron 600 mhz. Nothing else really worth saving.

Both Dell systems were already gutted by whoever seems to show up doing the same thing I do before me, all of the add on cards removed, all of the memory even PSU's often gone. the only thing they don't seem to go after are the cpu's as I suppose getting the heatsink off is to much of a bother for them.

The XPS was a hell of a system when it was new going by the system build code on dells site, i7 4790, 24gb of ram, 256mb SSD, 2 tb HDD. The optiplex as well was gutted but also still had it's cpu, a i7 2600

No idea if any of this works, I'll be testing the 4790 eventually in my system as it's an upgrade over my current i5. ram not pictured. (had a spare plastic cpu tray from my 4690, so I plopped the 4790 in)

Yesterday... this was going to be gone.... forever!

Seeing this going for the landfill... I could not help but save it from near doom.

A Digital Prioris 6200, Dual P-Pro server.... my first P-Pro! I see it has EISA slots, and weird looking smaller white ones... apparently called PCI!

I just found 2 old mice, a Logitech Trackman T-CC2-9F and a A4Tech 4D scroll trackball mouse in the garbage at work, i hooked em up and they both work fine.

The T-CC2-9F is my all time favorite trackball for comfort. I wish they made a more modern version of it with optical tracking.