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[King Warg²]

woohoo i got really bored today, so i built myself a 386....that i'm posting this topic on! running windows 95B and chatting on AIM while making this post. Processor is getting pretty hot too!

System specs: 386DX-33, 8MB RAM, 1MB VIDEO, 340MB HDD, 32x CDROM.

Any obsolete computer fans in here? present company excluded.....

Now just one other thing i need to do... *attempts to install [email protected]* lmao!

 

[TollhouseFrank]

OMG dude.... [email protected] is gonna cripple that thing! or at least give it a good whackl!

 

[AlabamaCajun]

This I've got to see
6 maybe 7-PPD, LMAO.

 

[godofgorks]

i'm guessing..... about 150 ppy (year)

 

[ghettocomp]

I have an old 33 Mhz 486 running windows 3.11. actually I have not fired it up for around a year or two. but it was running when I put it away. 8MB Ram, 420mb Hard Drive. what a trip trying to get it online without a modem
I dont think that would finish a single TT frame in a year

 

[AlabamaCajun]

I have 48meg in my 486-33 on Win95, think it would load the client. Sounds like a harddrive torcher test to me

 

[ThePCGuy]

I used to be in this club. Since then I've donated most of the computers to people who wanted them and what not. I did just receive a Packard Bell with a Penium Overdrive 166 chip, but I had no use for it, so I cleaned it up and booted it up. Then set it outside (someone took it this evening). I also was given another older computer but haven't gotten that one out of my truck yet to test out. Might be a 486 or so. I think I'll get that right now actually.

- Jim

 

[pscout]

I have an old 486-66 server waiting for me to turn into a case for my next external rad watercooling system.

I think it has nt4 on it ... maybe i should fire it up to see if it can fold before i donate its body parts to science.

But i would have to put a token ring pci into one of my rigs since it is an ibm microchannel box and i only have token ring adapters for it.

... a bit of nostalgia!

... hey is there an OS/2 folding client?? now that would be retro

 

[King Warg²]

i wish i had some MCA NIC's...about a dozen of them.. i got a garage full of old IBM machines that use MCA, they would be prime beowulf nodes if i just had some 16-bit MCA NIC's

 

[pscout]

i wish i had some MCA NIC's...about a dozen of them.. i got a garage full of old IBM machines that use MCA, they would be prime beowulf nodes if i just had some 16-bit MCA NIC's

Not sure how many nics i have --- all mca's i have are token ring. I also have a drawer full of parts ... mem - lots of 8mb sticks ecc and some non ecc ...

haven't looked at them much in a long time but if you are serious i would be happy to inventory them and send anything u want.

Lots of scsi 1gb drives ... and some external enclosures ... cd roms, even an optical drive (128 mb floppy). also some mca scsi adapters ... i had a bunch of servers when last cust upgraded ... all the servers have is scsi ... except for the 2.8 floppies (which i still have too!).

I have a couple of 8 port MAU's for token ring too.
Have cables too and adapters for the skinnier token ring cables.
have 1 pci token ring nic so they can bridge to ethernet lan. Not sure if there is a winxp driver for it but i had it running on w2k.

 

[King Warg²]

the things i'm really after are a few MCA NIC's and perhaps 30 pin SIMMS above 1mb -_- (yea i still on occasion fool around with the stuff) these IBM machines have no floppy or CDROM, just a little 210mb SCSI drive. I got like at least 30 of them from the board of education. I'm not sure i could use token ring though, maybe 10base2, but not token ring.

 

[AlabamaCajun]

Microchannel Away you mangey beast of IBM. J/K, I had a bad experiance with MC back in 92 when an irate employee stole the diskette for setup of a strange backup drive. I added one lousy stick of ram (whopping 4 meg) to the little MCA critter and it activated the reconfigure "Please insert master diskette" (not the exact phrase). We had no Idea how she had configured the little beaster so I pulled the ram and rebooted "Please insert custom setup diskette" arrrrrg! goodbye backup drive. I was able to use the factory setup disk to setup with the 4meg stick in the system so I could compile without useing ovl files. Later one of the guys figured out how to config the drive on his regular regular PC gaining access once again. I do have to say for a 386 it was fairly swift little box.

 

[threeme2189]

old pc's are t3h l33t!
my guess is that folding 24/7 it would about 0.5 ppd.

 

[King Warg²]

w00t for teh 386's

 

[dwschoon]

I think our first pc was a 486sx, and we thought we were so cool when we upgraded it to a 486dx and upped the ram to a whopping 4mb. Those were the days.