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old tech! by Verte on 07-26-2007 at 01:15 AM
A few months ago, I became the happy new owner of a 17 year old mac LC. I'm not sure weather it was the fond memories of the system from primary school [my school was well behind the times- they still had mac IIs in 1997!] or some sort of geeky aura that surrounds 16 MHz Motorola processors and other obscure, long dead technologies; but I just had to have it. On the practical side, they are supposed to run GNU/Linux quite well [once I upgrade the hard disk- the 20 meg unit is going this week to make room for an 18 gig disk].
So anyway, I tossed around some ideas for it- SILC serving, cron jobs, messaging, emacs authoring [both LaTeX and C], some browsing [probably with dillo or something, I sure wont do javascript or flash on it], etc, and then I was wondering, do you own any obscure or old hardware, and what do you use it for? Otherwise, what would you use it for? Do you know of any fast, light programs I'd find useful on such a machine?
One other thing I wanted to ask about, do any of you know about places that sell ethernet PDS cards? The worst thing about having ancient tech is when you need an old add-on card 
Looks like I'll be using IP-over-SCSI for a while, which is not fun because it does mean some minor kernel hacking.
RE: old tech! by ShawnZ on 07-26-2007 at 01:21 AM
i have a 300mhz x86 compaq presario as a domain controller running win2k server
RE: old tech! by MeEtc on 07-26-2007 at 01:59 AM
I have a 30 pin RAM module as a keychain 
I have a video card that sits on my desk that has no working drivers under XP
RE: old tech! by Voldemort on 07-26-2007 at 02:07 AM
I have a 266 mhz PII compaq presario running Windows XP (surprisingly fast, actually) capable of doing 1900*1200 or some big res like that.
RE: RE: old tech! by Verte on 07-26-2007 at 02:13 AM
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Originally posted by Voldemort
I have a 266 mhz PII compaq presario running Windows XP (surprisingly fast, actually) capable of doing 1900*1200 or some big res like that.
Nice! I remember my 200MHz MMX machine doing 1600x1200x24 bit games fine. Crazy that.
RE: old tech! by Kenji on 07-26-2007 at 02:50 AM
Got a old apple powerbook 150/170 (not too sure, as it says 170 on the front and 150 on the bottom) And a old windows 3.11 laptop somewhere around the house, they both work still.
I used to have some strange compaq thing that looked like a microwave with a 75MHz cpu + 4MB RAM + 500MB HDD but someone stole it >.>
RE: old tech! by Jarrod on 07-26-2007 at 05:58 AM
i have a microbee, and it's used as a dust collector
i also have an ethernet card that's not pci so it might be PDS some1 gave it too me
RE: old tech! by ShawnZ on 07-26-2007 at 07:12 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Voldemort
RE: old tech!
I have a 266 mhz PII compaq presario running Windows XP (surprisingly fast, actually) capable of doing 1900*1200 or some big res like that.
using the onboard graphics?!@#
RE: RE: old tech! by Verte on 07-26-2007 at 02:18 PM
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Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by Voldemort
RE: old tech!
I have a 266 mhz PII compaq presario running Windows XP (surprisingly fast, actually) capable of doing 1900*1200 or some big res like that.
using the onboard graphics?!@#
I don't think onboard graphics existed back then
RE: old tech! by Voldemort on 07-26-2007 at 04:41 PM
quote:Well, I'm sure it wasn't upgraded so
Originally posted by ShawnZ
using the onboard graphics?!@#
RE: old tech! by ShawnZ on 07-26-2007 at 05:16 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Verte
I don't think onboard graphics existed back then
offboard graphics didn't exist!
RE: RE: old tech! by Verte on 07-27-2007 at 03:20 AM
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Originally posted by xen0h
i have a microbee, and it's used as a dust collector
i also have an ethernet card that's not pci so it might be PDS some1 gave it too me
Does it look like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_Direct_Slot
RE: old tech! by ryxdp on 07-27-2007 at 08:59 AM
My dad has lots of old stuff that pretty much resides in a corner of the living room, and it comprises of a few CD-ROM drives, some old SCSI drives that were apparently used as extra video memory, some blanks and lots and lots of ethernet cables. We also have three old PCs, two Dells and an IBM Personal Computer 330.
RE: RE: RE: old tech! by Jarrod on 07-27-2007 at 10:26 AM
quote:no sorry it looks like a pci card but the bottom of it is cut differently
Originally posted by Verte
quote:
Originally posted by xen0h
i have a microbee, and it's used as a dust collector
i also have an ethernet card that's not pci so it might be PDS some1 gave it too me
Does it look like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_Direct_Slot
also what ports does it have use a someport (com or serial) to ethernet adapter
RE: old tech! by ShawnZ on 07-27-2007 at 01:58 PM
quote:
Originally posted by xen0h
no sorry it looks like a pci card but the bottom of it is cut differently
like this?
RE: RE: RE: RE: old tech! by Verte on 07-27-2007 at 02:08 PM
quote:
Originally posted by xen0h
quote:no sorry it looks like a pci card but the bottom of it is cut differently
Originally posted by Verte
quote:
Originally posted by xen0h
i have a microbee, and it's used as a dust collector
i also have an ethernet card that's not pci so it might be PDS some1 gave it too me
Does it look like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_Direct_Slot
also what ports does it have use a someport (com or serial) to ethernet adapter
Nothing really useful. It's got a heap of mini DIN-style ports for ancient mac printers and modems [kind of like ps2], and it's got a db25 SCSI port. If it did have an rs-232 I wouldn't have any problems at all- it's not like null modems are expensive these days.
if it isn't ISA [but I imagine it would be], it could be PCI-X. High end computer companies usually only sell 64-bit PCI cards, which have an extra bit, kind of like AGP does, though they still fit in a PCI slot if you try. Some of them are really nice, too- I've seen several quad gigabit cards in an SGI unit a while back.
RE: old tech! by Jarrod on 07-27-2007 at 10:02 PM
checked it out it's a pci-x card