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AnalogRocks
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:31 am Post subject: PC Boomerang |
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Some times they come back...
This past weekend my 1999 server boomeranged back to me.
It was top shelf for 1999!
Abit BP6 dual socket 370 motherboard
2- Celeron 500MHz processors
256megs ECC ram
6.4 GB Quantum 7200RPM boot drive
4x18GB Quantum 7200RPM storage drives
Promise ATA 100 RAID controller ( 0+1iirc )
3DFx VooDoo3 AGP card with VIVO
Sound Blaster LIVE! sound card
Dlink 10/100 ethernet card
RealMagic Hollywood plus DVD decoder card
Soundblaster 6x4x24 speed CD burner
Pioneer slot load IDE DVD ROM drive
PC Power and Cooling, Turbo Cool 350 watt power supply
It runs Win98SE, WinNT4, and RedHat 6.0 with 2.0.36 kernel
The monitor is the Princeton Graphics Ultra 95 19" CRT rated 1600x1200@76Hz max
Total purchase price in Oct 1999? Around $6000 
How times have changed....
The primary hard drive is toast, I'm going to replace it with a CF card I think. Should cost about $25 to fix it. I just have to find the Windows/driver/Redhat disks and manuals. They should be around somewhere.
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I have/had that motherboard and a pair of Celeron processors. I might still have it mounted in a case somwhere waiting disposal.
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AnalogRocks
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| WanMan wrote: | | I have/had that motherboard and a pair of Celeron processors. I might still have it mounted in a case somwhere waiting disposal. |
If you still got it let me know. I'd surely like another one.
As we all know 2 is always better than one when it comes to tech
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ecrabb
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I love the NetZero user/pass written on the inside of the door... So 1999...
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I have a server of similar vintage. 6 xeon slotted procs at 900mhz each 8gigs of installed ram(I think the max is 24), 4 gigabit fiber cards 2 standard gigabit cards, a massive full length raid controller oh and all the pci slots are hot swappable, and FOUR 1000w power supplies, it's either 6u or 8u and weighs over 200 pounds. Sounds like a jet taking off when you fire it up. Total original cost 150K+, cost to me, 15 min of dumpster diving
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AnalogRocks
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| trebortaergeht wrote: | | I have a server of similar vintage. 6 xeon slotted procs at 900mhz each 8gigs of installed ram(I think the max is 24), 4 gigabit fiber cards 2 standard gigabit cards, a massive full length raid controller oh and all the pci slots are hot swappable, and FOUR 1000w power supplies, it's either 6u or 8u and weighs over 200 pounds. Sounds like a jet taking off when you fire it up. Total original cost 150K+, cost to me, 15 min of dumpster diving |
Sweet! I love the stupid heavy duty stuff. What operating system does it run?
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I also have a BP6 with two 500mhz celerons. Yes I recall these were a must have board as you could over clock the celeron, well certain ones, and this board could take two!!
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trebortaergeht
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Sweet! I love the stupid heavy duty stuff. What operating system does it run? |
I'm not sure what was on it originally as the drives were wiped, probably netware or some other unix derivative, I have server 2003 on it right now. Still has fairly decent performance but very impractical to run. I usually only pull it out at LAN parties to to show what you would have had to have to spent a future-proof gaming rig, with a good agp card it can play games from 2004-2005. For my current server needs I run a quad pentium 4 xeon server at 3.7GHz that I picked up for $50 shipped off eBay.
I remember when maximum pc built a computer with that dual celeron board, I still have the issue lying around somewhere.
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AnalogRocks
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| trebortaergeht wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: |
Sweet! I love the stupid heavy duty stuff. What operating system does it run? |
I'm not sure what was on it originally as the drives were wiped, probably netware or some other unix derivative, I have server 2003 on it right now. Still has fairly decent performance but very impractical to run. I usually only pull it out at LAN parties to to show what you would have had to have to spent a future-proof gaming rig, with a good agp card it can play games from 2004-2005. For my current server needs I run a quad pentium 4 xeon server at 3.7GHz that I picked up for $50 shipped off eBay.
I remember when maximum pc built a computer with that dual celeron board, I still have the issue lying around somewhere. |
You sure it wasn't still BOOT magazine back then? I think I have all of them from 1997-2005 or so.
$50 shipped!? Good score! That would make a great Quake 1 server
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| km987654 wrote: | | I also have a BP6 with two 500mhz celerons. Yes I recall these were a must have board as you could over clock the celeron, well certain ones, and this board could take two!! |
That was the Abit BH6, for the Slot1 and superoverclockability
There was also a BX6 I think
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| trebortaergeht wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: |
Sweet! I love the stupid heavy duty stuff. What operating system does it run? |
I'm not sure what was on it originally as the drives were wiped, probably netware or some other unix derivative, I have server 2003 on it right now. Still has fairly decent performance but very impractical to run. I usually only pull it out at LAN parties to to show what you would have had to have to spent a future-proof gaming rig, with a good agp card it can play games from 2004-2005. For my current server needs I run a quad pentium 4 xeon server at 3.7GHz that I picked up for $50 shipped off eBay.
I remember when maximum pc built a computer with that dual celeron board, I still have the issue lying around somewhere. |
You got any pictures of those servers?
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