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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
This is quite interesting: LINK Very similar to my own back shed!!!!   Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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OA47 Guru  Joined: 11/04/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 986 |
Grogs, dont like to admit it but during this lock down I have tested my collection of PC's and have come up with a figure of over 50 working units not to mention the components to build another room full. OA47 |
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SimpleSafeName Guru Joined: 28/07/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 351 |
Not me! No ancient PCs here. Just move along folks... |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5091 |
I am limited to 5 laptops, all 5-10 years old orphans, a MAC, and one ancient desktop, that I keep for it's parallel port and 1394 interface (my old camera). Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Davo99 Guru Joined: 03/06/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1584 |
I had an onsite events business. Would run up to 50 Computers at a time as " Viewstations" where people could order photos of the events we covered. I had all Small form factor desktops and then I went to laptops because the weight of all the computers with the massive ( yet laughably underpowered by todays standards) Servers was getting too much to carry in the Event trailer. I had 14 Printers as well. I gave the business away but I had just stacked all the SFF machines and monitors etc up the back. Did the same with the the laptops and everything else. There were of course backup machines as well and all the cables, KB's, mice and switches and routers. They got more or less buried and forgotten about. When I moved, they were all still there. They were too old to do anything much other than email. I rang a couple of charities but they were actually pretty rude about not wanting them. Brother in law knew some absolute nerd propeller head So rang him and said if you want hit come get it today. And he did. 2 Van loads of it. I told him, whatever you don't want leave and I'll put it in the skip. He was taking ol parts like CD drives and anchient RAM chips OUT of the skip. I told him exacly what the specs of the computers were and that to the best of my knowledge they were all working and set up to network together. Guy didn't leave a thing. NFI what he did with it all but he clearly was wetting his pants with excitement to get it all. I was poking up the back the other day and saw I still have Huge cases ( 1.2x 800 x 300) FULL of network cables and routers and switches. My god I have a lot of routers and switches. Everything from bog 48 port jobs with triple 1000Mbit inlets to dozens of little 4 and 6 port hubs. Spose that's not much good now with WIFI. I did try WIFI when I had the setup but it was just too slow for the amount of people hitting it all at once even though the whole data base for an event was usualy under 400Mb. I do miss those old servers though. one was over 90Kg, had 18 Fans in it which just roared, had 3 power supplys, each one capeable of pulling 15A @ 240V and had 24 SCSI drives. I think they were all around 1.2Gb. The ram was ridiculous though. It was a quad Chip, dual Core and each chip had it's own set of ram which was 32GB and each set of ram had it's own backup ram. I got it off a company that retired it and had paid $38K for the thing 11 years earlier. That was when 38K bought you a really REALLY nice car. I did make money out of that, Sold the scsi drives, the ram and some other special cards it had and got good money for them. Still have one of the power supply's I took out because it does substantial DC output. Was only watching some Vids on Ewaste the other night. The sheer tonnage just of old computers alone that are scrapped these days is mind boggling. |
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| SimpleSafeName Guru Joined: 28/07/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 351 |
It shouldn't surprise me since I collect old 8-bit machines that someone would want to collect the old 386s and 486s, but they do. To each their own I guess. |
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| Davo99 Guru Joined: 03/06/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1584 |
I had an IBM 386 and then got a 486 and built it up into a monster machine with a whopping 1 Mb of ram and a 30 and 40 Mb Hdd. What a machine! :0) I eventually upgraded it to a P133 and put the 486 up the back. About a week later my uncle from the country came to visit and was saying he must get himself a Computer to learn about them and keep up with the technology. Come with me..... Gave him everything, 386, 486, monitors, a couple of the old tractor Feed printers and a modem. I think he thought I was giving him a new Kidney. He used and learnt on them for a while then upgraded himself. He is a model train nut and got a program and box for the PC to control his massive train layout. When I was last up there 2 years ago, the 486 is still going running his train layout. I think that machine would be closer to 30 than 20Yo now. |
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