Free Old Computers

Before I take them down the tip:

Free for anyone who can collect in Milton Keynes before the end of next
week:

2xSGI Personal Iris, complete with one spare logic board.
1xSun Sparc 330

Also have 2x very heavy old SCSI drive enclosures.

 

How big are these? I might make a case mod or turn them into a pair of geeky
cupboards.

 

Big. Heavy.

 

Even *I* don't want that.

 

Heh, I just removed an IPX motherboard from a Sun 'shoebox' case and
started a conversion with a small ATX power supply in the hard drive bay
and a mini ATX Mobo in the bottom. Don't ask why, I'm just a masochist I
guess. I even acquired an LS120 superdrive so I can auto-eject floppies
under linux on i386.

Have a look at this for a comparative system:

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/sparc/

Anyone got any bright ideas about pci risers?

 

Why don't you get a new one from PC world?

 

What a pci riser or a pc?

 

Cool

 

Well a new PC, rather than mess about with the old one. They usually
come pre installed with XP and MS Works. Pretty good VFM.

 

Lol! Stinky bait!

 

Innit?

I want to squeeze in a micro-ATX rather than mini-ITX Mobo, but it's very
tight for height under the power supply.

 

How about turning it into a nice little drinks cabinet.

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~vance/www/vaxbar.html

 

YTC#1 wrote

Feck me old boots. What a pile of old cock.

This is more like it

http://www.xkill.net/rcaslis/computers/Falcon/

I lobbed about 30 IPX/IPC's in the skip about 3 years ago.

I also had the pleasure of chucking several ELC's (remember them) in a
crusher and throwing the switch.

http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/sparc_elc/

HTH

Paul.

 

Pity, they make excellent firewalls.

 

Indeed. Any spare secondary ethernet cards going Bruce?

 

(Zymurgy) spouted the following in

Pah.

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/itxhelmet/page3.asp

 

Nope, sorry, my spare is in the classic at my daughters

 

I picked up 2 classics off ebay last week for 30 quid inc postage from
Scotland.

 

You should be able to run the FW interfaces over a virtual if they only
have one NIC.

 

YTC#1 <> spouted the following in

I'm just lazy basically. I'll have to mess with the code when I have time Ha
ha.