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recued 11 computers from the trash

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scottatwittenberg

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www.geocities.com/scottatwittenberg/haul

anyways... click the link to see them

i would post some pics in the thread.. but they aren't done uploading yet, and i am on a modem..

anyways... i got a job a few days ago.. and i help out the network administrator for a small company.. and they got some new servers in.. they are upgrading to server 2003 on some dell severs.. anyways... we had to clean out the server room to make space for this big server rack... so i was helping throw away boxes and shit. then he was like, let's throw away these computers.. and i was kinda suprised... so i was like.. well.. i don't want to just throw away good computers... so he was like.. you can take them if you want... so i pulled my van around back and we loaded it up...

that huge one is a pentium 90 with 16 mb of ram
the other somewhat big one is a P 166 with 64 mb of ram
then there are 4 that are the same... they are all 200 and 233 mmx.. with 64 mb of ram in each
and all of those run in their current state..
umm.. then there are 2 celeron computers with memory and hds and everything that should run.. but i think one has a dead power supply and the other one just beeps non stop...
and the last 3 are all pII slot processors.. someone has stripped out the memory, but left hard drives... and some cd roms are missing...
and i also got 3 10mbps hubs... any ideas on what i could do with them?
and there is a stack of keyboards..

so anyways... my first project is to take one of those pII slot boards and put a pIII 750 that i have lying around in it and to max out the memory if i can get enough dimm ram out of some of those comptuers.. (i have a feeling that i have a gig of simm ram between those computers.) and of course the biggest few hard drives and stick them all in a comptuer..

i also am going to probably give a few away to people that need them.. for example.. there is a lady at my church that needs a computer just the check e-mail and stuff... so i can hook her up with everything but a monitor..

so yeah... what do i do with them?

sell them on ebay?
part them out and sell them?
donate them?
throw them in a dumpster?
use the hubs and make some kind of linux cluster or something...
 
dooooonation!

Don't advetise, find out who is looking for a computer like the church lady, and hand them out.

MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU WILL NOT SUPPORT PROBLEMS WITH THEM.

Very important, especially if they know your name.


edit: Oh, and nice friggin haul.
 
or you could send me one of the mobos procs and ram celeron things, maybe ;)
 
yea donate them to your church or what-not, give them away to people that need them... ahh helping the needy, gives you a fresh feeling, don't it?

~Adam
 
score!.. one of them in an 800 mhz celeron... and i figured out why the one computer was beeping... it has no memory... so i gotta throw the one stick on sdram i got into it and see how fast it is...
 
the other celerons are 333 mhz.... they are in ecs slot and socket combo boards... i also have got an asus slot board and a gigabyte slot board... the asus has a wierd cardboard cylinder on it.. like a cap bust open or something.. but i will test it later on...

should a pII slot board support a pIII 750??

oh yeah... can you put a pentium and celeron in the same board? cause it almost looks like you can't in some circumstances...
 
i last discovery, and i am done for the night... that gigabyte board... has.. 3 ide controllers and an ultra scsi... ?? the hard drive almost looks like it has an sata connector on it too... i am probably wrong.. all i see is its a seagate medalist... but i think this computer is old.. it is a pII.. and i can't get video to show up.. there must have been an agp card in there before... so now i gotta find the bios reset jumper.
 
ok.. right now i have the gigabyte board running.. it is a...

GA-6bxs

it has 2 ide and an ultra wide scsi.. and and ultra scsi..

the seagate medalist is an ultra wide scsi drive, i am trying to put win2000 in it right now...


the board currently has a pII 350.. i have a pIII 750 from a dell... but i put it in there and it doesn't work... do i have to change the little white switches in the blue box on the motherboard? or is that pIII dead? i know the dell died.. but it was supposedly just a bad motherboard...

i will try to look up more info on that mobo...
 
Fold on them.
Fold for science and credit the [H] team [[33].
see distibuted computing on this forum.
 
Originally posted by scottatwittenberg
i last discovery, and i am done for the night... that gigabyte board... has.. 3 ide controllers and an ultra scsi... ?? the hard drive almost looks like it has an sata connector on it too... i am probably wrong.. all i see is its a seagate medalist... but i think this computer is old.. it is a pII.. and i can't get video to show up.. there must have been an agp card in there before... so now i gotta find the bios reset jumper.
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If the HD has only one connector, black, around the size of IDE (but not so tall), female, it's 80-pin SCSI. Not a bad find, they're somewhat expensive even in ridiculously small sizes.
(I had to get one a while ago)
 
use one of them as a webserver so people could actually see your pics when geocities pulls your site:p
 
lucky bastard,

whatever ones you keep, i suggest some sort of distributed computing, not necessarily limited to one thing, the choice is yours
 
Problem with donating the computers(which is why a lot of companies now destroy their computers instead of donating them) is that you can be held legally responsible for the computer in terms of data loss. So unless you plan on hiring a lawyer to draft up a contract that exempts you from that responsibility, I'd just have them do distributed computing :p Or maybe practice soldering on some of the old ones, if you want :D
 
Two Words. GARAGE SALE! Fix em up all nice, wonderful and net ready, have a demo monitor to show them off with to show people they work. You can probably get $100-$200 a pop for them. You will make more money in person than you will on Ebay.
 
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