Who here is running odd systems?

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NulloModo

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Heya,

I figure with a hardware enthusiast community like this there have to be some people running some non standard (i.e. non Mac, non-x86 windows/linux) boxes at home, even if just for a novelty.

I used to have a little Sparcstation that I played around with, but over time it was just more and more outdated and I sold it to a friend, since then I have been getting the itch again though.

Anyone running Itaniums, Power4 or 5s, Sparcs of any variety, or other oddball procs in a home system? Share some pics and experiences/what you use them for.
 
I had a Sun blade 150 for a while...that count?
 
I've got an old sgi indy that I play around with sometimes. I don't actually do any real work on it, but it's still pretty cool. Then sometimes I'll hook up a terminal to the old microvax II and play around on that. I don't do any real work on that, either.
 
I have an HP B2000 Workstation with a 400MHz PA-RISC CPU, 1G of RAM, OpenGL card, and a couple of 10,000 RPM SCSI drives.

It's running HP-UX. Sometimes I do work related development on it, sometimes I just fire up a copy of Mozilla on it and browse the web when I have nothing better to do, or when someone is using my main desktop system. It's performance isn't bad considering it only runs at 400MHz.
 
jjmcwill said:
I have an HP B2000 Workstation with a 400MHz PA-RISC CPU, 1G of RAM, OpenGL card, and a couple of 10,000 RPM SCSI drives.

It's running HP-UX. Sometimes I do work related development on it, sometimes I just fire up a copy of Mozilla on it and browse the web when I have nothing better to do, or when someone is using my main desktop system. It's performance isn't bad considering it only runs at 400MHz.
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Do you have any photos? I'm always interestedin seeing the guts, and especially the CPUs, of out of the ordinary systems.
 
While not odd or rare, I still have my Commodore 64 & 128's setup. The occasional nostalgic 8-bit gaming.

We get seveal old Sparc's, DEC's and other rare/propriatary used machines here at work, but I never get around to grabbing one before it gets stripped and recycled :(
 
Still have a computer with a Cyrix 180mhz processor...I think that is pretty odd :p Solitare runs nasty on it.
 
I used to work for this computer store back in the day that sold a CPU called a "winchip".

They were always trying to sell it to customers... it was some x86 clone that was really terrible.

people think cyrix is bad... or the old AMD k5/k6... try an IDT winchip... just terrible offbrand x86.
 
Yashu said:
I used to work for this computer store back in the day that sold a CPU called a "winchip".

They were always trying to sell it to customers... it was some x86 clone that was really terrible.

people think cyrix is bad... or the old AMD k5/k6... try an IDT winchip... just terrible offbrand x86.
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You know, I remember those for some reason...

I too have used Cyrix, K6 and K6-2s, and even Via CPUs...
 
Here at RIT practically the entire computer science department uses sun workstations and servers, so sparc boxes are no rarity here. I've always wanted to steal one just for kicks :cool: .

One of my dormmates has an old tandy (haven't checked to see if it's the 8088 or 286) sitting around here waiting for some MINIX action.
 
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