Found a computer - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;25643881']I found this workstation last Wednesday. [IMG_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMG_0235.JPG[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMG_02372.JPG[/IMG_thumb] 512MB FB SDR ram 10GB scsi HDD matrox video card you can slot ram in Dual PIII 700 MHZ windows ME what do?[/QUOTE] hell yeah, Matrox was the shit back in the day.

[QUOTE=not_Morph53;25638881]Install Windows ME, and see how long you can keep it stable. My current record is 2 weeks.[/QUOTE] hahahahaha I got a used p3 computer with ME on it from goodwill about 3 years ago. I just deleted all the crap on its hard drive and used it for a good year with no hangups or crashes before I put XP on it. I still miss ME.

There is one thing I miss from ME: The startup sound. I think the reason is that the computer I had ME on had critical faults fairly regularly and it was such a relief when it booted correctly with the soundcard working.

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;25643881']I found this workstation last Wednesday. [IMG_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMG_0235.JPG[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMG_02372.JPG[/IMG_thumb] 512MB FB SDR ram 10GB scsi HDD matrox video card you can slot ram in Dual PIII 700 MHZ windows ME what do?[/QUOTE] Linux. Xubuntu or Kubuntu should run great on that thing. Modern OS running on an old computer. edit- Now that I think about it, vanilla Ubuntu would probably work just fine. I got it running on an old P2 laptop with only 32MB ram, and the only reason that I changed OSes was because it ran too slowly on such limited hardware.

forgot to say, it has a sound blaster 64 AWE gold in too [editline]27th October 2010[/editline] will kubuntu support that?

since this is now a "new found junk" thread, i guess i'll post some stuff i got recently- [URL=http://www.cubeupload.com/img/940619backofvan.jpg][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/thumbs/th.940619backofvan.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.cubeupload.com/img/5e0b1c5car.jpg][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/thumbs/th.5e0b1c5car.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.cubeupload.com/img/389d424dirty.jpg][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/thumbs/th.389d424dirty.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.cubeupload.com/img/521df33garage.jpg][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/thumbs/th.521df33garage.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.cubeupload.com/img/317e2c2garage.jpg][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/thumbs/th.317e2c2garage.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.cubeupload.com/img/73e1f91harddrives.jpg][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/thumbs/th.73e1f91harddrives.jpg[/IMG][/URL] -- 15 computers, 10 lcds. I got a fully functional 20" apple cinema display, and 1 other lcd that works :razz: i'm gonna rescue some of the other lcd's, some just need some new caps. the towers have pentium 4's, 5 of them actually have hyper-threading, 3-3.2ghz. super awesome. i'm donating a lot of them :buddy: and making an uber server with the left-overs :science:

if any of those are SATA, donate a hard drive to me

oh and that last stack of hdd's on the left are 300gb and 500gb drives. bummer though, the original owner went slap-happy with a drill and they're all dead. i plugged them all in though, and they're maxtors; i can hear the stuck-spindle noise in the back of my head i have some other 30 40-80gb drives. cool beans. [editline]27th October 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=ButtsexV2;25686647]if any of those are SATA, donate a hard drive to me[/QUOTE] ahh sorry. only 1, 200gb, which i'm using because my main hard drive kicked the bucket a week ago.

I hate when people take drills to hard drives. it's such a waste when they can just dban them and be done with it

Holy shit OP, you found an old computer by a dump. Congratulations, go and buy yourself a cake.

exactly my thinking. i counted them... their were 11 500gb drives... and 5-10 300gb drives... [editline]27th October 2010[/editline] automerge :argh: [editline]27th October 2010[/editline] and i found a 15" lcd screen, perfectly fine at the dump last saturday

I wish Holland had dumps like that. :saddowns:

you have craigslist?

holy mother of fuck drummer. was that in just 1 hit? all i got was that workstation, a sempron PC missing a case and a celeron dell and that was spread over 2 weeks

I wish my dump had more computers and less 10 foot tall walls of tvs.

haha, yup one hit. i got it from a guy who had fixed computers as a hobby, and suddenly didn't want them. found it on craigslist. it's gold i tell you. [editline]27th October 2010[/editline] and my dump is cool too. all electronics go in an empty trailer, the big kind for an 18 wheeler. when no one's looking just go for an lcd or a few computers :ninja:

I just found this: [IMG_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/060.JPG[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/062.JPG[/IMG_thumb] It's an old Compaq tc1100 tablet. It boots up but the screen is fucked up: [IMG_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/064.JPG[/IMG_thumb]

Why are you guys so goddamn lucky?

[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;25686568]I got a fully functional 20" apple cinema display[/QUOTE] Holy [b]FUCK[/b] that is AWESOME!

[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;25689150]Holy [b]FUCK[/b] that is AWESOME![/QUOTE] motherfucking this. pics GOGOGO

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;25686682]I hate when people take drills to hard drives. it's such a waste when they can just dban them and be done with it[/QUOTE] Better safe than sorry. And most mediumsized and up corporations don't drill the harddrives anymore. They shred then to tiny pieces.

[URL=http://cubeupload.com/img/8e7464dscn3455.jpg][IMG]http://cubeupload.com/files/thumbs/th.8e7464dscn3455.jpg[/IMG][/URL] it has a small small pressure mark on the right side of the screen. not annoying at all and it's just a little darker. oh and i got a powermac g5 with it. but it's the base base model, single core 1.6ghz with 256mb of ram :suicide:

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;25684034']will kubuntu support that?[/QUOTE] I don't see why not. Give it a try.

[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;25692136][URL=http://cubeupload.com/img/8e7464dscn3455.jpg][img_thumb]http://cubeupload.com/files/thumbs/th.8e7464dscn3455.jpg[/img_thumb][/URL] it has a small small pressure mark on the right side of the screen. not annoying at all and it's just a little darker. oh and i got a powermac g5 with it. but it's the base base model, single core 1.6ghz with 256mb of ram :suicide:[/QUOTE] A: what were you eating with that bowl? B: Can I have some?

bump I pulled a p4 dell dimenshit 5150 pics tomorrow

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;25686682]I hate when people take drills to hard drives. it's such a waste when they can just dban them and be done with it[/QUOTE] Possibly paranoid the files would still be there? With all of those "FBI see blah blah files" they might think that?

[QUOTE=gaboer;25735462]Possibly paranoid the files would still be there? With all of those "FBI see blah blah files" they might think that?[/QUOTE] DBan would pretty much wipe it clean though...

[QUOTE=gaboer;25735462]Possibly paranoid the files would still be there? With all of those "FBI see blah blah files" they might think that?[/QUOTE] It's actually more because of possible industry espionage, atleast when it comes to companies destroying hdd's. [QUOTE=anikilol;25735502]DBan would pretty much wipe it clean though...[/QUOTE] If the hdd's contains sensitive information for your company or your customers, you [B]WANT[/B] to be 100% sure the data can't be retrieved again. Hence why HDD shredding is a fast growing business [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o[/MEDIA]

If that guy's watch slips :v:

[QUOTE=gaboer;25735662]If that guy's watch slips :v:[/QUOTE] Well jumping in, trying to save it would be a stupid idea.