21 Jul
2021
21 Jul
'21
2:38 p.m.
On 7/21/21 1:59 PM, Kevin Anderson via cctalk wrote:
On Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 01:11:15 PM CDT, Kevin
Anderson
<kevin_anderson_dbq at yahoo.com> wrote:
For a time I had quite a few Compaq Deskpro towers that had acquired
(for free) from my employer after they updated to a newer HP Compaq
model. These Compaq Deskpros were the white-boxed variety with
Pentium III the like processors that date to the later part of the
1990s and into the 2000s. They interested me because they were able
to work with the flavors of Linux that were becoming plentiful and
useful at the time (like Mandrake, etc.) Anyway, the desktops
themselves are gone, as well as the PC keyboards and the monitors
that went with them, with this paragraph just setting the scene....
There were two flavors of PIII Deskpro "towers". I still occasionally
use my model that looks like this:
https://www.adverts.ie/desktops-and-monitors/compaq-deskpro-pentium-iii/338…
This is a beast of a system--heavy. The planar has slots for a NIC and
a AGP video--both low-profile. The remainder of the slots (PCI and
ISA) are on a pull-out tray. I'm running it with a 1.4GHz "slocket".
There are other Deskpros that are simple planar-with slots that can be
operated either has a minitower or horizontal desktop.
--Chuck