4 Mar
2004
4 Mar
'04
11:54 a.m.
Went scrounging today and found a BIG pile of computers. MANY Dell PCs
and a lot of IBM Power PCs. Brought home some of the PCs to check out and
found that they all have P-III CPUs and ranged from 500 to 866 MHz. Some
even had CD-RW drives! More interesting finds included two HP 9836Cs (the
color version of the 9836), a HP 9000 380 (Probably top of the line for the
HP 9000 200/300 series), a Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D, a >>Hyundai<< Sparc
model HWS-S310 (I had no idea Hyundai built andything like this!), a Matrox
Shark 10/100/FX Ethernet switch, a SUN SparcStation 20, a HP drive array
with hotswap drives, and one old PC with a very strange looking card in it.
I'm going back tomorrow and pulling parts from the PCs that I didn't take.
They're all going to a steel scrapper so I'm free to take anything that I
want from them.
Joe
4 Mar
4 Mar
11:50 a.m.
Hi Joe,
Cool finds! Wish I could get down there for a few P3 systems. Faster
than anything I have here. Any chance you could grab be a fast one (or
two... ) for me and maybe some sdram sticks and a few IDEs?
How'd the radio rallly go?
Oh, that Hyundai Sparc.... Sparc archetecture was open source from the
start and a few companies made some early Sparc machines.. neat find.
Cheers
- Mike
Went scrounging today and found a BIG pile of
computers. MANY Dell PCs
and a lot of IBM Power PCs. Brought home some of the PCs to check out and
found that they all have P-III CPUs and ranged from 500 to 866 MHz. Some
even had CD-RW drives! More interesting finds included two HP 9836Cs (the
color version of the 9836), a HP 9000 380 (Probably top of the line for
the
HP 9000 200/300 series), a Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D, a
>>Hyundai<< Sparc
model HWS-S310 (I had no idea Hyundai built andything like this!), a
Matrox
Shark 10/100/FX Ethernet switch, a SUN SparcStation
20, a HP drive array
with hotswap drives, and one old PC with a very strange looking card in
it.
I'm going back tomorrow and pulling parts from the
PCs that I didn't take.
They're all going to a steel scrapper so I'm free to take anything that I
want from them.
Joe
10:39 p.m.
cfl.rr ... I take it that's Central Florida... damn, a bit closer and I
would have made some offers for some of the PC's and/or other hardware. Oh
well, always next time...
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 08:54 PM 3/4/2004, you wrote:
Went scrounging today and found a BIG pile of
computers. MANY Dell PCs
and a lot of IBM Power PCs. Brought home some of the PCs to check out and
found that they all have P-III CPUs and ranged from 500 to 866 MHz. Some
even had CD-RW drives! More interesting finds included two HP 9836Cs (the
color version of the 9836), a HP 9000 380 (Probably top of the line for the
HP 9000 200/300 series), a Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D, a >>Hyundai<< Sparc
model HWS-S310 (I had no idea Hyundai built andything like this!), a Matrox
Shark 10/100/FX Ethernet switch, a SUN SparcStation 20, a HP drive array
with hotswap drives, and one old PC with a very strange looking card in it.
I'm going back tomorrow and pulling parts from the PCs that I didn't take.
They're all going to a steel scrapper so I'm free to take anything that I
want from them.
Joe
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5 Mar
5 Mar
12:07 a.m.
"Joe R." wrote:
Went scrounging today and found a BIG pile of computers...
... a Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3D...
They're all going to a steel scrapper so I'm free to take anything that I
want from them.
Joe
I could use a few parts from the Ultra 1, if they're available. Most
importantly I could use the internal CDROM cable assembly. The CD
connector broke off of mine. The memory and HDD brackets would be nice,
but not necessary...
Let me know...
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--- Dave Woyciesjes
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11:11 a.m.
New subject: HP 9836 SIMMs & SMS Sprint was Re: New Finds Today
Today I had a bit of time to look at some of the smaller items that I
picked up yesterday. One of them is a small box with a 28 pin ZIF socket on
it and a ribbon cable coming out of it. It's marked "Sprint" and
"SMS". I
did some searching on the net and I believe that it's part of a programmer
made by SMS Gmbh in Germany but I couldn't find any details on what kind of
ICs that it programmed. They have since been bought out by Data I/O and
their programmers have be discontinued. Does anyone know more about their
stuff? One of the odd things about this unit is that it has a 5 position
DIP switch on it marked "filter". Anyone know what that's for?
Also found an interesting memory card in one of the HP 9836s. This one
is made by Newport Digital and it holds four 30 pin memory SIMMs. I haven't
had time to play with it yet and I don't know how much memory is on but it
appears to be 1 Mb. Does anyone know anything about these?
I went back today and picked up more stuff but that's a story for
another day.
Joe
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