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What to do with an old piece of Pentium Pro?

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rommelrommel

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It's an old IBM, intended as a server I think, here are it's specs:

Dual P-Pro board w/ one P-Pro 200

128 mb of ram :disgust:

Adaptec SCSI 2940W/2940UW controller card

2.0 & 4.1 SCSI hard drives

Everything else is just normal crud for an old computer...

It belongs to a friend of mine and he wants to give it to me for a very small amount of money, but I don't know what the heck I could do with it... Frankly I know **** all about SCSI and I don't have the slightest if that is a decent controller card or not. If it was I might want it for my computer, and I'd probably throw the 4 gig over too... would it make a good primary drive? My other option might be to just grab a cheapo set of matched processors and make this my folding machine. I dunno... any ideas on what I could do with this would be cool. It's late at night and I'm not feeling very creative.
 
If it'll only take Pentium Pro cpus it might not be fast enough to do F@H, even running 24/7. About half the W/U on the site are 6 day units, 1/4 are 8 day, and the other 1/4 are 14 day. You could always set it up as a Genome@Home, there's not a time limit on that. I don't no jack about SCSI, but if you've got the drives. throw in a couple of cpus, and give it a whirl. Or use it as a doorstop.😀
 
Shove another Pentium Pro in there.....then sell it.

Someone who is looking for a cheap PC will be dead impressed with "SCSI hard drives" and "2 processors!"

😉

If you wanna keep it then the firewall idea is probably your best bet!....plus running some sort of distrubuted computing could work too.

Corm
 
I do believe i have a P-Pro 200 somewhere around the house, if the steppings matching, interested in purchasing? 🙂
 
Okay, I found it.

Heres what is says.


FRONT


KB80521EX200 SL22V 256K
ICOMP(R) 2 #220

|HEATSPREADER|
| INTEL (R) |
| PENTIUM PRO |

L7163399-0463
INTEL(H)(C)'94'96


BACK

E70553B4AE
MALAY

KB80521EX200
SL22V 256K

The Heatspreader seems kinda scratched, but doesn't appear that bad, some pins a little bent, Overall, good condition. I have "most" of the orginal heatsink (i cut some of it up to make ramsinks for my gf3).

I don't see why not this wouldn't work, though I never used it, so I can't really guarantee. Just thought you might be interested.
 
Stick some more ram in there and the biggest compatible SCSI drive you can find, it'll make a good fileserver. A fileserver is VERY handy, especially if you have lots of pcs. It's nice to have everything on one PC where you don't need to get online and download it.

You could probably even pick up a SCSI CD changer and use that for files too. I have a six disc changer I need to get around to adding to mine.
 
dam it seems like yesterday for me where a dual P-Pro 200 server with SCSI was the shiznit. I remember getting one for $2500+ and thinking "what a steal!!!"

A file server/ftp is about the only good use thing has now.
 
Originally posted by: rommelrommel
It's an old IBM, intended as a server I think, here are it's specs:

Dual P-Pro board w/ one P-Pro 200
128 mb of ram :disgust:
Adaptec SCSI 2940W/2940UW controller card
2.0 & 4.1 SCSI hard drives
Everything else is just normal crud for an old computer...

It belongs to a friend of mine and he wants to give it to me for a very small amount of money, but I don't know what the heck I could do with it... Frankly I know **** all about SCSI and I don't have the slightest if that is a decent controller card or not. If it was I might want it for my computer, and I'd probably throw the 4 gig over too... would it make a good primary drive? My other option might be to just grab a cheapo set of matched processors and make this my folding machine. I dunno... any ideas on what I could do with this would be cool. It's late at night and I'm not feeling very creative.
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Sounds identical to the dozens of 200 MHz computers we have (and sadly still use) around my office. They make good word processors, good web browsers, and good servers. As for the idea about taking the drive out and using it on your computer, don't bother. SCSI drives of that age are far, far slower than any current IDE drive - trust me I've used many SCSI drives from that era. I realize that so many people here say "buy a SCSI drive now and use it for many computer upgrades". Yes SCSI drives will usually last that long, but since IDE drives keep gaining speed, you will find that you will hurt performance by puting that in a new computer instead of buying a new drive.
 
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