I work for a bubblegum-and-coathanger operation.

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

I got called today to come take a look at the accounting file/printserver. Hike up there, the accts. manager is standing in front of it, and asks me why it's not working. Screen is dark, no noises are coming from the case.

I reach out and press the power button. Cue bootup of the machine, and the accts. manager freaking out that it should never be turned off.

(Said server is an old 386 with monochrome monitor, btw.)

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[jecook]

::eyes bug out::

Our old apps/hr/payroll server from before my time at company ---- was a 486 DX266, and it was sitting under a bench collecting dust. I eventaully gutted it before realizing that doing a case mode to it would require a welding rig. ;)

Last year before we moved the office, I had to go through what was termed "the pile", a bunch of very old, and creaky machines, and I noticed a Dell 386. Oddly enough, it still worked, and booted win 3.1 just fine. It went in the trash along with the bulk of the rest of the pile. ::snicker::

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Don't you just love supporting antiquated hardware?


If you ever get to dumpster any more older computers, could you pull the processors and memory for me? I'll pay for shipping.

[jecook]

Sure.

the next batch that we are getting ready to dumpster is likely to be a fair amount of Gateway E3200s that have seen about twice their rated lifespan... Most are Pentium 2-350, with 128 MB of PC66/100 DIMM memory.

They work, they are just waay slow.

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Actually, it doesn't matter if the processors/ram work, or not.

The processors will be used in an eventual bathroom-tile project.
The ram is being used to build plate-mail for cyberpunk faire gear.

[canthlian.livejournal.com]

... okay, now that's just cool. Really, really cool. *Impressed*

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

I was contemplating doing something like this:



except with midnight-blue tile (i couldn't find an image of blue tile at the time i made this little mosaic.)

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

So... anyone want a freebie gateway, security monitor, Beowulf test rig, Linux minisystem for the grandparents, house controller etc?

[jecook]

Hey now...

Couple things.

1) I'm not sure *if* I can get work to release them to me. We may use them internally for stuff.

2) I'm not sure *when* this will happen. The project that this is associated with has been pushed back at least once, and is likely to happen again.

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Something like LAST?

http://www.dumbentia.com/pdflib/last.pdf

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

i still have a 386/16 motherboard and cpu that i use for testing out rdesktop on.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I have the museum.

http://museum.geekgrrl.ca/

Most of the stuff listed works.

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Dude, had i known about this, i could have donated some stuff. (such as a Tandy 1000, a pair of Apollo 3550 Unix servers, a PCjr, a C128 with both 1541 and 1571 floppy drives, a commodore Plus4, and a few Trash-80's.)


But it all went in the dumpster. Alas.

I might still know where to get some genuine ENIAC tubes, tho.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

ENIAC tubes would be sweet... wow

All those museum pieces in the trash *SOB*.


How ever today I found and purchased a NeXT pizza box with keyboard and mouse and it was less then 100$