The Genome Collective Parts Bin

[Yo_Mama]

With all the talk about upgrading computers, several people mentioned "almost having enough" parts for another box. We should put together a webpage where we could list our unused pieces parts, in case it's just what someone needs to get another box crunching for the team...

I'm talking donations, trading, or maybe just paying for shipping.

Just an idea. :)

[wylie]

Not a bad one....I'm sure the wife would be only TOO happy to get rid of all this stuff lying around that i just CAN'T throw out (you know the drill - may come in handy some day)
I have so much 72pin RAM is ridiculous.

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"One of the reasons Arnold Palmer is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them - Oh my God, what have I just said??" - (Jonny Huntridge)

[dnar]

Hey wylie, did you read my thread on Uses for old computers??? (Computer Angles), maybe something worth thinkin about, I mean what are you and I going to do with 72pin RAM???????? The systems I have that use it are full modules anyways..... "It will come in handy, even if I never use it".:D

[Dustin]

Originally posted by Yo_Mama
With all the talk about upgrading computers, several people mentioned "almost having enough" parts for another box. We should put together a webpage where we could list our unused pieces parts, in case it's just what someone needs to get another box crunching for the team...

I'm talking donations, trading, or maybe just paying for shipping.

Just an idea. :)

This is a good idea. Not sure how we would go about it, but I like the idea! I have a number of working parts I'd be willing to swap for needed parts.

A couple late model BX boards, Original KT133 Athlon board...

[Hemi]

Definitely a good idea. I was thinking about something like this before, but in more of a buy/sell/trade fashion. Of course, older unused parts are still good for giveaways to team members. :)

I'll see what I have laying around tonight and put a list up here.

[X-Calibur]

Originally posted by dnar
Hey wylie, did you read my thread on Uses for old computers??? (Computer Angles), maybe something worth thinkin about, I mean what are you and I going to do with 72pin RAM???????? The systems I have that use it are full modules anyways..... "It will come in handy, even if I never use it".:D

I might be interested in those 72 pin, they are hard to find, and I want to boost my 486, 66 Mzh box (old faithful) to set her up a a Linux router/gateway....?

HUmmmmmmmm !!!

[Dustin]

Speaking of older RAM, I have quite a few EDO SIMM's.

[wylie]

Drop us a line, X. I believe most of it is in 8 meg chips, but I have a few that are 16. Gigabytes of the stuff all up!

Also umpteen small hard disks (500k or less, a 1 gig (I think) and a 1gig scsi), several pentium processors (200mmx, 166, 100), PCI video cards, sound cards, AT cases get-em-while-theyre-hot, scsi cards, ECP printer ports, floppy drives (about 8), modems, serial ports, printers, CD ROMS............anyone????


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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body" (Winston Bennett)

[dnar]

Originally posted by wylie
Drop us a line, X. I believe most of it is in 8 meg chips, but I have a few that are 16. Gigabytes of the stuff all up!



Also umpteen small hard disks (500k or less, a 1 gig (I think) and a 1gig scsi), several pentium processors (200mmx, 166, 100), PCI video cards, sound cards, AT cases get-em-while-theyre-hot, scsi cards, ECP printer ports, floppy drives (about 8), modems, serial ports, printers, CD ROMS............anyone????





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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body" (Winston Bennett)
Junk-trade-for-Linux-install-help???
What do yiou have that could boost my 466Mhz Celeron system wylie??? It's an Intel LX440 overlocker-unfreindly mojo....

[Dave S]

Yer cool, i've got some stuff i can drop in too:)

[dnar]

Originally posted by wylie

Drop us a line, X. I believe most of it is in 8 meg chips, but I have a few that are 16. Gigabytes of the stuff all up!





Also umpteen small hard disks (500k or less, a 1 gig (I think) and a 1gig scsi), several pentium processors (200mmx, 166, 100), PCI video cards, sound cards, AT cases get-em-while-theyre-hot, scsi cards, ECP printer ports, floppy drives (about 8), modems, serial ports, printers, CD ROMS............anyone????








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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body" (Winston Bennett)

wylie, why dont we set up a snail farm ??? We can install a small (5Mb) linux distro on them, network em and run G@H..... Sheez, we could even setup a Bewolf cluster.....

[wylie]

Mate a lot of its pretty old but you are welcome to browse.
I also have a slot 1 cooler fan if you want to set up the old celeron sandwich.....will need some searching to find that one however.....

Missed that thread you mentioned above - too hard to keep up these days.....whats the gist??


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[wylie]

Originally posted by dnar


wylie, why dont we set up a snail farm ??? We can install a small (5Mb) linux distro on them, network em and run G@H..... Sheez, we could even setup a Bewolf cluster.....

Sure why not??? I have a heap of network cards (ISA) too!
:D

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If you can remain calm, you dont have all the facts.

[wylie]

Also coax cable and some cat 5 - a new project???

[MechCD]

Ok, who wanta a blistering fast brand new server cpu?

16mhz
AMD 386
2mb fast page RAM
needs a powersupply, video card, harddrive

75mhz Pentium 1 @90mhz
16mb EDO SImms
needs videocard and powersupply, harddrive

I would like to hang on to my BX slot 1 board and pop in a cheap celeron. I can get 3mb of ram cheap, and i think i could scrounge around for another powersupply and hardrive

[dnar]

Originally posted by MechCD
Ok, who wanta a blistering fast brand new server cpu?



16mhz

AMD 386

2mb fast page RAM

needs a powersupply, video card, harddrive



75mhz Pentium 1 @90mhz

16mb EDO SImms

needs videocard and powersupply, harddrive



I would like to hang on to my BX slot 1 board and pop in a cheap celeron. I can get 3mb of ram cheap, and i think i could scrounge around for another powersupply and hardrive
I wished I could find the link, these uni students somewere in the states setup "spud server", a mobo & NIC run from a potatoe battery! They burnt Linux, Web server and Web pages into the BIOS roms........ Yep, it was not fast but you could browse that sucker!!!!!! One of the pages on this site was an overclocked board that ran in the freezer!!!!!! I cant remember the speed they got - it was before the days that I realised overclocking was a viable and reliable proceedure. But, it was something like a 3 x overlock - just rediculous!

[dnar]

Originally posted by wylie




Sure why not??? I have a heap of network cards (ISA) too!

:D



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If you can remain calm, you dont have all the facts.
I can see we should get together and formulate a battle plan.......

[shubles]

one complete computer giving me the SHITS.

[dnar]

Originally posted by shubles

one complete computer giving me the SHITS.

Faaaaaarque. has wylie not yet fixed that thing for you Shu????? :confused:

[geekboy]

Originally posted by MechCD
75mhz Pentium 1 @90mhz
16mb EDO SImms
needs videocard and powersupply, harddrive


I could give that one a good home... I have the parts it needs. I wonder what it would cost to ship to Canada. :confused:

[MechCD]

Originally posted by geekboy


I could give that one a good home... I have the parts it needs. I wonder what it would cost to ship to Canada. :confused:

What would ya do with it? It can't play mp3s and do ANYTHING else without skiping. Can't run a screensaver or itll skip. thats what it was supposed to do was play mp3s. but no, it had to be slow like that.

[geekboy]

Originally posted by MechCD
What would ya do with it?
You're right, it would be limited, but it could make a good "franken-puter" to do all the stuff I wouldn't inflict on my main machine. That, and it could increase my G@H output by 0.01 percent. ;)

[dnar]

Originally posted by geekboy




You're right, it would be limited, but it could make a good "franken-puter" to do all the stuff I wouldn't inflict on my main machine. That, and it could increase my G@H output by 0.01 percent. ;)

Definatley worth the effort then. :D

[MechCD]

Except fot the fact that i could buy the parts I need for it instead of paying to ship it to Canada :( And i can't bear to ship away my first pentium I ever owned and overclocked :).

[geekboy]

Aww. Sentimentality. How cute. :rolleyes:

I can relate. I hated to see my 486 go. It's a shame that the new owner probably wasn't aware of the tin foil I used as a make-shift jumper for setting up the hard-drive. ;)

Anyways, even if you did want to get rid of your pentium, you would probably be better to sell it on E-Bay. Many old Pentiums are still fetching a respectable sum. I've looked.

[fizler]

if i can come up with about 350$, i will be able to get a new 1.4ghz, but i will need a new hd and video card because i'll take the ones from this machine.

[Medic193]

I have all kinds of crap!!!! Give me a couple days and I'll get a list together. Anyone have an old board for a slot 1 celery? If not I might have a celery 300A available. Can't OC it at all though.

[MechCD]

Originally posted by Medic193
I have all kinds of crap!!!! Give me a couple days and I'll get a list together. Anyone have an old board for a slot 1 celery? If not I might have a celery 300A available. Can't OC it at all though.

Ello! i've got a BX board! What do ya want for a trade?

90mhz cpu
FIC PA11 Socket 7 board
Packard bell socket 5 board
32mb in simms ( i think, might be 16mb)
48x cdrom
16mhz AMD 386 bord with harrdrive conreoller and some amount of ram

anything else ya might want? hehehehhe

[zhotfire]

I still have 8 (E)ISA network cards here. Will ship to US and Canada at my expense.... :)

[MechCD]

I've also got an AMD K6-2 350mhz 2.2v up for trade

[shubles]

Originally posted by dnar


Faaaaaarque. has wylie not yet fixed that thing for you Shu????? :confused:

yeah, he fixed it.

its still giving me the shits though.

user probs maybe?

[dnar]

Originally posted by shubles





yeah, he fixed it.



its still giving me the shits though.



user probs maybe?

Yeh, maybe. Has wylie checked if it's a loose nut behind the keyboard??? :D

[shubles]

yor not funny dnar

any attempts at comdey should be posted in my comedy club.

[Chris Wolfe]

Originally posted by Yo_Mama
With all the talk about upgrading computers, several people mentioned "almost having enough" parts for another box. We should put together a webpage where we could list our unused pieces parts, in case it's just what someone needs to get another box crunching for the team...

I'm talking donations, trading, or maybe just paying for shipping.

Just an idea. :)
Maybe the nice gents that run this board would set us up a "Swap Meet" Forum.

[stall6g]

Originally posted by Chris Wolfe

Maybe the nice gents that run this board would set us up a "Swap Meet" Forum.

It's been talked about but nothing firm is in the works.

[MechCD]

Anyone have a Super Socket 7 to Slot 1 slotket? :):):):):)

[siggy]

Not I....

[stall6g]

No but if you find one let us know where you got it.;) I'm sure that it is rarer than the socket a o/cing device which btw does actually exist.

[Chris Wolfe]

Originally posted by stall6g
No but if you find one let us know where you got it.;) I'm sure that it is rarer than the socket a o/cing device which btw does actually exist.
Man I'd like to get my hands on one of those. They are called "Golden Sockets" made by a company called IOSS in Taiwan or Japan. Sits between the socket and the chip and is chocked full of dip switches for setting the bridges any way you friggin want. Rarer than snow in Texas right now though.

[Yo_Mama]

Anyone have any extra PCMCIA nics? I need two...

[Rick_Deadly]

Originally posted by Yo_Mama
Anyone have any extra PCMCIA nics? I need two...

Are 10Mbps OK?
Are 10Mbps and 56K modem combined OK?

I may be able to get a few :)

[Yo_Mama]

Sure, that sounds great. Anything would be fine. :)

Originally posted by Rick_Deadly


Are 10Mbps OK?
Are 10Mbps and 56K modem combined OK?

I may be able to get a few :)