old hardware up for grabs

[Henry Spencer]

I suspect this one's headed for the junkpile, but just in case...  I'm
unloading a very old (and somewhat dusty :-)) machine, a heavy-duty system
in its day but very obsolete now.  You probably don't want to use this as
an actual Linux box, but the case might be of some interest to somebody
wanting to set up a DVD drive farm or something of that ilk... 

The good part is the very-heavy-duty, indeed massive, large tower case
with eight 5in drive bays, six of them with front-panel access.  The back
has an array of PC card slots, plus a second smaller array for card-slot
connector panels, plus some DB25 holes as well.  It has an old 300W power
supply, working fine (when last tried) except that the fan is probably
getting pretty old, and a supplementary front fan.

Incidentally thrown in because I can't be bothered removing them :-) are:
an old 486 motherboard with a K5-133 processor (roughly a P1-75 equivalent
by my timings on a few CPU-intensive things), 32MB of memory, and a pile
of ISA slots (but no PCI, and essentially no built-in peripherals); an old
ISA VGA video card; an ancient Mitsumi CDROM drive with its own special
controller card; 3.5in floppy drive; and possibly some more ISA cards
depending on what I find in housecleaning of my card collection.  Probably
no hard drive, although if somebody really *wants* to revive it as a
system, I might be talked into finding an old IDE drive plus controller
card.  I've even got manuals (!) for everything.

It ran Linux just fine when last booted -- even the weird old CDROM has a
Linux driver -- but has been powered down for a couple of years now.  I'm
doing some housecleaning and decided I have no further use for it.  Free
to a good home (or even a harsh abusive home :-)).  The only caveats are
that you have to come pick it up -- it's heavy and I'm not lugging it
anywhere! -- and that it could use a good vacuuming.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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