I don't have a nice thing to say about compaq.
They were odd, drivers were hard to find, they would deliberately
do things to force propriatary solutions: E.g. In the '486 days
they would use a different pin-out on their simms. Compaq memory
wouldn't work in anything else. Non-compaq memory
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Did you have any trouble getting the software for setting up the scsi
raid card?
IIRC the 1850 didn't come with a built-in RAID card, a period-correct
card would probably be a SA 3200, which I think has built-in setup
firmware (press F8 during boot). I think the softw
I hear you.
Doug.
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:39:09PM -0500, bofh wrote:
> Dude,
>
> I used to have a stack of proliants, and I agree with Nick. Prolaint
> bios was... Special.
>
> If you really want a low power cpu, get one of those c7 cpus, put it
> in an aluminium case, and you don't have t
Dude,
I used to have a stack of proliants, and I agree with Nick. Prolaint
bios was... Special.
If you really want a low power cpu, get one of those c7 cpus, put it
in an aluminium case, and you don't have to worry about all those
issues that nick and others brought up. If you're worried about
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:03:31PM -0800, Lord Sporkton wrote:
> All i can say is that i have a 1850R and a 5000, both of which run
> wonderfully so far with OpenBSD, the 1850 is duel pII 450 and the 5000
> is quad pII 400, havent had a single problem so far.
Did you have any trouble getting the s
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:23:32PM +0100, ropers wrote:
> On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > However,
> > I suppose that some things internally would be on the EISA bus (e.g.
> > keyboard, floppy drive).
>
> Huh? The FDC and PS/2 ports are on the EISA bus?
>
My only e
All i can say is that i have a 1850R and a 5000, both of which run
wonderfully so far with OpenBSD, the 1850 is duel pII 450 and the 5000
is quad pII 400, havent had a single problem so far.
however that price tag is way out of range, i bought both of mine for 90.
On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty
On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> In my search for low-MHz machines, at least on eBay, I find lots of old
> Compaq Proliants (all around the $300 mark by the way). E.g:
>
> 4500R: P-133, 1 GB ram, no drives, $249.
Ok, so I've been thinking...
I
On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However,
> I suppose that some things internally would be on the EISA bus (e.g.
> keyboard, floppy drive).
Huh? The FDC and PS/2 ports are on the EISA bus?
--ropers
Nick Holland wrote:
Old cac's have some kind of battery on them, they look like large lithium
cells. They don't really look like rechargeable. Even if they are,
they are so old, they are probably dead on yours (and mine). That may
be why my cac(4) experience was so uninspiring, or it may just
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:24:14PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
> I've warned you about a lot of them, you ignored that, but for some reason
> I feel obligated to try one more time. I just hate to see people do things
> like this to themselves (and I want to be able to say, "No, not interested
> i
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> In my search for low-MHz machines, at least on eBay, I find lots of old
> Compaq Proliants (all around the $300 mark by the way). E.g:
>
> 4500R: P-133, 1 GB ram, no drives, $249.
>
> HP doesn't have on their website the owner's manuals for these
On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Hello again.
In my search for low-MHz machines, at least on eBay, I find lots of
old
Compaq Proliants (all around the $300 mark by the way). E.g:
4500R: P-133, 1 GB ram, no drives, $249.
HP doesn't have on their website the owner
Hello again.
In my search for low-MHz machines, at least on eBay, I find lots of old
Compaq Proliants (all around the $300 mark by the way). E.g:
4500R: P-133, 1 GB ram, no drives, $249.
HP doesn't have on their website the owner's manuals for these old
boxes, but they do have the servi
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