FrozenLiquidity
10-12-2000, 11:28 AM
In my last class of the day in school, there is a pile o' junk in the back room(workshop). This is a networking class and it is pretty unstructured at this time because of the new certifications for the Windows 2000 operating system. So we do not actually do anything related to networking right now. However, we are straightening up the back room. The back room consists of pile and piles of old Socket 7 and Socket 3 motherboards that use mostly the 430vx chipset. There are plenty of loose cables of all types and casesof all sizes are strewn about the area. There are many hard drives also, most sizing around 200-500 megs. CD-ROMs are a bit less abundant, most of them are 4x, but once in a while you will run across a 16x or better. There are many, many monitors here as well, most of them are generally pretty bad, but you can find a good one here and there. RAM and CPU's are also abundant, most CPU's are Pentiums ranging in speeds from 90 to 133.
So we ecided if we couldn't put some of this stuff to use...
So our class of 7 people (only select people were allowed to enter the class) went around and started to gather up parts to make our own systems for use at school.
After many days of testing motherboards, CD-ROMs, hard drives, and RAM, we managed to assemble a few decent systems.
I was able to get a Pentium 200, and I was shocked whe I was able to find 2 pairs of 64mb 72pin SIMMS, with the motherboard I had(a very old ASUS)with 4 SIMM slots, I had a total of 128mb of RAM! Wow, unleash the power.
My friend was able to round up a AMD K-6 233 and another 128mb RAM for his system. We were both able to find decent 17" monitors. (Viewsonic even!) And with a 1.2gb hard drive and a Voodoo2 8mb, on each of our systems, GL Quake ran pretty smooth. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
We were also able to round up a few network and sound cards and we finally had some decent systems, decent that is considering that this stuff is just lying around.
With the addition of a hub and network cables, we were able to tap the resources of the school's internet connection and the next thing we knew, we were downloading files at 120-160k a second.
Combinded with another system I brought in from home,(P2 300, 64mb RAM, TNT) we have a little party going on for a good hour and a half every day! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Comments?
FrozenLiquidity
So we ecided if we couldn't put some of this stuff to use...
So our class of 7 people (only select people were allowed to enter the class) went around and started to gather up parts to make our own systems for use at school.
After many days of testing motherboards, CD-ROMs, hard drives, and RAM, we managed to assemble a few decent systems.
I was able to get a Pentium 200, and I was shocked whe I was able to find 2 pairs of 64mb 72pin SIMMS, with the motherboard I had(a very old ASUS)with 4 SIMM slots, I had a total of 128mb of RAM! Wow, unleash the power.
My friend was able to round up a AMD K-6 233 and another 128mb RAM for his system. We were both able to find decent 17" monitors. (Viewsonic even!) And with a 1.2gb hard drive and a Voodoo2 8mb, on each of our systems, GL Quake ran pretty smooth. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
We were also able to round up a few network and sound cards and we finally had some decent systems, decent that is considering that this stuff is just lying around.
With the addition of a hub and network cables, we were able to tap the resources of the school's internet connection and the next thing we knew, we were downloading files at 120-160k a second.
Combinded with another system I brought in from home,(P2 300, 64mb RAM, TNT) we have a little party going on for a good hour and a half every day! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Comments?
FrozenLiquidity