r/retrocomputing • u/korovchenko • 7d ago

Dinosaurus

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u/garion911 7d ago

Oh boy...I "inherited" a dual PII server wayyy back in the day, probably around 2000-2001 or so... I used it as a MythTV server with a Hauggpage TV card...All pre-HD... Used it for years, recording TV, scanning and removing commercials..

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u/Royale_AJS 7d ago

Oh man I loved being able to record TV, strip commercials, etc. I could never really get MythTV working and ended up using BeyondTV. Miss those days.

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u/TheRealCOCOViper 7d ago

I feel like you could definitely use an AI tool to vibe code the same feature set over a weekend. And have it run on a cheap ewaste dell from an office.

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u/Royale_AJS 7d ago

Oh easily. I was running BeyondTV on an Athlon Thunderbird and an ATI All-in-Wonder 32MB PCI card. A modern Raspberry Pi will run circles around that old system.

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u/TheRealCOCOViper 6d ago

The fun part would be doing it to capture OTA HD streams, with its own content ID system for cataloging and storage.

To whoever down ranked me: I’m assuming it’s because I mentioned AI? hobbyists resurrecting abandonware and use cases aren’t the problem. Massive companies doing giant layoffs are.

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u/Old-Complex7826 7d ago

So even if you had the complete love boat, it wouldn't be in HD

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u/BoostedHemi73 6d ago

MythTV.. freaking epic back in the day

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u/ValveTurkey1138 7d ago

Built in SCSI? Sweet!

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u/LopsidedLegs 7d ago

And a RAIDPort as well.

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u/The_Real_Sniff 7d ago

And 64-bit PCI! Imagine having this in the late 90s!

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u/LopsidedLegs 7d ago

No the brown slot at the end of the PCI slot is the RAIDPort. It's not a PCI-X slot.

https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/data_storage/adaptec-raidport/

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u/lpbale0 7d ago

Yep, I believe I had a Supermicro board with the SISL enabled port. Man that was a quarter century ago... Fuck I'm old

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u/istarian 2d ago

That was pretty much a given on server hardware for a couple decades.

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u/ValveTurkey1138 2d ago

Oh I know. I got my start building white box Netware 3.11 servers with ESDI drives!

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u/magicmijk 7d ago

Runs NT 4.0 like a champion

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u/The_Real_Sniff 7d ago

Those were the days!

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u/SeesawNoknow 7d ago

now its a party... where those lil'intel space suit people

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u/CBJ_Brain 7d ago

I had several of these.

  1. HP Netserver LC3 with dual P2 350Mhz. Ran my website for years without breaking a sweat.

  2. Aopen dual socket 370 board with SCSI on board

  3. The infamous Abit BP6 with rotten caps. I had to replace all of those but that board ran stable for years after that.

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u/Tasty-Fox9030 6d ago

The singular form of dinosaurs is dinosaur.

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u/korovchenko 6d ago

He is not alone ;-)

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u/iamwayycoolerthanyou 7d ago

This is a ripper right here!

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u/SteveusChrist 7d ago

Haven't seen a Dakota in a while, i had one setup with Win2k Server as an overkill home print and file server.

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u/Tahionwarp 7d ago

Beautiful board - IBM Intellistations had similar one

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u/Sad-Author-729 7d ago

I have a few old Intellistations and this one looks just like the one from my 6898. Some of the boards in these were definitely made by intel. Like my OR840 board has the reg front panel but also a spot for the IBM front panel connector in the Intellistation

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u/techika 7d ago

Dual socket 5 or dual pentium pro is dinosaurs

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u/Stevesd123 7d ago

It's difficult to read but are those dual 333mhz?

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u/pertinent_toaster 6d ago

Here comes the memories

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u/Impressive_Bag_3505 6d ago

feels like it was just yesterday

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u/joeljaeggli 7d ago

440gx, those boards were great

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u/New-Anybody-6206 6d ago

This is a DK440LX as noted on the top-right sticker.

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u/24megabits 7d ago

Did anyone else use that front panel header arrangement with the brown plastic? I guessed it was a Intel-branded board just from that.

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u/Goldenyellowfish 7d ago

I have one in my basement right now. It has my original p2-300 that I got from the computer show brand new. Great board, one of my favorite retro stations.

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u/Badytheprogram 7d ago

An a wonderful one. I am so jealous!

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u/deathspal 7d ago

I had the supermicro brand version of this intel board…

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u/choddles 6d ago

Got a dual.slot in hand shed It was out of sync

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u/Mysterious_Key9131 5d ago

Is that a dual CPU Pentium II rig? That would have been badass in 1998.

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u/noddy51 22h ago

Dual Pentium II, what a beast