I found this beauty in my church’s basement. Kind of tempted to set up win2k.
Posted by geon@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 28 comments
Posted by geon@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 28 comments
alex_hedman@reddit
I also found one of those but the one I found had a GeForce3 Ti200 in it. Neat early P4 systems, mine had a Willamette 1.7 inside!
InsaneGuyReggie@reddit
I have a desktop with that same CPU. It had a Rage 128 but I put an nVidia card in it because the Rage 128 isn’t supported by linux. I also have a 5.25” disk drives in mine because that must have been the last BIOS to support those drives
alex_hedman@reddit
Really cool running Linux on older hardware like this
InsaneGuyReggie@reddit
For me the juice stopped being worth thd squeeze because I had to have a 32 bit chroot on my distcc helper box to make a binary gcc when it got too big for that P4 to do it in RAM. Then they dropped raw floppy commands from the kernel and I put Win 2k on it
alex_hedman@reddit
at least you got the real experience! And now you have a retro computer you can actually use and enjoy :)
Accurate-Campaign821@reddit
GeForce 2 MX card. I'd probably go with 9x if gaming. 2k may do fine too
geon@reddit (OP)
My Athlon XP ran 2k perfectly. This box should be just about comparable. The sticker says “designed for windows xp”, but nah.
RoxyAndBlackie128@reddit
get some period accurate linux on that thing
SantoIsBack@reddit
Temple OS setup
InsaneGuyReggie@reddit
Negatory, ghost rider. 64 bit only
JasonPacker611@reddit
Given how my PIII/500 w/384 MB RAM runs Win2k Pro and time-appropriate apps in a way that makes you weep for the lost art of optimitization, I suspect that will be a delightful Win2k machine as well.
InsaneGuyReggie@reddit
It is. I ran Gentoo on one until just a few years ago and it did fairly well even with modern software. Xfce and the graphical version of Links
LopsidedLegs@reddit
The old HP Vectra VL/420. I deployed hundreds of the SFF variants for a Windows XP rollout that got canned and the machines then got canned 18 months later for the D530. Mad times, might have restored media for them somewhere.
geon@reddit (OP)
Very kind of you, but I don't have the time to fiddle with it atm.
InsaneGuyReggie@reddit
This machine may support 5.25” disk drives. I have a vl420 with one
LopsidedLegs@reddit
Mounting the disk and it is Windows XP SP1a. Save this post I can upload in the future for you.
geon@reddit (OP)
I guess the drivers can be useful for someone, but I wouldn’t touch anything pre sp3.
Either_Ad_5641@reddit
Have a similar build. Wasn’t it with the infamous Williamette P4?
smpstech@reddit
Socket 423 even! Notorious for being slower than the P3 it replaced.
blakespot@reddit
Be sure to make sure there are no criminal photos / media on the internal drives -- you don't want to end up bringing that into your home.
Low-Charge-8554@reddit
Church items should not tempt you.
geon@reddit (OP)
Hey! Even Jesus was tempted.
reddit_will_fail@reddit
I checked with JC, he said it's cool take it if you want it.
geon@reddit (OP)
Always ask yourself “What would Jesus do?”.
Jesus would play Unreal Tournament.
derekcz@reddit
you have to put templeos on it
Computers_and_cats@reddit
I remember those. I found those to be some of the fastest machines to test SDRAM in. I think I still have a side panel off one in my office. 😹
PaleDreamer_1969@reddit
So, know the setup yet? That a Core II Duo or something?
bio4m@reddit
Theres a Pentium 4 sticker on the front....