Old Hardware ( what can i do with it? )

[Space Lynx]

Yeap, there is gold in it and the power cable has gold connectors too.

There is a recycling factory for old PC's in Indianapolis, Indiana. They might give you some money for it, that is the entire factory, they strip old motherboards and PC parts of the copper and gold. Forget there name, you would have to google it.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

There is a recycling factory for old PC's in Indianapolis, Indiana. They might give you some money for it, that is the entire factory, they strip old motherboards and PC parts of the copper and gold. Forget there name, you would have to google it.

he already said that he is in EU

 

[peche]

I wont give it to anyone for free lmao

like the processor you still owe me?

 

[FireFox]

like the processor you still owe me?

I will explain you that later, i have my own reasons.

 

[peche]

I will explain you that later, i have my own reasons.

guess one year moar will make no difference,

hope you, beni and maya are doing fine as usual, best whises!

 

[Jetster]

List it for parts on ebay. Someone may be running one and you may get a bite

 

[qubit]

4 x 440MHz PA-RISC 8500 CPU's (4-cores) (most CPU available in HP-UX 11i)

I remember programming the ARM2 on an A3000 back in the late 80s and being impressed at how powerful and efficient the architecture was. Would be nice to compare it with PA-RISC.

Of course, while its creator, Acorn, is long gone and RISC OS somehow continues as this strange forked thing, the ARM CPU has since found itself in billions of smartphones and other devices, so it's actually wildly successful and still has the same core instruction set. Epic.

EDIT: you might want to program it at assembler level.

 

[Bill_Bright]

So you're trying to offload it for cash? I'm pretty sure the only people that would take it, would be the museum.

Yeah, "take" it - as a "donation" - maybe. There's nothing special there in terms of historical or artistic value for any museum so frankly, I suspect they would politely decline and mutter under their breath as they walked away, "why would we want that junk?"

It is typical for us to think something is valuable when in reality, it's not - except, maybe for sentimental reasons. Or maybe because we feel because we spent so much on it when new, it has to be worth something still. Doesn't work that way.

 

[eidairaman1]

Put unix/linux on it

 

[cakehunter]

If you are not familiar with linux, then you will have little use with it.
The thing has SCSI interface, and I would not recommend running those drives today - they are too loud and too old, long gone out of production. Does it have IDE interface - then that is an option, an older spinner or I have seen even questionable (a-data, transcom? cant remember) brands doing IDE SSDs. It could have PXE remote image booting, so that would be a good leeway to load OS.
Probably no AGP, definitely no PCIe, probably a plain PCI interface for graphics. Havent heard about that graphics card.

Always wanted a RISC machine, have browsed ebay many times looking for those cheapo older SUN workstations. There will definitely be a buyer, cause this thing has more RAM that most of that era.
Have seen somebody mention that that older RAM can do crazy timings like CAS 1? Dunno where that woule be applicable.

As this is not x86, not any linux will run. Will need an appropriate distribution.

 

[Norton]

@Knoxx29 - pull all of the guts out of it and put your SR-2 setup in there. It looks like it would fit

 

[biffzinker]

Could run a port of OpenBSD on it although your limited to 32-bit mode. - https://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html

 

[theFOoL]

Try to install a Linux System on it

 

[_JP_]

Like the AS400, a purpose based machine, doubt there is any use for it out of what it was made for, besides looking awesome.

 

[GoldenX]

If you are not familiar with linux, then you will have little use with it.
The thing has SCSI interface, and I would not recommend running those drives today - they are too loud and too old, long gone out of production. Does it have IDE interface - then that is an option, an older spinner or I have seen even questionable (a-data, transcom? cant remember) brands doing IDE SSDs. It could have PXE remote image booting, so that would be a good leeway to load OS.
Probably no AGP, definitely no PCIe, probably a plain PCI interface for graphics. Havent heard about that graphics card.

Always wanted a RISC machine, have browsed ebay many times looking for those cheapo older SUN workstations. There will definitely be a buyer, cause this thing has more RAM that most of that era.
Have seen somebody mention that that older RAM can do crazy timings like CAS 1? Dunno where that woule be applicable.

As this is not x86, not any linux will run. Will need an appropriate distribution.

Gentoo would do just fine, it supports HP-PA.
There's also a Debian port.

 

[eidairaman1]

Gentoo would do just fine, it supports HP-PA.
There's also a Debian port.

OPRNSUSE!

 

[Fangio1951]

Why don't you use it for a boat anchor - looks big/heavy enough

 

[lexluthermiester]

The owner was Betty Barclay ( Ladies Clothing Company )

Do you know what they used it for?

There is a recycling factory for old PC's in Indianapolis, Indiana.

He's in Germany..

Of course, while its creator, Acorn, is long gone and RISC OS somehow continues as this strange forked thing, the ARM CPU has since found itself in billions of smartphones and other devices, so it's actually wildly successful and still has the same core instruction set. Epic.

EDIT: you might want to program it at assembler level.

He might be able to compile a custom version of Android for it.. Not sure how useful it would be but it would be interesting. A RISC version of Debian like the version that run on RPi single board computers might work to. Purely for giggles though..

 

[SamirD]

Something like this would be worth something to someone. I'd put it on ebay with no reserve and appropriate shipping (since shipping safely will cost a lot) and let it go to someone who will really cherish it. It's a very nice machine for whatever it was built for. Those Panaflo fans are no joke--they were beyond the epitome in their day.