[Bulk] Re: how to kludge a 486 PC into thinking it has a video card?

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Date: Sun Feb 20 09:29:33 2005

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:52:07 +0000, Jules Richardson
<julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:41 +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:01:45 +0000
> > Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > (I was wondering what to do with a pile of 486 boards at Bletchley and
> > > figured I'd build a cluster out of them... :-)
> > Move those PeeCee crap to /dev/null. If you wane play games like this
> > get the mainboards from SPARCstation ELCs.
>
> If I had access to sufficient quantities of SPARCstation ELCs then yep,
> I agree - but I don't. Even tapping all the contacts I know, I could
> probably only rustle up two or three, not the 10-20 that I want.

If you want 11 (? IIRC) of these boards, drop me an email. Don't worry
about the dismantling of the ELCs, I already did that (CRTs died on
all but one of them) and kept the mainboards and the little "stub"
boards that have the interfaces on them.

I've just acquired an SLC (cheers Martin!) so I'm going to need one to
upgrade that, but anyone who wants them (and wants to build a cluster
out of them ;) is welcome to the others for the cost of shipping.

Ed.
Received on Sun Feb 20 2005 - 09:29:33 GMT