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When one of my employers closed our site and merged operations with our Chicago office at the end of 2001, we were left with surplus equipment. Nobody wanted a
by taborj 6y ago
When one of my employers closed our site and merged operations with our Chicago office at the end of 2001, we were left with surplus equipment. Nobody wanted about 4 giant quad-PPro servers, so I took them. I never did anything with them and honestly don't remember who made them..we were mainly an HP shop, so maybe? They sat on rollers on the floor, and came up to about the bottom of a desktop, and were square boxes maybe 2 ft on a side. I think they may still be holding up a table at my father's office...
- sometw 6y agoWell you have quite the dilemma. On one hand, they are pieces of vintage hardware. On the other hand, you may have about 5 grams of gold holding up your father's table (up to .33g/cpu*16).
- jlgaddis 6y agoSounds kinda like the HP Netserver LX Pro I had a long time ago (I finally got rid of it ~15 years ago when moving). There's a reason that beast had heavy-duty caster wheels -- fully decked out with 12 SCSI HDDs installed, that thing weighed around ~200 pounds (90 kg)! I found an old forum post [0] which includes some pictures of the machine. (I had an LH Pro too. It was also a helluva machine, but paled in comparison to the LX Pro!) --- EDIT: I found a copy of an old HP configuration / spec sheet [1] for an LX Pro (dated 19 Aug 1996) that includes pricing information. The as-configured price? USD $645,663! --- [0]: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?40511-HP-Netserver-LX-Pro-Big-Bertha http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?40511-HP-Netserver... [1]: http://c970058.r58.cf2.rackcdn.com/individual_results/HP/hp.netserver.lx.es.pdf http://c970058.r58.cf2.rackcdn.com/individual_results/HP/hp....