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I ran several RaQ3s at an ISP, and had a Qube 3 for a while (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruicarmo/16490971544/in/album-72157636969944404/ https://www.flickr.c
by rcarmo 4y ago
I ran several RaQ3s at an ISP, and had a Qube 3 for a while (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruicarmo/16490971544/in/album-72157636969944404/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruicarmo/16490971544/in/album-...). I loved the things and did several backports of RHEL stuff to run on the Intel variants.
When they were discontinued, I was allowed to take some of them home. Had to give them up, though, because I lacked the room to keep the boxes around, and at the time I also lacked the time to maintain software or investigate hardware upgrades.
The saddest thing for me is that today I would love to have kept the enclosures and PSUs (I’d likely have stuffed them full of Raspberry Pi compute modules, or Celeron mini PC motherboards, and hooked up an MCU to the display and buttons…)
But some of them were online and running at my former employer until 2018 or so, which is nothing short of amazing.
In case someone is interested, I have a bunch of old resources here: https://taoofmac.com/space/com/cobalt https://taoofmac.com/space/com/cobalt
I also kept a copy of the hacking FAQ: https://taoofmac.com/space/com/cobalt/faq https://taoofmac.com/space/com/cobalt/faq
- Gordonjcp 4y ago> AMD K6-2 processor (300 or 450 MHz) In the early 2000s I worked for a streaming media company where most of the desktops were AMD K6-2 450s. Except mine, because I splashed out and bought a Duron 700 with 256MB of RAM which I soon upgraded to 512MB, and fitted an ATI Rage 128 Pro, with the thick purple dangly-dongle for AV connections, and a FireWire card for capturing DV. Quite the beast for running Adobe Premiere 4!
- mysterydip 4y agoThanks for unlocking a memory for me. I used to drool over that hardware, not even for the specs but just how cool it looked. I'm sure it's prohibitively expensive but maybe I'll find a good deal on ebay. Edit: found this company that retrofits them into a NAS and I'm really tempted to get one: https://mycherrytree.com/products/cherrynas-cobalt-qube https://mycherrytree.com/products/cherrynas-cobalt-qube
- cy384 4y agoI was looking at my qube 3 this morning and thinking I should sell it; I never got around to hacking it up as a compact PC case send me an email (this username at cy384.com) if you're interested!