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PostLink    Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 3:26 am    Post subject: IBM 365 Pentium PRO PC c.1997 Reply with quote


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This one was made in march 1997. I bought 3 of these off lease back in 1999/2000 to use at the office. One ended up with a friend and his granny used it for years. One ended up doing accounting work and the 3rd was a spare just in case #2 stopped working. In 2014 I upgraded the accounting system and # 3 here never was needed as IBM built these like 1957 Chevy's.

So cleaning out the closet this one boomeranged to me today.

I started this idea of resurrection 5 years ago, and, as most of my ADD based projects, I have to get around to them again.

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AR - Just don't post this thing working to the screenshots thread! Wink

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PostLink    Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 4:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is a Pentium Pro "classic electronics"? I expected to see 286's and 386's here.... or possibly 8086's. Wink

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PostLink    Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 4:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kal wrote:
Is a Pentium Pro "classic electronics"? I expected to see 286's and 386's here.... or possibly 8086's. Wink

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I asked about the original 8088 c.1987 but no one seems to know what happened to it. Also I remember the boss saying he sold the 286 to a guy way back. Too bad, as it had an RGB video card that worked with my Tandy RGB monitor.

The 386 IS in storage, just in pieces. Someone ( uhh hummmp...me )took it apart for cleaning in 2005 and it never manage to get back together before it hit storage. It's in good company along with the- c.1995, $2400 486 DX4 100 and- c. 1996 $3200 Pentium 133. Very Happy There's also an Ampro 4000 beside it that, funny enough, had the lenses removed for cleaning and never made it back on it. They are sitting behind and to my right currently. The projector is 10km away; does that make them loooooooong throw lenses? Laughing

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PostLink    Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about this ram all 1Meg and 8bit


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Jeremy here are your missing CPUs


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Nice! A whole new meaning to computer porn. Laughing
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PostLink    Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a Compaq with a Pentium Pro in it that I bought in 1997. Damn, not good [now].
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These cards are from 386 and 486 days.


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EISA serial Parallel multi interface and a token ring ethernet ISA card. MMMmmmmmeemmmmmmmooorrrrriees!
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PostLink    Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

km987654 wrote:
How about this ram all 1Meg and 8bit


Ya know I have these Unisys server boxes that take 30 pin 1 meg RAM....

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How about this ram all 1Meg and 8bit


Ya know I have these Unisys server boxes that take 30 pin 1 meg RAM....


I have a shed load of those Laughing
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kal wrote:
Is a Pentium Pro "classic electronics"? I expected to see 286's and 386's here.... or possibly 8086's. Wink

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I would safely say that the Pentium Pro is a classic CPU simply due to its rare gigantic size, and for how powerful of a CPU it was for the time. Sadly I've only been lucky enough to have one system that used dual Pentium Pro CPUs - man the thing flew for 2 180MHz processors... (at least it did 10 years ago when I picked it off the curb!) I believe I sold the motherboard & CPU for around $100 at the time.

Jeremy - This Classic electronics section has me itching to post some of my oooold computers & electronics - going to have to open the "vault" Laughing

By the way, do 20 year old digital projectors count as "classic" Laughing

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Jeremy112 wrote:
kal wrote:
Is a Pentium Pro "classic electronics"? I expected to see 286's and 386's here.... or possibly 8086's. Wink

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I would safely say that the Pentium Pro is a classic CPU simply due to its rare gigantic size, and for how powerful of a CPU it was for the time. Sadly I've only been lucky enough to have one system that used dual Pentium Pro CPUs - man the thing flew for 2 180MHz processors... (at least it did 10 years ago when I picked it off the curb!) I believe I sold the motherboard & CPU for around $100 at the time.

Jeremy - This Classic electronics section has me itching to post some of my oooold computers & electronics - going to have to open the "vault" Laughing

By the way, do 20 year old digital projectors count as "classic" Laughing


The Pentium Pro was a spectacular chip at the time of production. There was nothing else quite like it in physical size or performance. It came with a full speed cache of up to 512k when other processors had 32k. It did not however have some of the capabilities of main stream processors like MMX technology (although I believe Intel did make a version of the Petium Pro in very limited numbers that did have the MMX extension) so it may not have performed well for MMX enhanced video. So it was not a big hit in the consumer PC market and wasn't really designed for that anyway. It was a server CPU but also used in some workstations. It changed the way CPUs were designed with larger on board cache so indeed a worthy piece of technology to remember.
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km987654 wrote:
Jeremy112 wrote:
kal wrote:
Is a Pentium Pro "classic electronics"? I expected to see 286's and 386's here.... or possibly 8086's. Wink

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I would safely say that the Pentium Pro is a classic CPU simply due to its rare gigantic size, and for how powerful of a CPU it was for the time. Sadly I've only been lucky enough to have one system that used dual Pentium Pro CPUs - man the thing flew for 2 180MHz processors... (at least it did 10 years ago when I picked it off the curb!) I believe I sold the motherboard & CPU for around $100 at the time.

Jeremy - This Classic electronics section has me itching to post some of my oooold computers & electronics - going to have to open the "vault" Laughing

By the way, do 20 year old digital projectors count as "classic" Laughing


The Pentium Pro was a spectacular chip at the time of production. There was nothing else quite like it in physical size or performance. It came with a full speed cache of up to 512k when other processors had 32k. It did not however have some of the capabilities of main stream processors like MMX technology (although I believe Intel did make a version of the Petium Pro in very limited numbers that did have the MMX extension) so it may not have performed well for MMX enhanced video. So it was not a big hit in the consumer PC market and wasn't really designed for that anyway. It was a server CPU but also used in some workstations. It changed the way CPUs were designed with larger on board cache so indeed a worthy piece of technology to remember.


I have ( somewhere ) a pair of Pentium Pro 200's with 1meg cache. They are in a very safe place along with my lost house keys from high school and that $100 bill I had back in 2000. Laughing

I remember there were 5 Pentium 200's at the time. The Pro 200, w/256k. Pro 200, w/512k cache, Pro 200, w/1 meg cache -all 3 Socket 8. Then there was the standard Pentium 200 and the gaming oriented 200MMX socket 7 chips. My buddies brother had the regular 200Mhz and I had the 200MMx so I had braging rites! Very Happy I gamed the shite outta that box.

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AnalogRocks wrote:
km987654 wrote:
Jeremy112 wrote:
kal wrote:
Is a Pentium Pro "classic electronics"? I expected to see 286's and 386's here.... or possibly 8086's. Wink

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I would safely say that the Pentium Pro is a classic CPU simply due to its rare gigantic size, and for how powerful of a CPU it was for the time. Sadly I've only been lucky enough to have one system that used dual Pentium Pro CPUs - man the thing flew for 2 180MHz processors... (at least it did 10 years ago when I picked it off the curb!) I believe I sold the motherboard & CPU for around $100 at the time.

Jeremy - This Classic electronics section has me itching to post some of my oooold computers & electronics - going to have to open the "vault" Laughing

By the way, do 20 year old digital projectors count as "classic" Laughing


The Pentium Pro was a spectacular chip at the time of production. There was nothing else quite like it in physical size or performance. It came with a full speed cache of up to 512k when other processors had 32k. It did not however have some of the capabilities of main stream processors like MMX technology (although I believe Intel did make a version of the Petium Pro in very limited numbers that did have the MMX extension) so it may not have performed well for MMX enhanced video. So it was not a big hit in the consumer PC market and wasn't really designed for that anyway. It was a server CPU but also used in some workstations. It changed the way CPUs were designed with larger on board cache so indeed a worthy piece of technology to remember.


I have ( somewhere ) a pair of Pentium Pro 200's with 1meg cache. They are in a very safe place along with my lost house keys from high school and that $100 bill I had back in 2000. Laughing

I remember there were 5 Pentium 200's at the time. The Pro 200, w/256k. Pro 200, w/512k cache, Pro 200, w/1 meg cache -all 3 Socket 8. Then there was the standard Pentium 200 and the gaming oriented 200MMX socket 7 chips. My buddies brother had the regular 200Mhz and I had the 200MMx so I had braging rites! Very Happy I gamed the shite outta that box.


I had forgotten about the 1mg Pentium Pro but yes there was one. I have somewhere a dual Pentium 200 board.
If you can locate those Pentium Pros why don't you put those in your workstation if it can support those.


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Here is a board from an XT and/or 286 PC. Its a Floppy Disk Controller and it has jumpers on it for 360k, 720k, 1.2mg and 1.4 mg floppy disks. Those were the days Laughing


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Ahhh Friday night. A good movie, a drink, some food and, of course ^computer porn^. Laughing ^
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This all brings back memories but here are some other CPUs


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I remember those overdrive chips! I always wanted one for my 486 DX4-100 PC.
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