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thane:
Thanks, Lee, I'll take care of that. Haven't done a thing to it since I rescued it from a dumpster years ago and finally hooked it up in March...
Lee:
Wellll... ;) I didn't happen to have a handful of USB extension cables laying around - and I need to get to the back of these boxes occasionally anyhow.
I like the idea of that thingy that fits in the floppy bay - but for my more modern workstation, not these antiques.
vinnie:
;)
tclfan:
--- Quote from: thane on November 29, 2009, 12:53:08 PM ---Currently I have an old Compaq Deskpro EN with 512M of memory. I boot off read-only CD (USB boot not supported) and save to a USB stick. Still has Windows 2000 on the hard drive which I haven't bothered to reformat. Basically just using the box as a web surfer and media player.
--- End quote ---
Another consideration is that these older machines like Deskpro EN have USB 1.1, therefore extremely slow. So even if it was bootable from USB, it would be practically useless. Booting from TC from CD is the best way therefore...
Another purpose of these older machines would be to use them as NAS servers. Just stick a FreeNAS CD and the machine runs headless, no monitor, keyboard or mouse. Just need to put in some old disk drives and you have RAID, etc...
vinnie:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Stratitec-5-Port-USB-2-0-PCI-Card-ICUSB25_W0QQitemZ110464864004QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b8380f04
Ok, economy is good but we don't are too thrifty ;D
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