FS: Biscuit PC 233mhz onboard LAN/USB/VGA

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Post 1

Biscuit PC 233mhz onboard LAN/USB/VGA

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I currently have lots of these babies. All units are near new and include:

233mhz CPU
32meg SODIMM
5 gig WD 4500rpm HDD
Stainless Steel Enclosure
Headers for:
1 x IDE Channel - two device capable
2 x USB **Currently speaking to manufacturer about USB not working.
3 X Serial (one internal)
1 x PS2
1 x RJ45 (Realtek 8139B)
1 x LPT port
1 x VGA
5V DC Power Adaptor
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Includes onboard vga and sound through Cyrix Media GX
Requires header for sound to work **This has become available at a later date for about "0

Units currently running Red Hat 8 but capable of Win 98SE/ME/2k.

For more information see here.

The manual is available here

Similar to this unit as recently sold however its NOT 300mhz & NO CF onboard

No PM bids
Bids will all be EXCLUDING freight where necessary ("2 via Aus Post)

Reserve price "50

I reserve the right to do what I like within the rules and regs of GU forums blah blah blah

You reserve the right to bitch and moan as much as you like without me listening. ;)

Cheers
Ben

Post 2

i have just been surfing ebay and i gotta say that there is shyte loads of large sticks of SOdimms going really cheap

one of these babies with a nice ram upgrade would be sweet!!

Post 3

hmmm "50 you say. Put me down for one!!! Can get the money 28th of August (payday)

Post 4

k, dont call me a noob or anything but i am trying to comprehend y u would want to buy that, what could u possible use it for aside from kicking when ur good computer stuffs itself.

Post 5

ummmm

email

surfing the net

the odd mpeg here and there

mp3's

etc. etc. etc.

contrary to popular opinion life on the internet does not evolve around games!!!

NOOB!!!

Post 6

Ye but all that stuff I can do on my nice new computer. I want the old one for the classic dos games that do not run well or run with sound on my new comp. Don't get that how come some dos games run slow as on my comp with Windows XP. Compatibility issue huh? Fkn windows get Bill Gates in here now.

Post 7

actually, i woulndt mind having one of them for the rest of my family so i can have mine actually to myslef

Post 8

Quote from Mirror_Target:
Ye but all that stuff I can do on my nice new computer. I want the old one for the classic dos games that do not run well or run with sound on my new comp. Don't get that how come some dos games run slow as on my comp with Windows XP. Compatibility issue huh? Fkn windows get Bill Gates in here now.

They run slow, cause they were designed in a time perid where the speeds that CPU's reach today were thought impossible.

This means they don't scale properly and the end result is the same as if u were to load quake 3 onto a 486, VERY SLOW.

U can overcome this on modern computers by getting a program off the net that maxes out ur CPU, but it just shaves life off it so a small comp like a P-233 is good, cause it can run ALL older games that now refuse to run

Post 9

id be interested in one.. however "50 in my opinon is out of the question!

Post 10

Another good use, for all u adsl users, throw in another network card, install smoothwall/ipcop on it and you can have very cheap and very good firewall/router (will keep all the script kiddies at bay anyway). If you want to go nuts and put linux on, u should be able to setup the above (tech knowledge required) as well as your own mail servers, and web servers and so forth. It'll only be able to handle low volumes, but hey how many users have most ppl got at their house. So old they may be, useless, not quite yet.

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Post 11

Quote from Flammable:
id be interested in one.. however "50 in my opinon is out of the question!

yer more like 30 buks would be the go

Post 12

well you can build you own if you go buy the motherboard from the manufacturer. Last I heard they wanted $299ex tax for it which didnt include the 5gig hard drive or the stainless steel case.
Runs win98se fine and plays MP3's. All runs off 5 volts so put one in your car and have mp3. Run a web browser and terminal service to a server off it. Get a PC104 PCMCIA adaptor for it and use it as a wireless gateway with a copy of smoothwall or IPCOP on it.

Plenty of things to use it for.

Nuff said.
Ben

Post 13

said it all the first time around. damn thing posted twice - something about a mail NS error.

Ben

Post 14

Quote from Flammable:
id be interested in one.. however "50 in my opinon is out of the question!

I agree they'd be handy and useful, just not "50 handy....

Post 15

^shrug^

The hard drive alone is worth $60. (Hell throw the rest away if you like and put it in a USB2 caddy.)

Cheers
Ben

Post 16

so how much did you all spend on yer graphics cards then???? hmm???

more than "50 i am guessing yet a graphics card on its own does nothing, you mob need to learn the value of money a little more so you can actually fit into the real world properly, or just stay in yer dungeon, i really dont care either way, if you want it post an amount you are willing to pay rather than a statement like "i wouldnt touch that with a barge pole" or "why would you want one of those" these are trade threads not discussion threads, if ya wanna talk about it post a new topic in media centre or something!!!

Post 17

And we have got USB working on them now as well.

Internet ---> Billion via USB ---> Biscuit PC running IPCOP ----> Switch via onboard LAN.

Or smoothie or ClarkConnect

Cheers
Ben