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I made a blog post about an old IBM server! (blog.krafting.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Got this server for free, so I talked about it on my blog !

Do you guy have any ideas on what I could run or install on this thing ? (For fun of course, nothing serious!)

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[–] FatAdama 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can hear that thing from here. We had so many of these damn things in the IBM lab I worked in. They got super hot too. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I weep for your power bill, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Oh... you just remind me that I forgot to put thermal paste back on it.. (the server is actually on right know)

And it's not for 24/7 use, no worries for my bill ahah!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Put it in storage until 2054? It is still young enough to be recent history.

I think it would be cool to figure out how to preserve the hardware. If you can figure that out you could make a time capsule and then bury it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

True, I hope i will be able to do that over the years!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like your blog! Straight to my bookmarks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you! it's been a while since I last posted, maybe I should write something new sometime

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The CPU is an Intel Xeon from 2004 (yes, old Intel Xeons do not have model number, they are differentiated by the GHz number and the number of core).

So turns out intel never had a good naming scheme xD

… also 4G of memory, still more than my Pi4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not really ahah!

Probably as powerfull as your Raspberry 4 tho.