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Well you have quite the dilemma. On one hand, they are pieces of vintage hardware. On the other hand, you may have about 5 grams of gold holding up your father's table (up to .33g/cpu*16).
I suppose they could take out just the CPUs for the gold and leave the rest to hold up the tables.
When one of my employers closed our site and merged operations with our Chicago office at the end of 2001, we were left with surplus equipment. Nobody wanted about 4 giant quad-PPro servers, so I took them. I never did anything with them and honestly don't remember who made them..we were mainly an HP shop, so maybe? They sat on rollers on the floor, and came up to about the bottom of a desktop, and were square boxes…
There's a reason that beast had heavy-duty caster wheels -- fully decked out with 12 SCSI HDDs installed, that thing weighed around ~200 pounds (90 kg)!
I found an old forum post [0] which includes some pictures of the machine.
(I had an LH Pro too. It was also a helluva machine, but paled in comparison to the LX Pro!)
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EDIT: I found a copy of an old HP configuration / spec sheet [1] for an LX Pro (dated 19 Aug 1996) that includes pricing information. The as-configured price? USD $645,663!
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[0]: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?40511-HP-Netserver...
[1]: http://c970058.r58.cf2.rackcdn.com/individual_results/HP/hp....
Mini-Mainframe? Isn't that a minicomputer? Am I missing something?
Does it run linux?
ALR!!! I hadn't heard that name in eons. Didn't even know they were still extant in 1997. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, they were selling some of the beefiest professional-grade x86 hardware -- workstations and servers -- around. They were among the first (besides Compaq) to ship 386 and 486 hardware and early on the EISA bandwagon too.
Crazy how these things depreciate to basically zero monetary value over time. Compare that to say, the convenience store on my corner, which is largely unchanged since the 1970s.