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AMD K5/100
| Processor |
AMD K5/100 |
| Motherboard |
Generic |
| Case |
Mini Tower AT |
| Ram |
48 MB RAM (2x16 MB + 2x8 MB SIMM) |
| Videocard |
S3 Trio64+ 1MB PCI |
| Hard Disk |
Western Digital Caviar 850MB IDE |
| CDROM |
Creative Labs 4x IDE |
| Floppy |
1.44 MB |
| Sound |
16Bit SoundBlaster Clone |
| Network |
NE2000 (bnc/aui) ISA |
| Network |
3Com Etherlink III 3c509 (utp/aui) ISA |
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| OS |
Slackware 3.6 |
| Function |
Server
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Extra Information
| Purchase Date |
September 1996 |
| Purchase Cost |
38000 BFR (940 Euro) |
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Upgrades
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February 1997:
16 MB (2x8 MB) SIMM (3000 BFR (75 Euro))
April 1997:
Wingman Joystick (1400 BFR (35 Euro))
June 1997:
Processor Swap (Warranty)
August 1997:
Hard Disk Swap (Seagate exchanged for Western Digital, Warranty)
NE2000 NIC ISA (1000 BFR (25 Euro))
July 1998:
3Com Etherlink III ISA (Donated)
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| Retired |
February 2000 (Sold) |
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Description
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This is the first computer I payed for myself (with the income from my summer job). Even though it was a fairly low-end configuration at this point, it served as primary workstation for a year until it was upgraded to what became ardent. About six months after the upgrade it was reassembled and eventually turned into a dedicated linux server (router) that was used at LAN parties as a dedicated quake server or network gateway :)
The machine suffered 2 big failures during its lifetime: less than a year after the purchase the CPU was showing signs of problems (software would crash showing a full CPU register dump on the screen) and it was eventually replaced under warranty (coupled with a better cooler). Not too long after the CPU was fixed the Seagate drive suddenly died, taking all my data with it ...
The K5 has been used as testing grounds for several operating systems such as plain old MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 / OS/2 Warp 3.0 / Slackware Linux / SuSE Linux / Windows 95 / Windows 98.
Good old days :)
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