Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997

Re:Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997 by taborj on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:13PM (#23182255)

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 maybe 2 ft on a side. I think they may still be holding up a table at my father's office...

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Re:Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997 by jlgaddis on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:34PM (#23185810)

Sounds kinda like the HP Netserver LX Pro I had a long time ago (I finally got rid of it ~15 years ago when moving).

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....

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Re:Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997 by sometw on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#23183221)

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).

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Re:Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997 by xdxdx on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:28PM (#23184209)

I suppose they could take out just the CPUs for the gold and leave the rest to hold up the tables.

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Re:Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997 by sometw on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:09PM (#23185488)

but then you don't have a golden table stand

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