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You know what seems to be extra rare? Pentium II and III Xeons.

I cant speak for farms who dont cook the pig slop... but thats how.the big mest fatms made pork safe for the rest of us.

Interesting on the brass poisoning. I had never heard of that.
 
VERAULT said:
Just dont use rare unless your ordering a steak. Even if something isnt common or difficult to find its not rare. Its all mass produced.
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I'm going to have to agree with the Gargler on this one. They might have made millions of these devices, but there sure as hell isn't millions of them floating around. And I would call these systems interesting and having value.

and for the hat trick:
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I'm going to ask that you unclench that stick you are holding.
 
holy crap, the tone of the thread took another damned 360 degree turn. I thought I was being quick and witty.
 
VERAULT said:
I cant speak for farms who dont cook the pig slop... but thats how.the big mest fatms made pork safe for the rest of us.

Interesting on the brass poisoning. I had never heard of that.
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The hair on his arms would eat into the back of his wrist watch until I gave him one of the first auto-winds back in the 50's that had stainless back. Also, he would break out into sweats once in a while just like malaria. He just lived with it. Outside of my Dad, I never heard of brass poisoning.
 
VERAULT said:
Just dont use rare unless your ordering a steak. Even if something isnt common or difficult to find its not rare. Its all mass produced.
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Mass produced products such as 1800’s era lithography, Honus Wager baseball cards found in gum packaging, various mass produced 20th century lamps and certain furniture all constitute “rare” despite being produced sometimes in the millions of units.
An accurate measurement of how many are available for sale would be needed to know.

At the rate we trash equipment it is very possible that working Xeon style chips will eventually become the preverbal “rare” unless you become skilled at recovering them from Chinese landfills or discover multiple abandoned Computer renaissance stores full of Xeon systems
 
Those baseball cards are for the most part gone. And even when they were "mass produced" they were not made in the numbers that these things were being made in the 1980s and 1990s.

Im sure there are plenty still in "barns" to be found. People hold on to things especially some businesses. There are plenty of school districts still "storing" old apple II computers. They arent all thrown away.
 
You can be as pedantic as you want but you still can't find a working eight socket Pentium iii Xeon for sale. Whatever word you like to use for that is between you and your god.
 
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I'm going to have to agree with the Gargler on this one. They might have made millions of these devices, but there sure as hell isn't millions of them floating around. And I would call these systems interesting and having value.

and for the hat trick:
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I'm going to ask that you unclench that stick you are holding.
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Who the fuck is nick? Fuck nick. The fonz would steal nicks best girl with the snap of his fingers.


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VERAULT said:
Would Arthur Fonzarelli own it? If not its not cool.
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no the Fonze would own the unapproachably cooler 6x6.

Its strange. 4 processors is much cooler than 2, and 8 is way cooler than 4. But for some reason 6 us just insanely cooler than 8. No one can really explain it.

Even so its easier to find a working ALR 6x6 than an 8-way Xeon. Go figure.
 
Those would be from the ALR 6x6, which could apparently function on 3 CPUs. Not as cool as 6 but cooler than 1. Any single-socket system is the unicycle to Fonzie's Triumph Trophy TR5.
 
hunterjwizzard said:
Those would be from the ALR 6x6, which could apparently function on 3 CPUs. Not as cool as 6 but cooler than 1. Any single-socket system is the unicycle to Fonzie's Triumph Trophy TR5.
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Multi slot/socket server boards can generally work with any number of CPUs installed. I've had quad and octa socket servers with odd numbers of CPUs installed. The last one I had was some Dell Poweredge with three Itanium CPUs installed because the 4th socket was broken.
 
hunterjwizzard said:
Pure unadulterated rule of cool? It has EIGHT processors!
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hell i'm already having a hard time finding SIX overdrives...

well, AFFORDABLE ones. And 2 of the 5 I have are sealed, NIB so I don't really want to open them if I had another option... so I have only 3.

I do think I have Eight of the 900/2M/100 2.8V P3 xeons. it has taken a decade to get that many.

VERAULT said:
I seem to recall 3 cpu boards.....
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its a 3-cpu card - it just physically holds the processors and Vregs. You can boot an ALR with a single ppro. But that would be like submitting a unicycle to a nascar race. (I didnt really think this one through)
 
Individual Pentium iii Xeon processors are as easy to find as typing in the search term and hitting buy it now. Its the motherboards and server that take them which are like an underdone steak - difficult to find yet how everyone says you're supposed to enjoy it.
 
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