Old "beige boxes" free to a good home
They're not all beige, but most of them are. These are "too new" for the museum, but I figure some of you are fixing up 1990's boxes so you can demo Windows 3.0 or Desqview or Linux installed from floppies. These are mostly early Pentium boxes (one Athlon). Some are empty cases, most have motherboards. Most have no hard disk. The item numbers match the numbers on the units in the photo. I'm happy to supply better photos or more information. Floppy drives are 3.5" except box 10 which has a 5" floppy. All the units are in Jackson, NJ. Shipping OK at your cost, or I can deliver to central NJ. Take one, take all, the rest will be scrapped, as much as I hate to see things go to landfill. Note that No. 11 has monochrome video and includes an amber monochrome monitor. It was my home router for many years, hence the 3 Ethernet cards. It used to boot Linux Router Project off the floppy. It runs the BIOS code successfully, but it won't boot because the cmos battery is flat. (NIC == ethernet) I don't want to start breaking these units and sending people things like floppy drives; If you want a floppy, take the whole box and deal with the rest of it. (That is my position at present.) 1. mini tower: 1 GHz cpu, 2 HD, floppy, CDRW, NIC, sound, video 2. mid tower w/DVDRW, otherwise EMPTY. Transparent side panel, built in handle on the top; apparently for the "gamer" market. 3. mid tower Pentium II, NIC, sound, video. Has HD in a removable carrier, plus a second empty carrier. (I need to find one of those stupid little barrel keys so I can unlock the carrier that has a drive in it.) 4. Dell mid tower: silver front, Celeron, no RAM, has DVDRW, HD, Vista license sticker 5. "Athlon 64 3000+" 2GB RAM 3" floppy SCSI CDROM mid tower 6. Acer "1120SX", but replaced original mother board with 386 motherboard (no HD/CD) floppy, NIC, video; small desktop form factor 7. Packard Bell pizza box: 200M Pentium CDR floppy 850M HD 8. Compaq mid tower: Pentium RAM floppy video 9. "Comtrade" mid tower: AMD K6 233 sound, NIC, Tseng video, 192k RAM ASUS MB (if the post-it note is to be believed). 10. Gateway 2000 tower: DVDRW 5" floppy, otherwise EMPTY 11. "IMAGE" desktop: 386 3 NICs, 3 1/2" floppy, monochrome video card, w/ amber monitor Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ
Bill, CDL has 3.6 V nicad CMOS battery replacement kits in the parts drawers if someone wants to make a project of it.... On 6/18/2022 10:05 PM, William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Note that No. 11 has monochrome video and includes an amber monochrome monitor. It was my home router for many years, hence the 3 Ethernet cards. It used to boot Linux Router Project off the floppy. It runs the BIOS code successfully, but it won't boot because the cmos battery is flat. (NIC == ethernet)
I’m interested in number 11 the image desktop. I’m in Howell are you available tomorrow? On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 22:06 William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They're not all beige, but most of them are. These are "too new" for the museum, but I figure some of you are fixing up 1990's boxes so you can demo Windows 3.0 or Desqview or Linux installed from floppies.
These are mostly early Pentium boxes (one Athlon). Some are empty cases, most have motherboards. Most have no hard disk. The item numbers match the numbers on the units in the photo. I'm happy to supply better photos or more information. Floppy drives are 3.5" except box 10 which has a 5" floppy.
All the units are in Jackson, NJ. Shipping OK at your cost, or I can deliver to central NJ. Take one, take all, the rest will be scrapped, as much as I hate to see things go to landfill.
Note that No. 11 has monochrome video and includes an amber monochrome monitor. It was my home router for many years, hence the 3 Ethernet cards. It used to boot Linux Router Project off the floppy. It runs the BIOS code successfully, but it won't boot because the cmos battery is flat. (NIC == ethernet)
I don't want to start breaking these units and sending people things like floppy drives; If you want a floppy, take the whole box and deal with the rest of it. (That is my position at present.)
1. mini tower: 1 GHz cpu, 2 HD, floppy, CDRW, NIC, sound, video 2. mid tower w/DVDRW, otherwise EMPTY. Transparent side panel, built in handle on the top; apparently for the "gamer" market. 3. mid tower Pentium II, NIC, sound, video. Has HD in a removable carrier, plus a second empty carrier. (I need to find one of those stupid little barrel keys so I can unlock the carrier that has a drive in it.) 4. Dell mid tower: silver front, Celeron, no RAM, has DVDRW, HD, Vista license sticker 5. "Athlon 64 3000+" 2GB RAM 3" floppy SCSI CDROM mid tower 6. Acer "1120SX", but replaced original mother board with 386 motherboard (no HD/CD) floppy, NIC, video; small desktop form factor 7. Packard Bell pizza box: 200M Pentium CDR floppy 850M HD 8. Compaq mid tower: Pentium RAM floppy video 9. "Comtrade" mid tower: AMD K6 233 sound, NIC, Tseng video, 192k RAM ASUS MB (if the post-it note is to be believed). 10. Gateway 2000 tower: DVDRW 5" floppy, otherwise EMPTY 11. "IMAGE" desktop: 386 3 NICs, 3 1/2" floppy, monochrome video card, w/ amber monitor
Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ
Hi, If you still have it? I'm interested in the "Athlon 64 3000+" 2GB RAM 3" floppy SCSI CDROM mid-tower" ThanksBobby On Saturday, June 18, 2022, 10:32:54 PM EDT, Ian Litchfield via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: I’m interested in number 11 the image desktop. I’m in Howell are you available tomorrow? On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 22:06 William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They're not all beige, but most of them are. These are "too new" for the museum, but I figure some of you are fixing up 1990's boxes so you can demo Windows 3.0 or Desqview or Linux installed from floppies.
These are mostly early Pentium boxes (one Athlon). Some are empty cases, most have motherboards. Most have no hard disk. The item numbers match the numbers on the units in the photo. I'm happy to supply better photos or more information. Floppy drives are 3.5" except box 10 which has a 5" floppy.
All the units are in Jackson, NJ. Shipping OK at your cost, or I can deliver to central NJ. Take one, take all, the rest will be scrapped, as much as I hate to see things go to landfill.
Note that No. 11 has monochrome video and includes an amber monochrome monitor. It was my home router for many years, hence the 3 Ethernet cards. It used to boot Linux Router Project off the floppy. It runs the BIOS code successfully, but it won't boot because the cmos battery is flat. (NIC == ethernet)
I don't want to start breaking these units and sending people things like floppy drives; If you want a floppy, take the whole box and deal with the rest of it. (That is my position at present.)
1. mini tower: 1 GHz cpu, 2 HD, floppy, CDRW, NIC, sound, video 2. mid tower w/DVDRW, otherwise EMPTY. Transparent side panel, built in handle on the top; apparently for the "gamer" market. 3. mid tower Pentium II, NIC, sound, video. Has HD in a removable carrier, plus a second empty carrier. (I need to find one of those stupid little barrel keys so I can unlock the carrier that has a drive in it.) 4. Dell mid tower: silver front, Celeron, no RAM, has DVDRW, HD, Vista license sticker 5. "Athlon 64 3000+" 2GB RAM 3" floppy SCSI CDROM mid tower 6. Acer "1120SX", but replaced original mother board with 386 motherboard (no HD/CD) floppy, NIC, video; small desktop form factor 7. Packard Bell pizza box: 200M Pentium CDR floppy 850M HD 8. Compaq mid tower: Pentium RAM floppy video 9. "Comtrade" mid tower: AMD K6 233 sound, NIC, Tseng video, 192k RAM ASUS MB (if the post-it note is to be believed). 10. Gateway 2000 tower: DVDRW 5" floppy, otherwise EMPTY 11. "IMAGE" desktop: 386 3 NICs, 3 1/2" floppy, monochrome video card, w/ amber monitor
Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ
Bill, If you still have the gateway tower, I'd like to come get it. Thanks, Joe On Sat, Jun 18, 2022, 10:06 PM William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They're not all beige, but most of them are. These are "too new" for the museum, but I figure some of you are fixing up 1990's boxes so you can demo Windows 3.0 or Desqview or Linux installed from floppies.
These are mostly early Pentium boxes (one Athlon). Some are empty cases, most have motherboards. Most have no hard disk. The item numbers match the numbers on the units in the photo. I'm happy to supply better photos or more information. Floppy drives are 3.5" except box 10 which has a 5" floppy.
All the units are in Jackson, NJ. Shipping OK at your cost, or I can deliver to central NJ. Take one, take all, the rest will be scrapped, as much as I hate to see things go to landfill.
Note that No. 11 has monochrome video and includes an amber monochrome monitor. It was my home router for many years, hence the 3 Ethernet cards. It used to boot Linux Router Project off the floppy. It runs the BIOS code successfully, but it won't boot because the cmos battery is flat. (NIC == ethernet)
I don't want to start breaking these units and sending people things like floppy drives; If you want a floppy, take the whole box and deal with the rest of it. (That is my position at present.)
1. mini tower: 1 GHz cpu, 2 HD, floppy, CDRW, NIC, sound, video 2. mid tower w/DVDRW, otherwise EMPTY. Transparent side panel, built in handle on the top; apparently for the "gamer" market. 3. mid tower Pentium II, NIC, sound, video. Has HD in a removable carrier, plus a second empty carrier. (I need to find one of those stupid little barrel keys so I can unlock the carrier that has a drive in it.) 4. Dell mid tower: silver front, Celeron, no RAM, has DVDRW, HD, Vista license sticker 5. "Athlon 64 3000+" 2GB RAM 3" floppy SCSI CDROM mid tower 6. Acer "1120SX", but replaced original mother board with 386 motherboard (no HD/CD) floppy, NIC, video; small desktop form factor 7. Packard Bell pizza box: 200M Pentium CDR floppy 850M HD 8. Compaq mid tower: Pentium RAM floppy video 9. "Comtrade" mid tower: AMD K6 233 sound, NIC, Tseng video, 192k RAM ASUS MB (if the post-it note is to be believed). 10. Gateway 2000 tower: DVDRW 5" floppy, otherwise EMPTY 11. "IMAGE" desktop: 386 3 NICs, 3 1/2" floppy, monochrome video card, w/ amber monitor
Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ
All the beige boxes are gone. If there are any you had your heart set on, but didn't act fast enough, Please contact Mike Rosen (sentrytv@yahoo.com) and he will likely help you out. The only one he really wanted was the big Gateway tower. Also, no's 6 and 11 went to another person yesterday, so they're really really gone. Thanks all for your interest. Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 10:05 PM William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> wrote:
They're not all beige, but most of them are. These are "too new" for the museum, but I figure some of you are fixing up 1990's boxes so you can demo Windows 3.0 or Desqview or Linux installed from floppies.
These are mostly early Pentium boxes (one Athlon). Some are empty cases, most have motherboards. Most have no hard disk. The item numbers match the numbers on the units in the photo. I'm happy to supply better photos or more information. Floppy drives are 3.5" except box 10 which has a 5" floppy.
All the units are in Jackson, NJ. Shipping OK at your cost, or I can deliver to central NJ. Take one, take all, the rest will be scrapped, as much as I hate to see things go to landfill.
Note that No. 11 has monochrome video and includes an amber monochrome monitor. It was my home router for many years, hence the 3 Ethernet cards. It used to boot Linux Router Project off the floppy. It runs the BIOS code successfully, but it won't boot because the cmos battery is flat. (NIC == ethernet)
I don't want to start breaking these units and sending people things like floppy drives; If you want a floppy, take the whole box and deal with the rest of it. (That is my position at present.)
1. mini tower: 1 GHz cpu, 2 HD, floppy, CDRW, NIC, sound, video 2. mid tower w/DVDRW, otherwise EMPTY. Transparent side panel, built in handle on the top; apparently for the "gamer" market. 3. mid tower Pentium II, NIC, sound, video. Has HD in a removable carrier, plus a second empty carrier. (I need to find one of those stupid little barrel keys so I can unlock the carrier that has a drive in it.) 4. Dell mid tower: silver front, Celeron, no RAM, has DVDRW, HD, Vista license sticker 5. "Athlon 64 3000+" 2GB RAM 3" floppy SCSI CDROM mid tower 6. Acer "1120SX", but replaced original mother board with 386 motherboard (no HD/CD) floppy, NIC, video; small desktop form factor 7. Packard Bell pizza box: 200M Pentium CDR floppy 850M HD 8. Compaq mid tower: Pentium RAM floppy video 9. "Comtrade" mid tower: AMD K6 233 sound, NIC, Tseng video, 192k RAM ASUS MB (if the post-it note is to be believed). 10. Gateway 2000 tower: DVDRW 5" floppy, otherwise EMPTY 11. "IMAGE" desktop: 386 3 NICs, 3 1/2" floppy, monochrome video card, w/ amber monitor
Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ
Just an FYI I Now have many motherboards for any AT cases that I have received. So if somebody absolutely needs to have one of those cases tell me which one because I may still have it if it’s not designated for a future build. Mike Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Jun 20, 2022, at 12:22 PM, William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
All the beige boxes are gone.
If there are any you had your heart set on, but didn't act fast enough, Please contact Mike Rosen (sentrytv@yahoo.com) and he will likely help you out. The only one he really wanted was the big Gateway tower.
Also, no's 6 and 11 went to another person yesterday, so they're really really gone.
Thanks all for your interest. Bill Dudley
This email is free of malware because I run Linux.
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 10:05 PM William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> wrote:
They're not all beige, but most of them are. These are "too new" for the museum, but I figure some of you are fixing up 1990's boxes so you can demo Windows 3.0 or Desqview or Linux installed from floppies.
These are mostly early Pentium boxes (one Athlon). Some are empty cases, most have motherboards. Most have no hard disk. The item numbers match the numbers on the units in the photo. I'm happy to supply better photos or more information. Floppy drives are 3.5" except box 10 which has a 5" floppy.
All the units are in Jackson, NJ. Shipping OK at your cost, or I can deliver to central NJ. Take one, take all, the rest will be scrapped, as much as I hate to see things go to landfill.
Note that No. 11 has monochrome video and includes an amber monochrome monitor. It was my home router for many years, hence the 3 Ethernet cards. It used to boot Linux Router Project off the floppy. It runs the BIOS code successfully, but it won't boot because the cmos battery is flat. (NIC == ethernet)
I don't want to start breaking these units and sending people things like floppy drives; If you want a floppy, take the whole box and deal with the rest of it. (That is my position at present.)
1. mini tower: 1 GHz cpu, 2 HD, floppy, CDRW, NIC, sound, video 2. mid tower w/DVDRW, otherwise EMPTY. Transparent side panel, built in handle on the top; apparently for the "gamer" market. 3. mid tower Pentium II, NIC, sound, video. Has HD in a removable carrier, plus a second empty carrier. (I need to find one of those stupid little barrel keys so I can unlock the carrier that has a drive in it.) 4. Dell mid tower: silver front, Celeron, no RAM, has DVDRW, HD, Vista license sticker 5. "Athlon 64 3000+" 2GB RAM 3" floppy SCSI CDROM mid tower 6. Acer "1120SX", but replaced original mother board with 386 motherboard (no HD/CD) floppy, NIC, video; small desktop form factor 7. Packard Bell pizza box: 200M Pentium CDR floppy 850M HD 8. Compaq mid tower: Pentium RAM floppy video 9. "Comtrade" mid tower: AMD K6 233 sound, NIC, Tseng video, 192k RAM ASUS MB (if the post-it note is to be believed). 10. Gateway 2000 tower: DVDRW 5" floppy, otherwise EMPTY 11. "IMAGE" desktop: 386 3 NICs, 3 1/2" floppy, monochrome video card, w/ amber monitor
Bill Dudley Jackson, NJ
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