It's fall... a grey & rainy day... ahhh the joy! So, out into the garage to clean up and trash some old computer parts. Understand, I've been at it for years... I have so many old computer parts, shells of their former selves! Some are old fried clients systems, some are mine from years back...

So I'm going through this box full of wires, PCI and AGP cards and other insundry pieces..... lo & behold... an old motherboard with CPU & RAM still there, how about that! It's my old Pentium Pro 200mhz board and processor! Which I had upgraded back in the day with a PII 333mhz overdrive... that ran $500+ back in the day!!! Ouch ... so, figured it might not be a bad idea to try and get a little more out of that investment!!! And see if it might actually fire up...

So, new project... forget the garage! It'll be there as winter progresses... Snagged an old case & 200w PS ... an old Voodoo3 2000 card that's been knockin' around here for a bit and an ethernet card. Dug around and found a CD-ROM and floppy drive and set to go! Now to put it all together ...

Took some time to jerry-rig it all together, most notably getting all the gunk out of the HSF, then came the moment of truth! Press the power button and....... oh my god! IT LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually fired up after all these years of knockin' around in a box of parts and pieces!!! Had a spare copy of Win98se that's no longer in use so loaded her up and runnin' like a champ! So, looks like a file server for the network here is born!

Just thought I'd share....