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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: God's Country, The South
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I have about 60 6100/66 Mhz boxes on a pallette in my garage. I was trying to figure out what I could do with them, and then it came to me, WOW, I could have my own cluster!
If I shoe-horned Panther onto all of them and loaded XGrid, started up the F@H client on my new cluster, I could just about equal the output of one Dual 2.0 Ghz G5!!
Now that ought to make some news headlines somewhere!
Anybody want to give it a try, I will ship the pallette full for the cost of shipping!
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: College Park, MD
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*picks up stinger missile launcher, aims at OneMacGuy's idea, waits for the warble, then fires*
*watches the missile impact*
Sorry to shoot down your idea. Two major issues. OSX never ran on nubus machines, and I don't think fah is going to like a ppc601.
You could gut the cases and put VIA EPIA boards in there and netboot/cluster them, or maybe even matx athlon boards.
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: God's Country, The South
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Originally posted by Scotttheking:
*picks up stinger missile launcher, aims at OneMacGuy's idea, waits for the warble, then fires*
*watches the missile impact*
Sorry to shoot down your idea. Two major issues. OSX never ran on nubus machines, and I don't think fah is going to like a ppc601.
You could gut the cases and put VIA EPIA boards in there and netboot/cluster them, or maybe even matx athlon boards.
Now, Scott! There goes my best chance for suckering, uuhhmm, I mean talking some lucky person into taking all of these wonderful old Macintoshes off of my hands! 
But since you mention it, I do have about 25 - 7200's in the garage, too. And let me see, about 13 - 7500's and 10 - 8500's, all without drives, but they do have PCI buses, memory and processors! They will also run Yellow Dog Linux, I think!
Want them all? Cheap? How about REAL cheap?
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Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Dec 2000
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Well, without hard drives they aren't much good
I recently retired my ailing linux running pm 8500 G3 300. I'm going to consolidate everything it was running onto my B&W G3.
I also don't have free power.
Sorry.
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Stockholm Sweden
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Much as I like to put old computer to use the reality is that for every client there is a overhead, so compared to one fast computer 10 computers (at 1/10 the speed of the fast one) will not fare well. Now they are cleaning out old macs and PCs were I work (lot of 7200 & 8200).
I installed F@H on my wifes new 2.6 GHz P4 and that alone will outdo at at least 20 7600/132 boxes without spending a fortune on cables hubs and electricity...
I do need to have some heat in my celler to keep it dry so I have put some old computers there to heat it up and also run DC  but 20 of them would make a sauna.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Texas
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Offer to donate a free network to a local school.
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