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101 Uses for an Old Server
mirko writes: "Here's a link to some weird projects that consist of recycling old servers. You have the SGI Fridge, but also the VAXbar, the SGI Espresso Machine, the VaxTap2000Pro and the SGI HiFi-Miniset. Now that you recycled the case, you can get inspiration from this project in order to recycle their inside components..." We've linked to some of these before, but a couple of them are new (to me, anyway).
i've decided to make a Linux based bong. The machine will be liquid cooled. The water coolant will be shared with the bong component. I'm going to hook up heat detectors to tell when the bowlis being sparced err...sparked. I'm going to try to figure out some method of measuring the size of each hit... If anyone has any ideas, resources or whanot, reply.
Looking at some of the uses of the converted server units, I almost felt that they looks better than the real thing. For example, the 'rOctane', the SGI HiFi-Miniset, looked better than your average hi-fi unit. These days if I walk into most Hi-Fi shops the stereos like a christmas tree and just as ready to be thrown away. Sometimes the best industrial design is personal inventivness. Now where do I find someone willing to give me an Octane case?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Is your friend rich?
Why else would someone let a working cisco 7000 just sit there? Sell it and buy a new car or something...
The great big old 7000 series isn't worth more than a couple hundred bucks, if even that much.
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Partition walls?
If they had a need for one of those massive S/36s, they're likely to have been in a relativley large complex. At which point it's perfectly possible that the limiting factor was a temporary partition wall of some kind which had been built around the machine, and which the landlord was entirely happy to move within his own building but which would have been against the terms of their lease for them to touch.
Just one possibility...
Greg
(Inside a nuclear plant)
Aaaarrrggh! Run! The canary has mutated!
I have a friend who uses a Cisco 7000 as a coffee table (I'll see if I can have him snag a digital image and repost it later when he's online) and the bitch is, the router is fully functional... another who uses an old Performa with a slot cut for a tunnel attached to an Adam for his hamsters playground, and recently seen a Mac Classic at Tekserve being used as a goldfish tank before.
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Well at least Dell contributed some of their laptops to be used for firemen training courses
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I definitely need one of These. Don't even have to make any big mods! Probably could be used to heat the house as well...
HAHA - leave it to us techies to design a cool but nearly unusable interface every time...
Isn't it fitting that the designer will be hitting his forehead every time he tries to use it. Just as if he's saying "Doh! I can't clap and hold my beer mug at the same time! What was I thinking."
Hey, if they go voice activated, this will have the added advantage of serving as a regulating bartender. You have to be able to speak to get more beer.
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I would've thought of donating old servers to some non-profit start-up
As someone who has been struck by the current recession a little more than most, I would think that the expression non-profit startup is a little redundant...
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Anyone have a picture of *your* apple-fish hack?
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"We have this old SGI box that we've converted in to a beer cooler with holes punched through the front for the taps. Whenever the guys from SGI come to visit, to talk about new hardware, we show it to them and explain this is what happens when their machines don't perform."
I have to ask... How did they get it in the office in the first place? And how did the landlord get it out?
This sounds like a case for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency!
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The obvious example of case-reuse.
Here be some good examples: The Apple Collection and Aquarium by Jim.
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Junky or not, I've got a nice firewall, and what may soon become a backup. And another that I'm thinking of setting up as a nameserver. True, running Enlightenment on X and trying process multiple SETI@home work elements. But people seem to be spoiled by excessively fast computers. You don't need a 650 MHz SMP box to do a small amount of file-serving.
Don't get me wrong; there's no harm in having an underloaded computer if you've got the money; but the general opinion seems to be "This computer is five years old! Let's tear it to shreds!"
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I would've thought of donating old servers to some non-profit start-up or something along those lines.
But to store beer? Too much time on people's hands...
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My first job in 1988 involved work on an IBM System/36 -- a large, freezer-sized unit. When the AS/400 came out, the company no longer needed the box and we wanted to ditch it, but it was too big to get out of the office via doors or windows. The landlord offered to take it off our hands, so we said "fine". When visiting his house a few weeks later, we discovered that he'd ripped out all of the internals and tipped it on its side, and where the console used to be had put a trapdoor. He'd filled it full of coal for his furnace!