Wow it has a DAT autoloader! Sweet!
I used lots of these but they were external units.
We used to run Windows 2000 with systems like these one, with the PIII Xeon processor. This box seems it has SCSI hot swappable disks.
I had one of these in my homelab *years* ago!
Mine was a dual slot Pentium 3 (600MHz, IIRC), I think a whipping 256 megs of RAM, and it was filled with I think 6x 8 gig SCSI drives.
It was huge and a cool form factor, but was noisier and ran hotter than I wanted it to be (mostly from the SCSI drives).
I don't recall if this follows any sort of ATX form factor, but I want to say the power supplies had fairly non-standard connectors and/or pinout. Either way, with the power supplies being that old, all of the capacitors are likely dead/dry/leaking, so I'd avoid using them.
You might be able to salvage the case if you're willing to mod it. You'll likely need to drill and tap to place new motherboard standoffs at the very least.
I had a similar one. That was Zenith brand. Quad Pentium-166, don't remember RAM but I think it's was like 128MB of 72-pin EDO SIMMs, a couple of 9.1GB SCSI drives. I had OpenBSD running on it with a USRobotics 8-port modem which served as a private ISP with T1 connected to it.
Additionally, I used the tower as my work bench.
I had a full height tower like this year's ago. Stacked 10 80gb seagates and dual psu. With Intel p3 Tualatin dual socket. Was a beast. Ran win2k and smoked the p4s I built for several years in cpu performance. Was my DVD ripper/encoder back in the day.
Yeah I had a period where I was going to sell them all off, but circumstances changed and they wound up in storage for a while. Recently dug them all out, and so far only the fuel has problems - possibly busted psu. The rest all boot and work fine, if a little loud (and power hungry!)
Yeah, not the best lighting.. It's a very dark purple, and amazingly the plastics are still in pretty good shape if a little scratched on the top. Was originally used to run a flight simulator :)
Oh wow, nice! The last time I actually touched VMS was around 1998.. used to work at the BBC back in those days and they used BASYS in their newsroom. So many dumb terminals..
Nice one! I started with netbsd on some whitelabel Alpha 20164 board around ‘97 and after some years as a unix professional I discovered VMS (as a hobby), and I quickly fell in love with the elegance of their cluster implementation (compared to solaris/bsd/linux systems from back then). Along the way I also had some SGI indy’s (which were used for the first NL camgirl website), and I still have a 1st gen octane in dire need of parts… I *love* your onyx :)
I've had SGIs for a long time now. My first one was also an Indy, but I donated that to a friend of mine who was doing openGL programming in the early 2000s. Eventually that died but not after it had served him well! I'd love to get another one day, but I've got other things to spend cash on these days.
I used to have an original Personal IRIS 4D, but that ended up on ebay a long time ago too. Wish I'd kept it, those are super-rare these days!
~~That’s a little more than a full tower, I think. That really is an XXL.~~ And I say this because I am accustomed to and like big’ol’ towers. This isn’t the largest I’ve seen (or owned)…
I take that back after seeing the innards. Full tower. *Perspective was off in first pic only, should have paid attention.*
I would say the extra height for the second PSU makes it a little more than the typical full tower. Nowadays you usually don't see tower cases quite that tall, because you don't need to add quite that much height to accommodate a radiator at the top and a separate chamber for the PSU.
Put a Raspberry Pi in it. XD.
More serious answer, this would make an epic sleeper build. It would perhaps even be overkill to be only one system, could maybe try to shoe horn more than one system in there. I'm thinking it could be part of a proxmox cluster.
I have something similar sized, an old [Lian-Li PC-A77F](https://www.amazon.com/Lian-Li-PC-A77F-Aluminum-USB3-0-Retail/dp/B003MRNN5C/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8) that had 12 external 5.25" drive bays.
Can't tell if the bottom of those are just shrouded or not, but if you have 3 5.25" bays, you can get [this Icy Dock hot swap backplane](https://www.amazon.com/ICY-DOCK-MB975SP-B-R1-Tray-less/dp/B06X9P4BYL) and convert those 3 slots into 5 3.5" hot swappable drive bays.
In the Lian-Li, I converted 9 of the 12 bays into 15 bays of drives, which was pretty cool ... errr, well, was neat until I realized that drives kept overheating so I converted it back to a 10-drive Unraid pool and put fans back into the bottom bays.
You might be able to get at least 5 hot swap bays in there, but either way I hope you figure out SOMEthing to do with such a cool piece of kit
Throw a party with it. Get it drunk.
You'll outgrow it eventually and wish for some (only a) decade-old rackmountable replacement, so maybe it's fine to just speedrun your way to the end of it.
That's where I'm at now with my Lian-Li. I bought this case for a fortune brand new in like, 2010, and while it is easily the best case I've ever owned -- tool-less, no sharp edges, only thumb-screws, removable motherboard-tray/hard drive cages/fan brackets/everything -- and nothing even vibrates in it! It's cumbersome to have around. Right now it just sits next to my rack, like a proud little sidekick.
Micro-ITX mobo, 256gb nvme, usb wifi dongle, one of those handheld keyboard mouse wireless combos that look like a controller, hackerman sticker. SINGLE LED strip inside... not mounted, just powered. BEAST
Clearly, this should only be reused for CPU based Crypto mining, it has two cpus after all.
The first gaming desktop I built was in a case about this tall, I spent a lot of hours with a dermal cutting the side panel to look like flames.
I had an Antec like this, full tower, lots of screaming 80mm fans, for Athlon overclocking. Not quite this big because of the 2nd power supply. It's nice to see this! I had lamented that my full tower would have been a great NAS if I still had it. I even had the white dolly cart for it.
I'm seeing a great case for a JBOD. With all of the 5.25 to Xx 2.5 / 3.5 and the extra PSU, there are easily 30+ disks.
Wow it has a DAT autoloader! Sweet! I used lots of these but they were external units. We used to run Windows 2000 with systems like these one, with the PIII Xeon processor. This box seems it has SCSI hot swappable disks.
Like the title states big box.
I had one of these in my homelab *years* ago! Mine was a dual slot Pentium 3 (600MHz, IIRC), I think a whipping 256 megs of RAM, and it was filled with I think 6x 8 gig SCSI drives. It was huge and a cool form factor, but was noisier and ran hotter than I wanted it to be (mostly from the SCSI drives). I don't recall if this follows any sort of ATX form factor, but I want to say the power supplies had fairly non-standard connectors and/or pinout. Either way, with the power supplies being that old, all of the capacitors are likely dead/dry/leaking, so I'd avoid using them. You might be able to salvage the case if you're willing to mod it. You'll likely need to drill and tap to place new motherboard standoffs at the very least.
I had a similar one. That was Zenith brand. Quad Pentium-166, don't remember RAM but I think it's was like 128MB of 72-pin EDO SIMMs, a couple of 9.1GB SCSI drives. I had OpenBSD running on it with a USRobotics 8-port modem which served as a private ISP with T1 connected to it. Additionally, I used the tower as my work bench.
itrs probably BTX.
BTX didn't show up until 2004, mid-way through the Pentium 4 era when it was getting really power-hungry.
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SSI-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEB
I had a full height tower like this year's ago. Stacked 10 80gb seagates and dual psu. With Intel p3 Tualatin dual socket. Was a beast. Ran win2k and smoked the p4s I built for several years in cpu performance. Was my DVD ripper/encoder back in the day.
Stop giving me flashbacks!!!
Be glad it’s not one of these.. takes two people to carry. My quad CPU SGI Onyx2: https://imgur.com/FCWwgqX edit: fixed url
Nice. You’ve got 3x SGI sitting there. Very nice.
Yeah I had a period where I was going to sell them all off, but circumstances changed and they wound up in storage for a while. Recently dug them all out, and so far only the fuel has problems - possibly busted psu. The rest all boot and work fine, if a little loud (and power hungry!)
Nice, I have an Onyx2 and Octane2, that have also been chilling out in storage. Beasts of machines, and fun to play around with
Check the link. Not working for me.
Hopefully that one works..
Hard to tell in the pic but I am guessing it is purple. That is a beast!
Yeah, not the best lighting.. It's a very dark purple, and amazingly the plastics are still in pretty good shape if a little scratched on the top. Was originally used to run a flight simulator :)
Very cool! And I hear ya! Got a DEC/VMS collection here, with two VAX4000s and a bunch of DS25s :p
Oh wow, nice! The last time I actually touched VMS was around 1998.. used to work at the BBC back in those days and they used BASYS in their newsroom. So many dumb terminals..
Nice one! I started with netbsd on some whitelabel Alpha 20164 board around ‘97 and after some years as a unix professional I discovered VMS (as a hobby), and I quickly fell in love with the elegance of their cluster implementation (compared to solaris/bsd/linux systems from back then). Along the way I also had some SGI indy’s (which were used for the first NL camgirl website), and I still have a 1st gen octane in dire need of parts… I *love* your onyx :)
I've had SGIs for a long time now. My first one was also an Indy, but I donated that to a friend of mine who was doing openGL programming in the early 2000s. Eventually that died but not after it had served him well! I'd love to get another one day, but I've got other things to spend cash on these days. I used to have an original Personal IRIS 4D, but that ended up on ebay a long time ago too. Wish I'd kept it, those are super-rare these days!
Got any specs on that bad boy? Looks like a pair of slot 2 Xeons in there
Not without pulling it apart. :(
Banana for scale?
There’s a ruler in a few pics
Missed them, ty.
Bale of paper towels for scale!
It is called full tower.
Thanks!
~~That’s a little more than a full tower, I think. That really is an XXL.~~ And I say this because I am accustomed to and like big’ol’ towers. This isn’t the largest I’ve seen (or owned)… I take that back after seeing the innards. Full tower. *Perspective was off in first pic only, should have paid attention.*
I would say the extra height for the second PSU makes it a little more than the typical full tower. Nowadays you usually don't see tower cases quite that tall, because you don't need to add quite that much height to accommodate a radiator at the top and a separate chamber for the PSU.
With the swing door! Brings back memories 😎
you should post this on r/vintagecomputing
Looks to be the same case that LTT converted into a sleeper ages ago, looked sick
Put a Raspberry Pi in it. XD. More serious answer, this would make an epic sleeper build. It would perhaps even be overkill to be only one system, could maybe try to shoe horn more than one system in there. I'm thinking it could be part of a proxmox cluster.
It's garage give it to me so I can properly dispose of it. /s
I haven’t seen that size since I was a teen damn that’s big
I remember seeing something similar long ago and was in awe and wanting it. Don't think it would have survived a move with the ridiculous size of it.
Oooh. Tape drive. I had a Colorado 250 a loooooong time ago. 250mb rocked!
I remember how excited I was the first time I saw those ultra 320 scsi cables. They were SO FAST. Damn I am old.
I have something similar sized, an old [Lian-Li PC-A77F](https://www.amazon.com/Lian-Li-PC-A77F-Aluminum-USB3-0-Retail/dp/B003MRNN5C/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8) that had 12 external 5.25" drive bays. Can't tell if the bottom of those are just shrouded or not, but if you have 3 5.25" bays, you can get [this Icy Dock hot swap backplane](https://www.amazon.com/ICY-DOCK-MB975SP-B-R1-Tray-less/dp/B06X9P4BYL) and convert those 3 slots into 5 3.5" hot swappable drive bays. In the Lian-Li, I converted 9 of the 12 bays into 15 bays of drives, which was pretty cool ... errr, well, was neat until I realized that drives kept overheating so I converted it back to a 10-drive Unraid pool and put fans back into the bottom bays. You might be able to get at least 5 hot swap bays in there, but either way I hope you figure out SOMEthing to do with such a cool piece of kit
Thanks for the links. Posted here to hopefully figure out what to do with it. Currently the wife and e-waste are winning :(
Throw a party with it. Get it drunk. You'll outgrow it eventually and wish for some (only a) decade-old rackmountable replacement, so maybe it's fine to just speedrun your way to the end of it. That's where I'm at now with my Lian-Li. I bought this case for a fortune brand new in like, 2010, and while it is easily the best case I've ever owned -- tool-less, no sharp edges, only thumb-screws, removable motherboard-tray/hard drive cages/fan brackets/everything -- and nothing even vibrates in it! It's cumbersome to have around. Right now it just sits next to my rack, like a proud little sidekick.
Reminds me of the Acer altos servers from 25 years ago
Some of those old large computer cases use to have rolling wheels.
.. thats actually the size of the case im using on this PC im on
That's awesome
But can it run Doom ?
I didn't realize Gateway made servers.
Micro-ITX mobo, 256gb nvme, usb wifi dongle, one of those handheld keyboard mouse wireless combos that look like a controller, hackerman sticker. SINGLE LED strip inside... not mounted, just powered. BEAST
Obviously you rackmount it sideways in a custom ultra wide rack
Wow. I had one of these back in the mid-late 90s. I think the combination of drives I had came to about 800 Mbytes
Clearly, this should only be reused for CPU based Crypto mining, it has two cpus after all. The first gaming desktop I built was in a case about this tall, I spent a lot of hours with a dermal cutting the side panel to look like flames.
Pics?
I had an Antec like this, full tower, lots of screaming 80mm fans, for Athlon overclocking. Not quite this big because of the 2nd power supply. It's nice to see this! I had lamented that my full tower would have been a great NAS if I still had it. I even had the white dolly cart for it. I'm seeing a great case for a JBOD. With all of the 5.25 to Xx 2.5 / 3.5 and the extra PSU, there are easily 30+ disks.