Should it stay or should it go?

#1 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 16:04 68kMLA

Ought I to keep the StarMax 3000/200 clone I recently acquired, or offer it up to the recycling gods?

Alternatively, is there anyone here who wants it for a clone collection? It's in good shape.

#2 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 16:51 68kMLA

I've always wanted a Starmax.

#3 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 18:05 68kMLA

I have one I found in the trash in NYC in the late 1990s. I installed NetBSD on it and now it does NAT / IPv6 tunneling / DNS / NFS / NTP stratum 1 time / DDS-3 tape backups and other things. It takes a modest amount of power, it takes standard IDE drives of any size, it's stable as anything, and it's not too big.

#4 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 18:20 68kMLA

Do these use CPU cards or are they soldered to the motherboard?

#5 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 18:40 68kMLA

603e processor is soldered to the logic board.

It is a very odd beast, something like a 4400, but with five PCI slots (in a riser card), an SVGA port, both ADB and PS/2 keyboard connectors, and SCSI as well as IDE.

#6 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 18:45 68kMLA

So you have the tower version... Nice. Yes, it's nice to have the ability to use standard, easy to find drives yet still have access to SCSI stuff (like my DDS tape drive).

It'll work with L2 cache CPU upgrades.

#7 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 20:47 68kMLA

I'd either hang onto it or sell it, definitely don't recycle it...I don't think StarMax's are all that common (well at least they're not here in Australia anyway, none of the clones were, I've only ever seen one PowerComputing clone, that was about 12 years ago)

#8 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 - 21:38 68kMLA

I definitely wouldn't recycle it... I'm sure you can find *someone* to take it off your hands.

#9 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 - 02:10 68kMLA

If someone would come and pick it up from my door, I would send it off into the world with a ribbon and bow attached. Right now it's taking up useful space.

#10 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 - 07:36 68kMLA

If someone would come and pick it up from my door, I would send it off into the world with a ribbon and bow attached. Right now it's taking up useful space.

Isn't there some crappy PC you could get rid of instead?

:lol:

I'd be tempted to take it myself but shipping would be killer on that thing and driving all the way up to you to get it would cost even more.