Pentium Pro - Live Scrap Out - Now On!

I been doing lots of reading and all's good, I've learnt a lot of things, like many of you are nuts, but that's cool.

Pentium Pro threads are a plenty, i've enjoyed reading a lot of them as it seems they hit the spot everywhere in the world.
I been getting the odd tower here and there, ibm pc 365's mostly and been stacking them complete along with some other models I like.
hasn't bothered me up until today so I decided to scrap one out, they all run, really smooth, I can't believe how quiet they work compared to today.

I picked out the worst of the lot, the base is getting a bit rusty so it's not real good to collect, and it's lighter then the rest, probably has things removed
so it's the obvious choice to scrap out now.

Here's our victim, an IBM PC 365

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps97b79104.jpg

Slid the door open to find some emptyness already

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...psb51f8c23.jpg

The back isn't setting my world on fire either, probably a scrapped out dud but we'll see, it runs good.

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps1b73261e.jpg

The rusty base

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...psa36ff700.jpg


ok time to get the case open and have a look inside, next pics to come asap, stay tuned, guests sign up and join my chat!

ok got the case open, looks ok from this angle

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...psd99792fc.jpg

Looking in from the right side I see there's no hard drive, might explain why it's so quiet when it's turned on :)

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...psb0e345e6.jpg


oh no! can you see it? is that an empty socket 8 I see?
one down, we need to go to the other side, hope for the best! :)

Houston... We have heat sink!

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps63a4cecb.jpg

:winner:

now i'm getting sweaty palms, this 365 is model 13 U, a 200mhz version, the fully blown, totally sick version.

Time to unplug the wires and pull out the power unit so I got a clean view of this, then i'm having a shower so lets have a 20 minute intermission to freshen up

ok i'm back, have cleaned it out of wires and the only drive is a floppy

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...pscfc8adff.jpg

took off the top bracket and got the finger cards, a diamond stealth 2000 3d card, pretty nice.
now it's just us and the bare motherboard, heatsink is the final frontier

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...psa07723ed.jpg

here we go...

Clip pulled off, lever in the erect position, about to commence lift off...

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps82871efa.jpg

oh hello sailer..

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps1660f7e3.jpg

let me get a tissue and wipe all that cream off you, you look a mess.

This is one small step for me, but one giant leap for my motivation.

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...psc865979b.jpg

lol that's one hell of a version of scrap porn I have ever seen on here! congrats nice find!

That was funny!

And don't forget the gold pins on the back of the floppy drive for your "OMG it's gold" bucket.
Course I pull them down for the motors and the gold plated diode in the eye. It's just the way I am,,,

Congrats on the PP and a very good job on the photos and description. Mike.

Thanks for the comments.
might have to look into the gold diodes mentioned in the floppy as i'm always looking to put something in my "OMG it's gold" bucket.
which sits right in between my "yay it's copper" bucket and my "ffs it just aluminum" bucket.

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Originally Posted by weeeben

Thanks for the comments.
might have to look into the gold diodes mentioned in the floppy as i'm always looking to put something in my "OMG it's gold" bucket.
which sits right in between my "yay it's copper" bucket and my "ffs it just aluminum" bucket.

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I usually grab the pins and motors and the CD/DVD drives have the eye/diode I was talking about.

Here's what they look like;
http://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/...e/100_0824.jpg

and where to find them;
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/disma...vd-drive;.html

oh those eyes, yep I have a bucket for them already, I like to keep the whole eye housing as it seems there's more to them then just gold.

Good job with the photos and narrative, very entertaining to see/read.

lol that was fun

Thanks for all the pics.

Nice job.