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Well After a little over a year of doin ewaste i finally found my first Pentium Pro! Happy Gold Dance!! lol. Came in a Gateway 2000. This was the firsst socket 8 chip ive gotten and didnt realize they were that big. Neways I just wanted to share that with you guys.
http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/ima...jtu8o1_500.gif
Congrats man!
You will be worthless for work the next week from staring at it all the time. :)
Great find.
I know how you feel. 5 years and only found one and I still have it. Great find congrats.
Congrats!!
Congrats, I got my first one on Friday, I said the same thing, I didnt know they were that big. It weighs 3oz on my scales.
Came in @3.2 on my scale.Quote:
Originally Posted by brandon
:)
Guess i need to check my scales, lolQuote:
Originally Posted by mikedmissouri
Or I need to check mine. It was actually bouncing between 3.1 and 3.2.Quote:
Originally Posted by brandon
Hang it on a neck chain and you have your "bling",,,Quote:
Originally Posted by happyscraper
I believe a nice video is in order.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
^That was Awesome...^
it makes a nice christmas tree ornament.
"You're just as useless as jpegs to Helen Keller" wow lmao
Cool Golden Queen of CPU's...
Oh Ya, I know the feeling bro! Good on ya. Any chance you'd have a pic of that Gateway 2000 before you broke it down? I only have one PP myself but half the stuff was gone when I found the computer so I never got to see the outside case. I've been trying to figure out what it came from. :) lb
A model number for that Gateway system would be of interest, still have it (minus the CPU)?
Pretty! I never get tired of looking at them.
My favorite part is "what kind a chip you got in there a dorito?"Quote:
Originally Posted by smvulture
Case looks very clean, was the machine intact when you got it?
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by unknownk
E Scrapper badge of honor.
CRAP!!! I had a tower EXACTLY like that, I gave it a way to a guy right before I started escrapping. I remember it because it was so much larger of a case that I thought it might be a server or something (didn't know much back then). Oh well, you live and you learn...
B-No
Dont beat yourself up. Ive scrapped several towers that looked just like that one that didnt have pros in them.Quote:
Originally Posted by burrage1
Gateway reused tower cases back then for the Pentium line. The G6 series name lived at least until the P2/P3 era, but that time they had ditched the gold Gateway2000 emblem and went to just a green pained Gateway on the case. So basically anything that says Gateway2000 in gold lettering might have a decent chip inside.
I would be interested in the case and guts but I assume shipping from Missouri to Ohio would be expensive as heck. A working Gateway ppro near some decent sized city would sell for a few bucks on ebay.
I very Briefly considered resale when i saw how great condition it was in but the scrapper in me and the year long search for a pro got the best of me and i tore it apart. Interest in the MB and HDD?Quote:
Originally Posted by unknownk
PM me what you want for the motherboard.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikedmissouri