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mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

http://www.hcditrading.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/2622254/vpcsid/0/SFV/29664

I have no affiliation - Just saw this on Digg and Gizmodo at $75 USD (+/-) shipped and thought it a good deal for anyone that wants a dedicated Puppy Machine...

From Gizmodo:

mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

Want to "roll your own" Puppy box for cheap? Here's another deal:

http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item=MBB10556

Trigem Como III Slot 1 ATX Motherboard w/ Intel 300MHz CPU for $15.99

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4713 Location: Manila

You have a talent for spotting bargain PCs just right for Puppy. Keep 'em coming. Smile

mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

Thanks, Raffy...

I am what is referred to in America as a "cheap SOB", and I'm proud of it! Very Happy

Surely other countries / cultures have a similar term...

mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

Retrobox is another source of "cheap iron":

Desktops (cheapest first):

Notebooks (cheapest first):

http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_laptops.asp?bin_id=world

mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

Here's another - a 2 gHz Celeron/256MB for $110:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=IBMNVC20-1B&cat=SYS

Not as cheap as some of the others, but worth a mention...

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4680 Location: GB

Your aint no cheapskate, Mike-ie. Always ask how much they'll pay to have you take their junk heaps away. Hire a Jetstream for a weekend and I'll fill it up with whatever you need - no charge.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

I got given a compaq armada 1530d laptop from freecycle last week. After a weeks worth of poking and toying with DSL I've finally got puppy to set the display to 800x600 8bit colour. For anyone else with one of these dinosaurs the crucial bits were:
editing my generated xorg.conf so that the only option was 800x600 and 8 bit colour <edit>sorry I left this out
the other crucial bit was specifying
Option "NoAccel"
as the graphics card can't handle acceleration
</edit>

processor - intel p133
RAM - 80MB (maxed)
hard drive - NTFS with NT4, and a 60Mb linux swap
graphics - cirrus logic GD-7548 1MB! ram (much agravation)
network - PCMCIA wireless card that I ripped out of an old broken wireless router.

WinNT only shows 640x480 8 bit so I was really pleased at managing to up the display by poking at xorg.conf.

The processor is a bit slow for serious use, but I only want to use it as a CLI radio streamer which works fine.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4680 Location: GB

I've got a later Cpq Ar-murderer. Many of them have a regular cpu inside. Could try replacing it with 233 or 266? I think there's even a way to clock it to 150 (Wire trick? Most of those 133 were multiplier locked so you'll have to work on the FSB), but I'm not into laptop clocking.

mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

Here's another cheapie ($60 USD):

Dell Optiplex GX100 PIII 866Mhz / 128MB / 10GB / CD http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item=COM10349

Also, a couple of Socket 370 mobo/CPU combos for cheap money:

700 Celeron: http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item=MBB10565

PIII 800: http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item=MBB10566

Nightowl59 · Posted: Sun 27 May 2007, 14:07 Post subject:

Hi, all

I like the older specially cheaper stuff to.

I just got a Compaq 510 USDT (means Ultra Slim DeskTop) with a P4 1.9 Ghz 256MB Ram and a 20GB HDD.

But i was the luckyone i got one with a DVD/CD-RW Combo drive (most of them have a CD or DVD Rom only). The videocard is a shared Memory IntelExtreme with up to 64MB. So it's ok, even for a 3D-Desktop (with PCLinuxOS, hopefully with Puppy in the future).

It's only about the size of a closed Laptop but twice as thick (it fits in my Dell Laptopbag incl. the Minikeyb. i have). The processor is passively cooled and the power supply has only a rated output of 50W !! I upgraded the RAM to 1Gig and the HDD with my old 40Gb WD i had left. Now it runs nicely and with Teenpup or Puppy 2.16 it's a real blast. And the cost was only 133Euros + Ram 55 Euros.

The other nice PC for Puppy i think is a Compaq iPaq. It's a small client with Processors between 500 and 1000 Mhz. They use SD-Ram, a normal 3.5 inch HDD (it's cheaper) and most of them have a slim CD-Rom. At Ebay/Germany their was one for only 69 Euros (733Mhz/256MB/20GB and CD). Some of them have a small powersupply and others a laptop powersupply so they aren't really noisy.

LOF · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 115 Location: UK

For anyone in the UK. I'd take a look at http://www.speedie.co.uk/. Haven't tried them personally but hope to soon.

mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

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mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

The two Dells above are $279 each shipped - cheap money for new, modern boxen...

mechmike · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 101 Location: Pelham, AL

http://www.hcditrading.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/4397531/vpcsid/0/SFV/29664

$80 shipped

http://www.hcditrading.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/4460773/vpcsid/0/SFV/29664

$60 shipped

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