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Working in this business you start to acumulate equipment that loses it's
usefulness due to newer technology. Here is where we pay homage to technology
of the past, some of these items are here because of their importance or
lack there of. While others find themselves within these halls because of
their rarity, or in some cases we might showcase items purely based on their humor factor.
Regardless of the circumstances of their arival these hallowed walls contain Provcom's
favorite relics of technology past.
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Quantum Bigfoot TS 20GB Hard Drive (1998)
20GB, 4,000 RPM
Quantum's Bigfoot series of drives were conceived as a sort of "value class" ATA line aimed
primarily at OEMs looking to offer customers the ever-larger storage capacity they craved
without significantly increasing a computer system's bottom-line cost. Using larger 5.25"
platters, the Bigfoot allowed Quantum to manufacture a hard disk at a given capacity point
using less platters (and thus less head assemblies and other goodies) than disks that conformed
to the now-standard 3.5" form factor.
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Sourced from storagereview.com
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Cyrix CX486 (1993)
25MHz Clock Speed, 25MHz FSB, 2K L2 Cache
Cyrix was a CPU manufacturer that began in 1978 in Richardson, Texas as a specialist
supplier of high-performance math co-processors for 286 and 386 systems. The company was
founded by former Texas Instruments staff members and had a long but troubled relationship
with TI throughout its history.Its early CPU products included the 486SLC and 486DLC, released
in 1992, which, despite their names, were pin-compatible with the 386SX and DX, respectively.
While they added an on-chip L1 cache and the 486 instruction set, performance-wise they were
somewhere between the 386 and the 486. The chips were mostly used as upgrades by end users
looking to improve performance of an aging 386 and especially by dealers, who by changing
the CPU could turn slow-selling 386 boards into budget 486 boards.
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Sourced From wikipedia.org
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Intel Pentium Pro 200MHz Processor (1997)
200MHz Clock Speed, 66MHz FSB, 256K L2 Cache
Intel Pentium Pro was the first processor from the Intel Pentium II processor
family. Targeted for the server and workstation market, the Pentium Pro included
integrated 256KB, 512 KB or 1 MB L2 cache running at the processor speed. The L2
cache in the Pentium Pro was not located on the same die as the CPU core. The CPU
was packaged in a "dual cavity" package, where one cavity contained the processor
die and another contained the L2 cache. As all other members of the Pentium 2
family, the Pentium Pro was optimized to run 32-bit applications and, when
running in 32-bit mode, it significantly outperformed Pentium and Pentium MMX CPUs
at the same clock speed.
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Sourced From cpu-world.com
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Comtrol 96860 3 RocketModem 4 (1997)
4 33.6 kbps modems on a single ISA Card
The Comtrol RocketModem is an integrated, multimodem, ISA-bus expansion card designed
to enable remote access on an industry-standard application server or to build a custom
data communications server using industry-standard open systems technology. Combining
Comtrol's proven RocketPort multiport serial controller technology plus industry-standard
modem modules, the RocketModem provides either four or eight 33.6 Kbps data and fax modems
in one easily-installed, easily-configured package.The RocketModem uses a 36 MHz processor
dedicated to processing asynchronous serial communications, thereby maximizing performance
and minimizing CPU utilization commonly encountered with other multiport modem cards. That,
and Comtrol's unique Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology, mean
increased reliability, simplified installation, and no shared memory conflict. The RocketModem
enables a wide variety of remote access applications, including dial-in access for mobile workers.
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