I have a stack of the *exact* same units, and yes – my company has trashed them because of the same thing (failed PSU’s). I use ‘em for anything from NAS devices to small webservers to….

mind saying that in english please? (and why would you run windows 3.1 on a 800mhz computer?)

pretty sure my father has some of these at his work. I don’t know what you could do with these but they seem to have better specs than the original xbox so It would probably be good for small media on a tv (Nothing to advanced).

I don’t know what else you could do with them after that besides what some have already said.

*To bad the ram was only 256mb ~ I wonder if you can upgrade them?

They might make good print or scanner servers. It strikes me odd that a thin client needed a joystick port. Maybe these would work well for MAME?

Some classic emulation is what I’m thinning. ;)

I would love one to fix and play with.

“They might make good print or scanner servers. It strikes me odd that a thin client needed a joystick port”

its just a generic mini itx board stuck in a generic case with a sticker on the front, the pretty durn new dual core atom board I recently got has one too, most AA boards still come with the full assortment of ports, its just the big box names decided one magic day that it would save a nickel to not include them and almost overnight we hear OMG the legacy ports are becoming rare!!

“At the risk of sounding like an idiot, and without bothering to Google, if I recall correctly, “juegos” means “game” or “games”….”

it wasnt really the language (but thanks for the clarification, I wont bother to google it either) but man that was a post that all over the place..

And I still cant figure out where windows 3.1 came in, crap I have a 1990 DEC PC386 laptop that, yea, will run 3.11 as it was fresh when the computer was new, but it also runs a couple of really tweaked out modern versions of linux, windows 95 and can access my wifi in dos

here is the deal for anyone who was not A) around, or B) serious computer user during that time frame

the only reason you had windows back then was either for your parents to run MS-WORKS, or to play FMV flash games, otherwise I cant imagine why anyone would want to touch it, even in this age, other than just for shits n giggles

@ Hitek146
Thanks for the ebay tip!
I’m looking around for one now.

Go figure I’ve got a 16GB CF card laying around. I wonder if I CAN make a thin client retro gaming rig?
WinXP e actually works out kinda well for that stuff, what with there being so many emulators and even XBMC might work, eh?

But will it run Crysis now?

@strider_mt2k why cf it can use a full hdd.

those flash cards are crap they would be the first thing to change out.

XP Embedded FTW.
No driver issues, whoops.
Max the RAM and maybe add wifi?

I’m bidding on a similar one. :)

I actually bought a Neoware CA2 a few weeks ago and had to superglue a broken tab holding the front on and solder on a new power button and glue it into place… Though that was shipping damage.

The Neoware CA2 uses standard PC100/133 RAM (Came with 256 MB in one slot), 256 MB flash chip on a male laptop IDE header on the motherboard, 800 MHz AMD CPU under a large heatsink and had the option to put in an ISA or PCI card.

I was able to attach an IDE optical drive in a USB enclosure and install Windows XP FLP, though if I were to do it again, I would take advantage of the PCI slot and put in a USB 2.0 card.

I’ve seen people using XP Embedded and using them as dedicated machines for a MagicJack, I’m still trying to find a good use for mine… A server is out of the question since I have an older P4 box running XP Pro under a desk for uTorrent, a Garry’s Mod server, very lightly used web server and a file server.

Fileserver w/torrent DL, and this would make a fantastic firewall with IPCop for example.

It is incredible to surf the web with loads and loads of the crap all blocked and no need to worry about the users getting into trouble.

Also, definitely a Car PC and a Email PC for the HDTV or Projector with a wireless KB/MS and Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux installed

Pair with a wireless card and used car battery and make a mesh network, hide inside fake rocks and Wifi your whole neighborhood.

Look, props to Jim and HAD for lighting a fire under my ass and helping me find a cool little project on the cheap.

Like I said, I have a Maxterm 8300B TC on the way, as well as a couple of other helpful bits.
When it all arrives/gets dug out of the PC junk drawer and put together I will document the project and share my own findings.

:)

Okay, my tinkerings with a thin client were not fun.
Weak, badly supported hardware doth not a fun time make.

http://www.mustardgiga.co.jp/download/mother/12ME-C7V7RH-1001R.pdf

motherboard manual