Rastalovich
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(purely for entertainment value)
I happened upon this mysterious `pc`, it reminded me of tails about the banishment of the K6 & K6-II - a bloody battle that ever there was. Each vying for supremacy of clock cycles and instructions per second. Smaller scale integration was the then topic and the crusade of many an AMD follower brought forward illusions of greater and greater pcs. Rar files beware.
Swiftly moving into action, the stylish pure black, but tainted in an eery brown, exterior slid off - as if the side panels were somehow waiting for me.
Behold the interior, to which I quickly whipped out the drive units for fear of it booting out of it`s own demonic sense of preservation.
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They just seemed to go on and on, IDE cable after cable, eventually I discovered the legacy of the Promise ATA100 - which alarmed me at first, but knowing the drives were all unplugged, not even the 10g Fujitsu challenged me, and in a column they stood.
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Not to be put off by the increasingly clamy brown substance, I delved deeper into the chasis to reveal a level of vanquished fans - to which I noticed a label reading "Meridian", the PSU, the source and heartbeat of the evil. I pulled and unscrewed and out they came, to sit calmly by the rescued drives.
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A feint beat of a whir - what`s this, I missed some more hidden behind the front housing.
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Thinking that the task was suitably undercontrol, I ventured into my trusty toolcase for my favorite screwdriver - nothing was going to stop me now. With driver in one hand and rag in the other, dripping with the infamous "barbeque cleaner", I twisted and scrapped at the layers of brown, taking out screw after screw. There lay the brains of the beast, right in front of me, poised for action, subliminally screaming for an "on" switch.
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Looking further I noticed the true legacy of past K6 battles, the long lost ISA. I could see the stress within it, no pci card would ever fit within it, it`s own card type cast away like the K6 processors themselves. A plan of progress spawned from evolution.
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I then saw it bear, almost virgin like, gagging for the "barbeque cleaner", but alas I`d squirted the last on the previous column of fans - it was time for something a little different, something I`d only use when nothing else was available - "Windowlene" - and I sprayed at will..
I thought it was "Windowlene", but it happened that it was a mixture of chemicals dawning from the far eastern sect of europe, maybe trailing from the likes of Lidles. Off came the front.
The hex housing almost thwart me, but I remembered the old socket set routine, and there lay infront of me, almost looking like an open coffin, was a clean case awaiting refitting.
Together the clean parts went, and inside went the K8. Long forgotten are the K7 memories. Only legend will remind the young of what adventure were had.
The blue light seemed to glow brighter. Was it the lack of brown stuff ? Was it the well being of the new internal lease of life ? I cannot be sure, but there did seem to be a mysterious look on the monitor, almost spookily horrific in nature, that memories of the K7 past may not be all forgotten...
Credits: "Brown stuff" - The Marlboro Man; Lighting - The room with only a red bulb!; Photography - an SPVC600 in nightime lighting mode - coz otherwize everything came out black >.<
I happened upon this mysterious `pc`, it reminded me of tails about the banishment of the K6 & K6-II - a bloody battle that ever there was. Each vying for supremacy of clock cycles and instructions per second. Smaller scale integration was the then topic and the crusade of many an AMD follower brought forward illusions of greater and greater pcs. Rar files beware.
Swiftly moving into action, the stylish pure black, but tainted in an eery brown, exterior slid off - as if the side panels were somehow waiting for me.
Behold the interior, to which I quickly whipped out the drive units for fear of it booting out of it`s own demonic sense of preservation.
They just seemed to go on and on, IDE cable after cable, eventually I discovered the legacy of the Promise ATA100 - which alarmed me at first, but knowing the drives were all unplugged, not even the 10g Fujitsu challenged me, and in a column they stood.
Not to be put off by the increasingly clamy brown substance, I delved deeper into the chasis to reveal a level of vanquished fans - to which I noticed a label reading "Meridian", the PSU, the source and heartbeat of the evil. I pulled and unscrewed and out they came, to sit calmly by the rescued drives.
A feint beat of a whir - what`s this, I missed some more hidden behind the front housing.
Thinking that the task was suitably undercontrol, I ventured into my trusty toolcase for my favorite screwdriver - nothing was going to stop me now. With driver in one hand and rag in the other, dripping with the infamous "barbeque cleaner", I twisted and scrapped at the layers of brown, taking out screw after screw. There lay the brains of the beast, right in front of me, poised for action, subliminally screaming for an "on" switch.
Looking further I noticed the true legacy of past K6 battles, the long lost ISA. I could see the stress within it, no pci card would ever fit within it, it`s own card type cast away like the K6 processors themselves. A plan of progress spawned from evolution.
I then saw it bear, almost virgin like, gagging for the "barbeque cleaner", but alas I`d squirted the last on the previous column of fans - it was time for something a little different, something I`d only use when nothing else was available - "Windowlene" - and I sprayed at will..
I thought it was "Windowlene", but it happened that it was a mixture of chemicals dawning from the far eastern sect of europe, maybe trailing from the likes of Lidles. Off came the front.
The hex housing almost thwart me, but I remembered the old socket set routine, and there lay infront of me, almost looking like an open coffin, was a clean case awaiting refitting.
Together the clean parts went, and inside went the K8. Long forgotten are the K7 memories. Only legend will remind the young of what adventure were had.
The blue light seemed to glow brighter. Was it the lack of brown stuff ? Was it the well being of the new internal lease of life ? I cannot be sure, but there did seem to be a mysterious look on the monitor, almost spookily horrific in nature, that memories of the K7 past may not be all forgotten...
Credits: "Brown stuff" - The Marlboro Man; Lighting - The room with only a red bulb!; Photography - an SPVC600 in nightime lighting mode - coz otherwize everything came out black >.<
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