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Title: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 14.03.12 at 00:20:07

;-)

FF doesn't look bad with IE6

Gary

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 14.03.12 at 00:45:10

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 14.03.12 at 00:59:14

There is still stuff out there, if somewhat hard to find sometimes!

Unmolested Mercury units with BLACK brick, Viper 550 8 meg primary adapter, 9 gig Maxtor IDE drive in cradle with dual 450 mhz Pentiums with 512 megs of ram running NT4SP6.

Did I mention there is two of them? :D

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by Loeschzwerg on 14.03.12 at 09:36:41

Hehe, both systems seem to have been through a lot ^^

I like the User Guide :) It reminds me of the manuals for our highend solution systems at Fujitsu 8-)

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 14.03.12 at 10:36:18

Loeschzwerg wrote on 14.03.12 at 09:36:41:

Hehe, both systems seem to have been through a lot ^^

I'm sure they have- Who knows how long they were kicking around Quantum3D's facility in Florida! Odds are since they were assembled in 1999 based on the motherboard date of 2/99

I'll have to examine them both close and check all the dates.

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 15.03.12 at 00:31:46

I love Merc's!

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by paulpsomiadis on 15.03.12 at 22:14:07

I think I just nerded in my pants! :o 8-)

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 16.03.12 at 03:09:05

paulpsomiadis wrote on 15.03.12 at 22:14:07:

I think I just nerded in my pants! :o 8-)

Two more "green brick" systems upstairs ;-)

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by ultima on 16.03.12 at 08:34:45

sometimes I wish I lived in the States as well, so I could go and find stuff like this.
Here in Holland I don't know where to find that kinda stuff. :(

Totally dependent on what comes up on ebay and sites like that

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 16.03.12 at 11:51:08

ultima wrote on 16.03.12 at 08:34:45:

sometimes I wish I lived in the States as well, so I could go and find stuff like this.

Location only helps when it comes to shipping, trust me!

I wished I lived in the same area as Quantum3D/3dfx so I could troll through all the second hand computer stores and surplus outlets!

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gwb on 16.03.12 at 13:54:32

So beautiful

*fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap*

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gwb on 17.03.12 at 20:39:56

Can you post some screenies when you have a chance?

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by oldskool on 17.03.12 at 22:57:32

gdonovan wrote on 14.03.12 at 00:20:07:

;-)

FF doesn't look bad with IE6

Gary

Everything looks bad in IE6 when you've been checking your code in chrome and firefox all day :)

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 17.03.12 at 23:13:51

oldskool wrote on 17.03.12 at 22:57:32:

gdonovan wrote on 14.03.12 at 00:20:07:

;-)

FF doesn't look bad with IE6

Gary

Everything looks bad in IE6 when you've been checking your code in chrome and firefox all day :)

I don't know if those two browsers are supported under NT4.

Yes I was posting via the Mercury PC. :D

Title: Re: Posting from Mercury 2012
Post by gdonovan on 23.03.12 at 11:12:17

Almost got the second unit back together- Someone had picked at it for spare parts! Was missing half the ram, 4 fans, case grill and some wiring had been cut.

I had most of the pieces aside from one fan which I just grabbed off ebay and finished loading the hard drive last night.