Pluto
A compact Celeron PC from an unknown builder.
Three machines of this type originally came from ATC in Hamilton some time in the mid-late 2000s. IIRC two of them had bad case damage (broken plastic?) and so where dismantled for parts with this unit being the only survivor. The PSUs from the other two machines went into storage, one motherboard went into Arche-700 and the other is spare. Later when this machine was cleaned and inspected for inventory its PSU was swapped with one of the two spares due to bad capacitors (the other spare also probably needs a recap).
For a time this machine was deployed at someone else's place to handle downloading large files, mirroring ftp servers, etc. at a time when my own internet connection (56k dialup) was much too slow for this kind of work. Prior to November 2024, it was last used to play around with Heritrix 1.14.3 on Debian 5.0 with its last boot being 9 June 2009 (5646 days since last fsck!). In the time I've owned this PC, it has only ever run Linux.
Specifications
| Case | Desktop, unknown manufacturer |
|---|---|
| Power Supply | Pro-V MXM-145TF1 (145W, SFX) |
| CPU | Intel Celeron, 700Mhz (Socket 370) SL4P2 |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-6SMZ7 |
| RAM | 256MB (2x 128MB) |
| VGA | Motherboard-integrated |
| Network | Motherboard-integrated |
| Audio | Motherboard-integrated |
| Drives |
Seagate ST320014A 20GB IDE Actima A52T 25x CD-ROM Chinon FZ-357 3.5" Floppy-drive (not original) |
In November 2024 this machine was stripped, cleaned, reassembled and inventoried as COMP-0014. Its PSU was replaced with a spare, and all hardware was tested successfully.
Current Issues
This machine has the following issues waiting to be resolved:
- It probably should get a new PSU - the existing one isn't the best design and will probably have capacitor issues sooner or later if the other two of the same model are anything to go by
- CD-ROM drive belt could do with replacing. Eject does work, but the belt is visibly warped a little from sitting so long.
Inventory Data
This is a subset of the hardware inventory record for this computer. It may be more up-to-date than the rest of this page.
| Computer: | COMP-0014 Name: Pluto | |||||||||||||
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| Last Inspected | 2024-11-20 | Working? | True | Battery Changed: | 2024-11-20 | |||||||||
| Notes: | Originally found three of these in a dumpster sometime in the mid-late 2000s, but two of them had too much case damage so were stripped for parts. This is the lone survivor. One of the motherboards from the other two ended up in COMP-0004, while the other (MOBO-0057) is spare. 20-NOV-2024: Dismantled, cleaned and tested. Original PSU (POWR-0019) was replaced with a spare from one of the other two machines as the original had bad caps. Prior to this it was last booted on 9 June 2009. |
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| Case: | CASE-0013 Manufacturer: Unknown, Model: | |||||||||||||
| PSU: | POWR-0020 Manufacturer: Pro-V, Model: MXM-145TF1, Rating: 145W | |||||||||||||
| Motherboard: | MOBO-0066 Manufacturer: Gigabyte, Model: GA-6SMZ7, on The Retro Web | |||||||||||||
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