Stewart Russell on Nostr: Hmm, wonder what I can do with a roughly 20 year old Via Mini-ITX box? I used to be ...
Hmm, wonder what I can do with a roughly 20 year old Via Mini-ITX box? I used to be all about these things, but they were never fast computers. These is a salvaged SonicWall Continuous Data Protection (selective offsite backup) box. It had a 160 GB ATA drive in it, but that's toast. Runs off 12 V.
I don't think these can run any form of modern Linux
#RetroComputing #MiniITX
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