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My 1999 setup running Slackware while playing Loki's Civ CTP
Around that time too, UT99 shipped with Linux binaries on the friggin cd
How many hard drives you have in that beast? I see enough ribbon cable to wrap a gift
Old story: There was a sale at a big box Electronics store on Seagate Barracuda SCSI-2 Wide 9.1GB drives and I bought 6 of them to give me a 40GB RAID-5 on an old mylex dac960 scsi raid card. Bigtime storage in 1999.
Those fed my 3:1 ratio mp3 sharing site that my uunet bot advertised haha.
That's insane I absolutely love it. To put that in perspective, 1999 game storage requirements:
First i thought you had a cat hiding there.
I fished a tower like that out of a dumpster and built my first gaming PC in that and ran Gentoo on it about 2005. Played CS 1.6 and WoW and had better performance in Linux than Windows at the time.
What is that console looking thing in the bottom right corner?
Sylvartas is right, it's an old flatbed scanner.
Could be a scanner
That’s one tall tower.
Pure art!