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Bringing the ProLiant 6500 back to life! (Patreon)

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2025-01-29 22:46:22

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2026-06

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We've been working on the Compaq ProLiant 6500 that we salvaged from Dialstar. Our last update showed it running, but we took the time to completely clean it and do a few upgrades along the way :)

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A $25,000 server from 1999!

We bring an abandoned Compaq Proliant 6500 back to life, and even better than before. Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon + Discord community: https://www.patreon.com/serialport Got some retro gear you want to donate? Get in touch with us at serialport.org. Our second channel: @TheParallelPort #90s #pcgaming #restoration 00:00 — Reawakening 01:09 — What is it? 05:08 — Disassembly 09:50 — Cleaning and more cleaning 11:43 — Reassembly 14:53 — Upgrades 18:56 — Roaring back to life 20:48 — RedHat 30:07 — Quad CPUs for QUAD DAMAGE! 32:40 — Outro Huge thanks to: Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio for "Kill Switch": https://karlcasey.bandcamp.com/track/killswitch as well as... bert for the smooth "offline": Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBZBzTTCO94 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/5M7Fen0QRGgHb6bhjSOKT1 Downtown Binary for the expansive "Astral": Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bC__mwZ6EQ Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uGa6ryU3GodJXBlFCAqNj Above music provided by Lofi Girl.