There are lots of thin client desktop computers being liquidated on eBay as they come off corporate leases. Can the thin client paradigm be put on its ear? Can these clients become distributed computing nodes? Like worker bees in a hive?
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Neoware CA10 Vintage Thin Client for Tiny Core Linux
Neoware made two versions of the CA10 thin client, and the later version detailed here is the more interesting.
My CA10 E140 thin clients are all Part # BK-02-EC which means they have the BCom WinNet P640-1G mainboard which originally came with a 64mb flash DOM and 128mb of PC2700 memory.
All of mine were already upgraded to a 1gb flash module and (2) 256mb sticks of low density PC2700 desktop memory. The board will accept (2) 1gb sticks.
This model has a VIA C3 1.0A "Nehemiah" CPU @ 1ghz (7.5x133) and 133mhz fsb.
The chipset is CLE266 with VT8235M south bridge. The BIOS is dated 20th week of 2005. The manufacturing date is January 2006.
The 6:9:8 stepping of the CPU includes the full P686 instruction set and dual hardware random number generators. The SDK for using the RNG is no longer available on the VIA website.
Video is integrated in the VIA VT8623 chip and is 1600 x 1200 32bit @ 85hz refresh.
The VESA driver is included with RH9. I think Fedora 4 is the earliest RH release with an exact driver for the S3 Unichrome video card. RH9 also has a driver for the 100mbs VIA Rhine-II integrated network chip. The audio chip is AC/97 compatible.
There are (4) USB 2.0 ports, (2) in front, and (2) in back.
A PCI expansion slot is available with the top cover removed.
Physically, it's about 14" H, 12" D, and 2" W.
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