Project CB Box
Project CB (Cardboard) Box is a linux computer I have been slowly building. It is a PII-350 housed in a cardboard box from my Tascam 414mkII 4-track recorder. I think the mb came from a dell… but I’m not sure. I have amassed the different components over the last couple of years. I just upgraded my main machine to 512meg of ram, so I have two extra sticks of 64. This brings the total RAM in the CB Box to about 224meg if I’m not mistaken. It also has a slot load cd rom and no floppy drive. The unit used to be my recording box for my band. It ran Windows 2000 Server on a 2 gig “Big Foot” and a 1.3 gig standard hard drive. Both hd’s died and so I have been hd’less for a while.
Looks like hard drives are heading towards dirt cheap now though, so I plan on getting one at about 120gig soon. I am sure this is old news… but it looks like they run about $1/gig now. Now I can get a hard drive and complete my cardboard box computer. List of prices is here… http://www.pricewatch.com/menus/m26.htm
I know the mb won’t support anything over 8gig, so I’ll have to burn the EZrom file to a cd to load to the computer. That’s something else this computer needs.. a CD burner. Back in the recording days I used a zip drive. I could also use my Sony Clie and 128 Memory Stick as a removable drive until I get a burner. Sure.. I could go ahead and shell out $90 for the latest 48X48X48 burner.. but then I’m spending $250 and not $150… see???