Gaming on a 25 year old Cisco firewall

Taking a look at a Cisco PIX 520, a late ’90s enterprise firewall. These PIX units used commodity hardware, this one has an Intel motherboard and a Pentium II CPU. I’ll get a hard drive and CD-ROM hooked up to it, install Windows 98 SE, and trying gaming on it! Check me out on Patreon: PIX Failover Video: Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio #cisco #retrotech #intel #networking #homelab #retrogaming #pcgaming Rack stuff StarTech 25U Rack: Tripp Lite SMART1500LCD UPS: 1U 24 Port Patch Panel: 1U Brush Panel: 1U Rack Shelf: Video gear Camera: Main mics: Desk mic: Note: The above are Amazon affiliate links. It doesn’t cost you extra, but I’ll receive a commission which will help keep the content coming. I only link to things I’ve personally ordered. 00:00 Intro 00:31 PIX 520 Physical Overview 03:05 Failover Capabilities 04:14 Looking Inside 06:50 Booting it up 08:49 Putting in an AGP Video Card 10:52 Pulling the ISA Flash Card and Booting 12:04 Hooking up a Keyboard and Mouse and Looking at the BIOS 15:43 CD-ROM and Hard Drive Headaches 19:08 Trying to get Windows 98 SE Installed 25:50 Trying Audio Cards 27:44 Driver Setup 28:19 Playing Need for Speed II 29:42 Future Plans
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