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Re: Old 40MB tape drive

Posted on 2021-04-15, 11:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for finding the user manual. I won't have time to even plug it in for at least a few days but I'll definitely come back to it and try to get it working. I guess it no longer has an id sticker visible when looked at from the connector side ? Lol... Ok I'm totally blind. It does have a sticker …

Re: Old 40MB tape drive

Posted on 2021-04-15, 11:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.thecomputerarchive.com/Storage/Tape%20Backup/Irwin%20Magentics%20-%20Tape%20Drives.PDF Great, sounds like exactly what it is. It says it uses a "standard minifloppy interface". I'm assuming that's just a regular floppy interface that any computer has. How is it able to read/write 40MB …

Re: Old 40MB tape drive

Posted on 2021-04-15, 10:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

True, it wasn't the most helpful photo. Here are a couple more. IMG_20210415_201949~2.jpg IMG_20210415_201958~2.jpg The larger connector is the same as a regular 5.25 floppy drive, with the same notch and everything. The other connector is obviously something different though. I thought it may have …

Old 40MB tape drive

Posted on 2021-04-15, 10:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently picked up a pile of old parts which included this 5.25" tape drive. It came with a few 40MB mini cassettes. I assume it needs a special controller card which unfortunately I don't have. Does anyone know anything about it and how I could get it working? What sort of interface does it use? …

Re: Voodoo 5 5500 vs voodoo 4 4500

Posted on 2021-03-11, 04:41

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Yes, since the 5500 is basically a 4500 SLI and since there is no unified memory access on the 5500 for the VSA100 chips, so each chip has access only to 32MB of RAM and disabling one of them disables also the associated RAM How do you disable one of the chips on a 5500? I have a 5500 with faulty …

Re: 3DFX drivers for NEC PC-98

Posted on 2021-01-17, 03:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What about Voodoo Rush? By sheer coincidence I have an IO Data Voodoo Rush here (GA-RUSH6/PCI). According to the manufacturer this model supports PC-98. I get the same constant beep and no video output with it though (the card is confirmed working in another computer). It's got a socketed BIOS so …

Re: 3DFX drivers for NEC PC-98

Posted on 2021-01-17, 03:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I managed to track down the correct Win95/98 drivers from iodata.jp using archive.org. They still don't work right though. The installation goes smoothly but then it hangs when trying to access the card. Out of interest I tried some other PCI video cards (not 3DFX cards, but things like S3, NVidia, …

Re: 3DFX drivers for NEC PC-98

Posted on 2021-01-17, 01:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I-O Data made Voodoo2 based cards compatible with the PC-98 machines: https://www.iodata.jp/products/graphics/gavd2.htm https://www.iodata.jp/lib/software/g/156.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20000311130859fw_/http://www.iodata.co.jp/lib/graphics/gavd2.htm Thanks, that sounds promising but …

Re: 3DFX drivers for NEC PC-98

Posted on 2021-01-16, 01:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://jivesnet.homeip.net/voodoo/voodoo98.html I found this site which basically says that Voodoo 3 and onwards don't work on a PC-98 with Windows 98 due to no drivers existing. So this suggests that there are drivers for Voodoo 2 and earlier...

Re: 3DFX drivers for NEC PC-98

Posted on 2021-01-16, 01:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, I did try regular PC drivers but they didn't work. They installed like normal but then the computer would just freeze whenever it tried to access the card. Everything was also really slow even when not doing anything to do with the card (just clicking around on the desktop). Even just trying …

Re: 3DFX drivers for NEC PC-98

Posted on 2021-01-16, 00:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is a special version of Windows 98. It has some strange differences like the hard drive being A: and the floppy drive being another letter. Software like games generally are cross compatible between the two because things like DirectX provide the translation layer, but drivers aren't. PC-98 …

3DFX drivers for NEC PC-98

Posted on 2021-01-16, 00:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got an NEC PC-9821Ra333 running Windows 98 which I'm trying to install a Voodoo 2 in. I also have some other 3DFX cards (e.g. Rush, Banshee, etc) which I could potentially use instead but would prefer to stick with the Voodoo 2. For those who aren't aware, the NEC PC-98 is not IBM compatible. …

Re: Dialing from Trumpet Winsock to Win98 Dial-Up Server

Posted on 2020-07-06, 00:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually found a link for Shiva PPP and IE 3.0 https://web.archive.org/web/19991114121943/http://win3x.tucows.com/adnload/win3x/dlbas30f3x.html EDIT: Seems rather small, but worth a try . Otherwise see http://astrolog.offline.ee/linux/links.html for other PPP options . Try archive.org if links are …

Re: Dialing from Trumpet Winsock to Win98 Dial-Up Server

Posted on 2020-07-05, 05:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wasn't aware Windows 98 was supposed to be able to do that. Isn't the dial-up server literally only supposed to be for Windows Networking and not for whatever Trumpet is supposed to do? See for instance http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/dunservr.htm . Honestly I'm not sure. I had the same …

Re: Dialing from Trumpet Winsock to Win98 Dial-Up Server

Posted on 2020-07-05, 05:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's possible that the Trumpet Winsock software is expecting the server to send a login: prompt rather than immediately speaking PPP. In fact, notice how your screenshot has "Script aborted" and then "PPP ENABLED" as if it's waiting for a login script to finish before speaking PPP. Can you see the …

Dialing from Trumpet Winsock to Win98 Dial-Up Server

Posted on 2020-07-04, 03:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm trying to dial in from Windows for Workgroups 3.11 using Trumpet Winsock to my Windows 98 computer running the built-in Windows Dial Up Server. I have 56k modems on both ends which successfully complete the handshake and connect at 33600 baud, so I don't think it's a hardware problem. On the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-19, 11:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got an AlphaServer DS10 today. I've been looking for an Alpha machine for a while so was happy to see one come up locally. I had read in a few different places that the DS10 doesn't support Windows NT. If anyone in the future is trying to find the answer to that question like I was, I can confirm …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-01, 05:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Picked up an Intergraph Intense 3D, a pretty early OpenGL workstation card. It gets a whopping 1 frame every 10 seconds in Quake 3 (with all the settings maxed out).

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-27, 06:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Now that's cool! What about cooling of that primary CPU? As far as I can see, the tabs for holding the heat sink clips are narrower than on a socketed one? It has a fairly large passive heatsink which attaches to the black clips. The metal piece with two rivets in it is a duct which directs air …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-27, 06:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The PSU had a blown fuse, so I replaced it hoping that's all the problem was. But then when I plugged it in I got several huge sparks around the area with the power regulators. I've looked it over pretty closely and I can't even see anything that looks damaged/burnt. Cosmetically it looks perfect …

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