Re: MFM-Harddrive spins up and down on power up

Posted on Yesterday, 03:27

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by Anonymous Coward

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Any MFM hard drive must be 30-40 years old at ths point. Although some of them were pretty reliable, they are all now decades beyond their projected life spans. I personally wouldn't bother.

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Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434

Posted on 2020-04-03, 14:22

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by Anonymous Coward

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As for Trio64-based ISA card - I'm pretty sure that's impossible. I don't know about impossible, but probably not very straight forward. There is an example of a Trio64V graphics adapter for PCMCIA (NOT Cardbus), which is more or less ISA for laptops. Not sure how they did it, as the datasheets …

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Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434

Posted on 2020-04-03, 08:08

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by Anonymous Coward

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I'd like to see one, just to annoy all those jerks asking $200+ on eBay. Did you look into making an ISA card based on Trio64? I am somewhat certain it can work on ISA.

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Re: Opened up my late 70's machine, now what?

Posted on 2020-04-03, 03:47

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by Anonymous Coward

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It's definitely not S-100.

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Re: Opened up my late 70's machine, now what?

Posted on 2020-04-03, 00:42

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by Anonymous Coward

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Are you at least going to tell us who makes it?

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Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-02, 15:34

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by Anonymous Coward

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I thought Aopen was discontinued as a brand over 10 years ago.

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Re: Most recent 386 mainboard/chipset?

Posted on 2020-04-01, 14:47

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by Anonymous Coward

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Possibly ALD. I've never tried one before, but they appear to be very budget oriented. They also seem to have been more common in Asia and possibly Europe than North America.

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Re: VL/EISA SMP Pentium (turbocharged)

Posted on 2020-03-31, 16:56

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by Anonymous Coward

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The onboard SCSI is wired up to the EISA bus, so it does infact appear in the ECU. Not sure how the IDE connector is hooked up, but I would guess VLB in which case it should just work like on a normal 486 board. There should definitely be a screen in the BIOS for setting up the harddrive...and most …

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Re: Intro, my 1997 computer

Posted on 2020-03-31, 08:16

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by Anonymous Coward

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I could be wrong, but I think the PA-2007 has a VIA chipset that supports the burst mode of the Cyrix 6x86 chips. Still, Intel VX probably has a better PCI implentation. You'll just have to try both and see which one you like better. Probably the rev 1.0 of HOT-557 should not be considered since you …

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Re: VL/EISA SMP Pentium (turbocharged)

Posted on 2020-03-30, 14:36

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by Anonymous Coward

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Actually, I don't think I've ever used the onboard drive controllers on the J3. My board actually has dual 50 pin SCSI connectors, but I already have an Adaptec AHA 2742W wide SCSI controller which provides twice the bandwidth, therefore I was never curious to test the onboard options. I recommend …

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Re: Vogons members average motherboard collection size

Posted on 2020-03-29, 08:14

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by Anonymous Coward

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-5170-type 1 -5170 type 3 -5162 -5160 256-640k -juko nest -5150. 64-256k -ami mark v baby screamer -Abit 386 w/peak dm -cti386 rabbit rev a -generic 386dx rabbit rev c -generic opti495sx -Biostar 386 Ftdi chipset -ami 386sx-St series 20 -Alaris leopard lx Opti 295sx -Dtk Pkm-0031y 486 -mTech r418 - …

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Re: Manufacturer of this 486 PCI board and recommended setting for AMD 5x86 160MHz

Posted on 2020-03-28, 12:21

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by Anonymous Coward

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I once had one of these boards, but it was dead and I couldn't get it working. I am pretty sure the manufacturer's name was Sunnyvale Labs, but I can't seem to find any information on it. PCchips M921 looks identical, so it was most likely a case of badge engineering. Thinking of the SYL8884? - …

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Re: Manufacturer of this 486 PCI board and recommended setting for AMD 5x86 160MHz

Posted on 2020-03-28, 04:47

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by Anonymous Coward

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I once had one of these boards, but it was dead and I couldn't get it working. I am pretty sure the manufacturer's name was Sunnyvale Labs, but I can't seem to find any information on it. PCchips M921 looks identical, so it was most likely a case of badge engineering.

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Re: "Fat Face" Compaq Presario: why?

Posted on 2020-03-27, 11:55

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by Anonymous Coward

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Maybe it's one of those things that's so bad it's good.

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Re: ATi Mach8 Graphics Ultra ISA VGA card, quick test.

Posted on 2020-03-27, 10:58

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by Anonymous Coward

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I ran this card from 1992-1997 in a 486DX-33. I know people complain about how these are slow and don't have the best compatibility, but I really didn't experience many problems...I guess I just wasn't playing enough crappy CGA games or something. I played mainly VGA adventure games. I didn't really …

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Re: ATI MACH64 Graphics Pro Turbo 1600 VLB (?)

Posted on 2020-03-25, 13:33

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by Anonymous Coward

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It's entirely possible that ATi offered more than one RAMDAC on the 1600, but I highly doubt the ATi RAMDAC runs at 135MHz on your card, it's probably something comparable to the IBM RAMDAC. Is the standard Mach64 really only 135? For some reason I thought it was a 170. I also didn't know EDO VRAM …

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Re: ATI MACH64 Graphics Pro Turbo 1600 VLB (?)

Posted on 2020-03-25, 10:30

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by Anonymous Coward

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I'm pretty sure the 1600 is PCI only. If a VLB version exists I have never even seen a photo of one.

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Re: AMI Enterprise III

Posted on 2020-03-24, 12:52

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by Anonymous Coward

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I'm pretty sure the pdf manual for this motherboard is out there. AMI had it on their website until not too long ago. *edit* I found the manual, but strangely there isn't much in there about the cache ram. It doesn't even mention the tags.

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Re: AMI Enterprise III

Posted on 2020-03-24, 11:36

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by Anonymous Coward

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QS8888 is a 16kx4 SRAM. I recommend installing 64kx4 if you plan on having a lot of RAM installed. These are probably relatively standard chips, so likely other brands would work too. Interestingly, these can be had as low as 8ns!!! I'd like to get my hands on some of those.

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Re: dos 7.10 on an xt?

Posted on 2020-03-20, 14:06

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by Anonymous Coward

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IFSHLP is integrated into the kernel of MS DOS 7?

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