Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-11, 16:16

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by Anonymous Coward

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A lot of 2000-2003 things went up in price nicely in the past couple of years. Not the Pentium 4, at least not yet, mostly the higher-end expansion cards and AMD platforms. If Windows 95 was the beginning of the end of the golden era, then the P4 was the end of the end. Let's all grab a hammer and …

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Re: Ati Rage LT Pro

Posted on 2021-04-09, 01:15

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by Anonymous Coward

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As far as I know, Rage LT and Rage LT Pro are not the same chip. The Rage LT should be the low power version of the Rage II, and the Rage LT Pro should be the low power version of the Rage Pro. Pretty sure both were made for laptops. I remember trying to get information on this several years back …

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Re: IBM 486SLC/2 Mega Thread (was Weird idea: 83mhz overdrive for 386 sx.)

Posted on 2021-04-08, 15:03

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by Anonymous Coward

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The reason I'm not sure is that the 386SLC is pretty rare. The 486SLC was definitely a 3.x volt part, but the 386SLC predates that, so it may have still been a 5V part...or maybe not. The pinout on the 386SLC and 486SLC should be the same though. I think feipoa may have the pinout for the 486SLC. …

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Re: IBM 486SLC/2 Mega Thread (was Weird idea: 83mhz overdrive for 386 sx.)

Posted on 2021-04-08, 00:48

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by Anonymous Coward

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Cyrix and IBM SLC chips are not related to each other and have different pinouts. The IBM 386SLC may even be a low voltage part.

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Re: IBM Aptiva 2159 S76, any love for these “Stealth” setups?

Posted on 2021-04-07, 08:11

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by Anonymous Coward

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The floppy drive sits outside the main chassis? Weird. It's almost like they couldn't decide on a tower or a desktop, so they just went with both.

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-07, 02:38

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by Anonymous Coward

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Windows 95 was the beginning of the end.

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Re: Kingston SLC Now questions - QFP or PGA?

Posted on 2021-04-06, 05:31

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by Anonymous Coward

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You can't swap IBM 386SLCs onto SX boards. They have extra control lines. I'm not even totally sure they are 100% pin compatible with 386SX even if you ignore the extra control lines. Did you compare the datasheets? If you put the original 386SLC back onto the upgrade module, I'd be more than happy …

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-04-05, 10:33

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by Anonymous Coward

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Adding an SB16 fixed problems? That's pretty weird. Maybe two pins in the ISA slot were making contact? I've experienced this myself a few times, and someone in this forum documented a case of this recently.

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Re: Kingston SLC Now questions - QFP or PGA?

Posted on 2021-04-05, 02:22

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by Anonymous Coward

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The SLC should run quite a bit warmer assuming they both work at 5V. The SLC die contains at least 8kb of cache. (should be 8kb for 386SLC and 16kb for 486SLC).

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Re: Kingston SLC Now questions - QFP or PGA?

Posted on 2021-04-04, 05:55

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by Anonymous Coward

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I would have kept the 386SLC on there. It's a fairly rare CPU, plus it should have 8kb internal cache. According to the model number, the SLC chips is probably a 33MHz part too.

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Re: Kingston SLC Now questions - QFP or PGA?

Posted on 2021-04-04, 02:07

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by Anonymous Coward

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Sometimes you can use PGA sockets to stack the adapter over top of obstacles, but if the CPU socket is near the edge of the board the dingus might be obstructed by the edge of the case. This is a problem with my 5162 motherbaord. Or if the socket is too close to ISA slots, then stacking will not …

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Re: Kingston SLC Now questions - QFP or PGA?

Posted on 2021-04-04, 00:04

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by Anonymous Coward

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Generally those PS/2 modules do work in normal 286 boards. I believe the only reason PS/2 versions were sold was so that the "dingus" was shaped in such a way that it wouldn't be obstructed by anything else on the motherboard or in the case. Even on standard boards, you can have a lot of …

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Re: [8-Bit Guy] What Happened to America's Electronics Stores?

Posted on 2021-04-03, 01:42

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I just noticed Amazon US has been filled to the brim with no-name generic Chinese products. One day maybe people in the West will wise up and manufacture their own shit again...

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Re: Win98 monster

Posted on 2021-04-02, 14:13

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by Anonymous Coward

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Do you have any advice on what to do, to make that system stable? Is it even possible or is this just a WinXp machine? I think you answered your own question there. Windows 9x is inherently unstable, which is why in pre-win2k period I would dual boot NT4 and 9x. 9x would only be used to play games …

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2021-04-02, 06:33

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by Anonymous Coward

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I think you can forget about any stability at all with 150MHz. Cyrix had to switch to a different manufacturing process to do the 6x86-P200+, and even then it was too hot and they had to try again with the 6x86L.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-04-02, 01:47

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by Anonymous Coward

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I know which speedsys graphics corruption pshipkov is talking about, I've seen it many times during my own tests with 486SXL. The problem only appeared when the registers were not set correctly. It wasn't enough to just enable the barb function. You have to exclude caching in the 640-1024k region. …

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-04-02, 00:13

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by Anonymous Coward

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pshipkov wrote on 2021-04-01, 03:17: On most systems SXL2 CPU garbles speedsys'es screen, so not included here. This is an indication that your CPU is not flushing it's internal cache properly.

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Re: 286 dead, long live the 286! Sourcing and building a fast 286 replacement

Posted on 2021-03-30, 01:49

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by Anonymous Coward

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So the SCAMP is a fast chipset for a 286, eh? Supposedly there is a more expensive VLSI TOPCAP chipset for 286 or 386SX as well, but I have never seen a board or system based on it.

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Re: Hercules Terminator BEAST Test Sample?

Posted on 2021-03-28, 13:35

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by Anonymous Coward

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Never heard of this before. i740 based card?

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 23:56

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by Anonymous Coward

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I guess. There are some Socket5 motherboards that support multipliers. I wasn't sure if yours did or not, so I guess that's not an issue.

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