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Re: How does your wife feel about your retro hobby?

Posted on 2011-12-17, 23:54

in Milliways
My mum never minded, my mates mum did! When I 1st got a job as a techie I used to take broken stuff back to my mate who was an electrical engineer. Anything from a power supply to monitors, some he’d fix some cannibalize but whenever his mum saw me she would always say what have you brought round …

Re: My P4 Win98 Games Rig

Posted on 2011-12-17, 23:47

I'd like to give a technical reason but I cant, its simply cause I cant wait to play with my new toys! Once I move back home I plan to build my long term Win9x rig with around my Asus P2Z-B Slot 1 board last I remember it had a P2 350 or 450 but want to get a Slot 1 (I just like `em) P3. That's the …

Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2011-12-17, 23:02

I know what you mean by not wanting to give up on legacy hardware, I'm not happy if something doesn’t work in dos, more so when I know its possible! I had a SB Live working on a BX chipset years ago but had to swap my 10/100 realtek network card for a 10MB card or C&C would hang. I've just got my …

Re: How does your wife feel about your retro hobby?

Posted on 2011-12-16, 17:07

in Milliways
I left my Xbox & TV at my girlfriends place more for XBMC but she gets jealous when I play games, even though I only do that when I’m waiting for her to get ready to go out when I was ready half hour ago! She doesn’t mind all the old PC hardware cause its round my place I guess, what she does mind …

Re: Another 486 being built

Posted on 2011-12-16, 00:38

Sent you a PM Dirkerk with the BIOS. Havent really had a good look at it yet but seems ok. Not a fan of the lack of PS2 ports, guess I was spoilt back in the day my DX2 66 came with PS2 keyboard/mouse & 16550 UART Com ports. My 2 mates had a DX4 100 & an early Pentium but serial mice so I had to …

My P4 Win98 Games Rig

Posted on 2011-12-15, 17:15

Reading the P/N it started life as a Compaq Evo D51s P4 2.53 with 128MB RAM 20GB HDD It came from a client for the IT Company I worked for who had around 40 PC's. I believe in 2006 all PC's were upgraded to have at least 256MB RAM by 2008 I was responsible for the upgrade policy and decided to …

Re: Another 486 being built

Posted on 2011-12-11, 15:52

Must admit didn't look that closely, just saw brown and thought VL-BUS but it is actually just an ISA Looking at the manual I found on the net it says it has 3 PCI and 4 ISA slots no reason why it's a different colour? Indeed ISA is a lot more use to me then any other type in a 486. Was thinking …

Another 486 being built

Posted on 2011-12-11, 13:45

This is what I brought few weeks ago http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/compussus-computer-with-crt-screen/91751623 The creative CD drive caught my eye as it suggested it was older then the "14-16 months old" statement I was just hoping it had some ISA slots. I wasn't after anything special just …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2011-12-11, 12:22

Thats a really nice case! I’m of the opinion simple is best, not stylish bulges & recesses on the front and hate when the cases front covers the floppy faceplate to try make it more pretty And the speed indicator! Is there anything better then digital numbers to make something look l33t

Re: Really Loud, Old Keyboard Found in My Garage

Posted on 2011-12-05, 12:58

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When I used to work at a business supply shop someone came in asking for a typewriter ribbon which we could get but had to order in & was quite expensive. I asked him why he didn’t just get a basic pc & he said he did most of his writing in Africa away from any means of reliable power, not a problem …

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