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Re: Ark Logic PCI, an interesting VGA card.

Posted on 2012-06-13, 22:07

I had an ARK2000PV based card in my old PC Chips M919 rig. I bought it at the long defunct Computer City chain for like $20 back in 1997. It was sold under their "Precision Components" house brand. I really didn't use it in DOS/Windows all that much as the machine was mostly a firewall/router box. …

Re: My gaming laptops

Posted on 2012-06-07, 19:43

The Wallstreet/Mainstreet series were great in that they blended the features of a NewWorld machine, but still had the OldWorld ROM and ports. That being said, they had quite a few weak points. 1. The PMU likes to go bad and cause all kinds of no boot/power problems 2. The AC Adapter jack is …

Re: My gaming laptops

Posted on 2012-06-05, 15:51

This is a much more capable machine than the Gateway Nomad: http://i.imgur.com/3ilgT.jpg This is a Compaq LTE 5280, circa 1996. Great machine. I have owned a LTE5400 (P150, maxed out to 80MB RAM) for many years. I also have the optional docking station. The dock has built in 10BaseT Ethernet, and a …

Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2012-06-05, 13:32

Since I can't well leave enough alone. I subjected this machine to some cruel and unusual punishment last night. I installed Windows 2000 on it, and surprisingly it works decently fast. No support for the Adaptec AHA-2740W though, although I hear the NT 4.0 driver will work. Also despite what the …

Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2012-05-31, 22:38

I guess its fuzzy memory. I had a 486DX4/100 machine back in the day with WB caches enabled on a proper socket 3 platform (screen shots of that machine landed up on Nathan's Toasty Technology GUI site). That machine seemed to fly compared to this one. Enough that I called it the "Worlds Fastest 486 …

Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2012-05-31, 21:16

TH99 is actually a pirate eBook of sorts... it was ripped off and condensed from the 'MicroHouse Technical Library,' which was a big 3rd-party reference compilation intended for computer support companies and such, kinda like a computer equivalent of what the Rider's and Beitman's manuals are to TV …

Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2012-05-31, 18:53

A 486 motherboard produced in a shady Taiwan alley? That can't possibly be true ;) I'd like to know where the heck the data thats in TH99 came from anyway. Most of the 386/486 era stuff on there is VERY obscure and there is no way someone managed to collect all those manuals/boards to verify that …

Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2012-05-31, 16:59

The board I had in 1993 was a "Typhoon 486" based on what the manual said. TH99 says a "Target Micro" made it, but the board layout doesn't look like I remember. The board was from late 92-early 93 if I recall, the AMIBIOS was dated 06/06/92 and it lacked a ZIF socket. I do have an old VHS video of …

Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2012-05-31, 14:48

Yes, this board was used in the Gateway 2000 4DX2/66E in that giant tower case they used. Regarding L2 cache, I coulda swore my 486 purchased back in 1993 had write back L2 cache. As for clock chips, those Dallas modules were failing in the late 90s, on machines that were only 5 years old. I hated …

Re: Archive.org CD collections

Posted on 2012-05-31, 13:30

in Milliways
I had the pleasure of meeting Jason Scott in person. He is VERY passionate about what he does. He means no harm, and going by this thread, it seems that the project has saved some obscure/rare/forgotten stuff from vanishing forever. Which is precisely why he is doing this.

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