Re: best version of Office to learn

Posted on 2024-03-01, 00:18

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It probably doesn’t matter but I have encountered places using everything from 2005 to present in their installs. Only difference is ui/ locations of tools and some minor feature creep.

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Re: want to use pc-133 cas2 512mb sdram with bad memory addresses under win9x

Posted on 2024-02-29, 16:52

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If the addresses are all at the top of the address range you could just use the Rlowe tool to limit it’s capacity.

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2024-02-25, 03:53

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The NS486SXL is not related to the TI486SXL (which is 386DX pin compatible). It has a 16-bit external bus. The reason for the 132-pin package is because it seems to integrate the motherboard chipset. It's advertised as a "system on a chip". It's also "protected mode only". No real mode or virtual …

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Re: Bum Simulator

Posted on 2024-02-24, 02:30

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Dolenc wrote on 2024-02-23, 16:44: robertmo wrote on 2021-09-20, 17:33: buckeye wrote on 2021-09-20, 16:14: We have "progressed" from flight simulator, farming simulator to BUM simulator??? I think we still don't have a proper dam simulator. One could say... No one gives a dam This reminds me that …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2024-02-23, 16:59

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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2024-02-22, 03:58: BitWrangler wrote on 2024-02-21, 14:51: Dunno if it's super rare, but unusual NS486SXL-25 QFP CPUs turning up for cheap on fleabay. They're also not pin compatible with 386SX as far as I know, so not terribly useful. Aren’t those basically for 386dx …

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Re: CPU options for Intel 440LX?

Posted on 2024-02-23, 15:44

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There used to be adapters that allowed any 66mhz celeron to install-766mhz. I’ve never had much luck with adapters

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-02-21, 00:29

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My AST ADVENTURE ADVANTAGE 4/66D had a green Cyrix DX2-66 if it had a performance deficit it was under 5% even based on vintage benchmarks I ran at the time. Where things become confusing is on the early socket 3 Cyrix “486” offerings, the early socket 3 chips were a different architecture and had …

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Re: Patched together a 286-20MHz. What should be the expected performance?

Posted on 2024-02-20, 18:23

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I would rerun your tests with the FPU removed, I had one 286 board that was much slower with an fpu installed on integer tasks but ran full speed with the FPU removed, I never could determine why this occurred. Next Depending on the year of production your m209 might overclock (sometimes the chipset …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2024-02-20, 05:39

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One of the rarest x86 processors. It's almost impossible to find. Tested? Working? Couldn’t prove it by me, I thought all of the oldest off brand DLC laptops had those strange MC labeled CPUs inside. I never knew Eagle had a fab (or an x86 license), so I wonder where these chips really came from.

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Re: Mysterious graphics adapter

Posted on 2024-02-20, 02:37

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It’s a Targa RGBS video capture video card combo. For capture It’s compatible with Sony video scanners , Kodak Flashsync ccd4000 cameras and could capture Amiga video. Output it works on a multitude of 15khz Magnavox Amiga monitors. I don’t think it has a video bios so good luck finding software/ …

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MSRP of Various Vintage IBM PC 5151, 5153/54 ?

Posted on 2024-02-19, 23:32

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I remember years ago someone had a list price of IBMs various monitors, video adapters and a bunch of other options from about -1985. Is there anything like this anymore ? I’ll start sometime in ~1984 IBM 5154 EGA Monitor $850 EGA Adapter (base) $500 EGA Adapter fully expanded $1000 IBM 5175 PGA …

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Re: IDT Winchip 2a PR266 a.k.a "Weirdo"

Posted on 2024-02-15, 17:10

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I thought the primary market for all models of Winchip was the fact you could take any old Socket 5 with the defective multiplier settings set FSB .= 60/66mhz and you automatically were upgraded to 200, 240 or 233mhz (though some argue they are as slow as a P75 because of meh floating point) Didn’t …

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Re: Mysterious graphics adapter

Posted on 2024-02-15, 15:04

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It’s a Targa RGBS video capture video card combo. For capture It’s compatible with Sony video scanners , Kodak Flashsync ccd4000 cameras and could capture Amiga video. Output it works on a multitude of 15khz Magnavox Amiga monitors. I don’t think it has a video bios so good luck finding software/ …

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Re: 16-bit ISA EGA card?

Posted on 2024-02-15, 02:01

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"Also in 1987, Truevision, the pioneer of the desktop digital video editing industry, introduced the Targa Board for IBM PC compatible computers. The Targa Board provided video capture in 512 x 480 TGA truecolor file format and could display over 32,000 colors anywhere on the screen. A lower cost …

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Re: 16-bit ISA EGA card?

Posted on 2024-02-14, 16:11

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dr.zeissler wrote on 2024-01-14, 14:08: There was a demo-program that shows all 64colors at once in hires. I ran it on my Schneider EGA machine. One of the old dos EGA graphics drawing programs bragged about 4096 colors on the box (the number you get if you dither 64 colors)

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-02-14, 05:20

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A very weird algorithm thing happened to me the other day. I spelled a word correctly, no results, deleted it, then though oh I'll try it with another word, on the re-type I misspelled it, boom, results, which had original word in title, not the second word I added. Deleting the second word and …

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Re: ISA XMS/EMS Memory Extension / Expansion cards: Now Running without Driver / Documentation :-)

Posted on 2024-02-14, 03:06

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I have referred to this post many times, has this information/ thread been stickied and added to a wiki?

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-02-09, 01:52

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Or you might see the sea of so called “mobile gaming” fill the space (just as they have said would happen the last 20 years) Embrace the mediocrity

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Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 03:55

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IMO unmodified socket - fastest CPU at launch compared to fastest CPU available is the only fair way to consider it. Taking the slowest CPU a socket supports and comparing it to the fast CPU that can be hacked to work is disingenuous IMO. The problem with slot 1 and socket 370 is that the CPUs at …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-02-04, 04:58

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Same goes for MII 350 - seen so few of these - guess production was very limited. The production MII-pr350 required a 90mhz FSB and thus only worked with one motherboard . They (IBM) designed all MII/6x86mx above pr300 and quickly moved to 83mhz fsb (pr333) once nobody standardized to that 90mhz …

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