Today, I finally took in this cute little (10.4" XGA) Sharp Mebius Muramasa PC-MM2-5NE laptop (I think the Actius MM20 is the international version?) that I've been waiting on for a while. It came from Japan for only about $70, and as the thread title says has the TM8600 inside, as well as a …

None of this would have been under my tree, but on my list would be: AMD-K7600, but I wouldn't complain about a 550 or a 500. Asus K7M-RB mainly just because I like Micro ATX, and Asus seems to have made the best Slot A boards looking at benchmarks. No idea about case, I guess AOpen MT 85 for being …

My cutoff is sometime in the '70s. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to experience the priginal UNIX, but I don't have space for a PDP-8. I do quite enjoy Rush, Judas Priest, and Bee Gees' deep cuts, though. Besides that, I don't really have a cutoff, but I do have a type -- I tend to gravitate towards …

That is an interesting idea, I'll go with the SATA to IDE adapter to start with and try to get a newer kernel going from there. I may also go with Fedora Core 1 just because I use Fedora on all my more recent systems* so it'd be neat to have it on an old system as well, but that still only gets me …

I'm currently plotting out an Athlon 750 Linux build, and period correctness isn't top priority so I was wanting to use a SATA card with some SSDs, but I'm not certain if it's something I could do or not. I'd like to run two period Linux distros, one geared towards professionals (maybe Red Hat 7 or …

In my experience, a lightweight OS will get you going with all those tasks even on a single-core 32-bit laptop like my PowerBook G4 that runs Debian Bookworm. I'd say the most different and interesting hardware coming out now is the MacBooks, and I guess I'm biased but not in the way that you'd …

The only branding on it says "MemoryMasters 1GB SDRAM PC133 3RD". Here's the listing I got it from: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1GB-RAM-MEMORY-ROLAND-FANTOM-G6-G7-G8-Xa-X6-X7-X8-XR-/171437401599 If they do check, they started checking after 1999, since my Lombard sees my 512MB stick as 256MB and uses …

Okay, so I have both the Quicksilver and the 1GB DIMM -- and nothing. It doesn't recognize it at all. The slot works, the included 256MB stick reads just fine. I'll check pin 126.

I'll take a look. I also see an unregistered/non-ECC 1GB module on Newegg for a Roland Fantom keyboard, so I might take a gamble on that too.

Ah, guess I was remembering wrong about reg. Thanks!

I'm looking for 1GB modules -- not 512MB pairs. ECC is fine; I'm getting them for my Power Macs. As you may know, the G4 Digital Audio brought the number of slots down from 4 to 3, and thus the max RAM down to 1.5GB from the previous 2, and that wouldn't be reversed until the MDD which was based off …

I kinda really, really hate Windows 98. When I need a 9x, I use 95 OSR2.1 instead. However, I have a computer I bought with 98SE preinstalled and it's given me enough trouble within Windows that I just use it as a DOS 7 machine. Unfortunately, 98 has more driver support. Also, I regularly use …