Reply 1020 of 2213, by kanecvr
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wrote:Vintage Computer Museum curator in the making. You got my vote! 🤑
Did you print those little cards out yourself? I wish I could read what it said.
Now you need to add some LED lighting at the top and bottom.
Yeah, I did. The cards contain technical specifications on the cards.
wrote:Wow, that is an impressive display! You have my vote for curator as well! Very impressive indeed!
Noticed your avatar pic - I'm a huge homeworld fan myself.
wrote:This display is an absolute inspiration.
Thank you. A tiny home museum is what I'm going for. Hopefully when I move to a bigger house I can set aside more room for my "computer lab" where I can have all my machines set up in a row on long desks, and have many more display cases for hardware - retro, old, obsolete as well as newer stuff. Sadly, those plans are years away.
wrote:I totally want to see KaneCVR running Blood or Shadow Warrior. In DOS. On some ridiculous rig with the beating heart of a V5-5500 rescued from the jaws of the smashers.
Getting close to fixing the thing 😀 - I got the ram chips a while ago, as well as a couple of new VSA-100 chips - now I just need to go get my IR re-balling station from storage and source a re-balling template for VSA-100 chips, some time (winter holidays maybe?) and some materials. Unfortunately my other V5 5500 (a working card) died as well, and so did a friend's card. One moment they were working, later - dead - black screen with red lines 🙁 - so I've got 3 cards to fix. What's puzzling is that the card worked great - re-finished homeworld and hw cataclysm on it. I let the PC sit for about 2 weeks, didn't even turn it on - then decided to play uprising 2 on and, but the video card was dead.
I had a friend help me reorganize the room (couldn't do it myself since I'm still not 100% recovered from the accident I had two months ago) and moved some stuff around. Right now the room's a mess - but I'm slowly cleaning and sorting stuff. I re-organized two of the display cases again:
The white AT case contains my current DOS machine - a 400MHz K6-2+ running on a VIA VPX socket 7 mainboard (Lucky Star 5V-1A) that has an undocumented jumper setting allowing for a 7.15Mhz FSB. The case is identical to the case my first computer had - witch was a cyrix 586 - unfortunately I'm out of fast working socket 3 boards so I'm sticking with the K6 time machine setup for now. On top is my sister's first computer - an IBM PS/2 Valuepoint 486 DX4, and on top of that is a socket 478 3.2Ghz pentium 4 I'm putting together. So far it's got an FX 5900 ultra and 2GB of ram running on a Abit IC7 i875 board. Might swap the video card for a X800 Pro. The black tower to the left of the monitor is my winXP gaming rig - a Phenom II X6 1060T paired with a MSI R9 280x. It also serves as my bios editing and flashing rig, and for writing floppies and burning disks for my other rigs.
The two towers to the right of the yellowed LCD are my win98se machine (1.4GHz Tualatin + Geforce 4 Ti 4600 + 2xVoodoo 2 12MB) and my late 80's / very early 90's dos machine, a 12MHz 286 with a 256k paradise ISA vga card and a sound blaster 2.0. They both share the SC55mk2 sitting under the voodoo 5 card. Behind the beige yellowed LCD monitor is / was my voodoo 5 5500 rig - an Athlon XP 3200+ (2333Mhz fsb 166Mhz version) running on top of a shuttle kt333 motherboard. It's been taken apart since my only working voodoo 5 card died.
Behind the black widescreen LCD is my Athlon XP 3200+ period correct 2004 rig, installed in a rather common case sold here in romania at the time. It's nothing fancy, but it's of decent quality compared to other available offerings of that time. On top of that is my incomplete daily driver.