Here are my latest benchmarks with only 16mb of ram.
I am going to get another 16mb or ram for a total of 32mb and run the tests again.
Scores did go up a little since replacing the hard drive with CF card.
But it’s to quiet now. I miss the ticking sound of the hard dive so I might go back to a mechanical hard drive.
Intel486dx33 wrote on 2023-02-17, 02:30:But it’s to quiet now. I miss the ticking sound of the hard dive so I might go back to a mechanical hard drive.
Recommend Serdashop's HDD Clicker. It's subtle, but just clicky/ticky enough for me.
I still have a couple NEW WD 540mb IDE hard drives that I can use.
486 Dream or Nightmare ?.....
Heh, if you want one like that, they usually come with 6* 5.25 bays (3 full height, 6 half height) with 2* 3.25 bays under. .. cases like that weigh a ton though and you need to find 36" to 40" drive cables.... Also can be a problem for PSUs, either for cable length, because it takes a "modern" AT format right at the top, or for fit if it takes an orginal AT shape PSU, same shape as in a 5170, which are even harder to find, especially with high output for a multi drive monster.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
SmooBandit wrote on 2023-02-17, 08:33:Intel486dx33 wrote on 2023-02-17, 02:30:But it’s to quiet now. I miss the ticking sound of the hard dive so I might go back to a mechanical hard drive.
Recommend Serdashop's HDD Clicker. It's subtle, but just clicky/ticky enough for me.
Yup, I'll second this. It's not exactly the same as an HDD, but close enough in my books.
Helping keep the 486 FREE of Viruses.
Something has been destroying my hard drives so I am on a mission to clean all my diskette and drives of Viruses.
McAfee was the Best Antivirus software of the 1990’s.
Maybe thats why Intel purchased the company.
In a lab we had a Novell server and MS-Windows server. We Created a shared drive on each computer and over the Network copy Viruses
Onto it. We had a server loaded with Nortons Antivirus and a McAfee Antivirus server.
We had a CD full of Viruses and over the Network we would copy the Viruses onto each computer to see which Antivirus software
Worked best.
McAfee was able to detect and quarantine all of the Viruses we had on that CD.
Over 3000 Viruses.
Nortons Antivirus did not do so good and many viruses got thru undetected.
Use my mini antivirus to clean BOOT viruses on your disks, you don't even need to boot from clean floppy disk just run VCHECK.EXE it can disable those viruses even if they are active
VCheck+ Portable Antivirus for DOS
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https://archive.org/details/VCHECK/
Oh wow, and here's me been using Fdisk /mbr for decades like a chump.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
I have a NEW Design.
"Never Obsolete"
Some of my favorite models were from Revell.
Before computers we had Model building class, wood shop, metal shop, and art classes in elementary school.
I think today it’s probably more like 3D imaging, 3D printers, Metal Printers, Robots, and CNC Machines.
And collaborating using VR Headsets and the MetaVerse.
Happy Holidays Everyone From Silicon Valley ( San Francisco Bay Area )
Home of the 1st place 49ers American NFL Football team.
Sorry Bird fans. “Flying toilets”.
Guys, My 486 is Online and Itching to Surf the Internet.
Can you provide me with some links to HTML 2.0 Friendly websites ?
I have new wallpaper
49ers team of the 80’s
Intel News link:
https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releas … f-levis-stadium
