Well for starters, I'm posting this from my 486 DX4-100 running Windows 95 and IE 5.5. Vogons runs pretty good on that setup surprisingly. And I'm viewing it on the NEC Multisync II 🤣 in 640X480, because I don't feel like putzing with the horizontal and vertical feeds, and I'm using the VGA input of my LCD for that pesky gateway.
Yesterday, my 2 hardcards finally sold on E-bay...I'm trying to pack them today. I Also finally sold the Dell, glad to see that go off to a good home...
Now as far as my retro-messin' goes I've got to focus on the Gateway 2000 P5-100. Using/messing with it more and I've realized that this thing has some SERIOUS motherboard issues.....thank god I never got it working in the last 2 weeks....well, as of this morning, it finally went tits up, not sure what killed it. Just low loud BIOS Beep every 30 seconds....that's baaad.
That motherboard was a total PITA anyway when it came to hard disks, while it did have a auto-detect feature, what it lacked was being able to detect super large (8GB+) Hard Disks without either A.) Hanging after POST on Auto Detect B.)Not being able to find the correct size of the drive for the DDO (20GB in this case), and C.) Just being a piece of junk in general.
Now I'm kind of playing around with "Do I get another Socket 7 motherboard and get this working" or "Do I replicate my 486 over to this box" for support reasons (it's a build for a friend using leftover parts). Seem so odd to me I've had THIS much trouble getting this old thing to be happy.
So I think I might go look around for a decent and affordable socket 3 or socket 7 board for it and put it together. On the 486 end, I've found another 486-PVT like the system I'm typing this on has - which is easy to support because it's the SAME board this one has. But on the other hand, I could throw a decent socket 7 board in there and make use of the ATI Mach64 card the gateway came with.....decisions decisions, maybe I'll get lucky and hit a board while at the thrifts....I dunno.
Meanwhile, the purge continues - aside from a Roland Mulitrack Recorder, a Blackstar amp, and some kind of vintage portable mixed drink set from the 60's, I've got a lot of cards and crap to go though. The idea is to split the lot between spares for my 286/Tandy/486/Core2 - and sell of whatever I won't use because it's either A.) Too slow for my needs B.) not useable on my genres C.) I already have 4 of them. Just need to test everything and post it up.