Reply 20 of 39, by Caluser2000
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Scythifuge wrote on 2021-05-20, 21:36:Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-05-20, 18:01:I've moved away from crts for my old rigs. The only one I have set up now is an EGA monitor on my XT Tupo set up. Manage to get a nice beigreNEC/Packard Bell beige 17" LCD monitor to use with my old stuff via kvm. Saves desk space. Also have a Sanyo LCD TV with multiple video inputs and it syncs down to the correct refresh rate for my Amiga A600 without any flicker at all. And of course crts use less electricity.
I do have and all-in-one Compaq Pentium 75 Compaq system out in the garage with 14" crt in it and a 19" Dell crt. I'll fire the Compaq up at some time. Quite happy with my current arrangement at the moment. All my old stuff can access the interweb via the 10/100 switch to the ISP router. I was having issues with some, not all, the older stuff, including my XT Turbo-486 systems, Acorn RiscPCs etc, until I put the 10/100 switch in between them and the ISP router. Every thing works great now with out any issues at all. Also have a 10mps hub under the10/100 switch I can put on to the network via the 10/100 switch for those nics only with network BNC connectors.
Above the 10/100 switch is 2 selection vga switch so I can switch from my dedicated irc system and what ever system I am working on At the moment it is an AcerAcrosss 486DX2/50 system. My Zenith 286LP Plus(286/12 running almost as fast as a clone 286/16) , with 8megs of ram running MS Dos 5, nic packte driver, winpkt, MS Windows 3.1, Trumpet Winsock 1.0a and PIRCH16 irc client is my dedicated irc set up.. This system is on 24/7 most of the time and still has spinning rust(hdd) as storage. It has a BackPack CDRom reader for getting extra files and LS120 drive daisy chained to the for extra storage and run extra programs if needed.
Very nice! Thank you for sharing and describing your set up. It reminds me that I need to get a KVM with audio. I also have an LS-120 parallel port version. I bought two internal LS-120 drives, but one doesn't work at all, and the other one will read only 1.44mb floppies. I think it would be cool to run irc. I haven't used that since the 90's, and I am trying to recreate as much of the 90's as I can. I want to create a BBS and have people be able to dial into it.
Nice it is great to have goals and keep active.
About 7 years ago I had a mental break down. We don't know what caused it but I have shad some head impacts in the past. A Macchi 339 canapy hit me on the had while i was getting of the A/C after completing an independent inspection on one of the Martin Baker ejection seat between the canopy frame and fuselage were it sits missing a 1 1/2" locating spigot by about 4". I was in the New Zealand Airforce at the time.The other when I was hit in the face, wearing my glasses, break my rh eye socket and check bone for absolutely no resean at all. I was in Ward 21, mental ward, for around 14 months then sent home and totally house bound in the time.
It wasn't until I started getting my 1976 Honda 550F Super Sport back on the road and concentrated on that I was getting out under the car port in fresh air I started improving a bit. Then back to my old computer systems. I still have to take medication to help the brain stay relatively stable though which is far far better than how I was.
I'm greatful that spigot didn't penetrate my skull.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉