I'm hungry now. 🙁

Anyway, back on topic, I just bought this guy for my IBM eduquest: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CMYIRMO/ … 0?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I don't usually consider Amazon, but $32 shipped is a damn sight better than the $75+shipping that cockwomble on ebay wants. I'm standing on the precipice of adding a token ring segment to my network.

luckybob wrote:

I'm hungry now. 🙁

Anyway, back on topic, I just bought this guy for my IBM eduquest: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CMYIRMO/ … 0?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I don't usually consider Amazon, but $32 shipped is a damn sight better than the $75+shipping that cockwomble on ebay wants. I'm standing on the precipice of adding a token ring segment to my network.

Ah, brings back memories. Are you going to go the whole hog with ICS cables & MAU, or will you be using RJ45 to keep wiring manageable?

Well, I have a box of type 1 cables, AND the rj45 adapters, so it can go either way. At least one will be used, as the linked card only had the 9-pin connection. I have the IBM 8228 MAU, some pci and isa cards, and a buttload of unanswered questions. I'm just going to slap it all together and hope I can finger it out from there. I heard about getting a special device to manually reset the MAU and I can probably jury-rig something together if need be.

I will fully admit we are damn spoiled by modern ethernet.

Last time I worked with that stuff (but that was quite a while ago...) "it just worked", using ICS/Type 1 cables and that same 8228, although I was using slightly more modern Madge PCI 16/4 cards, I could just configure layer 3 and higher and that was pretty much it. But I don't even remember which OS I was using then, let alone the rest of the software situation.

More stuff for the collection. 4 new ASUS cards to accompany my V8200. Especially like the V8460 and its colors - also extremely heavy.

Lookie-lookie what I've got:

2 Pentium Pro 200mhz 256kb, Gigabyte GA-686DX, 192mb EDO ram.

Good:
- Interchangeable RTC
- All japanese caps
- 6 SIMM slots
- Can be overclocked up to 266mhz
- ATX with USB

Bad:
- 60-66 FSB only, unless I'll find some undocumented options for PLL.
- Not sure if Pentium Pro 1mb is supported.

P.S.
Joined the Dual Pentium Pro club 😈

Have not posted anything for some time but today postman broungt me some goodies...

IBM Music Feature Card 😎

CT1950 AWE64 24MB (?) Memory Upgrade

CT1330A the original (first) Sound Blaster PRO (not the quite popular CT1600 SB Pro2)

2x NOS ATX Desktop Case... real retro no USB od sound front panel - This will be home for my two main retro builds

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Gigabyte GA-686DX.jpg

Madly jelly. I want this for the sake of having it.

My graphics card arrived today. Not a bad card for 20 euros including shipping. Now I almost have all the parts for my next build.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

2 Pentium Pro 200mhz 256kb, Gigabyte GA-686DX, 192mb EDO ram.

I have the single CPU vesion GA-686NX, solid board. Yours looks very similar.
Shame it has the RTC chip and not regular CR2032 battery like Intel boards for example. I don't think 66 MHz is a negative... are there even i440FX boards that can do more? Also most (if not all) PPro tops out at 233 or 240 MHz. 266 is very hard to reach.

Shame it has the RTC chip and not regular CR2032 battery like Intel boards for example

Personally, I see real problem only with soldered on board RTC chips. This board have socketed RTC and those are easy to modify/replace.

are there even i440FX boards that can do more?

Some have 75mhz FSB option for early 150mhz models (75x2)

266 is very hard to reach.

Not with liquid nitrogen 😀
https://overclockers.ru/lab/show/77627_3/retr … pro-socket-8#11

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Lookie-lookie what I've got:
2 Pentium Pro 200mhz 256kb, Gigabyte GA-686DX, 192mb EDO ram.
Joined the Dual Pentium Pro club 😈

As the de facto leader of the Dual cpu-club I welcome thee.

REMVING POST FOR MY OWN SAFTY

keropi wrote:

here are some pics from my PS1/pro manual, they detail the error codes maybe it helps to narrow down the issue]

luckybob wrote:

or here: http://ps-2.kev009.com/pcpartnerinfo/ctstips/49fe.htm

Thanks guys, I'll have a look at these!

Batyra wrote:

Have not posted anything for some time but today postman broungt me some goodies...
2x NOS ATX Desktop Case... real retro no USB od sound front panel - This will be home for my two main retro builds

I have the exact same case. Its a great case. Very well built!

This Keytronic keyboard showed up today. Its in great condition and seems really well built.

Creative Sound Blaster 2.0 CT1350 ISA
DSP2.02, YMF3812 OPL2
Aug 1991

Creative Sound Blaster 16 ASP CT1740 ISA
DSP4.05, YMF262 OPL3
Jun 1992

The ASP or CSP chip added some new features to the Sound Blaster line, such as hardware-assisted speech synthesis (through the TextAssist software), QSound audio spatialization technology for digital (PCM) wave playback, and PCM audio compression and decompression.

@Bancho
Nice! and I got that Pioneer DVD too 😀 almost identical 😀

blurks wrote:

More stuff for the collection. 4 new ASUS cards to accompany my V8200. Especially like the V8460 and its colors - also extremely heavy.

Great find on the Ti4600.

The heatsink on the other ASUS model V8460 Ultra is pretty goofy looking

Wow nice stuff there Batyra!

me irl