VooDooMan wrote:

Thanks luckybob! I love them too! I wish that Hercules had made more of those blue cards... […]
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Thanks luckybob! I love them too! I wish that Hercules had made more of those blue cards...

I attach the ones from PowerVR separately and also the onse from ATI together with the rest. I do not have much from Nvidia though ;/ but I wish I had (I think there were blue Geforce 2 and Geforce 3 from Hercules. They did not make GeForce 4 lines and the Ones before GeForce 256 were green - am I right?)

I have a GeForce2 GTS from Hercules and I think a GeForce 2MX and yeah, those blue heatsinks are sexy. 🤣

3com 8-bit NIC..

Robin4 wrote:

3com 8-bit NIC..

Nice. Started the same under PCTCP on XT computer a week ago.

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Ping works. Ftp client works. Even NFS shared disks connected, so I can transfer files from fileserver in NC.

mTCP.
'nuff said.

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PeterLI wrote:

I had a EtherLink II BCN (Coax) recently. Kind of fun. But 8086s do not have enough RAM to really LAN. 😊

How much ram do you need for it?? My meanings is only to transfer files to those old computer..
My XT 8088 has 1024MB (dont know if i can use the upper part of it) And i dont know if i can use my EMS board for it..

My father-in-law found this oldie in the attic!

Mobo is P51430VX-250

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Isnt it possible to load the drivers in high memory?

PeterLI wrote:

I had a EtherLink II BCN (Coax) recently. Kind of fun. But 8086s do not have enough RAM to really LAN. 😊

I beg to differ. With packet driver based software it is quite possible to run FTP, Telnet, an FTP server, etc. on a 256KB machine.

File sharing with drive letters using the MS TCP/IP solution is not pretty. But plain old TCP/IP internet applications will run fine on an older machine.

Is this CPU basically a Pentium?

EDIT: Wikipedia had a entry. Nice. Since the board is a Socket 7, I'm going to hunt down a Pentium MMX!

rodimus80 wrote:

Is this CPU basically a Pentium? […]
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Is this CPU basically a Pentium?

EDIT: Wikipedia had a entry. Nice. Since the board is a Socket 7, I'm going to hunt down a Pentium MMX!

You should keep that CPU, it's quite collectable 😀

Good to know. It currently has Windows 95 SP1. I'm debating installing DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. And replacing the Audio with a AWE64. I already have a Pentium II Desktop with Windows 95. My only other DOS machine is a 486DX2.

PeterLI wrote:

NFS is Linux based so I do not think that works to play games with.

You can buy cheap standalone hdd box for 2-4 drives, that can export files/partitions by smb/nfs/ftp/... So you can access your files from any OS.
NFS mounted drive is absolute same as Netware/Samba mounted, you can run any program or games from it.
The only limit - is lack of convertional memory, a have about ~480-500 kb free, when load all network drivers and mount nfs disk on XT.

rodimus80 wrote:

My father-in-law found this oldie in the attic! […]
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My father-in-law found this oldie in the attic!

Mobo is P51430VX-250

I did work experience at a computer shop as a kid, and we sold that exact case as the "cheap" option, with a MaCase being the more expensive option. (That was certainly reflected in the built quality too, IIRC, which is a pity because I like the way that case looks!)

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Want to finish my fastest win98se build (maybe iam going to make a dual boot xp with it, but iam not sure for now)
So i decided to find a good solution for that build.
The case is absolutely perfect, but the inner component where not.. I was not happy about the motherboard (maybe i sell it later, iam not sure about that)
But trying find a good Socket A (462) board isnt funny nowdays.. Its much easier to find much older motherboards like 286 - till socket 7) Because most people stored them away..
And when people going to recycle for gold they trashed mostly the newer stuff, like slot1 / socket 370 / socket 462 motherboards.. I really couldnt find anything in my country.. So i had to look further.
I decided to look for better socket A motherboards. But the newer doesnt have that one ISA slot anymore.. So i thought about that.. I decided that i need to drop the ISA slot idea.. But most cards in that days where usual pci expension cards. Then one other problem i had to cope with.. The limited ISA slots. 6 PCI slots on early S462 where normal in these days, but now on the newer boards i had only 5.
So my plan was to look for a board with intergraded NIC onboard so i could spare one PCI slot..

Then looking for a board (didnt want to spend that much actually)

I found this board:

MSI K7N2 Delta2 Ver 1.0 I dont know if its any good..
What iam beware of, it cant boot SATA disks in windows 98SE/ME (only from windows xp i guess) So actually i need use PATA instead for the older OSses, maybe there is a walk through fix for it)
I also saw that the newer version does have a chipset cooling (fan) on it, so i guess this one could be very hot (iam not going to oc the system) Then i can always replace the heatsink with a fan.
I just have to test that motherboard and sees if it would work out.

On the second board, it was close your eyes and press the buy button..
There where already some watchers on this one.. Maybe it was a little bit expensive.. But i just love New In Box things..
So i dont get headache to find that I/o Shield, then ill ready have a board i can use from the box with everthing included:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281150243184?ssPageNa … 984.m1497.l2648

I may have found a goldmine. Next saturday or maybe sometime this week I can pick up a whole load of stuff... Don't know what's in it yet but I'm VERY excited 😀