So an Asus terminator in a gigabyte card would work, and the other way around?

I think the terminators are pretty much made of passive parts and because the pinout is the same, they should all work the same way. Still, I wouldn't put it past some asshole designer to do something outside of the datasheet and require different values for something.

HighTreason wrote:

I think the terminators are pretty much made of passive parts and because the pinout is the same, they should all work the same way. Still, I wouldn't put it past some asshole designer to do something outside of the datasheet and require different values for something.

DELL comes to mind. But i've had slot 2 and slot 1 dells, and they worked fine with generic blanks.

Cool... Thanks

Yesterday I went to the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology to see John Romero and visit Game On 2.0.

Here's the interview with Romero: https://morgenbladet.no/hendelse/doom-og-musikk

My 16gb(4x4) Registered DDR2 finally arrived and i make quick test of my AMD 4X4 platform,yes it finally posted well and show me that it see all 8 cores and all 16 gigs correctly,yay
Have to say this board capricious with memory sets,it wont starts before i filled all slots with similar capacity and frequency ram.

Also thinking where in future should i better post the results:
-Make own thread just about this mobo.
-Make one more (bought today) thread just for all era server hardware.Withal i know there somewhere was SUN fans + thread where u can post not hardware only but also networking hardware stuff.

Kamerat wrote:

Yesterday I went to the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology to see John Romero and visit Game On 2.0.

Wow, that is a hell of an interview! Over an hour of Romero's life story. He comes across as a really cool guy.
I have been lucky enough to see a few other industry people speak at conferences, Richard Garriott and Tim Schafer (the Jack Black of games) were highlights.

With all these guys the pure love of what they're doing really comes through. There's some excellent talks on the net by Ron Gilbert and Brian Moriarty (Monkey Island/Loom) too.

I tested the new XT system.

I have not bothered with installing a 720k floppy drive or a VGA video card yet as there will be a month or two before I will have a place to set it up permanently and I will have another 8bit VGA card and probably an XT IDE card adding 1.44MB floppy support by then.

Even if I do not own a suitable monitor I did check that the system posts. It counts memory and beeps so it lives! Not bad for something that has been in storage since the late eighties

I tested my new-old soundcards for the first time: CT2760, GUS Classic and SB PRO 2.0. They all work just fine.

Removed the multi i/o/fdd controller and replaced it with a floppy controller that can handle high density floppy disk drives. Added a serial and printer port card as well an Amstrad Adlib clone sound card. Replaced the 360k floppy with a 1.2meg drive. A the moment A: is the original 720k drive and B: is 1.2megs. I'll aventually replace both with 1.44meg dives once I locate suitable drive adapters.

Turns out the hard drive is toast on this thing so have to organize a replacement at some point.

Anyway it boots quite nicely off 720k diskettes so I'm happy.

Also sorting though the 5.25" disks I have been given over the year. Quite a few suffer from mould so will be biffed.

Skyscraper my very first 286/16 system sported the exact same alligator case.

Doing inventory on optical drives and floppy drives (sigh...)

Experimenting with CF cards as harddrives. Doing this on a FIC PA-2013 board, in order to get the drive parameters.
It turns out that one of the cards are bad, it has bad sectors and will not boot into MS-Dos-6.22 after "FORMAT C: /U/S".
Have to figure out what exactly are wrong with the card, other than bad sectors.
The bad sectors must be in the start of the drive, as I can boot a floppy and list the partition, just not boot from the card.
My 512mb and my 4gb cards are working like a charm.

I'm sorting through my collection of rare coins...

Skyscraper wrote:

I'm sorting through my collection of rare coins...

A collection of rare coins.JPG

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Just finished building a retro computer for my friend its a Pentuim 3 , 833mhz, Nvidia 4200 TI, sound blaster 16 PNP , tripple booting Dos 6.22, Windows 95 D, Windows ME.

It's a good entry level system for a newcomer to the hobby , I explained that I am leaving a lot of things for him to do himself...

Point him to Vogons. He will have questions. 😀

I just upgraded my Pentium 60 to 66MHz with an SX837 and found some other stuff I need to fix in the process (But nothing in the Pentium system I didn't already know about) so that's something. Thinking of uploading the almost unedited footage to YouTube, I've toyed with doing the odd "informal" video sometimes for smaller things and this is as good of a chance as any to try it - of course, big things will still have the normal production quality, so I'm not taking anything away, these would be videos that wouldn't have been uploaded at all before.

Strangely, it runs a little cooler than the original 60MHz processor. It was all going so well, but the hard drive appears to be dying;

Luckily I was going to move to SCSI anyway. Also, the drive was corrupted from being in the Batman system that preceded this one and I also knew it was mechanically sick, so it was always a temporary solution and contains nothing important. Even the configuration for DOS on the drive is a bodge I made just to get the system working when I built it, so there's no loss here. My PCI IDE card also hates the 33MHz PCI BUS and throws more fits than it did before, but again, I already knew about the problems with this card and intended to replace it anyway, the system will be moving case too so I shall probably do it all in one go some time in the future or if I need it for rendering more crappy graphics. I also discovered a 1.5 PCI Divider (So, 44MHz), so I might try that when I get a stable drive controller in there. Anyway, I got it working long enough to do some benchmarks.

1Pentium      60MHz   66MHz
2Superscape   68.3      70.9
3PC Player    17.4      19.3
4Topbench      210       229
5SpeedSys    44.24     49.14
6Doom         2192      1980
7Quake        16.9      18.8

Certainly a noticeable improvement. It plays GTA fine and Quake, not bothered about the latter, but I have been using it to play GTA and it did hiccup occasionally, it doesn't do that anymore.

Also managed to get a song stuck in my head. Damn. I'm free, with the power of dance! I'm free with the power, free with the power! Free, not the heat is exploding! Have to wait a few hours before I can play it loud to get it out of my head because it's 4AM and my headphones are knackered, not really a problem, I like the song.

brostenen: I kind of same issue with CF and dos 6.22, appenrenly I also ran a linux partition and the swap partition somewhat make parasite with the dos extended partion and had for effect to corrupt everything on dos. Solution was to wipe all dos partitions, make linux swap on a file instead of a partition and then again sun shined in this new morning!

I finally put my gear to work and tried to fix a soldered-on Dallas RTC with a dead battery.

Solder off the RTC:

Solder on a IC socket:

Hack open the Dallas RTC and connect wires to correct points (note: I cut way to deep on pin 16 and had to cut even deeper to fix this mistake): (this is the guide: http://www.mcamafia.de/mcapage0/dsrework.htm)

Attach battery holder:

Now for the exciting part, does it work????

.... I have not tried yet, too tired! To be continued!

Learned a lesson that's probably painfully obvious to people smarter than me: when you buy used electronics, double-check that the power supply is the correct rating.

Went to play some Warcraft on my Thinkpad 365XD, and it would only power up on the battery (which holds about a 10 second charge). The power supply that came with it is 20V, 2.5A; the correct unit is 16V 2.2A. I'm hoping just the power supply is dead and that I didn't damage the laptop or its power circuitry... FML 😠