At work I've received a little box of old used hardware, and tons of cables. I've to do a good cleaning of these nice Logitech mouse and keyboard, and maybe start using them in one of my Win9x or XP build:

Got most of an IBM XT, model M, and a 386SX motherboard with a few cards for $5. Not bad.

nathan1313 wrote:

Got most of an IBM XT, model M, and a 386SX motherboard with a few cards for $5. Not bad.

Uh, yeah, you're gonna have to tell us more. 🤣

Not bad. NOT BAD!?!? You may as well have robbed it! Welcome to Vogons by the way, and quite an introduction too!

ElementalChaos wrote:

nathan1313 wrote:

Got most of an IBM XT, model M, and a 386SX motherboard with a few cards for $5. Not bad.

Uh, yeah, you're gonna have to tell us more. 🤣

Not bad. NOT BAD!?!? You may as well have robbed it! Welcome to Vogons by the way, and quite an introduction too!

Thanks!!! I'll do some testing tomorrow and see what works! I started collecting in February when my gf got me a dx2-66 for valentines day. Currently at 35(ish) machines and growing. This was the first thing I thought was absolutely post worthy.

Created this little on/off push button thingy for installing AT boards in an ATX case, to make one of them "modern" AT system's with ATX PSU, CF-Card and other modern stuff.

And I tested the FIC 486 VIP IO yet again. Gaming lots of games over a couple of hours, and ran Cachecheck as the last thing.

Trying to make some microdrives work in an old Thinkpad 755CX instead of the original drives. The laptop won't even power up with them attached. Apparently the microdrives I have are 3.3V, and the laptop expects 5V drives. I will have to make a voltage mod. 🙁

Been messing with the Vogons wiki lately.
Still trying to think of a way to make it more usable and there's several options I could give a try.

Gave my Lucky Star LS486e board, a new voltage regulator. Now it can run 3.xx volt CPU's.
I don't know if it was the regulator that was dead or bad soldering from the maker of the board.
All that does not matter at all, as I can run both AMD 5x86-133 and AMD 486dx2-80 now.

Just finished a large bottle of Duvel. What, it was an old bottle. It should count as retro activity. I'm actually surprised I can still type.

stamasd wrote:

Just finished a large bottle of Duvel. What, it was an old bottle. It should count as retro activity. I'm actually surprised I can still type.

i'm actually surprised you didn't share, we're all about retro here

mrau wrote:

stamasd wrote:

Just finished a large bottle of Duvel. What, it was an old bottle. It should count as retro activity. I'm actually surprised I can still type.

i'm actually surprised you didn't share, we're all about retro here

Well you weren't here. And I did share, with my wife.

Just messed a bit around with an Amd 486dx2-80 setup. Some gaming and watched a couple of old demo's

It has 60ns Ram and a S3-805p VLB card. And I ran superscape on it.
Does 50 fps in superscape sound like an ok result?

Hmm, I get 50 on my 486DX2-66:

On 40 MHz FSB, often you need to set a wait state for some aspects of the board. Something to look into? What result do you get for DX2 66?

Browsing ebay for SCSI stuff. I have the controller, and I think I have a cable or two. I need at least 2 HDDs and terminators. Problem is, most of the drives that I see at the low end of the price range are SCA80, but my target system will be fast-SCSI2 (50pin). Don't need big drives, 9GB will suffice. But I need adapters SCA/fastSCSI and those double the expense. Plus at least one terminator, or possibly two. Haven't made a final decision on the geometry yet. A SCSI CDROM would be bonus. 😀

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

On 40 MHz FSB, often you need to set a wait state for some aspects of the board. Something to look into? What result do you get for DX2 66?

Dont know. The board refuses to run 5volt stable.
Need to look further into why.
I run 1 ws on the VL-bus.
Can't remember the bus settings for mhz.

stamasd wrote:

Browsing ebay for SCSI stuff. I have the controller, and I think I have a cable or two. I need at least 2 HDDs and terminators. Problem is, most of the drives that I see at the low end of the price range are SCA80, but my target system will be fast-SCSI2 (50pin). Don't need big drives, 9GB will suffice. But I need adapters SCA/fastSCSI and those double the expense. Plus at least one terminator, or possibly two. Haven't made a final decision on the geometry yet. A SCSI CDROM would be bonus. 😀

Pro-tip: use a cable with a built in terminator, or add you own. Drive termination is sketchey at best.

Also, just get a sca80 drive and use an adapter. The small drives are not worth the expense.

brostenen wrote:

Dont know. The board refuses to run 5volt stable. Need to look further into why. I run 1 ws on the VL-bus. Can't remember the bu […]
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PhilsComputerLab wrote:

On 40 MHz FSB, often you need to set a wait state for some aspects of the board. Something to look into? What result do you get for DX2 66?

Dont know. The board refuses to run 5volt stable.
Need to look further into why.
I run 1 ws on the VL-bus.
Can't remember the bus settings for mhz.

I think my Biostar board, near the VLB slot, has a WS jumper. For 33 MHz bus and lower, no WS is needed. For higher than 33 it is.

Just run that chip at 33 / 66 speed with no WS and see what you get?

luckybob wrote:

stamasd wrote:

Browsing ebay for SCSI stuff. I have the controller, and I think I have a cable or two. I need at least 2 HDDs and terminators. Problem is, most of the drives that I see at the low end of the price range are SCA80, but my target system will be fast-SCSI2 (50pin). Don't need big drives, 9GB will suffice. But I need adapters SCA/fastSCSI and those double the expense. Plus at least one terminator, or possibly two. Haven't made a final decision on the geometry yet. A SCSI CDROM would be bonus. 😀

Pro-tip: use a cable with a built in terminator, or add you own. Drive termination is sketchey at best.

Also, just get a sca80 drive and use an adapter. The small drives are not worth the expense.

I'm not going to rely on drive termination, especially since the ones I'm looking at don't have any. 😀
If I get big drives I won't likely be able to use most of their capacity - this is for a DOS/Win95 system. But that wouldn't matter that much.
Also trying to decide passive vs. active terminators. I'd like active, but the ones I found are twice as expensive as the passive ones. The host adapter is an AHA-1520 so fast-SCSI2 at best, 10MB/s so passive should be OK.