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Reply 1860 of 2846, by darry

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devius wrote on 2020-12-25, 21:13:
bumpnthump05 wrote on 2020-12-25, 20:36:

I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that has probably well over 50 of these brand new.

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy ? 😉

I guess that we could all use an escape from reality...

Reply 1861 of 2846, by bumpnthump05

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Want some more? Lol

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Reply 1862 of 2846, by omgfoz

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bumpnthump05 wrote on 2020-12-25, 20:36:
Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that […]
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Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that has probably well over 50 of these brand new. I plan on going back and buying at least a couple more just to hang on to for spares.

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Oh my gosh I'm so jealous! Curious to know where this is...

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Reply 1863 of 2846, by chrismeyer6

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bumpnthump05 wrote on 2020-12-25, 20:36:
Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that […]
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Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that has probably well over 50 of these brand new. I plan on going back and buying at least a couple more just to hang on to for spares.

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Wow that place looks awesome. I'd love to just walk around and browse through there.

Reply 1864 of 2846, by stealthjoe

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bumpnthump05 wrote on 2020-12-25, 20:36:
Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that […]
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Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that has probably well over 50 of these brand new. I plan on going back and buying at least a couple more just to hang on to for spares.

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Awesome collection. Is this at your home or a shop you own?

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Reply 1865 of 2846, by bumpnthump05

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stealthjoe wrote on 2021-01-01, 16:44:
bumpnthump05 wrote on 2020-12-25, 20:36:
Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that […]
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Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that has probably well over 50 of these brand new. I plan on going back and buying at least a couple more just to hang on to for spares.

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Awesome collection. Is this at your home or a shop you own?

It's a computer shop in Houston,TX that i ran across that i have shopped at several times. They primarily repair computers, but have a TON of new old stock stuff.

Reply 1866 of 2846, by stealthjoe

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bumpnthump05 wrote on 2021-01-01, 17:12:
stealthjoe wrote on 2021-01-01, 16:44:
bumpnthump05 wrote on 2020-12-25, 20:36:
Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that […]
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Glad I am inspiring you on trying to find one! I actually have a source of quite a bit of Brand New Old Stock peripherals that has probably well over 50 of these brand new. I plan on going back and buying at least a couple more just to hang on to for spares.

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Awesome collection. Is this at your home or a shop you own?

It's a computer shop in Houston,TX that i ran across that i have shopped at several times. They primarily repair computers, but have a TON of new old stock stuff.

That's great. Wish I had something like this in our place. Indeed a paradise!!

Intel 845GEBV2, Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz, Geforce FX5600 256MB, 512MB RAM, 160GB HDD, Sound Blaster Live! SB0100 - Win 98/XP

Reply 1867 of 2846, by dave343

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My AMD 386 DX 40 build, almost complete.

Board with surface mounted AMD 386DX-40 arrived from Ukraine 🇺🇦 this morning!

Rest of specs:

Installed 8MB Ram -70
Cirrus Logic 5428 1MB ISA Video
Creative Labs CT1740 Soundblaster Card
1GB CF-Card for HD
1.44 Floppy GoTek Emulator Drive
52x LG CD-ROM
300w Generic PSU

Will probably install Dos 5.0 + Windows 3.0

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Reply 1868 of 2846, by pc-sound-legacy

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Nice tower, and personalized with decals👍 The Cirrus Logic card is fast and compatible, isn't it? But the 52x CD-Rom is overkill, would try to get a slower (and more silent) drive.

Reply 1869 of 2846, by gerry

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dave343 wrote on 2021-01-14, 18:18:
My AMD 386 DX 40 build, almost complete. […]
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My AMD 386 DX 40 build, almost complete.

Board with surface mounted AMD 386DX-40 arrived from Ukraine 🇺🇦 this morning!

Rest of specs:

Installed 8MB Ram -70
Cirrus Logic 5428 1MB ISA Video
Creative Labs CT1740 Soundblaster Card
1GB CF-Card for HD
1.44 Floppy GoTek Emulator Drive
52x LG CD-ROM
300w Generic PSU

Will probably install Dos 5.0 + Windows 3.0

i'm thinking back to when i used a 386-25 with 4mb ram and a 100mb hdd at work many many year ago, and that was a fairly good machine back then with dos 5 and win3.1

yours is a powerhouse 386! great looking too. if i had that then i'd probably go with dos 622 and win31 just because it can handle that easily

1gb cf is massive but if that's what you have at hand why not! think of all the dos and win16 applications you can store on that!

if i had an earlier better made cd rom i'd use that instead, slower and quieter perhaps - but it doesn't really matter

hope this great machine serves you well

Reply 1870 of 2846, by afgncaap

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Hello all.
I thought i'd share some images of my retro rig.
It's a Dell OptiPlex GX1, P3 450.
On board is a 4 Mb Ati Rage pro, and a Crystal 4236b soundchip which both do quite well for early win98 and MsDos games.
I have added a Voodoo 2 and a Gravis ultrasound clone, (Which i only use in supported dos games).
I have separate dos setups for the Crystal and the Ultrasound.
Not a thing of beauty, but it does a nice job, and it's built like a tank.
Not sure if the image sharing works, let me know.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yafalCzJgpPB … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzJSWHFz_c3K … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17u0JRQWgJK9T … iew?usp=sharing
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uZfz5ToxTKA- … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_GE8lKA3UAEJ … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zwG-vwcx4wzl … iew?usp=sharing

Reply 1871 of 2846, by dkjr

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afgncaap wrote on 2021-01-29, 07:01:
Hello all. I thought i'd share some images of my retro rig. It's a Dell OptiPlex GX1, P3 450. On board is a 4 Mb Ati Rage pro, a […]
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Hello all.
I thought i'd share some images of my retro rig.
It's a Dell OptiPlex GX1, P3 450.
On board is a 4 Mb Ati Rage pro, and a Crystal 4236b soundchip which both do quite well for early win98 and MsDos games.
I have added a Voodoo 2 and a Gravis ultrasound clone, (Which i only use in supported dos games).
I have separate dos setups for the Crystal and the Ultrasound.
Not a thing of beauty, but it does a nice job, and it's built like a tank.
Not sure if the image sharing works, let me know.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yafalCzJgpPB … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzJSWHFz_c3K … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17u0JRQWgJK9T … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d9c4b4n9EYWb … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uZfz5ToxTKA- … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_GE8lKA3UAEJ … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zwG-vwcx4wzl … iew?usp=sharing

Nice find! The images work, just not inline in the post.

Reply 1872 of 2846, by dave343

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gerry wrote on 2021-01-18, 09:45:
i'm thinking back to when i used a 386-25 with 4mb ram and a 100mb hdd at work many many year ago, and that was a fairly good ma […]
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dave343 wrote on 2021-01-14, 18:18:
My AMD 386 DX 40 build, almost complete. […]
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My AMD 386 DX 40 build, almost complete.

Board with surface mounted AMD 386DX-40 arrived from Ukraine 🇺🇦 this morning!

Rest of specs:

Installed 8MB Ram -70
Cirrus Logic 5428 1MB ISA Video
Creative Labs CT1740 Soundblaster Card
1GB CF-Card for HD
1.44 Floppy GoTek Emulator Drive
52x LG CD-ROM
300w Generic PSU

Will probably install Dos 5.0 + Windows 3.0

i'm thinking back to when i used a 386-25 with 4mb ram and a 100mb hdd at work many many year ago, and that was a fairly good machine back then with dos 5 and win3.1

yours is a powerhouse 386! great looking too. if i had that then i'd probably go with dos 622 and win31 just because it can handle that easily

1gb cf is massive but if that's what you have at hand why not! think of all the dos and win16 applications you can store on that!

if i had an earlier better made cd rom i'd use that instead, slower and quieter perhaps - but it doesn't really matter

hope this great machine serves you well

I was originally thinking of installing Dos 6.22 but wanting to keep things around 1992, no greater. Currently I don't have Windows installed, but may put Windows 3.0 on it to keep again in that time frame. The only downside to Dos 5 is that many useful commands are missing, such as deltree, or rmdir /r etc... It's a massive PITA to go through an installation and deleted sub folders before I can remove the parent folder. I guess I could explore other Dos versions like Dr Dos etc... but I've never played around with them, as as this is a Dos Gaming PC, I have no idea if compatibles are a thing for games made for MS Dos.

Reply 1873 of 2846, by dkjr

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dave343 wrote on 2021-01-31, 21:09:
gerry wrote on 2021-01-18, 09:45:
i'm thinking back to when i used a 386-25 with 4mb ram and a 100mb hdd at work many many year ago, and that was a fairly good ma […]
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dave343 wrote on 2021-01-14, 18:18:
My AMD 386 DX 40 build, almost complete. […]
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My AMD 386 DX 40 build, almost complete.

Board with surface mounted AMD 386DX-40 arrived from Ukraine 🇺🇦 this morning!

Rest of specs:

Installed 8MB Ram -70
Cirrus Logic 5428 1MB ISA Video
Creative Labs CT1740 Soundblaster Card
1GB CF-Card for HD
1.44 Floppy GoTek Emulator Drive
52x LG CD-ROM
300w Generic PSU

Will probably install Dos 5.0 + Windows 3.0

i'm thinking back to when i used a 386-25 with 4mb ram and a 100mb hdd at work many many year ago, and that was a fairly good machine back then with dos 5 and win3.1

yours is a powerhouse 386! great looking too. if i had that then i'd probably go with dos 622 and win31 just because it can handle that easily

1gb cf is massive but if that's what you have at hand why not! think of all the dos and win16 applications you can store on that!

if i had an earlier better made cd rom i'd use that instead, slower and quieter perhaps - but it doesn't really matter

hope this great machine serves you well

I was originally thinking of installing Dos 6.22 but wanting to keep things around 1992, no greater. Currently I don't have Windows installed, but may put Windows 3.0 on it to keep again in that time frame. The only downside to Dos 5 is that many useful commands are missing, such as deltree, or rmdir /r etc... It's a massive PITA to go through an installation and deleted sub folders before I can remove the parent folder. I guess I could explore other Dos versions like Dr Dos etc... but I've never played around with them, as as this is a Dos Gaming PC, I have no idea if compatibles are a thing for games made for MS Dos.

I can recommend 4dos or norton dos as I knew it, it is a command.com replacement / add-on thing. Link: 4dos.info/v4dos.htm

Reply 1874 of 2846, by megatron-uk

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For anyone used to a unix shell environment, 4Dos is brilliant: tab completion, (searchable) command history, colour coded directory listings, the works. It's a fabulous replacement for command.com.

My collection database and technical wiki:
https://www.target-earth.net

Reply 1875 of 2846, by dave343

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megatron-uk wrote on 2021-02-01, 08:48:

For anyone used to a unix shell environment, 4Dos is brilliant: tab completion, (searchable) command history, colour coded directory listings, the works. It's a fabulous replacement for command.com.

Is it compatible with most Dos software and games, especially Sierra titles?

Reply 1876 of 2846, by megatron-uk

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dave343 wrote on 2021-02-01, 15:57:
megatron-uk wrote on 2021-02-01, 08:48:

For anyone used to a unix shell environment, 4Dos is brilliant: tab completion, (searchable) command history, colour coded directory listings, the works. It's a fabulous replacement for command.com.

Is it compatible with most Dos software and games, especially Sierra titles?

Unless an application or game is hardcoded to directly access a given version of command.com I wouldn't expect that it would have any impact on them.

My collection database and technical wiki:
https://www.target-earth.net

Reply 1877 of 2846, by dkjr

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I haven't had any compatibility problems with 4dos.
Looks like Vogons has their own list nice utilities: https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Useful_DOS_utilities

Reply 1878 of 2846, by celeron_phreak

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Here is my recently assembled 486 Build. I probably should have taken some more pictures of the specific hardware for archiving purposes, but meh.

Specs:

CPU: AMD 486 DX2-66mhz
GPU: Diamond Multimedia Stealh 3D
NIC: 3COM 10/100 Ethernet Card
Sound: 16-bit ISA Sound Blaster 16
HDD: Fujitsu 1.7GB ATA66
Optical: 4x Sony CD-ROM
Floppy A: Sony 1.44MH 3.5" Diskette
Floppy B: Teac 1.2MB 5.25" Diskette
PSU: US Logic 300W AT/XT
Case: Micron Beige Desktop

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Reply 1879 of 2846, by celeron_phreak

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And here is my recently assembled AMD K6-2/400 Build. I was saving this NOS AT case for something special to me. I like how it turned out. The new Kingspao PSU that came with the case is working great too!

Specs:

CPU: AMD K6-2 @ 400MHz
GPU: Alliance Semiconductor AT-25 Voodoo RUSH
NIC: Compaq PCI 10/100 Ethernet
Sound: Creative PCI-512
HDD: Western Digital 40GB ATA-100
Optical: 12x LG CD-ROM
Floppy A: HP 1.2MB 5.25" Diskette
Floppy B: Hitachi 1.44MB 3.5" Diskette
PSU: Kingspao 200W AT/XT
Case: Unknown brand - Beige Mid Tower AT/XT

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