I refuse to acknowledge Zip as it screwed me over twice. First I thought Floptical was the future, then I went with LS-120... You can probably guess I later went with HD-DVD.

Zip drive assholes, what? Stop looking at me! They're laughing! I can hear them laughing! Arrrrgggghhhhhhhh! (Pulls out hair and glances at stack of useless LS-120 disks).

HighTreason wrote:

I refuse to acknowledge Zip as it screwed me over twice. First I thought Floptical was the future, then I went with LS-120... You can probably guess I later went with HD-DVD.

Zip drive assholes, what? Stop looking at me! They're laughing! I can hear them laughing! Arrrrgggghhhhhhhh! (Pulls out hair and glances at stack of useless LS-120 disks).

This is why I always want to have spares 😁

I did it right and asked a CD burner for my birthday to upgrade my awesome Pentium 2 supercomputer.
...it almost always failed burning a disk at 4x and at 2x I was better of not touching mouse or keyboard till the disk was done 🤣!

ZIP and floptical (drive only) I only bought second hand. I knew about the CoD so I checked every single drive's heads by looking into the drive with a bicycle light and hope the seller wouldn't mind me checking them before buying them...which worked 😀

I never thought CD would catch on as a consumer format either as you could only use it once and that it was only for greedy companies to sell you stuff on.

Arguably I was right because I invested in Flash memory quite early too. It was ungodly slow, but I sure saw potential... If only there were a Plug-and-Play interface with a universal driver for this stuff, it would unleash a whole new world of portable storage.

Which means... You were all wrong to buy ZIP because Flash memory was better in the long run*... And by extension, so was Magneto-Optical because I had one and therefore it must be better. Err... So there. 😉
*Incidentally, a lot of the early formats are useless, because we're all using SmartMedia cards I am sure. Damn, I fail at format wars 😢

My father taught me the secret to format wars. The format that allows for the easiest and cheapest access to porn will win. He was a veteran of the betamax-vhs wars so when it came to hd-dvd and blu-ray the winner was clear.

Yeah, I can agree with that, that means we're all winners because; The Internet.

Those Motorola Advisor pagers are still useable. They are frequency and channel programmable.
I know someone in Vancouver who made an IRC bot that sits on the office server and when you /msg it the message is transmitted to the pager by a box I'll simply say is "full of magic" so he can get notifications anywhere in the office park. I'd love to know what exactly is in that box.

Speaking of boxes, I bought a thing for $30. HP's 9845B computer.

Wow wicked cool computer, and I thought what I got in the mail was neat today. 🤣

Anyway picked up another Packard Bell, this is a 1997 Packard Bell Multimedia C115. The reason I bought it was because sometime around 1995 my father purchased our first home computer, it was an identical to this one but had a Pentium running at 75mhz whereas this has a P120 in it. Not sure if I'm going to keep it original or give it some modern updates (real SB16 or AWE32, Pentium 233MMX, 64MB RAM and 5 port USB PCI controller card), probably the first of the two since I already have a 1996 Packard Bell Platinum 55 decked out in the same fashion.

MY COLLECTION GROWS EVER STRONGER! 😜

alexanrs wrote:

A 20pin PSU with a 6-pin AUX cable? Looks more like an early high-end Athlon PSU to me. It depends on its rails. though.

40 on the 5v, 16 on the 12v and 25-30ish in the 3.3v you are right, perfect for a fancy high-end Athlon rig. My AUX cable motherboards consist of an RDRAM P4 board and a P3 board 🤣.

Finally got a decent S478 cooler. NIB too and it was cheap 😀

Heavy bugger, just under 1 Kg.

^^ Nice, I have one of those that i salvaged off an old P4 system. I was wondering if it would fit anything else. Looks like it'll go on a 775 which would be super useful.

xjas wrote:

^^ Nice, I have one of those that i salvaged off an old P4 system. I was wondering if it would fit anything else. Looks like it'll go on a 775 which would be super useful.

Well for S775 I was covered. Anything current basically fits onto that 😀

But S478 is the odd man out. I don't think there is anything current that is compatible.

@CelGen

I spy a 8595 with 2 scsi cards and token ring. Care to comment?

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Finally got a decent S478 cooler.

Awesome, those are great coolers! And the FanMate 2 that's packed in with it is very useful - I have about 3 or 4 of those in various computers making all my fans quiet. 😎

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

But S478 is the odd man out. I don't think there is anything current that is compatible.

Scythe Shuriken Rev. B is still widely stocked where I am, and compatible with S478.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

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Finally got a decent S478 cooler. NIB too and it was cheap 😀

Heavy bugger, just under 1 Kg.

I have had one of those, just from North-Q instead, since like 2005/06.
They are the best.

xjas wrote:

^^ Nice, I have one of those that i salvaged off an old P4 system. I was wondering if it would fit anything else. Looks like it'll go on a 775 which would be super useful.

When you open the box, there are 4 different mounting solutions.
Each different for each socket. It has a clamp for Socket-A, bars for Socket-478 and plate plus thick pins for Socket-775.
I am actually not sure if it can go on more than 3 sockets when I think about it.
You can get these coolers in: 60mm, 80mm and 120mm.

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xjas wrote:

^^ Nice, I have one of those that i salvaged off an old P4 system. I was wondering if it would fit anything else. Looks like it'll go on a 775 which would be super useful.

When you open the box, there are 4 different mounting solutions.
Each different for each socket. It has a clamp for Socket-A, bars for Socket-478 and plate for Socket-775.
I am actually not sure if it can go on more than 3 sockets when I think about it.

They fit on most AMD sockets, they can use either a special s478 "cage" for s754/s939 and bars or you can fasten the heatsink at the normal AMD cage mounting holes with the included mounting kit.

Looking at the pictures on the back, it has backplates for Intel and AMD. Socket 478 being the exception, here you have to use clips and the existing socket frame.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Looking at the pictures on the back, it has backplates for Intel and AMD. Socket 478 being the exception, here you have to use clips and the existing socket frame.

Yea the only other alternative for socket 940/754/939 is one of these which let you use the s478 "bar" mounting method.

In both cases you can use the stock backplate as long as the threads for the "screws" are the same but if the stock backplate is made of plastic it's perhaps best to use the correct one.

happycube wrote:

What CD-R's didn't do, Iomega's quality *click* control *click* did them in. *click* (of death)

And they were so tone-deaf that they actually named a smaller version Clik!

Just bought one with a disk, works fine so far, but no drivers are available under DOS...

lolo799 wrote:

happycube wrote:

What CD-R's didn't do, Iomega's quality *click* control *click* did them in. *click* (of death)

And they were so tone-deaf that they actually named a smaller version Clik!

Just bought one with a disk, works fine so far, but no drivers are available under DOS...

iomegaclik.jpg

Very nice,that baby missing in my growing removable storage collection 🤣