Re: New old stock IBM AT
Posted on 2017-03-11, 01:25
Anonymous Coward wrote: Model 319 was an 8MHz model that came with Model F. Oh yeah, guess I didn't look at that one document on minuszerodegrees hard enough.
Re: New old stock IBM AT
Posted on 2017-03-10, 17:15
Very nice! Nothing wrong with going with a VGA card - it was certainly an option at the time, and CGA was getting a bit long in the tooth by the time of the AT. I'm surprised it came with a Model M with the well-known ANSI layout - not a lot of PC/ATs did. Most of them had a Model F with the AT …
New old stock IBM AT
Posted on 2017-03-10, 15:44
Yeah, I spent too much money on an old computer, not gonna lie. I've wanted an AT since I got into old PCs, and now I have a new old stock computer. I am the original owner of a PC that's older than me. http://i.imgur.com/BiyYy1ch.jpg Two big boxes, one for the system unit and the other for the …
Re: Do you play online with your Win98 retro rig?
Posted on 2014-09-07, 08:52
I connect most of my PCs directly to the internet regardless of age. The chances that someone would want to attack a computer with windows 98 on it are slim, and even if they did it wouldn't mean I'd lose a lot of data or anything.
Re: Possible DS12887 drop-in replacement
Posted on 2014-06-26, 03:28
I might have to buy a few after you start selling. I have a couple computers with the dallas chip in them. They aren't dead yet, but they will eventually.
Re: Possible DS12887 drop-in replacement
Posted on 2014-06-23, 20:23
tbh, I'm more interested in that it makes the computer works than the time 😜 but yeah, I'll do that, leave it off for a week or two and turn it back on.
Re: Possible DS12887 drop-in replacement
Posted on 2014-06-21, 18:07
So I got the test unit and installed in in my cousin's 486 about 6 days ago and it works perfectly so far. http://i.imgur.com/4XIWYIVl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1itaLr0l.jpg These are definitely a good idea. Works a lot better than our modi-fried dallas chip we had in there that drained the battery …
Re: Stuff you did with the PC's at school
Posted on 2014-05-19, 23:55
When I was in the last three years of high school (2010-2012, yeah, not too long ago), I put StarCraft on the network drive and we used to play lan games in the middle of class. Besides that, emulators, DX-Ball 2, Pocket Tanks, Spheres of Chaos, anything that wasn't productive. I also still used …
Re: Another 486 on planet Earth.
Posted on 2014-05-19, 15:23
Did you already had some plans to upgrade the system? You mean from now or back when I first got it? All I see that I need from now is L2 cache. I could upgrade my CPU of course, but I have a P75 for that stuff, so I don't see what could be upgraded much more. Yeah those speakers are pretty great, …
Re: Possible DS12887 drop-in replacement
Posted on 2014-05-17, 06:08
Nice, glad to see this project getting somewhere. This will be much nicer than a maybe half dead RTC you buy from ebay. 😜
Re: Another 486 on planet Earth.
Posted on 2014-05-15, 14:26
You make it sound like I've been dinking around inside the power supply when it was on. Trust me, when something shorted, I was clear away from the computer, using the power strip's switch. :P I'm not that stupid. Also, recommending CRTs isn't like its putting someone's life in danger, unless they …
Re: Another 486 on planet Earth.
Posted on 2014-05-12, 21:54
That's just a regular IBM model M keyboard. I think I'll keep those CPU, if I need anything faster, I have my Pentium 75. This seems to be rather generic compared to most AT&T stuff, I've seen many cases like it in HighTreason's videos. The logo is on a removable badge.
Another 486 on planet Earth.
Posted on 2014-05-12, 21:30
This is the 486 machine that my sister found me at a thrift store a couple years ago. It started out with a 468SX 33Mhz, but I toasted that cpu by inserting it backwards into the CPU socket (curse you socket 3 and not being keyed). Seriously, could they have made a socked make less sense? There are …
Re: What retro pc for beginning?
Posted on 2014-05-12, 17:46
I'd say to get a Pentium 133Mhz to a Pentium MMX 233Mhz machine with about 64MB of ram and a Sound Blaster AWE64, and maybe a 1.5-3GB HDD (preferably Western Digital). Windows 95 is a good OS with these machines. as far as DOS goes, those computers can pretty much play everything except the most …
Re: Posting this on my 286
Posted on 2014-05-03, 15:18
bristlehog wrote: Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Star Goose, Xenon 2: Megablast, Ski or Die, Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, Shadow Warrior are arcade games I remember myself playing on 286s. Is there more than one Shadow Warrior? The one I know of barely runs on my Pentium MMX 200...
Re: Can you idenitify this type of Hard Drive for me?
Posted on 2014-04-23, 18:33
That hard drive is definitely a Maxtor. That sticker along the top edge of the picture gives that away.
Re: A 2000 not so "budget" gaming build.
Posted on 2014-04-16, 10:05
I don't know what it would be tbh, I'm very uneducated in the ways of P2s and P3s. Those times seemed to be quite a bit funky, there was so much technical advancement. I looked on wikipedia and it said that the Geforce 2 MX cards were from 2000, although I wonder if the MX200/400 came out a year …
Re: A 1999 "budget" gaming build.
Posted on 2014-04-15, 19:36
So I guess its semi high end then. Yeah only the video card is more on the budget side for the Geforce 2 cards, although the pentium 3 is on the lower side of the clock spectrum. The Celeron would make it more of a budget thing. Although it would be nice to get a higher clocked P3 in this thing, its …
Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!
Posted on 2014-04-15, 04:32
Those screenshots look amazing. I wish I had something that could run it with those settings, although I'm not going to go out of my way to get something for this one game. Seriously, this game is in my list of top worst PC ports....
A 2000 not so "budget" gaming build.
Posted on 2014-04-15, 04:29
I merged a bit of my P3 stuff a while back to make this. I thought I would share it since its new to me. http://i.imgur.com/8nyjdI4l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/8jKNNAEl.jpg This is more of a computer you'd get around 1999 for cheap to play some video games, probably not at the highest settings and stuff …
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