Re: Found on my own shelf in a Windows 3.11 upgrade box - Sealed OS/2 diskettes!

Posted on 2017-12-27, 21:44

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by Jed118

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This is the reason I made a complete inventory of parts (no matter how small) for my old PC's - just before I hit "buy" on an auction site, I double check. Just recently I bought 11 ISA cards for about $10 from a Polish site, pretty much for one card in there that is worth around that amount (to me …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-12-27, 21:35

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by Jed118

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^^^ Bad RAM? I popped into my local thrift store and scored a PS/2 mouse (MS!) and some blank CD media, as well as old school CD audio cabling (CDROM to soundcard) and the latter has me wishing I was able to find the source of these cables. https://i.imgur.com/UjiZsyAl.jpg I was also able to repair …

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Re: Basement find PII 350 with Banshee and CT4670, 128Mb RAM, 10 gig drive.

Posted on 2017-12-27, 21:04

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by Jed118

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ODwilly wrote: Thats a perfect 1998 gaming machine in pristine condition even! I did find a decent amount of rust on the bottom of the inside of the case. Wirebrush and a demel took care of most of it 😉

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Re: Basement find PII 350 with Banshee and CT4670, 128Mb RAM, 10 gig drive.

Posted on 2017-12-27, 21:00

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by Jed118

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I do like getting PC's that are a pinpoint in time, Although I usually cave in and end up upgrading it myself Even Creative branded card. Not that it really matters but its nice having matching manufacture cards. Every.System.Ever. Last year I got a 386SX16 with a 42Mb hard disk, 1 Mb RAM, and a …

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Re: Found on my own shelf in a Windows 3.11 upgrade box - Sealed OS/2 diskettes!

Posted on 2017-12-27, 05:34

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by Jed118

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Thanks for the read! That's probably a haul from when my old IT job I had had me put boxes of obsolete software to the curb. I grabbed boxes of diskettes, and sometimes, even sealed Windows license agreements (from DOS5 to Win 3.1) - They had no issue giving those to me ;) I even got something like …

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Re: Help please: Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour when using scandisk on a diskette?

Posted on 2017-12-26, 18:49

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by Jed118

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Wow then I guess I wrote-protect nothing as a kid. I seriously don't remember this noise... on my 486 it's so loud it can be heard in the other room!

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Re: Help please: Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour when using scandisk on a diskette?

Posted on 2017-12-26, 00:24

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by Jed118

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mrau wrote: this seems normal to me Can you confirm, by scandisk floppy write protect vs. not write protect?

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Re: Help please: Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour when using scandisk on a diskette?

Posted on 2017-12-26, 00:15

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by Jed118

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OK here it is - Basically, it does the first 4 steps OK, then when it gets to the physical disk scan, it starts to freak out. Here is how the same diskette in the first video acts when the write protect notch is open (writing is possible) Notice no diskette drive freakouts - just instant surface …

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Re: Help please: Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour when using scandisk on a diskette?

Posted on 2017-12-25, 23:54

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by Jed118

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To me it seems it wants to force-write something. IMO, you can hear it crank out the first track(0) OK, then (WILDBLAHBLAHHASHBBQ), then next track read is OK. I would have definitely remembered that kind of action in the past. This is completely new to me. Perhaps I should make a comparative video …

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Found on my own shelf in a Windows 3.11 upgrade box - Sealed OS/2 diskettes!

Posted on 2017-12-25, 20:18

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by Jed118

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I totally forgot about these: https://i.imgur.com/wjfkoFml.jpg Some instructions were also in the box: https://i.imgur.com/dwXSqFkl.jpg I'm not sure what these are, but they were on top of the OS/2 diskettes: https://i.imgur.com/BiRopUtl.jpg Now I really want to open the OS/2 disks and load them up …

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Re: Yet another 486 DX4 100 build

Posted on 2017-12-25, 19:54

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by Jed118

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I think it's well spec'd out. I've got a 1GB spinning drive in my DX2/66, but BIOS only sees 504MB ;) So I'm glad your BIOS allows full use of the 2GB. How does Quake play? I'm assuming you need to play in 320x200 to have any shot at double-digit framerates? What kind of BIOS? I've got AMIBIOS ( 40 …

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Help please: Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour when using scandisk on a diskette?

Posted on 2017-12-25, 19:37

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by Jed118

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Hello and help! (Also Merry Christmas) Has anyone encountered such aggressive reading of the floppy disktette when running scandisk? https://youtu.be/rpvWa01DpgQ This happens on two of my MS-DOS 6.22 machines. Format doesn't matter, as I stuck in a 5.25 in the machine and it did the exact same thing …

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Re: Basement find PII 350 with Banshee and CT4670, 128Mb RAM, 10 gig drive.

Posted on 2017-12-25, 19:11

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by Jed118

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Merry Christmas everyone! Looks like a clone to me: https://i.imgur.com/or51Q3z.jpg Pretty high quality things in there, the burner, the WD 10 gig drive, everything worked (I am having occasional reading issues on the Creative CDROM) I swapped out the 10g hard disk to an 8.4 gig as I wanted to …

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Basement find PII 350 with Banshee and CT4670, 128Mb RAM, 10 gig drive.

Posted on 2017-12-09, 23:17

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by Jed118

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Found this in a friend's basement: https://i.imgur.com/borpVQJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HNkb2A4.jpg Win 98, safe mode boot only for now. Came with a keyboard, a 14 inch CRT (Samsung Multisync). I've never had a PII back in the day, as I skipped from my highly upgraded 233MMX straight to PIII. I think …

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Re: Tseng (Genoa 8900VL) vs S3 805 EAAJ2 VESA cards - Which is better for games?

Posted on 2017-12-01, 03:30

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by Jed118

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Thanks! Perhaps it would make sense to test them both in a 386.

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Re: Tseng (Genoa 8900VL) vs S3 805 EAAJ2 VESA cards - Which is better for games?

Posted on 2017-12-01, 03:06

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by Jed118

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Thanks for your input - Can you shed some light on the identical ISA results I edited in no doubt during your post?

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Tseng (Genoa 8900VL) vs S3 805 EAAJ2 VESA cards - Which is better for games?

Posted on 2017-12-01, 02:37

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by Jed118

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I have done some benchmarking (thanks to Phil for having them on his website) and I have come up some results. The test machine is a 486/66 with VLB, 32 Mb RAM, DOS 6.22. Here are the results for the Tseng - 2MB RAM all from factory (soldered on) 3d Bench - 47.6 3d Bench2 - 46.5 LM6.0 - 13284 chr/ …

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Re: Socket 8 system questions

Posted on 2017-11-24, 04:46

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by Jed118

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I have a box with something around 100 backplates. I'll check if I have one of those. Very cool, much appreciated! :blush: Ordered a rtc replacement. Will have to try and remove the old one with mediocre soldering skills. :dead: I could probably fix the RTC for you, I've done three quite recently.

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Re: Motherboard for 486 DX4

Posted on 2017-11-24, 04:33

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by Jed118

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I killed a DX4 like that when I was a kid. You can try to put a voltage regulator in there, but that's gonna be some pretty precise work. Use an Overdrive IMO, or get a 3.3V board.

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Re: My compact flash AT integration - 1989 to 1996: A multi platform, multi O/S compatibility analysis

Posted on 2017-11-24, 01:42

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by Jed118

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Benchmark results: Caldera DOS 7.03 boot disk with CF as slave (except Dell Pentium Pro - It was Master) diags run from same diskette I used some older utilities I found on a 360k diskette backup of Norton Utilities - I tried using Sysinfo 6 and 8 but they would benchmark the primary disk only (in …

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