I love HP Vectras - I had a thread about mine here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=45420 Hardware specs: CPU: Pentium MMX at 200 MHz Chipset: Intel 430 HX (Triton II) Memory: 32 MB EDO RAM L2 cache: 256 KB HDD: Quantum Fireball, 2.5 GB, 5400 RPM CD-ROM: HITACHI CDR-8335, 24x Video: S3 …

brostenen wrote: Norton Commander. Norton utilities. Various packers/unpackers. Fast tracker 2 […] Show full quote Norton Commander. Norton utilities. Various packers/unpackers. Fast tracker 2 I can not remember the versions. They are all dos editions. Funny, I run these exact same programs! Check …

The auction was for "Multimedia Keyboard & Mouse set for Vintage Hewlett Packard HP Brio, Vectra VL2". I'm not sure if the VL5 came with this keyboard, but the keys feel and sound great. A bit too many buttons for my taste, though.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is ATX in this PC? The motherboard form factor certainly isn't, the power connectors neither, so what is? It has PS/2 connectors, yes, but so did other OEMs at the time. My bad! I was impressed by some of the power management features and assumed it was ATX. For …

Thank you all for the nice words! Nice system! You can't go wrong with Socket 7, and I have a soft spot for OEM and HP. I like the case. Any chance you can post a photo of the guts? Here it is: http://i.imgur.com/NXDTmnD.jpg Grrr... what's the point of the HX chipset then? Still, 64MB would be …

Hi folks, Nostalgia hit me very hard a few months ago, so I had to so something to scratch the itch :) A bit of history: My first computer was a Eastern-European ZX Spectrum clone, but the first "real" computer I ever used (and fell in love with) was our school's computer, a HP Vectra 486 machine …