Re: Son of Fat Bstd...a multi win OS PC

Posted on 2024-04-09, 09:31

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by Vipersan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Took a break from my multi OS system SOFB...as I have all the windows OS on pull out trays I wanted...plus I needed to start some veg in my garden.. It is spring afterall.. lol Recently got back to it with a desire to see what other ..more exotic..OS will run on it.. Literally a project for rainy …

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Re: Son of Fat Bstd...a multi win OS PC

Posted on 2024-03-21, 18:43

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by Vipersan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Digging through my collection of old IDE hard drives I found what I supposed was very expensive back in the day...and quite a rarity. A 700 GB plus IDE drive.. Hmm..perfik for localised backup of all 9 Operating Systems...so hooked it up and did a surface scan.. 100% ok. So using my favourite clone …

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Re: Son of Fat Bstd...a multi win OS PC

Posted on 2024-03-20, 11:54

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by Vipersan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One physical problem for me was the fact that I had only seven 'Digitus' branded IDE caddies...and if I wanted to add more operating systems ...I had to use another brand... This means of course I had to use up 2x 5.25 inch bays and 2 (both master and slave normally) UDMA connectors on the Primary …

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Re: Son of Fat Bstd...a multi win OS PC

Posted on 2024-03-20, 02:01

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by Vipersan

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Well ..I have long been interested in old Windows operating systems ...but wanted one PC Tower that ran them all. It took a long time to pin down the sweet spot in history...where a single motherboard would run whatever I threw at it...both backwards and forwards compatible.. Turns out that this ' …

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Re: Son of Fat Bstd...a multi win OS PC

Posted on 2024-03-19, 21:36

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by Vipersan

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Well THAT was fun...and only took about 8 hours total. I now have an up to date activated win7 os on SOFB. Yes I took a chance having located a patch..for activation. I dont feel bad about using it..on account it is a legit copy of 7. It aint my fault MS in their infinate wisdom removed any other …

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Son of Fat Bstd...a multi win OS PC

Posted on 2024-03-18, 20:45

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by Vipersan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I attempted something similar to this once before...in a smaller case with less features.. It was named Fat Bastard.. Well this is his son. What is it ?? Well ..I have long been interested in old Windows operating systems ...but wanted one PC Tower that ran them all. It took a long time to pin down …

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Re: Apple Imac G5 ...my first IMAC encouter ...How to >>>

Posted on 2023-05-28, 13:33

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by Vipersan

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That video is an Intel IMac (says so in the title). I’ve just realised that yours is Intel, not G5. You might want to change the thread title and not refer to it as a G5 ;) In which case you can easily run BootCamp to run Windows alongside Mac OS, and as you’ve seen, Linux also. The simplest way …

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Re: Apple Imac G5 ...my first IMAC encouter ...How to >>>

Posted on 2023-05-28, 10:55

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by Vipersan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You won’t be able to triple boot Windows on a G5 (unless I’ve missed something fundamental in the last 5 or so years), BootCamp is only for Intel Macs, not PowerPC. You may well be right...but this youtube video is indicating a triple boot is possible... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbO44y4UpKY …

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Apple Imac (Intel Imac)...my first IMAC encouter ...How to >>>

Posted on 2023-05-28, 10:01

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by Vipersan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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I was recently gifted an Imac G5 which for me was a bit a bit daunting on account of NEVER used one.. This one has the built in camera and I believe this makes swapping out the 3.5 inch sata hard drive a bit more difficult than normal Not that there appears to be anything wrong with the 160gb drive …

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Re: This laptop/notebook doesn't exist ?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 21:56

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by Vipersan

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Hmmm.. searching for veridata laptop on youtube gives few results...other than this... which is similar.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgm-un79Wo0 but is in russian.. ..and he has it hooked up to an external monitor.. no possibility of this with mine as there is no external display port sadly. .. …

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This laptop/notebook doesn't exist ?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 21:35

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by Vipersan

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...or at least I cannot find any reference to it.. just generally searching the web...or indeed no reference anywhere on youtube. I guess it must have been very very rare ? Made in 1991 ..fitted with a 486 cpu...and a 420mb seagate hard drive. Branded 'Brother'....made in Taiwan 18v dc input 3.5 …

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Re: Old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks..re-use

Posted on 2023-05-01, 15:25

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by Vipersan

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FWIW I'm claiming the TEAC aligned to the best of my ability now. Using IMD with audio beeps so I dont have to watch the monitor whist doing head alignment. I first found a very good HD 1.2mb disk with as few bad clusters as possible 5 to be exact... Formatted this on the Canon 5501 slim drive I …

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Re: A new (old) Toy - Compaq portable III

Posted on 2023-04-29, 17:15

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by Vipersan

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For now I have gone as far as I can with my second Compaq III...the 286 version.. Keyboard cable replaced...1.2mb floppy replaced with a 1.44 mb ...... Hard drive replaced with compact flash.. Math co processor fitted. (287) LeFlash XTIDE bios installed in the spare empty sockets. Damned shame I'm …

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Re: Old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks..re-use

Posted on 2023-04-27, 11:59

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by Vipersan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Floppy drives can be recalibrated with known good floppies and a scope. IMD is helpful but will never be enough on its own - yes, floppies will read OK but writes will miss the track a bit, and that affects also the existing data due to the way writing data works. "Good floppies" are for example …

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Re: Old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks..re-use

Posted on 2023-04-27, 11:42

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by Vipersan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ouch... certainly pricey...and worse..non are up for grabs in the UK...so premium postage on top. Anyone in the uk have anything they want to part with ? It doesn't have to be a collectible ...just 1.2mb 5 1/4 ....not a copy and in good condition. rgds

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Re: Old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks..re-use

Posted on 2023-04-27, 11:37

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by Vipersan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Ideally I'd need a 1.2mb commercial software diskette... Do these even exist ? Yes of course they exist. Many early 90s software shipped on 1.2MB disks. Common ones include DOS 4 & 5, Might & Magic 3, King's Quest 5, Space Quest 4, Wing Commander 1 & 2,...etc. Thanx for the info.. I'll start …

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Re: Old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks..re-use

Posted on 2023-04-27, 10:40

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by Vipersan

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You should calibrate to factory disks. Grab disks from various games from various companies.. write-protect them, and try to align to those. Don't trust other drives unless they've proven proper head alignment on factory disks too. Yes indeed..that makes sense to me.. Sadly I dont have many games …

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Re: Old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks..re-use

Posted on 2023-04-27, 08:16

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by Vipersan

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I guess this is pretty damned close as the good TEAC playing the floppy it formatted drops data above track 70. That's not normal. You've got something wrong with the "good" setup if that's the case I agree ...it could be the 'good' TEAC also has issues (doubtful as it has never been messed with …

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Re: Old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks..re-use

Posted on 2023-04-26, 23:16

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by Vipersan

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I'm using a blank floppy formatted on the good TEAC...but watching the track numbers and data returned on the bad TEAC... looking for a consistant (30) which I can now achieve up to track 66. I guess this is pretty damned close as the good TEAC playing the floppy it formatted drops data above track …

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Re: Old 5 1/4 inch floppy disks..re-use

Posted on 2023-04-26, 21:48

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by Vipersan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like track zero is now correct...and head 0 ...which I assume is the lower head reads fine up to track 69 wheras the upper head (head 1 ?)looses alignment above track 29...so more work to do. certainly a very critical setup. This aint easy but maybe I'll nail it with persistance.

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