Re: Is there a Dual Head PCI video card?
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Re: Rarest CPUs?
Posted on Yesterday, 19:14
This is crazy, an AMD K5 PR200, look at the price, reached after the auction: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125228128174 I have an K5 PR166, which runs completely stable with PR200 speed, also with reduced VCore (3,52V>3,3V) and have payed about ~30€ for this CPU. One of my favourite Socket 7 gold …
Re: Is there a Dual Head PCI video card?
Posted on Yesterday, 17:53
Isn't a better question here, Does Win 3.X / DOS have multi vga output support ? While there were even ISA cards with multiple VGA outputs, I doubt there was support for DOS or win 3.X. Just some specific programs like CAD/CAM design Especially since DOS is single tasking and win 3.x is barely more …
Re: Is there a Dual Head PCI video card?
Posted on Yesterday, 14:23
Cornerstone should have had dual head video cards and I used them under windows 3.1 and 95 I had a “mono” cornerstone card with a 19” screen that also had an onboard color VGA device with a separate output. In normal use it would switch back and forth or drive both screens with the same image ( …
Re: Anyone recognize this PSu connector?
Posted on 2022-05-25, 02:29
Looks like one of the many variations of a standard connector that instead of traditional pins slides onto solid posts. Aka Reminds me of the pin style AT PSU connectors used on some systems As odd as it sounds 3com made a computer that used a single connector very similar to that for the Pc …
Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?
Posted on 2022-05-24, 22:41
...(and also, i don't have netflix etc so i rarely know what's cool and popular right now) Too bad, as you're going to miss out on Ant-Racist Baby and other cool woke shows. You can see all the racist babies you want in real life so no need to make a fantasy about one. I prefer the old something …
Re: Which games are better on a Macintosh?
Posted on 2022-05-24, 19:24
dr.zeissler wrote on 2022-05-24, 17:49: That is Apple2 not macintosh. Montezuma would be interesting in B&W Too bad more wasn’t compatible with various macc plat forms like the Plus Seems like I recall the dos CGA version sometimes running in bright pallet but with yellow included
Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
Posted on 2022-05-22, 23:14
The earth in a nuclear winter is still more inhabitable than Mars That is why any extended visit to Mars will be challenging without lots of external resources dropped
Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
Posted on 2022-05-20, 04:02
A discord server is one step above a group text, kinda useless for archival and search
Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
Posted on 2022-05-20, 03:08
How many of you remember paying for internet access by the minute? I kept grandfathered under AOLs $4.95 a month plan many years My internet use patterns meant it always was cheaper than unlimited Once I knew I was going to be high use doing a bunch of auctions and switched to unlimited and AOL …
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2022-05-17, 20:06
full electric vehicles % sales (march) in: China: 21% Europe: 14% You will need 1 Million charging stations to accommodate all these EV vehicles. Currently there are only a few thousand. There are 276 million vehicles registered in the U.S. as of 2019. This includes 156 million trucks, 108 million …
Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?
Posted on 2022-05-17, 14:31
zapbuzz wrote on 2022-05-17, 13:08: Halo the series! Master Chief takes off his helmet Master Chief Jr Irritating woman child Doesn’t get more Halo like until episode 5 Still better than a lot of stuff on streaming even if it doesn’t follow any lore
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-15, 20:05
Towers became the custom built Pc while desktops stayed OEM then became less popular After I stopped buying OEM all my systems were towers, you just didn’t buy a desktop (even if you used the tower as a desktop) I remember a long time that if you ordered a PC out of computer shopper you were stuck …
Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s
Posted on 2022-05-14, 04:00
The Serpent Rider wrote on 2022-05-14, 02:28: TrashPanda wrote: why not the Stock Market crash of 87 ? Less orphans. And the retirement plan for 99.99% of Americans wasn’t Hobo box car Willy or death at 58
Re: Home Computer - was it a toy or a Personal Computer for the masses?
Posted on 2022-05-11, 23:29
My father was required to have a high end (for the early 80’s) programmable scientific calculator long skinny thing with a brown plastic slip in case. It was said to be more powerful than some of the home computers and some would program basic and the like on them
Re: Pentium 200Mhz in a Socket5? (with 2x maximum)
Posted on 2022-05-11, 13:52
The following does not apply to the op but… PMMX are many times limited to very specific multipliers Older original pentiums likewise were usually missing multipliers As an example I’ve had p133s that had the 2.5x multiplier and others that did not I’ve had p75s that had 2x and others did not I’ve …
Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?
Posted on 2022-05-11, 13:41
I had a non-IBM compatible 286-4mhz Unisys machine 286-25 came out near the end for a 6.25 ratio If we count the strange Evergreen overdrives you could take the systems to a 486slc2-66
Re: Breaking the internet privacy
Posted on 2022-05-09, 17:01
What is sad is 99% of the scammers are in corporate buildings operating just like any other business. Their locations are all known and quite centralized for “illicit “ operations Heck some US facing hackers have got their locations and security feeds with simple tools. 3 well placed bombs and 90% …
Re: Graphics card for Windows 3.11 and Nt3.51 in high resolutions (1600x1200 and higher)
Posted on 2022-05-09, 16:48
I think 1280x1024 at 256 or fewer colors in 1.x days is a different discussion than resolutions more than 1600 in thousands or millions of colors in the 3.x days High resolution + High color was uncommon until the 9x days, while millions of colors at less than 1280 was common even moderately early, …
Re: Would you go for any of these Socket 7 boards?
Posted on 2022-05-09, 15:53
The SIS530 can be overclockEd to 133mhz FSB which restores any lost performance
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