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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-25, 04:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BetaC wrote on 2023-01-25, 03:46: TrashPanda wrote on 2023-01-25, 03:37: pete8475 wrote on 2023-01-25, 03:28: YES! This is good stuff. I was going to suggest a Quantum Bigfoot as well but .. the parts are already cursed enough as is ! I do have a working Bigfoot. 😳 Now that's a truly rare bit of …

Re: SD vs CF Stability in 2023

Posted on 2023-01-25, 04:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When I first built my Win98/DOS PC back in 2021 I tried the CF route, but I went through two Transcend CF cards that were constantly locking up my system. I'm honestly not sure if it was the cards or the adapter (but the adapter should basically just be an IDE pass-through I guess so who knows), …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-25, 03:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pete8475 wrote on 2023-01-25, 03:28: TrashPanda wrote on 2023-01-25, 03:11: make sure you get the slowest RDRAM for it . .and dont forget a 64bit FX5200 just to round it out. YES! This is good stuff. I was going to suggest a Quantum Bigfoot as well but .. the parts are already cursed enough as is ! …

Re: How much of your retro hardware do you actually use?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 03:28

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have a few builds that I dont tinker with any more as they are "complete" and do exactly what i need from them but I also have a large assortment of other parts that I rotate through making different builds. I figure that if I dont use the parts I have then what was the point of buying them, they …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-25, 03:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally have something terrible , and I might someday build something around it. IMG_1264.jpg Yeah baby, 1.3 GHz. Awesome, the worst one! Are there socket 423 SD-RAM boards? lol Why would I want anything but RDRAM for a 1.3? make sure you get the slowest RDRAM for it . .and dont forget a 64bit …

Re: SD vs CF Stability in 2023

Posted on 2023-01-25, 02:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When I first built my Win98/DOS PC back in 2021 I tried the CF route, but I went through two Transcend CF cards that were constantly locking up my system. I'm honestly not sure if it was the cards or the adapter (but the adapter should basically just be an IDE pass-through I guess so who knows), …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-25, 01:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-01-25, 01:30: BitWrangler wrote on 2023-01-24, 22:26: 50Mhz DX not DX2 I do believe I missed that tiny detail, apologies. Looking at whats up .. there is a number of DX-50s as well, though about twice the price of the DX2-50, one seller seems to have a tray of NOS DX-50s. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-25, 01:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

25 and 33 Mhz DX and SX you can get by the shovelful but 50Mhz DX not DX2 was never super common, and while collectors go nuts about numbering and marking differences on chips that all perform the same, the DX50 will remain about the rarest speed grade Intel 486 that anyone wants (16 and 20Mhz be …

Re: Compaq armada 1750

Posted on 2023-01-24, 11:45

in Milliways

in Milliways

Ive been slowly upgrading mine, just recently got a PII400 CPU for it along with a new battery, Keyboard and a LS-120 Super Drive, not sure if I can upgrade the screen but I figure the 800x600 14 inch version is more than enough for a DOS box. Have also sourced the super rare DvD module for it too …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-24, 09:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally tracked down a 256Mb PCI X1550 for 10 bucks, this care is rather rare and this is the first I have seen show up on Evilbay in a number of years, its going into the dual Tualatin box to upgrade the X1300. Its one of the Visiontek SFF models but has both DVI and VGA which is better than the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-22, 23:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm I suspect the computer isn’t the issue here but rather the os you are trying to use with it. Both the operating systems you are trying to use here are 486/Pentium era and likely don’t have any support for the modern hardware you are using. Now it might be possible to Frankenstein something that …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

Posted on 2023-01-21, 05:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

This thread has become an Anders and Tetrium TED Talk, you should both take a step back and leave it be for a bit before it gets this thread shut down. Yep, I think that this thread should be locked. Enough has been already said. Hm. I must admit I'm a bit perplexed. When I opened this thread, was …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

Posted on 2023-01-21, 02:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

This thread has become an Anders and Tetrium TED Talk, you should both take a step back and leave it be for a bit before it gets this thread shut down. A bit too late, I had already reported it. Tbf, with the flamebaiting and toxicity in this thread, I wouldn't really mind it be locked. I …

Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby

Posted on 2023-01-21, 02:10

in Milliways

in Milliways

This thread has become an Anders and Tetrium TED Talk, you should both take a step back and leave it be for a bit before it gets this thread shut down.

Re: Compaq armada 1750

Posted on 2023-01-21, 01:10

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm just waking up, and brain currently thinks it's soldered to motherboard. In one or other of these 1750 threads there's a service manual link I think. Naw the 1700/1750 have it attached via a tiny plug and a few wires which are soldered to the battery, I don't fancy soldering to a new coin cell …

Re: Identifying Memory

Posted on 2023-01-20, 13:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

weedeewee wrote on 2023-01-20, 13:17: This page can help a little http://martenelectric.cz/simm-sipp-ram-chip-database.html Cheers for this, will check it out!

Re: Identifying Memory

Posted on 2023-01-20, 13:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

weedeewee wrote on 2023-01-20, 12:42: read the chip markings and look up the datasheet. which ofcourse only works if you can find a datasheet. Yes ..very true, Ill give that a shot might find sheets for the better known ones which will thin the pile out.

Re: Identifying Memory

Posted on 2023-01-20, 12:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is there a DOS version of this SIV32 ? No and it won't run on WFW 3.11 either. You would need the original W95 build 950 or later or Windows NT 3.51 or later. Further SIV should need to support whatever chipset the 486 MB has. If there is no other way to identify them then Ill have to pull out one …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-20, 11:51

in Milliways

in Milliways

I am going to build a Nice home server to store all my stuff. I need to clean up all my Single drive NAS stuff and consolidate. I am going to build a Nice Server for about $400 not including hard drives which will be another $200 So in total about $600 for a Xeon server with 32gb ram and 48tb of …

Re: Identifying Memory

Posted on 2023-01-20, 11:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thats certainly an option, is there a DOS version of this SIV32 ? The 486 doesn't have windows currently installed.

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