Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-30, 02:47

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by luckybob

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You should definitely test those Prodrives thoroughly before you sell them... and don't get your hopes up. The reason they sell for high prices is that it's quite rare to find one that still works. well, it looks like both are good! I have them hooked up to my p3 with onboard scsi and they both …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-30, 00:11

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by luckybob

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got 2 new things from ebay. I REALLY need to stay off that site... Anyway, I paid a bit more than I would have liked to for the first auction, but when I went to pay, ebay "suggested" another auction I might be interested in. Lo and behold, they were right. #1: Lot of 10 scsi hard drives http://cgi …

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Re: Ark Logic PCI, an interesting VGA card.

Posted on 2012-06-29, 09:33

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by luckybob

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I fired up my asus board, got some more results testbed: Asus p65up5 & c-p6nd 440FX 2x 333mhz p-pro overdrives 512mb 60ns ram I found a few more cards as well! CARD - 3dbench - speedsys - doom fps MATROX G200 - 373.5 - 61813 - 79.91 VOODOO BANSHEE - 373.8 - 74157 - 89.63 ATI RAGE 128 - 373.8 - 53867 …

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Re: Ark Logic PCI, an interesting VGA card.

Posted on 2012-06-29, 06:36

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by luckybob

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While not 100% conclusive tests, I had a little fun with my mt2000 and some other cards. the testbed was: Tyan S1568 430HX /w 512kb L2 cache 2x 200mhz pentium dos 6.22 with only himem loaded and dos high. 256mb 70ns edo ram all cards were pci and I ran 3dbench2 and speedsys for each card. I tried …

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Re: Athlon's disappointing performance

Posted on 2012-06-29, 06:18

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by luckybob

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I'm sitting outside in my workstation now that its FINALLY under 75F outside. (its 12:30 am) I have a complete setup ready for windows for slot A. I also have about 5 processors I can test. from what I see off hand... I have a 5, 6, 7, 950 and 1ghz slot A. I also have 5,6,667,850,1g pentium 3's... …

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Re: Please help out with this motherboard [UPDATE help needed]

Posted on 2012-06-28, 21:42

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by luckybob

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Dhall wrote: ...(though I presume you have seen all too many of these)... You presume too much sir! I for one love looking at hardware. I'm much more of a hardware man than software. Also, i'm jealous. you got a HELL of a deal on that hardware if even half of it works.

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Re: Please help out with this motherboard [UPDATE help needed]

Posted on 2012-06-28, 14:41

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by luckybob

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Dhall wrote: The two oscillators: […] Show full quote The two oscillators: XTAL OSC PR-1100 32,000 Mhz, PRE 9122 PRE 14.31818 MHZ Sooooo that means that I can go with the 16 Harris (he is unwilling to part with the 20) ? 32mhz clock = 16mhz 286, so yes.

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Re: Please help out with this motherboard [UPDATE help needed]

Posted on 2012-06-28, 09:38

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by luckybob

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I would take the Harris 20. On the bottom left. Unfortunately I cannot take the Harris 20 because I can only take on of a type, of which he has more than one. He has two Harris 16 so I assume that is the next best choice? You also need to take a look at the crystal oscillator, The oscillator is the …

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Re: Please help out with this motherboard [UPDATE help needed]

Posted on 2012-06-28, 08:55

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by luckybob

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also, you can "upgrade" the oscillator to a 40mhz for a 20mhz board. there is no reason to NOT choose a 20 over anything else. a 20 chip will run fat and happy at 16 or whatever the board does.

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Re: Please help out with this motherboard [UPDATE help needed]

Posted on 2012-06-27, 23:55

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by luckybob

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I would take the Harris 20. On the bottom left.

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Re: Am I weird?

Posted on 2012-06-24, 23:37

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by luckybob

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how bad do you want one? Because if everything goes right, when I finish my rev.2 386 setup I'll have one that I can part with. ^.^

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-24, 17:21

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by luckybob

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Fixed. Sorry it took me a minute, typing is hard on a cellphone when you have big fingers.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-24, 16:33

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by luckybob

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got 2 new things from ebay. I REALLY need to stay off that site... Anyway, I paid a bit more than I would have liked to for the first auction, but when I went to pay, ebay "suggested" another auction I might be interested in. Lo and behold, they were right. #1: Lot of 10 scsi hard drives http://cgi. …

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Re: The ultimate Ultima 7 machine

Posted on 2012-06-23, 23:19

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by luckybob

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Mmm yeah, my old intellistation with two scsi hard drives used to sound like a jumbo jet starting up. It's true though that old apple scsi's seemed quiet. Were they 10krpm though? 10K? oh god no. more like 5400rpm. more than capable of saturating the isa bus. When I finishe REV 2.0 of my 386 it …

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Re: The ultimate Ultima 7 machine

Posted on 2012-06-23, 16:33

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by luckybob

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I used several scsi hdd's on amigas... from scsi2 to uwscsi3 ... although speedy the noise was just horrible in all of them. Went to IDE and didn't look back even though it's a cpu drainer. people say that, but they hard drives that they put into early apples are very quiet. I have a few <500md …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-06-23, 07:18

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by luckybob

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Before I start, props for the populous review. I have a copy on my shelf and it got bumped up the play list quite a few spaces. What I'd like to know is, why it takes 3 hours to encode ~15 minutes of video. My system is a good 3 years old, but I can *almost* encode 720p video on the fly. I also …

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Re: The ultimate Ultima 7 machine

Posted on 2012-06-22, 07:09

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by luckybob

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If you want better hard drive access on a 386 machine, go scsi. The best my 386 can do is about 1.2mb/s on ide. However with scsi, it jumps to 3.5. And thats the limit of the controller!

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Re: Please help out with this motherboard

Posted on 2012-06-21, 21:25

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by luckybob

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If you do pickup the 8088 board, and if it is less than $20 I WOULD, if you head over to http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forum.php they specialize in older hardware. They even make a 8 bit ide card for new drives in old systems. They also are very helpful in setup and troubleshooting.

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Re: Please help out with this motherboard

Posted on 2012-06-21, 16:32

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by luckybob

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95% chance its a late model 286. It looks to have 1mb of onboard ram and support for at most 16mb total.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-17, 15:52

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by luckybob

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I wonder why some haven't tried using a standard ide drive in a hotswap cady and when the retro box isn't running take the drive then hook it up to a usb/firewire enclosure on a modern rig. That is what I am planning on doing but got to hunt down the cables to my parallel port zip drive if all else …

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