Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-25, 18:23

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by creepingnet

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The HDD for the Versa P/75 came in yesterday (80GB Seagate Momentous 2.5" IDE ATA-133). As of now, it's running Windows 95 and now goes the long and paitient process of pushing software to the 80GB HDD for installation/configuration/setup. I found out the P/75 has the 800x600 screen on it (might …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-25, 18:07

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by creepingnet

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My 32MB RAM Card is coming in for the Versa P/75 today, and I got the Seagate Momentous 80GB Drive last night. The P/75 is already up and running under Windows 95 but it has some way to go. The screen is an 800x600 (!!) but has the same graphics chipset as the M/75 (hmm...maybe putting the 688 in …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-20, 20:26

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by creepingnet

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that looks almost like the monitor stand on the toshiba dock... if it didn't look like wood on the first thumbnail you'd almost assume it's stock ^^ Thx. I'm glad it has that effect. I'm actually using it with three laptops - right now I'm rebuilding my NEC Versa 40EC with the 540MB drive out of a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-20, 18:17

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by creepingnet

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Finally finished building out the Docking Station Monitor Stand for my NEC/AT&T Docking Station. It's built out of reclaimed pallet wood from my day-job (IT for Healthcare). Mostly I've been building guitars out of it but this monitor stand turned out pretty nice for a rush-job done with minimal …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-20, 05:15

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by creepingnet

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I got another Versa in (P/75, Pentium 75 that is, and last laptop to use the PC-4xx platform) And for it I've ordered another 80GB Seagate Momentous 44Pin 2.5" IDE ATA-133 HDD. Perfect fit as this Versa will be the Win9x Versa.

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Re: The Creeping Network (Creepingnet's) Retro PC Build Logs, Restorations, & Repairs

Posted on 2020-09-20, 05:11

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by creepingnet

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MONITOR STAND, NEC VERSA P/75 PLANNING, MORE SATA EXPERIMENTS, 40EC GETS A REFRESH A lot of buzzing around the "lab" as of late. I know this has turned into an insane "NEC Versa Show" of sorts but I'll explain a little more of the motivation on that one. See, initially the plan was just the 40EC so …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-20, 04:08

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by creepingnet

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Finally finished building out the Docking Station Monitor Stand for my NEC/AT&T Docking Station. It's built out of reclaimed pallet wood from my day-job (IT for Healthcare). Mostly I've been building guitars out of it but this monitor stand turned out pretty nice for a rush-job done with minimal …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-19, 07:22

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by creepingnet

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And then there were three... Got a really good offer on a P/75 on e-bay so I grabbed that to be my portable Win9x Workstation/game machine. It's going to need some work too but at least the screen hinge is not cracked or showing any signs of stress on this one. So of course some hardware swapping …

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Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2020-09-18, 02:36

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by creepingnet

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I recently figured more out about LInks for DOS to get it to actually run in graphics mode. Basically put, when Links releases a new version of their browser, they release 2 versions for DOS - a full version (has graphics capability), and a "Lite" version (not compiled with graphics). I'm running …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-09-15, 19:32

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by creepingnet

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Ah, just remembered another one. I had a 1995 IBM PC-330 100DX4 (6571-W5K) back in the early 2000's (one of my favorite 486 machines of all time). This thing dual booted MS-DOS 6.22/Windows For Workgroups 3.11 and Windows 98 Second Edition. Installed in it I had an I/O Magic MagicSound 16 sound card …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-15, 19:12

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by creepingnet

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Adding another NEC Versa to the collection......this time a P/75 (Pentium 75) for Win9x stuff.....also have eyes on a 50EC as well ATM that would be a good parts unit. I'm seriously toying with collecting that entire series of units (Ultralite 20/25/33, 40/50 E/C/P/, V 40/50, M 75/100, P/75).

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Re: Anyone sold their collections / parts on... any regrets?

Posted on 2020-09-14, 05:18

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by creepingnet

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Funny you mention it but me and the wife were talking about this today - because she thinnks I really need to hold onto things as long as I have space. I go through a phase every few years or so where I decide to "downsize" the collection, and more than half the time there's a bunch of stuff I miss …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-09-14, 05:04

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by creepingnet

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Well, there's the Trident TGUI-9440 1MB SVGA PCI Graphics card that used to default to 75 Hz under Windows 95 making it almost unusable in any graphics mode other than standard VGA with the paltry VGA monitors I could get back then. Any color depth above 16 colors at 640x480 or higher would cause it …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-09-14, 04:58

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by creepingnet

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Some Pics of my Setup.......it changes around a lot though......probably the most I've ever shown (I cleaned today) mydesk.jpg Currently on the desk we have the NEC Versa M/75 in it's docking station (just upgraded to a DVD-ROM a couple days ago), Dell OptiPlex 7010 Linux Box (screen center, Linux …

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Re: The Creeping Network (Creepingnet's) Retro PC Build Logs, Restorations, & Repairs

Posted on 2020-09-14, 04:43

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by creepingnet

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Today's Subjects?.....sick and twisted experiments with hard disk technology......the short, less technical story of my 486 DX4-100 PC, and a recent experiment with 128GB mSATA in all three of my 486es.... CREEPING NET 486 This computer has had triple lives.......It's been a Super Socket 7 Pentium, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-14, 03:33

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by creepingnet

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Spent a good bit of last night troubleshooting Links 2.21 under WiFi on FreeDOS 2.1. Had to delete and change a big chunk of my FDCONFIG.SYS to fix everything so that both modes worked properly....which I guess freed up some RAM and made things faster so that's a plus. Setup Links to also use the …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2020-09-13, 05:38

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by creepingnet

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I have two of those + two TV's - I've been on a real CRT kick lately, just something about how old software and games look on an actual Cathode Ray Tube with the raster lines and the slight smoothing caused by the technology. 1988 NEC MultiSync II JC-1402HWA 14" TTL/CGA/EGA/VGA CRT Monitor I rescued …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-11, 16:16

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by creepingnet

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Last night was experiment time - messing with a $10 mSATA to 44pin IDE kit - trying out some old mSATA drives from old Dell laptops in this thing on my various 486 computers (basically the DX4-100 and the 2 Versas). Initially the plan is to try this out and see if I can get it working on the NECs, …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-11, 16:10

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by creepingnet

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Been Messing with my 2015 iMAC a bit today. Installed STEAM, started stretching my legs on it on the internet (typing this on the iMAC right now). Never really was a Mac guy but I think me and this one will get along just fine. Quite good. BTW, it's "iMac". Do you have any Windows games on Steam? …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-09-10, 05:40

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by creepingnet

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Been Messing with my 2015 iMAC a bit today. Installed STEAM, started stretching my legs on it on the internet (typing this on the iMAC right now). Never really was a Mac guy but I think me and this one will get along just fine.

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