Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-03-24, 22:33
Packing and invoicing retro hardware I sold to people on VCF. That's what I'm doing.
Re: 486 and large disks problem.
Posted on 2018-03-24, 07:38
My 486 pretty much lives due to large hard disks - my DOS/WFWG install is on a 15GB Maxtor with MAXBLAST DDO on it. Windows 95 lives on a 40GB Seagate with a very late model Seagate DDO on it that actually grants the thing the ability to boot from a DVD-ROM drive - I even managed to start booting …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-03-22, 03:30
Well, not much, but I did find my 486's doppleganger - well, the case at least, LOL. Suncheer/Songcheer XT Clone that was on e-bay awhile back, can't find the auction, but the picture is on google image search. Also found Suncheer International had a PATENT in the US for a modular AT/XT/LPX Chassis …
Re: Options for ATX Board / PSU in AT Case
Posted on 2018-03-22, 02:29
I'd advise against it. I DID Case-mod an AT into an ATX back when AT cases were plentiful - I regret it and wish I had that case now for my 486. Oh well. What it entails to put an ATX system into an AT case? Well, this is what I had to do to make this work....and it still requires an ATX case to …
Re: 80s oem PC.
Posted on 2018-03-22, 01:55
The truth is as vintage computers get older, we as enthusiasts who want to keep using them will need to obtain more repair skills. I started doing this stuff we talk about here in Marvin 15 years ago and back then I could screw up and break stuff all the time because I was getting rained on in ISA …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-03-17, 03:55
Did a whole myriad of psycho things with the 486 yesterday - Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird (Nathan Lineback's modded versions). I guess one can indeed surf the modern internet in Windows 95 on a 486 in 2018. COnjures up memories of surfing in AOL 3.0 on 8MB of RAM on a 486 DX-33 though in …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-03-16, 22:51
Did a whole myriad of psycho things with the 486 yesterday - Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird (Nathan Lineback's modded versions). I guess one can indeed surf the modern internet in Windows 95 on a 486 in 2018. COnjures up memories of surfing in AOL 3.0 on 8MB of RAM on a 486 DX-33 though in …
Re: Windows 3.1 on a 386 with 640K RAM - Possible?
Posted on 2018-03-14, 22:27
Well, for your entertainment and humoring of me - I can say that one time when I was just starting this back in 2001, my source of machines was an IT guy in the military in the 90's and he was on the MSDN lists. I remember the first time he told me he had some older Windows versions to give away and …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-03-14, 04:50
Well, on the subject of advertising...let's just say Bill Hicks is my idol and Pi-Hole......yeah, I think once I get a house, a nice Linux based firewall is in order, after all, *nix admin skills > Windows Server skills, plus not as common a discipline. On subject, did do a round of thrifting …
Re: Who ever had Mac?
Posted on 2018-03-13, 05:48
I've had quite a few over the years.... http://www.vcfed.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=43599&d=1518067198 2004 - Apple Macintosh 7100/80, this was my only working Mac at the time. Had 2 older SE models but they both were caked in mud though one miraculously powered on and gave me the Sad Mac …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2018-03-13, 05:30
Boom as soon as the warm weather hits the scrap yards start getting good shit again. lol Found a Packard Bell Force 51CD from 1994 today: https://pre00.deviantart.net/762f/th/pre/i/2018/071/6/5/untitled_by_mad_king_corduroy-dc5pgps.jpg https://img00.deviantart.net/a32d/i/2018/071/7/f/untitled_by_ …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-03-13, 05:21
Replaced my yellowed old CD-RW drive in the 486 tonight with a shiny new-old-stock I/O Magic 16X DVD-ROM, let's just say, you never realize what a bottleneck optical and hard disk media is to a 486 with VESA local bus and a fast VLB card until you put a PIO-3 HDD and a DVD 16x RW drive in one..... …
Re: Macintosh instead of PC for retro gaming?
Posted on 2018-03-09, 05:15
I did the power-mac thing for awhile in the mid-late 2000's. Had a Power Mac 6100/60, 7100/80, 5200/LC, and later a 6400/180. Out of all of those, the 6400/180 was the easiest to deal with (USB, VGA converter, PCI bus). Besides what people mentioned here, the biggest problems I had were with getting …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-03-03, 00:50
Started messing with DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)) work using various suites on my 486 under Windows 95 and Windows 3.1. Under Windows 95, the ruling champion for me is Cakewalk Pro Audio 5. Perfect performance, excellent sound quality, actually, somehow I'm getting a better guitar tone out of …
Re: Is there an easy rule of thumb when buying CD or DVD drive for DOS computers?
Posted on 2018-03-03, 00:39
There is not one to my knowledge. TBH, I don't care what drive I'm using, so as long as it works and won't be greif to find drivers for. I find myself more often than not lately looking for drivers before I purchase the device in question and verifying specs because there's a lot of stuff that turns …
Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?
Posted on 2018-02-26, 04:33
mbbrutman wrote: creepingnet wrote: - Mike Chambers mTCP Suite to use PC as an FTP (that's how I have my Tandy 1000 setup) Err, that should be "Mike Brutman's mTCP Suite ... I wrote it. 😀 YIKES, I always get those two confused. Sorry for the mixup.
Re: What Monitors Do You Use for Your Retro PC Activities?
Posted on 2018-02-25, 23:28
1988 NEC MultiSync II JC-1402-HMA - I pulled it out of a trash pile at a computer repair shop for free over a year ago. Just needed it's 9 pin connector in back touched up, and it had the VGA converter on it so I couild use it with my 286 and 486 too. I did do my usual mod to it by drilling 2 holes …
Re: Sampo computer
Posted on 2018-02-25, 20:55
If you have pictures of the unit and components might be easier to identify more about it. Most of the Taiwanese PC makers were just your bog-standard PC clone makers and typically while Sampo might be the brand, and being Taiwanese may have made the case and power supply, maybe even the motherboard …
Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?
Posted on 2018-02-25, 18:04
i found a CR-584-B from december 1996 maybe this is a better bet? and choose creative? i dont have a SCSI internal drive.. i do have an external SCSI cdrom but i use that for my akai sampler CR-584B from 1996 is IDE (looked at a picture of one on Google) - that will indeed work, just need to make …
Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?
Posted on 2018-02-25, 17:38
I had an ATA ZIP Drive in my 286 that's in the "Retro Activity" thread, I'm with the others on here on using something else because ZIP Drives and the disks for them are not as plentiful anymore. I just upgraded my 286 to SCSI, put a CD-ROM in there, and be done with it (of course it's also …
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