Re: What would you build?
Posted on 2015-03-27, 15:07
Dual CPU, just for the coolness factor.
Re: Windows 95 full chip requirements?
Posted on 2015-03-04, 13:27
386DX with 4 MB RAM will work... painfully slow, but it works. No need for a PS/2 mouse, serial will (of course) do.
Re: SB-Link connector
Posted on 2015-03-02, 10:03
QBiN wrote: The Asus P3B-F (440BX) definitely has the SB Link connector. Same for the P2B-S (and possibly every other version of the P2B)
Re: Unknown NEC Board
Posted on 2015-02-17, 09:26
Can't confirm, but I'm also guessing that this is a scanner card. MIDI card is pretty unlikely - MIDI uses 5-pin DIN connectors, and it should have at least two of them.
Re: Looking for my old 286 Case
Posted on 2015-02-11, 21:41
Dont't know, but those were really common in the 286 / 386SX era.
Re: Single floppy mainboard workaround
Posted on 2015-02-06, 12:46
bristlehog wrote: It's not the 440BX limitation. I used dual floppy drive with ASUS P2B and P3B-F mainboards without any troubles. It seems to be Intel manufactured boards limitation. Dito. Works on my P2B-S.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-02-05, 23:28
nemail wrote: oerk wrote: nemail wrote: *snip* Nice! Is that a Highscreen case, or were those used by other manufacturers as well? yeah highscreen, how did you know that? 😀 My first computer was a Highscreen 386DX-40 😀
Re: Athlon Slot based computers
Posted on 2015-02-05, 23:26
They are cool, but pretty rare. Plus, the early chipsets weren't anything special and the boards often didn't have ISA.
Re: Man spends £300 on a laptop on eBay – only to be sent a photograph of it
Posted on 2015-02-05, 16:07
Seller is an idiot, because even though the item is described properly, it's clearly a scam. Buyer is an idiot, not only because of the lacking reading compression, but also because his new "career" hinges on a Macbook he bought unseen on ebay. If I were to start a career where I needed a laptop, …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-02-05, 10:38
nemail wrote: *snip* Nice! Is that a Highscreen case, or were those used by other manufacturers as well?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-01-29, 00:37
Is it coincidence or design that the mainboards featuring extras like IDE raid on four connectors, maybe even sata on really early boards, don't have sound capability? I also can see most of them have an ISA slot however. I take it that the manufacturers thought that if someone wanted such a high …
Re: XP machine advice
Posted on 2015-01-28, 10:06
IMHO the Sempron system. Definitely faster and cooler (literally and figuratively) than the P4. Up the memory to 2 GB if you can.
Re: My Socket 7 "1997" Project
Posted on 2015-01-28, 08:55
I wouldn't use an ISA graphics card in a PCI system. Major bottleneck. The Creative card uses the same connectors, but does it have the same pinout? I would confirm this before connecting it with the wrong cable and possibly damage one or both cards in the process. An ISA NIC should be ok, it's not …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-01-23, 21:11
That's what I was aiming at. YT used to be lightweight and ran smoothly on anything, but somehow they managed to make it choke even new machines now. If it weren't for youtube, all this web-2.0 stuff, and browsers that need "updates" twice a week, I think even a Pentium 2 would still make a decent …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-01-23, 21:05
jwt27 wrote: Repaired and cleaned our old clock. Still runs a bit too slow so, uh, I'll have to "overclock" it. 😀 Har har har 😀
Re: Retro main pc: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+
Posted on 2015-01-23, 08:28
Modern websites are horrendously inefficient, and it makes me wonder why they are coded in such a way with the proliferation of lower-power devices like tablets and smartphones. Because more and more websites are owned by big companies that want to gather as much information about their users as …
Re: Retro main pc: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+
Posted on 2015-01-21, 14:49
For surfing the net? As fast as possible. It isn't like in the olden days anymore, where CPU speed didn't matter at all for internet access. Today's web pages probably are the most inefficient software ever written. If a fast Core 2 Duo struggles with this, how on earth do you plan on getting away …
Re: My Socket 7 "1997" Project
Posted on 2015-01-21, 10:36
feipoa wrote: One of many examples, http://www.ebay.com/itm/390838004312 Annnnnd... ordered! Thanks!
Re: My Socket 7 "1997" Project
Posted on 2015-01-21, 10:00
Hurrr durrr me r stupid sometimes. Didn't realize Asus had the manual online anymore. The manual mentions 16K8 or 32K8, 15ns or faster, 28-pin DIP I presume. The only ones I can find online are way slower (60ns and up). At least I now know better what I need, but still have no idea where to find it …
Re: My Socket 7 "1997" Project
Posted on 2015-01-21, 08:33
Yeah, I've read that article, otherwise I'd be ignorant about the TAG RAM issue. Now I'm wondering what's the point in having the HX chipset (only Intel socket 7 chipset that can cache >64MB) if you can't install more RAM without buying a special chip (unless computer stores carried those back in …
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