Re: NEC 9716 refuses to boot anything

Posted on 2021-11-15, 13:27

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by rishooty

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that's a really familiar model. I think I have one. I have no trouble with mine using an IDE > Sata adapter and a cheap 320gb drive. I'd actually replace the cable completely, and make sure the jumpers are set to master, and NOT cable select. Thanks for responding! Well the cf drive is attached to …

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NEC 9716 refuses to boot anything

Posted on 2021-11-15, 05:16

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by rishooty

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Hey guys! Thanks for your help with this build in the past. I've finally began the process of installing windows. However, even accounting for hard ram and HDD limits, I cannot get anything to boot in this except freedos and freedos variants (super fdisk) from a floppy. On one rare occurrence, the …

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Re: NEC Ready 9716 - drive bays??

Posted on 2021-10-25, 13:23

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by rishooty

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I went back to the shop that sold the machine to me, he gave me a bunch of them for nothing. Little did I know that you can just buy brand new ones off ebay/amazon too, in both 3.5 and 5.25 lengths, I just wasn't searching the right thing. Of course the 5.25 adapters I'm using aren't exactly full …

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Re: NEC Ready 9716 - drive bays??

Posted on 2021-10-23, 00:02

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by rishooty

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Good to know! I figured but usually I expect them for big brands like hp and IBM, etc. Usually low profile sff stuff. I can't exactly find one so I'm actually thinking the repair/scrap shop I bought it from may have it. After all he repaired it a mere year ago.

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NEC Ready 9716 - drive bays??

Posted on 2021-10-22, 23:26

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by rishooty

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So I finally got the time and space to make that prebuilt late 90s build I wanted create a while back. Turns out I got the hard drive and gotek emulator without looking at the case because... What the heck is going on here? Did they have some kind of proprietary cage? IMG_20211022_192352.jpg IMG_ …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-07, 16:23

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by rishooty

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I think these computers really changed the game in the PC industry. 1) 386 computer with DOS 2) 486 computer with Windows 3x ( With CDROMS and Sound cards, Started the Multimedia computer industry ) 2b) 1993 - IBM PS/1 ( model #2155 ) The first Affordable IBM Multimedia internet computer for home …

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Re: Win9x Quick Slipstreaming Utility

Posted on 2021-07-06, 13:20

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by rishooty

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zapbuzz reads my mind :) I did slipstream a windows 98 installation the easy method (by just dumping all the files into the win98 directory). i heard that when you put the files in the win98 dir of the installation, the installation uses those instead of the ones in the cab files - which makes this …

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Re: Bare Minimum Late DOS/Late Win95 Build

Posted on 2021-07-06, 11:02

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by rishooty

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Yeah tbh I like both awe and Roland. You also made a good point though about the 1868f. Especially since most of my immediate SC use will be within windows, which has that crippled sc-55 anyway. For future proofing it would make more sense to use windows SF for now and buy the x2gs later. Also weird …

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Re: Bare Minimum Late DOS/Late Win95 Build

Posted on 2021-07-05, 23:21

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by rishooty

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Sound Card - AWE64 ( CT4500 ) or ( CT4520 ) will produce good sound close to Ronald GS MIDI standards. ( Next best thing to Roland GS ). No it won't. Ehh I used YouTube to compare renditions of at dooms gate. It's honestly good enough, and it supports a wavetable header for when I can splurge on an …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-05, 20:14

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by rishooty

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Prior to 1995-96 there was a lot going on. Novell Netware dominated the network scene for a while. First decent MS gui. MS V IBM re OS/2 v Windows, MS Dos v DRDos, release of IBMs PC Dos for consumer consumption and quite a lot more. Linux was born and eventually ran steamrollered proprietary *nix …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-05, 20:07

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by rishooty

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Upon further reflection, I can't help but think of Windows 95 and the world wide web (with the Pentium and ATX standards developing on the hardware side) as being the turning point between the previous and current "overall styles" of computing. Before, PC was a minority niche with a steeper …

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Re: Bare Minimum Late DOS/Late Win95 Build

Posted on 2021-07-05, 19:58

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by rishooty

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I think you're trying to cover too many bases here. You won't have much fun running newer 3D games like Unreal Tournament or games like Age of Empires 2 on a Pentium 1. An Nvidia or ATI graphics card that is 10 years newer than that mainboard likely won't work because of changed PCI specifications. …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-05, 17:31

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by rishooty

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anything of historical significance, that doesn't necessarily mean there's any age cutoff, more modern hardware from the 2000s can be there as well to show important steps in technological development... i.e. Athlon64. but if it is strictly a "vintage" museum, then I assume anything from the mid …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-05, 16:00

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by rishooty

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That which is emblematic of hardware architectures no longer in common use. I'd put a 1997 era late AT machine with Windows 95 in a museum alongside maybe a 386 and an original IBM PC. Aha! It wasn't OEMs I was looking for, it was form factor. You're right AT is what screams 90s. Btw he already has …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-05, 15:44

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by rishooty

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Yup. I agreed with the 99 limit before, but for different reasons. After that hardware became largely homogenized. Pretty much every PC began to have AMD and NVIDIA and AMD or Intel by then. The only interesting thing from the XP era that doesn't exist today is hardware accelerated sound. Besides XP …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 13:44

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by rishooty

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Too bad he cut off at 1995. IMHO 1997 was a banner year for PCs. It was the year I targeted for own retro build. Pentium chips were proliferating, with 233 MMXs becoming "affordable" due to the super new and super pricy Pentium II's. Plus the dawn of the first real 3D cards like the Voodoo and the …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 00:59

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by rishooty

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Rolling 25 year old cutoff would work I'd think. Completely agree! [EDIT] My initial math was very wrong so I initially disagreed lol As a side note, I'm sure that unless it's to show off the capabilities of specific cards, custom builds wouldn't fly. So a bonus question would be, what are the most …

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What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-03, 23:06

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by rishooty

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This is my own continuation of this thread here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=29227. Especially because it's been a decade since. So I mentioned in my thread in Marvin that the area of PA I plan to move to has a vintage computing community. Namely, Kennett Square has their own branch of …

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Re: Bare Minimum Late DOS/Late Win95 Build

Posted on 2021-07-03, 16:28

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by rishooty

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Welp, looking up prices it seems the easiest option for storage is just any refurb 120GB PATA. I never had any issues in the past with them. SSDs can be had for the same price, but I sorta don't feel like dealing with adapters. Yeah, I'll still need a 3.5 to 5.25 adapters, but I'll need one for the …

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Re: Bare Minimum Late DOS/Late Win95 Build

Posted on 2021-07-03, 06:19

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by rishooty

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If you must know, the ready 9716 predates win98 by a year. So by process of elimination, it was originally meant to run 95. It's label is simply pentium mmx. You can run what ever you want on it mate. As long as you are happy with it that is all that really matters...;) That's a nice looking system …

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