Re: Modern beige rigs & peripherals
Posted on 2017-07-24, 16:02
Office machinery (type-writers, teleprinters and the like) have been beige since forever. It's probably just the color of undyed (i.e. the cheapest) plastic.
Re: Electromyne and others overpricing. Changing face of the hobby. Opinions?
Posted on 2017-07-24, 15:55
Well I don't care if I get outbid by a penny. I set a limit and stick to it. I don't get drawn into bidding wars. What often happens in these cases anyway is that the seller will message me after the auction saying that the winning bidder failed to pay (yeah sure) and offer me the item for my max …
Re: Do you reformat preformatted floppies?
Posted on 2017-07-21, 06:26
Yes, format early and format often. I think chkdsk /r also works. If there are bad sectors it will catch them.
Re: My dad's external 200GB HDD failure, and I cannot backup the files
Posted on 2017-07-21, 06:24
Does the freezer trick work on modern drives? I got data off a 20 year old drive this way. It took about a week of daily freezing and data reading, but I eventually managed to recover nearly all the files on it.
Re: Wireing an AT psu power switch?
Posted on 2017-07-19, 23:20
This is confusing because manufacturers didn't always use the same wiring colors.
Re: Show me your HP!
Posted on 2017-07-17, 01:13
The Photo Drive is apparently a miniature scanner for digitizing photographs.
Re: IDE hard disk alternatives
Posted on 2017-07-11, 23:26
I have many old SCSI drives. More than I know what to do with. (Most of my machines are retired servers so they usually came with multiple SCSI drives). I try to put them in my builds just to get some use out of them.
Re: Opinion on storage solution for future PPro build.
Posted on 2017-07-11, 23:21
I have done this on a dual boot Windows 98/ME Pentium III machine. I used a 68 pin to SCA adapter to connect a 72 GB drive to the motherboard SCSI controller. I have another machine which has a more complicated setup because the SCSI card only has a 50 pin connector: 50 pin to 68 pin adapter <-> 68 …
Re: Windows NT Build
Posted on 2017-07-08, 03:10
I have a machine with similar specs (Dell PowerEdge 2100) but it's primarily a DOS machine. There's a Windows NT partition on it but it's only used for networking purposes. With beefier hardware NT will run all the classic OpenGL games like GLQuake, Quake II, Half Life and Quake III Arena.
Re: PCI-X graphics, anyone?
Posted on 2017-07-01, 21:14
As I understand PCI-X video cards are intended for CAD and are not good for games. A regular PCI card is probably your best bet.
Re: Warning to people who have a Hotpoint Fridge (UK)
Posted on 2017-06-26, 05:04
Clean behind your fridges, people. It's amazing the amount of junk that piles up back there.
Re: So atari is making a comeback ?
Posted on 2017-06-23, 03:18
This has happened before though hasn't it? Late 80s Atari had little in common with late 70s Atari. Tramiel fired everybody and brought in his own (ex-Commodore) people.
Re: 100% CPU usage: healthy or unhealthy?
Posted on 2017-06-20, 21:24
OT, but I remember people complaining about a feature of newer Windows versions that causes the HD to constantly churn even when the computer is idle. Prefetching I think it was.
Re: CPU is being saturated by interrupts, how to identify source?
Posted on 2017-06-20, 19:13
This brings back memories. I had a similar problem with an Exsys EX-3305 RAID card in my XP system years ago. Task Manager showed that DPC calls were consuming about half CPU resources. I never did solve the problem. I eventually swapped the Exsys card for a HighPoint with the same chipset.
Re: Attack Of The Clones: Zenith (BT) XT Compatible
Posted on 2017-06-13, 10:40
I have a Zenith radio. Will it run Alley Cat?
Re: And this is one of the many reasons why I tell people not to use password managers.
Posted on 2017-06-06, 16:15
Passphrases are good. I've been using a short line from an obscure 16th century play to encrypt my most important data for many years. I don't have this written down anywhere.
Re: MP3 hardware decoding ISA cards
Posted on 2017-06-05, 14:51
The MPEG II audio format has a long history of use in radio and TV broadcasting, going back to the early 1990s. I assume cards like this would have been used by professionals in those fields.
Re: And this is one of the many reasons why I tell people not to use password managers.
Posted on 2017-06-01, 17:34
Re: Could you suggest me some games?
Posted on 2017-06-01, 16:21
The video card may be a limitation. My 486DX2-66 board has PCI slots and is running a Matrox Millennium.
Re: Could you suggest me some games?
Posted on 2017-06-01, 09:52
Doom should be OK on a 486DX2-66. Other 3D games to try are Frontier, MechWarrior 2, Dark Forces, Terminal Velocity, Witchaven, Tomb Raider, Hexen, NASCAR Racing, Descent, SU-27 Flanker, Virtual Pool Other stuff: Dune II, Command & Conquer, Simcity 2000, Warcraft 1 + 2, Worms, Syndicate, Discworld
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