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Re: Rebuilding a usable Web for 1992 machines

Posted on 2017-12-10, 13:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What would be the situation with security on very old operating systems, browsers and hardware? One would assume that very little malware out there targets such old systems, but still... security was seriously lacking in those days. Measures would certainly need to be taken to ensure the safety of …

Re: Rebuilding a usable Web for 1992 machines

Posted on 2017-12-10, 01:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Seems we are both on spot about that, I'm incorporating the Feeds as well to provide a all day update of several news catagories and weather. i'm also trying to incorporate some feeds from popular retro computing websites but that's still something i'm looking into. it's quite the trick to get the …

Re: Rebuilding a usable Web for 1992 machines

Posted on 2017-12-09, 19:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well i'm postponing one project(lack pf money) to create a retro friendly portal. News feed (from rss) with the look and feel. Downloads for old software versions(freeware and shareware versions, not abandonware neither paid software) Or i'm thinking of developing a software like AOL used to have, …

Re: Best Office suite for 386 W95

Posted on 2017-12-08, 13:57

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

well there is a problem, this laptop does have a working floppy drive, but here in Argentina is impossible to find working floppy disks That way i can't install windows 3.11 and DOS Now i've installed MS Works 4.0 in Windows 95, It takes almost 10 seconds to load and get ready, but works really …

Re: CF2IDE Disk Failures?

Posted on 2017-12-08, 10:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cheap Chinese electronics are unreliable. That is the trade-off... :) I agree, but in the case of CF to IDE it is just a connector style converter, like if you wanted to plug a 44 pin ide hdd on a 40 pin ide connector, or those AT style connector to PS/2 style connector, there is no logic or …

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

Posted on 2017-12-08, 07:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got this AT keyboard to go with my 486 build(sadly it will not be a model m, but it should be silent) https://i.imgur.com/uEf13kCm.jpg So i disassembled the whole keyboard and all the plastic parts went to the laundry room with me so i can clean them pretty good. Hopefully tomorow will be a sunny …

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

Posted on 2017-12-07, 22:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got this AT keyboard to go with my 486 build(sadly it will not be a model m, but it should be silent) https://i.imgur.com/uEf13kCm.jpg So i disassembled the whole keyboard and all the plastic parts went to the laundry room with me so i can clean them pretty good. Hopefully tomorow will be a sunny …

Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.

Posted on 2017-12-07, 15:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well i have one cf installed as boot drive on my compaq lte 5300 and it works perfectly. seek times are awesome and the transfer speed are the same, but that should be the limitation of the ide controller. I'm currently testing sd to ide and they seems to work, my 486 had no problems with it. about …

Re: Do you ever find yourself doing multiple builds at once?

Posted on 2017-12-07, 15:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

squiggly wrote: Yes. And then you start collecting "spares" in case a components somewhere fails, and you enter the dark zone. My guess is that im near my dark zone. I'm starting to collect spares for my builds. Also the stack of computer builds are starting to fill up all the space that i have at …

Re: 20pin atx connector to 24pin motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-06, 19:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The 4 pin power connector that sits right next to the cpu is connected right? Just to be sure that is connected properly you can wiggle it in a little bit. Is there anything that may cause short circuits like those metal stand offs in the case? The connector is stable and the mobo is outside the …

Re: This M912(v1.7) jumper config for Intel DX4 seems right?

Posted on 2017-12-06, 14:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice board i have one of those m912 without cache chips + one M919 + one M915i + one M921 that refused to work, never saved bios nor let me boot and one leg of UMC chip was broken. but i never liked pc chips feels like the motherboard has the devil inside and will boot when it wants to. the m919 i …

Re: WfW 3.11 ok on Pentium?

Posted on 2017-12-06, 14:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On my pentium 133 i used WfW 3.11 because Windows 95 was finicky with my awe64 and it worked perfectly good.

Re: How many years until Capacitors go bad?

Posted on 2017-12-06, 12:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1. What is the expected life in years of a motherboard capacitor? 2. Can a capacitor be bad even if it looks fine when you look at it? or always needs to be bulge? 3. Ever had a favorite motherboard and wanted to re-cap it with newer caps just in case? 4. Motherboards are full of 22uf capacitors …

Re: 20pin atx connector to 24pin motherboard

Posted on 2017-12-06, 12:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The 4 pin power connector that sits right next to the cpu is connected right? Just to be sure that is connected properly you can wiggle it in a little bit. Is there anything that may cause short circuits like those metal stand offs in the case?

Re: File transfer over serial Null Modem in DOS?

Posted on 2017-12-06, 12:20

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

On win9x to win9x i had no luck with direct cable connection features of windows, but i had sucess with HyperTerminal transfering files with ZModem, my guess is that you can receive a file with zmodem on dos aswell. Beware of the speed limitation(bps = baud * bits per baud), my lte 5300 and my s7 …

Re: Pimp my 386.

Posted on 2017-12-06, 00:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Isnt the trident 8900cl more suitable to a 286 system?

Re: This M912(v1.7) jumper config for Intel DX4 seems right?

Posted on 2017-12-05, 19:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice board i have one of those m912 without cache chips + one M919 + one M915i + one M921 that refused to work, never saved bios nor let me boot and one leg of UMC chip was broken. but i never liked pc chips feels like the motherboard has the devil inside and will boot when it wants to. the m919 i …

Re: Is worth DOS programming in these days?

Posted on 2017-12-05, 19:00

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I can't say much about C++ as it seems so monstrous to me. Maybe I'm just too dumb to use it efficiently but after watching some of Stroustrup's talks I was like "Interesting but I'd rather use something simple." Again, this could be the case of Stroustrup throwing pearls before the swine but the …

Re: This M912(v1.7) jumper config for Intel DX4 seems right?

Posted on 2017-12-05, 17:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I looked it up on: http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Oldman.ixbt.com/mb/m912v17%20PC-Chips/jumpers.htm 1.7 marking on the board (click on the picture to enlarge) https://i.imgur.com/bObtPilm.jpg 512K L2 Cache Jumper Settings (click on the picture to enlarge) https://i.imgur.com/DnKeYBZm.jpg CPU …

Re: Is worth DOS programming in these days?

Posted on 2017-12-05, 17:42

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I think DOS programming is worth, for me programming in every platform is worth, profissionally or just for hobby. Currently i'm working on a Joystick to keyboard translator(Windows only) so i can play with joystick games that don't have support for it and for me it is fun,it is like a hardware …

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