Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-02, 23:14
The hard disk of the Beast - this is what 666MB looked like in 1991 😜
Hilariously bad stock images of vintage hardware
Posted on 2019-02-02, 20:53
We all know about the stock images of models holding soldering irons by the tip. Turns out stock photographers can mess up vintage hardware too... This week I was applying for a degree course at a university of applied sciences (20 years after dropping out at first two attempts... but that's another …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-02, 17:12
I'm sort of thinking about getting a tenkeyless mechanical keyboard. As I'm rather attached to numerical entry via keypad that made me start looking for decent mechanical numerical keypads. Last week these two turned up: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/wD21euKimuhgOTkC2wWmQ26f/full.jpg On the left a …
Re: need to identify ram type
Posted on 2019-02-01, 23:06
Bump. I happened to come across some pics of this type of SIMM, it's from a Dell 433C 1994-vintage laptop. Not that that will suddenly make the modules appear, but at least you know what to look for. In future it would help a lot if you give this kind of info when opening a topic...
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-01-31, 23:28
Picked up this tiny little Via machine at the thrift shop between classes today. 2 PCI, 1 ISA and a nice bunch of ports on the back so I think it'll make a nice little retro box. 128MB PC133 I believe. It's so small that I might throw it into the adorable category. Do I see a 686B southbridge under …
Re: 486DX4-100 as a modern machine?
Posted on 2019-01-30, 22:51
I did something similar to what you are describing 10 years ago with a Cyrix 5x86-120 and 25 6 MB of RAM. I tried out about a dozen light distros and seem to recall that DSL, Damn Small Linux, was the least slow and most cooperative. That was 10 years ago though. You are probably asking for too …
Re: Which to keep?
Posted on 2019-01-30, 21:40
[...] Well it's a lack of time more than anything. I'd like to keep one just for putting a bunch of games on that I can fire up from time to time, or if people visit and want to play on it. [...] 1: Pentium II 350MHz, Intel 440BX (Supermicro P6SBS Slot 1 ATX motherboard), 256MB SDRAM PC100, 10GB …
Re: 486DX4-100 as a modern machine?
Posted on 2019-01-30, 21:32
Gentoo, for all its optimizations, doesn't really result in that lean of a system. There are so many... "optional"... packages that are essentially required if you want to do anything at all, that it just ends up being a full-blown Linux install anyway. I've been using it as my primary (pretty much …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-01-30, 19:45
Got some soldering backlog done today: - Replaced a blown tantalum cap on a Morse P1 486 board. After three tries getting it into the original location between the ISA slots gave up and soldered it onto the back instead. - Replaced the dead power switch in the PSU in my recently acquired ShiTec …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-01-30, 19:40
Tiny little package today: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/KUbzSi1gue7cuwlb67EY3a2t/full.jpg It fitted in here: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/8NouR5tHqsUTttZjjVxFsQfr/full.jpg Fired it up and this showed up: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/u6m3aHfTcDaLpQJNJnOHzwDy/full.jpg Yep, i287XL reporting in as the i387 it …
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2019-01-30, 13:48
I am located in Aachen, near NL and BE. The Deutsche Post changed their rules 2019-01-01. Now they disallow goods in international letters. Only written documents are now allowed anymore. They want to shift more shipping to their DHL business. Letters are regulated by the Netzagentur, so postage is …
Re: Dallas battery replacement ?
Posted on 2019-01-30, 10:33
The only problem is that the dallas chip contains the actual RTC and the SRAM that stores the BIOS settings. If he doesn't install a dallas chip and installs a battery instead, it has the battery but is still missing the RTC and CMOS chip. Or am I missing something here? That depends on the type of …
Re: Windows 95 or 98 for 66mhz 486?
Posted on 2019-01-30, 09:17
I don't know much about Myst, but a quick google search reveals the system requirements for the original version as such Myst is positively ancient compared to Windows 95; if Windows 95 runs, Myst will run. That makes it a quite bad guide to minimum specs. Pretty much any other Windows game will be …
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2019-01-30, 08:51
I don't mind. As I said: German Post probably won't take the PCBs anyway, so I will most probably have to opt to DHL or Hermes, depending on how much people want to spend on shipping. DP won't? I've received enough complete cards shipped as 'letter' via DP, these PCBs are flatter so should be no …
Re: FIC PA-2005 cash not working
Posted on 2019-01-30, 07:08
Soldering over surface-mount PLB cache is pretty challenging soldering work. If you're confident of your ability, you can try, but I'd recommend ruling out other options first. - not aware of any cache <> BIOS issues on the PA-2005, but checking if there's a BIOS update is always a good idea. - bad …
Re: 486 Saved from the skip... please help identify a couple parts.
Posted on 2019-01-29, 22:28
Second the mTCP route for simple FTP once you've booted from bootdisk. Works very easily if you have even the bare minimum of (TCP) networking experience. Plus it's so small you can actually run it from bootdisk (you need a packet driver, 24kB and either FTP client or (my preference) server, 105kB. …
Re: 486 Saved from the skip... please help identify a couple parts.
Posted on 2019-01-29, 21:15
Thank you very much guys for all the info and the comments. I am primarily interested in Win 95/98 gaming rigs at the moment and have a couple of projects on the go. However I can appreciate the advice here and it's starting to sound like I found a bit of a gem here - It would be stupid to ignore …
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2019-01-29, 20:52
Cyrix200+ wrote: I would like 1 😀 Me too! If Cyrix200+ is OK with it you can ship my board to him too to save on shipping, I live close by so can easily pick it up locally.
Re: Where can I find an actual HDMI -> RGB SCART converter (not composite)?
Posted on 2019-01-29, 20:44
Well yes, but HD televisions will accept native HDMI too - so not the focus of the question here I think.
Re: 486 Saved from the skip... please help identify a couple parts.
Posted on 2019-01-29, 18:39
The case is what I always refer to as an 'upside-down' design, they were popular for a few years right at the beginning of the 1990s. It's pretty much a regular AT minitower, but with the feet on the side that would otherwise be the top. Can't say I ever found them any more or less infuriating than …
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