So. Created #vogons on irc.ozorg.net 😀

3x AA rechargables external to the system? 1.2v each. Just a thought. I have it on one of mine with a JST connecter out a duct because I'm Mr Classy 😜

LewisRaz wrote on 2020-09-28, 21:39: I am a bit of a fiend with superglue.. 486 heatsinks. Couple of PCI brackets with snapped off screws.. External battery packs.. Even the fan on my Voodoo 3000 is super glued on. Wait till you discover thermal epoxy... *heavy excited breathing*

red-ray wrote on 2020-09-29, 18:53: Compared to DEC RM03s then your drive seems quiet! I See your RM03 and raise you 3x RL02's in my 11/93 :>

I'm running one @150mhz stabilly for several years with a P4 heatsink thermal epoxy 'd on it. Solid as a rock. Going >150mhz is diminishing returns given ram speed on my board @3x50mhz.

Loudness denotes quality! Heh.. on a serious note, I had a new system "back in the day" with 2x 15k Atlas II disks in it and that was noisy as. Definitely use some rubber feet but watch out for heat as often the contact with the drive cage was part of the heat-sink. I have 2x 147gb 15k Atlas-II's in …

Some of the switches I recall when setting up one system were for wait-states and multiplier. This lets me run one at 3x50mhz instead of 4x33mhz with two VLB cards (a TekRam 690CD and an S3 805).

Kingston and a couple of other companies also used this CPU board ..without a heatsink but with a fan (!). I have 3 all different manufacturers.

The CL chip failure was the reason Fujitsu left the HDD production market. [...] More shocking, in the end it seems Fujitsu was forced to pay Cirrus Logic around $25 million in damages. That was a ploy that didn't work to delay Fujitsu hammering CL for the losses of shipping defective chips and not …

The CL chip failure was the reason Fujitsu left the HDD production market. It was devastating financially to get a defective IC that was put into an entire generation of consumer disks, then it's defective cousin in enterprise SCSI drives. Lots of su-ball. :( Sad. Till that point they were excellent …

G'day, Spotted an IRC channel on irc.ozorg.net called #avcc (Australian Vintage Computer collectors). Might be good. I'm going to idle. Apparently it's non-system agnostic so anything goes. I guess these things need time to grow. - uridium