I have two 32GB DOMs, but SATA to IDE boards are still in transit from China, so decided to test them with what parts I have. DOMs are with female SATA, so is the SATA to IDE board I have, and no male to male SATA adapter. I have a pile of failed HDDs, so cut two male SATA connectors and solder them …

Not exactly dumpster find, but at work we have a lot of old hardware, ready for scrapping. To my regret the really old hardware is gone long time ago, but there is still something to find. Today I had some time to excavate and found two SCSI drives (36.4 and 73GB), some useful cables, 3.5 to 5.25 …

I use S3 Virge/GX for DOS gaming and yes, it is great, no problems at all.

Spent maybe 2 hours yesterday to make Compaq 4000 5233MMX boot from floppy. HDD's IDE cable had some problems, but it took me a lot of time to find that, and yes, no BIOS to help you without HDD :) Now, the system works really fast with 128MB RAM, 4MB Matrox Millennium PCI video, Quantum Fireball CX …

First, did not bought these retro PC, just found it today waiting for me for years in our old building at work. Looks like Compaq 4000 5233MMX, no video and RAM, but CPU is still there. Here is a pic with it's firs best friend :) p.s. What OS to install if it is running, Win 95 or Win 98? …

Almost new Genius joystick model J-12 for 5 euro, the seller gave me PS/2 optical mouse as a gift 😀 Filename J-12.jpg File size 51.9 KiB Views 1668 views

PC Chips M912 v1.7 with real cache, hope heatsink will give it some more life.

Yesterday decided to play some Monkey Island on my 486 rig and even at Win95 boot got some Explorer errors and even blue screens. After some research found that CPU is heated over 90 deg C. So, I fit some old north bridge heatsink and temps fell to 45 deg C after an hour of Doom. Looks like the CPU …

Here is what I have at home: 1. My old 1998 PC with some uprgades (needs cleaning) Windows98SE Unknown BX440 MB P3 450MHz CPU 2x256MB RAM 10.2 and 20GB HDD's Creative Live 5.1 sound card Acer 52x CD-ROM Intel network card Need to change video card, just recap broken Voodoo 3 2000 and it is alive …

First, I want to say "Thanks" to all nice people here, who helped me a lot with their posts in Vogons. After a lot of reading I decided to register at last. And, here is my working place just now: Filename lab.jpg File size 151.85 KiB Views 1632 views File comment lab