Threw a test bench together out of 80/20 I had lying around! Makes it really easy to test new acquisitions.

wiretap wrote on 2021-11-26, 00:09:

No, I didn't really document it. Parts in the pic: - Bridgeview VS-10S SVGA CRT - IPC Wall Mount 4-ISA (half length) Case - Adva […]
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No, I didn't really document it.
Parts in the pic:
- Bridgeview VS-10S SVGA CRT
- IPC Wall Mount 4-ISA (half length) Case
- Advantech PCA-6751 SBC

Where did u get the case from? Im struggling to locate one. Thanks.

Ebay

Hi folks,
I'm a long time lurker on this forum and have it's been massively useful, inspirational and fun. Thank you! I've been tinkering with retro pcs for a year or two now and I think I've finally settled on a configuration that I'm happy with (until I'm not again.) Everything except the case and the top DVD drive is era appropriate to round about Spring 1998, with some bits dating from 97. This is peak nostalgia for me. I used vinyl dye on the yellowed case (from around 2002 I think unfortunately, but it looks pretty 90s to me at least!) which worked fairly well I think, with a couple of caveats. Stickers courtesy of the amazing Geekenspiel (probably gone a bit overboard with these but I love them.) A Voodoo 2 might be a more ideal candidate for a 3D card but I have extreme nostalgia for the original Orchid Righteous 3D because I had one when I was a kid and wanted to use it to it's max potential before you start getting errors due to CPU speed etc. A Riva TNT takes care of the rest. Anyway thanks again for all the help guys.

Cheeseplant
Windows 95 2.5
Supermicro P6DBE 440BX motherboard
Pentium II 350
Diamond Viper V550 Riva TNT
128 mb ram
1997 vintage 2GB! Maxtor HDD (Got a larger one coming in the post!)
Yamaha YMF724
AWE64 CT4500
Orchid Righteous 3D
Shitty/non-existent cable management

Unofficial Ghost wrote on 2023-03-06, 16:20:

Still want to add a couple of things, and there's always room for more stickers, but here's my Windows 98 SE build so far.

Absolutely love that Snatcher sticker. One of the best games ever! My misspent brain still somehow remembers most of those phone numbers!

Retro Muel wrote on 2023-05-24, 20:53:

Hi folks, I'm a long time lurker on this forum and have it's been massively useful, inspirational and fun. I've been tinkering w […]
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Hi folks,
I'm a long time lurker on this forum and have it's been massively useful, inspirational and fun. I've been tinkering with retro pcs for a year or two now and I think I've finally settled on a configuration that I'm happy with (until I'm not.) Everything except the case and the top DVD drive is era appropriate to round about Spring 1998, with some bits dating from 97. This is peak nostalgia for me. I used vinyl dye on the yellowed case (from around 2002 I think unfortunately, but it looks pretty 90s to me at least!) which worked fairly well I think, with a couple of caveats. Stickers courtesy of the amazing Geekenspiel (probably gone about overboard with these but I love them!) A Voodoo 2 might be a more ideal candidate for a 3D card but I have extreme nostalgia for the original Orchid Righteous 3D because I had one when I was a kid and wanted to use it to it's max potential before you start getting errors due to CPU speed. Anyway thanks again for all the help guys.

Cheeseplant
Windows 95 2.5
Supermicro P6DBE 440BX motherboard
Pentium II 350
Diamond Viper V550 Riva TNT
128 mb ram
1997 vintage 2GB! Maxtor HDD (Got a larger one coming in the post!)
No name brand Yamaha YMF724
AWE64 CT4500
Orchid Righteous 3D

That is a great Windows 95 system. Welcome to VOGONS!!!!

Retro Muel wrote on 2023-05-24, 20:53:

Hi folks, I'm a long time lurker on this forum and have it's been massively useful, inspirational and fun. Thank you! I've been […]
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Hi folks,
I'm a long time lurker on this forum and have it's been massively useful, inspirational and fun. Thank you! I've been tinkering with retro pcs for a year or two now and I think I've finally settled on a configuration that I'm happy with (until I'm not again.) Everything except the case and the top DVD drive is era appropriate to round about Spring 1998, with some bits dating from 97. This is peak nostalgia for me. I used vinyl dye on the yellowed case (from around 2002 I think unfortunately, but it looks pretty 90s to me at least!) which worked fairly well I think, with a couple of caveats. Stickers courtesy of the amazing Geekenspiel (probably gone a bit overboard with these but I love them.) A Voodoo 2 might be a more ideal candidate for a 3D card but I have extreme nostalgia for the original Orchid Righteous 3D because I had one when I was a kid and wanted to use it to it's max potential before you start getting errors due to CPU speed etc. A Riva TNT takes care of the rest. Anyway thanks again for all the help guys.

Cheeseplant
Windows 95 2.5
Supermicro P6DBE 440BX motherboard
Pentium II 350
Diamond Viper V550 Riva TNT
128 mb ram
1997 vintage 2GB! Maxtor HDD (Got a larger one coming in the post!)
Yamaha YMF724
AWE64 CT4500
Orchid Righteous 3D
Shitty/non-existent cable management

is the cheeseplant to scale ? 😀

very nice set up, right in the middle of that fast developing P2 era

a larger HD will indeed help, this was also the time when games were starting to take up more and more space

Out of left field weird ITX Win9X gaming machine with a Quadro FX 1300, Pentium M 780, AC97 w/ Sound Blaster pro emulation and Yamaha S-YXG50 midi synth.
ARBOR / ITX-i7435VLG industrial motherboard w/ 915 chipset, Dual gigabit Lan, 8x USB 2.0, CF card slot and a Mini PCI slot that I tried to add a sound card into but ended up just wasting money. damn you amfeltec.

Nice theme. Black case, silver monitor, beige keyboard, white mouse. 😁

How dare you sir! I'm aesthetically challenged. If I could find a black PS2 keyboard with a big enter key, I would snatch it up, and to be fair the side of the monitor is black.

Ah, yes, the large Enter, large Backspace, large Left Shift and backslash to the right of the Right Shift.
Truly the ideal layout, too bad it was never standardized, so such keyboards are hard to come by.
I totally feel you here.

dr_st wrote on 2023-07-06, 19:51:

Ah, yes, the large Enter, large Backspace, large Left Shift and backslash to the right of the Right Shift.
Truly the ideal layout, too bad it was never standardized, so such keyboards are hard to come by.
I totally feel you here.

Glad you posted this because I was going to click buy on a Keytronics keyboard with the big Enter but it had a tiny Backspace key that I forgot I didn't like. It was truly ideal layout.

Need a fun case idea for my 386 build. It is a baby AT

Thoughts?

Looks pretty good as is 😆 Maybe not very practical for moving around though.

Hi everyone! Been a long time lurker here, but I wanted to share a system I recently picked up. I took a chance on this "U.S. Logic" branded system with no indication of what was in it. I'm not even sure if there is much reference to this particular era of this brand on the internet.

Turns out, it's a Socket 3 system with a AMD 5x86 133MHz CPU, AWE64 CT4520, and a S3 Virge DX card (Phantom 3D/DX) all in a board with ISA, VL Bus, and PCI slots (https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/mitac-trigon-ph4500am).

I had to swap in different cache chips since the ones in there were causing major issues. However, since then, I've been able to overclock to 40MHz x 4 for 160MHz on the CPU with tight timings, and it's been running stable for days. Got 17.0 FPS in the Quake time demo, so it seems to me to be running as expected for this configuration. Very happy to have this system and components I have been wanting to work with! 😀

download/file.php?mode=view&id=168128
download/file.php?mode=view&id=168129

Very nice system. ISA, VLB and PCI. 16kB write back L1 cache?

Welcome to Vogons!

Pavane wrote on 2023-07-11, 02:37:

Hi everyone! Been a long time lurker here, but I wanted to share a system I recently picked up. I took a chance on this "U.S. Logic" branded system with no indication of what was in it. I'm not even sure if there is much reference to this particular era of this brand on the internet.

Beige AT case = good.

Under construction. AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (Thoroughbred 1.66 GHz)

ynopot wrote on 2023-07-13, 16:19:

Under construction. AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (Thoroughbred 1.66 GHz)
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nice simple case but i like floppy and optical at right-angle

low and mid range athlon XP are a great alternative to late P3 and early P4

Hi, I'm new here. Nice to meet everyone. Well... this is my primary Retro Rig. It runs Windows XP SP3 (+ all updates).

Specs:
Fractal Design Focus G case
MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R Motherboard
Intel Pentium IV 3.2GHz (Northwood C)
2GB Corsair XMS 4000 DDR RAM
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB Graphics Card
Quantum Obsidian X-24 24MB Glide 3D Accelerator
Creative SoundBlaster X-fi Elite Pro Sound Card