dionb wrote:

... Huge pile of crap, with some highlights: - Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB (CL-GD5428, 1MB but nice solder pads for second MB I in […]
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Huge pile of crap, with some highlights:
- Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB (CL-GD5428, 1MB but nice solder pads for second MB I intend to try out 😉 )
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So you're going to use CRT monitor? For this graphics chip the full 2MB are useful only for interlaced video modes.

Is there a reason to have 100Mbps in an ISA machine? I can't even get my 10Mbps adapter pegged on a Pentium 150, and that's backing up the entire disk over the network!

It's some variation on an HP card - It has Token Ring and an RJ45 jack.

Grzyb wrote:

Well, Fast Ethernet cards for ISA can't achieve 100 Mbps, but still, they are faster than 10 Mbps ones.
Also, the irony: there are Fast Ethernet cards for ISA, but probably not a single such card for VLB.
Nice example of how short-lived VLB was, isn't it?

VLB was use in a lot of OEMs for 3-4 years or so running onboard video and hdd. So lots of units were actually shipped well in to late '95/early '96.

I did find references to a list of ethernet VLB cards but the page is gone and was never archived.

http://www.lemmus.eu/th99/n/netvlb_t.htm

From this old vcfed post:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-10364.html

Edit: TH99 moved. Here is a list with the different VLB network cards... the Boca one isn't listed though:
http://www.uncreativelabs.de/th99/#10

Grzyb wrote:

No. It's based on Am79C965, so 10 Mbps - https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/doc/sp … rk/am79c965.pdf Once upon a time I trie […]
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mpe wrote:

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No.
It's based on Am79C965, so 10 Mbps - https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/doc/sp … rk/am79c965.pdf
Once upon a time I tried to find a 100 Mbps card for VLB, and found nothing.

I have 2 or 3 different makes of VLB ethernet and all are 10Mb. Considering the CPU and cache compete with the VLB slots for cycle time I would expect system performance to drop like a rock if there was a 100Mb VLB Ethernet card.

Also have a 100Mb ISA card and performance isn't that great either from what I recall but better then 10Mb.

Roman555 wrote:

dionb wrote:

... Huge pile of crap, with some highlights: - Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB (CL-GD5428, 1MB but nice solder pads for second MB I in […]
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Huge pile of crap, with some highlights:
- Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB (CL-GD5428, 1MB but nice solder pads for second MB I intend to try out 😉 )
...

So you're going to use CRT monitor? For this graphics chip the full 2MB are useful only for interlaced video modes.

Mainly I just want to practice on something I'm not too attached to. End goal is to do the same with two Voodoo2 8MB cards.

I'm aware 2MB with a GD542x is a bit underwhelming, but I can at least test my handiwork with 1024x768@16b interlaced.

Discovered these in 10 kg scrap lot and asked the seller to send them to me for 20€.
Think its my 10th 1350B but I like these cards. Still have the one I bought around 1992 in its original packaging.
This SMC network card is also my favorite one, all connectors available and configuration via jumpers.

I wish I had your communication skills :p

To the OP: You need to stop using Photobucket. They place limits on how much data you can use with a free account and they blur your photos and place a huge watermark over them when you exceed your limit. If you have a lot of photos linked in a lot of different places, you can easily exceed in your limit in a short time.

I got a machine a few months ago that is apparently pretty rare. I got a Tandy 3000HD. It has a 286 processor and 10(!) ISA slots. It's a real beast and apparently was intended to be used as a server for a network of terminals running Xenix, which is why it has so many slots. According to information I have found, it had only a short production run before being discontinued. The 3000NL is much more common.

About a month before that I picked up an IBM XT machine and a Tandy 1000 that someone installed a hard drive in at some point. It was a base model 1000 and not a 1000HD, which is how I know it was user upgraded. Being the cheapskate that I am, 🤣, I naturally did not pay very much for any of them.

Predator99 wrote:

Discovered these in 10 kg scrap lot and asked the seller to send them to me for 20€.
Think its my 10th 1350B but I like these cards. Still have the one I bought around 1992 in its original packaging.
This SMC network card is also my favorite one, all connectors available and configuration via jumpers.

Would you be willing to part with one of the CT1350Bs?
I would love to own one. It would be very fitting for my 386 VGA plasma luggable. The SB16 produces to much overhead and greatly steiffels the performance.

Have a few Slot 1 boards now, but hoping this will be the best clocker

came with a P2 450 and some random PC100

A brand new box of floppy disks!

I've had too many disk failures recently, so here's a 22 year old box of BRAND NEW floppy disks - the box is tatty but the disks are good. I love the ad for the monitor filters, I guess I should get one 😁

I don't know if it counts as "retro" since they're technically new, but I bought a set of 511000S-10 DRAMs for my 286. It's got 4MB onboard now!

They're not totally new, it seems these chips are from 1991. Probably new old stock.

Deksor wrote:

They're not totally new, it seems these chips are from 1991. Probably new old stock.

Something tells me those aren't date codes, though. 9115TB might be for 15th week 1991, but the original chips say 8103T. 3rd week of 1981? I don't think 1MBit DRAMs even existed in 1981.

FAMICOMASTER wrote:

Deksor wrote:

They're not totally new, it seems these chips are from 1991. Probably new old stock.

Something tells me those aren't date codes, though. 9115TB might be for 15th week 1991, but the original chips say 8103T. 3rd week of 1981? I don't think 1MBit DRAMs even existed in 1981.

Probably existed in labs, military prototypes, and super computers. But consumer hardware, no.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

FAMICOMASTER wrote:

Deksor wrote:

They're not totally new, it seems these chips are from 1991. Probably new old stock.

Something tells me those aren't date codes, though. 9115TB might be for 15th week 1991, but the original chips say 8103T. 3rd week of 1981? I don't think 1MBit DRAMs even existed in 1981.

Probably existed in labs, military prototypes, and super computers. But consumer hardware, no.

Consumer hardware that shipped in the mid to late 80s as a 20MHz AT clone, I really doubt it. This computer was manufactured around like 1986 or 1987 as far as I can tell, I can't imagine why they would be using DRAMs made in 1981.

Well these chips aren't from the same manufacturer. I still think the new ones are from 91, but maybe the old ones don't really have a date code ?

Got this one latley:

Sold by Karstadt at some point. The Owner must have upgraded it to an dx2-66 at some point.

I remember Okano vividly. They were advertised by Karstadt during some very cringe-worthy TV commercials back in the late 80's / early 90's.