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Today I was given by a shopkeeper friend of mine this HUGE CRT monitor, a ViewPoint vp1995oat: https://imageshack.com/i/f0dAiH3Cj

Damn if it is huge, probably the most cumbersome CRT I have ever seen in person. The screen is curved, the date of manufacture is 1999, and my friend told me that at the time It was very expensive... so I hope for the good quality. This video after testing session will become the definitive solution for my Win9x / MS-DOS build.

Nice, yeah there is nothing quite like a giant CRT. It really is a wonderful thing. 😁

I have something special today 😀

Ricoh RO-5030E - magneto-optical drive + 560 MB rewritable disc.
This thing is quite old, manufactured in 1989. Interface is a standard 50pin SCSI, working fine in Windows 98 and XP, using Adaptec 2940UW.
The disc itself is double-sided and contains two separate file systems - 280 MB FAT16 for each side. Not bad for 1989.

havli wrote:

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I have something special today 😀

Ricoh RO-5030E - magneto-optical drive + 560 MB rewritable disc.
This thing is quite old, manufactured in 1989. Interface is a standard 50pin SCSI, working fine in Windows 98 and XP, using Adaptec 2940UW.
The disc itself is double-sided and contains two separate file systems - 280 MB FAT16 for each side. Not bad for 1989.

Sweet!

I have something special today :) […]
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I have something special today 😀

Ricoh RO-5030E - magneto-optical drive + 560 MB rewritable disc.
This thing is quite old, manufactured in 1989. Interface is a standard 50pin SCSI, working fine in Windows 98 and XP, using Adaptec 2940UW.
The disc itself is double-sided and contains two separate file systems - 280 MB FAT16 for each side. Not bad for 1989.

Two questions:
How fast is it?
and
What does it sound like?

King_Corduroy wrote:

Nice, yeah there is nothing quite like a giant CRT. It really is a wonderful thing. 😁

Except when you have to move it. 🤣

havli wrote:

I have something special today :) […]
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I have something special today 😀

Ricoh RO-5030E - magneto-optical drive + 560 MB rewritable disc.
This thing is quite old, manufactured in 1989. Interface is a standard 50pin SCSI, working fine in Windows 98 and XP, using Adaptec 2940UW.
The disc itself is double-sided and contains two separate file systems - 280 MB FAT16 for each side. Not bad for 1989.

Considering that my first HDD in 1992 was 40MB, it's a sure thing...😀

smeezekitty wrote:

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Two questions:
How fast is it?
and
What does it sound like?

Reading speed is 230 KB/s, write speed is impossible to measure, but most likely is slower.
Sound is really quiet and decent for size and age of this drive. It sounds like a HDD.

I have recorded a short video. Pardon the low quality and ambient noise. Dual Athlon XP (palomino) requires some cooling power.
Youtube refuses to upload this... no idea why, so here is a direct download link.
http://hw-museum.cz/data/RO-5030E.mkv

Just bought an Aopen audio PCI AW320 soundcard.
The reason why, is that it has an SB-Link header.
Going to check it out, whats all the fuzz is about.

Some here on Vogons just keep telling me that SB-Link,
is not for Isa bus emulation, for sound in games in xms mode.
Even though I have read everywhere that SB-Link is just that.

Tired of reading about stuff, now is the time to actually test
SB-Link out my self.

Reading speed is 230 KB/s, write speed is impossible to measure, but most likely is slower.

A little slow but not bad for it's age. Why is the write speed impossible to measure?

Sound is really quiet and decent for size and age of this drive. It sounds like a HDD.

Sounds like an old hard drive. Pretty impressive for the year.

I have recorded a short video. Pardon the low quality and ambient noise. Dual Athlon XP (palomino) requires some cooling power.
Youtube refuses to upload this... no idea why, so here is a direct download link.
http://hw-museum.cz/data/RO-5030E.mkv

It is not worse quality than anything I have taken 😉

It seems to be typical windows issue caused by write buffer or something. When I start the file copy, copy status bar jumps instantly to 50% with speed of 10 MB/s (wrong, of course ). Then the copy status is frozen until all data are transferred.

brostenen wrote:

Tired of reading about stuff, now is the time to actually test
SB-Link out my self.

That's the spirit! Personally for DOS ISA is the only way.

Finally found a backup for my p3b-f system. Another Nice Asus p3b-f rev. 1.04.
Great boards, took a while to find another.. came with 4x128mb and p3 550mhz.

philscomputerlab wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Tired of reading about stuff, now is the time to actually test
SB-Link out my self.

That's the spirit! Personally for DOS ISA is the only way.

True. Or at least in most cases. If I only played, lets say Doom (1 and 2).
And I could only get my hands on PCI soundcards.
Well... Then only the SB-Live can do for me.

Anyway...
My P3 board is crippeled (no ISA slots), yet it's got SB-Link header.
If only the Live had SB-Link header.

Got V3 2000 for $1 from a local guy who listed it as "MX400", but I knew from the image it was a V3! Thanks to this thread, where all kinds of hardware show up 😀

. Also bought an FX5500 from MSI for cheap and got a pile of scrapped motherboards as a bonus. The only worthy one is ASUS TP4 (had 200MMX CPU and 2x8MB FPM sticks installed). Unfortunately, they all miss copper coils, is it repairable?

RacoonRider wrote:

. Also bought an FX5500 from MSI for cheap and got a pile of scrapped motherboards as a bonus. The only worthy one is ASUS TP4 (had 200MMX CPU and 2x8MB FPM sticks installed). Unfortunately, they all miss copper coils, is it repairable?

If you can solder in equivalent coils to the correct (or close enough) value-- these are most likely part of the voltage regulation filtering. Although the question is why they were removed from the first place-- could be indicative the board had an issue.

raymangold wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

. Also bought an FX5500 from MSI for cheap and got a pile of scrapped motherboards as a bonus. The only worthy one is ASUS TP4 (had 200MMX CPU and 2x8MB FPM sticks installed). Unfortunately, they all miss copper coils, is it repairable?

If you can solder in equivalent coils to the correct (or close enough) value-- these are most likely part of the voltage regulation filtering. Although the question is why they were removed from the first place-- could be indicative the board had an issue.

They were all removed by the previous owner the day before I came for V3 - he did not see how he could use them and decided to get what little money he could from them. The pile was about to be carried to the garbage, he just asked me if I wanted it out of laziness 😀

There is also a dismantled 450MHz Deschutes. It's strange how often I see that CPU. I'll probably make a keychain out of the core - I don't see any use in it with no cartridge.

RacoonRider wrote:

raymangold wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

. Also bought an FX5500 from MSI for cheap and got a pile of scrapped motherboards as a bonus. The only worthy one is ASUS TP4 (had 200MMX CPU and 2x8MB FPM sticks installed). Unfortunately, they all miss copper coils, is it repairable?

If you can solder in equivalent coils to the correct (or close enough) value-- these are most likely part of the voltage regulation filtering. Although the question is why they were removed from the first place-- could be indicative the board had an issue.

They were all removed by the previous owner the day before I came for V3 - he did not see how he could use them and decided to get what little money he could from them. The pile was about to be carried to the garbage, he just asked me if I wanted it out of laziness 😀

There is also a dismantled 450MHz Deschutes. It's strange how often I see that CPU. I'll probably make a keychain out of the core - I don't see any use in it with no cartridge.

You do not need the cartridge!

You can mount a Slot-1 cooler directly to the PCB. You need 4 screws, 4 nuts and 4 very small washers of some kind.
I removed the cartridge from my Katmai 600 because I diddnt like the stock cooler and I diddnt have a better one that would fit the SECC2 package.

Skyscraper wrote:

You do not need the cartridge!

You can mount a Slot-1 cooler directly to the PCB. You need 4 screws, 4 nuts and 4 very small washers of some kind.
I removed the cartridge from my Katmai 600 because I diddnt like the stock cooler and I diddnt have a better one that would fit the SECC2 package.

I've also seen old forum posts before where people mount water blocks to the bare chips without the plastic cartridge for overclocking athlon chips. Some people would actually go to great lengths to get that plastic stuff off of the chips.