Pingaloka wrote on 2021-11-24, 19:14:

"Mitsumi" Anybody knows this brand???? 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, pretty common manufacturer of computer parts in the 90's.

devius wrote on 2021-11-24, 19:31:

Pingaloka wrote on 2021-11-24, 19:14:

"Mitsumi" Anybody knows this brand???? 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, pretty common manufacturer of computer parts in the 90's.

Thanks for the info

Wow, searching a little more I just found out the following info about this Japanese brand. Check it out!:

One of the company's most noticeable product lines are video game console controllers. Mitsumi has manufactured the official controllers for the following consoles:

Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom controller
Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom controller
Nintendo GameCube controller (Certain revisions only) and the WaveBird Wireless Controller
Panasonic 3DO Controller
Wii Remote and Wii Nunchuk (Certain revisions only)
PlayStation standard and DualShock controllers (Certain revisions only)
PlayStation 2 DualShock 2 controller (Certain revisions only)
Xbox original 'Duke' Controller and early 'Controller S' models

Pingaloka wrote on 2021-11-24, 20:04:

Thanks for the info Devius. Wow! Searching a little more I just found out the following info about this Japanese brand. This i […]
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devius wrote on 2021-11-24, 19:31:

Pingaloka wrote on 2021-11-24, 19:14:

"Mitsumi" Anybody knows this brand???? 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, pretty common manufacturer of computer parts in the 90's.

Thanks for the info Devius.
Wow! Searching a little more I just found out the following info about this Japanese brand. This is not just "any brand" Check it out!

One of the company's most noticeable product lines are video game console controllers. Mitsumi has manufactured the official controllers for the following consoles:

Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom controller
Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom controller
Nintendo GameCube controller (Certain revisions only) and the WaveBird Wireless Controller
Panasonic 3DO Controller
Wii Remote and Wii Nunchuk (Certain revisions only)
PlayStation standard and DualShock controllers (Certain revisions only)
PlayStation 2 DualShock 2 controller (Certain revisions only)
Xbox original 'Duke' Controller and early 'Controller S' models

Here is one of my favourite rigs.

It's a Compaq Deskpro XE 433S. The previous owner bought it in 1994 and used it in an office environment for quite a few years, and didn't change anything on it, so I got it with it's original spec:
- 486 SX-33
- 8Mb Ram
- Onboard Compaq QVision 1024
- Onboard audio (I think it's WSS only)
- 3.5" Floppy Drive
- 128MB IDE HDD
- 4X ISA slots

It's since been modified with:
- 486 DX2
- Compaq Business Wavetable Sound Card (ESS ES1869F + ES692S )
- 4GB HDD
- CF Card to IDE adapter (that I use to transfer files)
- Smaller speaker (the original was very loud)
- CR2032 Coin holder (Originally it had a soldered coin battery so I modified it)

DOS compatibility seems OK, and so far I only had graphical issues with The Chaos Engine and Alien Breed (the bottom of the screen sometimes shows a black overlay).

Wow, I saw one just like that for sale a few months back, but the seller had already sold it when I contacted him. Very nice looking machine!

devius wrote on 2021-11-24, 20:40:

Wow, I saw one just like that for sale a few months back, but the seller had already sold it when I contacted him. Very nice looking machine!

Thanks 😀

The one you saw is probably the one I got (I'm guessing you saw it on OLX). I've never seen one before or since.
I have a thing for OEM machines, and when I saw it, a took a chance, a long-ish drive, and after small a bargaining, brought it home.

Doing some Thanksgiving Day ripping and tearing.

wiretap wrote on 2021-11-25, 19:50:

Doing some Thanksgiving Day ripping and tearing. […]
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Doing some Thanksgiving Day ripping and tearing.

Great setup! Do you have a post somewhere about that build so we can read more about it?

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
- Pentium MMX 233/266MHz
-32MB RAM
- 4GB SanDisk CF Card
- Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
- Gotek
- BTC 5100C keyboard
- Logitech Trackman (serial)

wiretap wrote on 2021-11-25, 19:50:

Doing some Thanksgiving Day ripping and tearing. […]
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Doing some Thanksgiving Day ripping and tearing.

There's something very lovable about this build I have to say 😀

Linarde wrote on 2021-11-24, 20:18:

Here is one of my favourite rigs.

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This looks very, very similar to a Compaq Prolinea 4/33 I have here as my 486 machine.

But mine doesn't have an integrated Sound chip, and had that ***** of varta barrel battery, which, corroded part of the mainboard, which I repaired myself.

Mine came with a 486DX33 in it, and a different Video chipset, which is an ET6000, willing to upgrade for a DX2/66

- IPC Wall Mount 3-ISA (half length) Case
- Acrosser AR-B8170 SBC (Vortex86-DX 800MHz, XGI Z9s graphics, 256MB RAM)
- 8GB SanDisk SD Card [bootable volume]
- Sound Blaster AWE64 Value

wiretap wrote on 2021-12-01, 02:13:

- IPC Wall Mount 3-ISA (half length) Case - Acrosser AR-B8170 SBC (Vortex86-DX 800MHz, XGI Z9s graphics, 256MB RAM) - 8GB SanDis […]
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- IPC Wall Mount 3-ISA (half length) Case
- Acrosser AR-B8170 SBC (Vortex86-DX 800MHz, XGI Z9s graphics, 256MB RAM)
- 8GB SanDisk SD Card [bootable volume]
- Sound Blaster AWE64 Value

I don't want to be that guy but I can't imagine having a PC that awesome is legal.😉

ronyket wrote on 2021-11-30, 19:43:

This looks very, very similar to a Compaq Prolinea 4/33 I have here as my 486 machine.

But mine doesn't have an integrated Sound chip, and had that ***** of varta barrel battery, which, corroded part of the mainboard, which I repaired myself.

Mine came with a 486DX33 in it, and a different Video chipset, which is an ET6000, willing to upgrade for a DX2/66

I was quite glad to discover they ditched those batteries on my model.

I don't know how much better a DX2-66 is from a DX-33, but in my case, upgrading from a SX-33, it was quite noticeable 😁

wiretap wrote on 2021-12-01, 02:13:

- IPC Wall Mount 3-ISA (half length) Case - Acrosser AR-B8170 SBC (Vortex86-DX 800MHz, XGI Z9s graphics, 256MB RAM) - 8GB SanDis […]
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- IPC Wall Mount 3-ISA (half length) Case
- Acrosser AR-B8170 SBC (Vortex86-DX 800MHz, XGI Z9s graphics, 256MB RAM)
- 8GB SanDisk SD Card [bootable volume]
- Sound Blaster AWE64 Value

That looks really neat.

Linarde wrote on 2021-12-01, 09:27:

I was quite glad to discover they ditched those batteries on my model.

I don't know how much better a DX2-66 is from a DX-33, but in my case, upgrading from a SX-33, it was quite noticeable 😁

Does your Compaq have Onboard Cache memory?

Mine does not have any.

It struggles hard on Doom, unfortunately.

Linarde wrote on 2021-12-01, 09:27:

I don't know how much better a DX2-66 is from a DX-33, but in my case, upgrading from a SX-33, it was quite noticeable 😁

486 DX to SX performance is identical at the same clock unless FPU math is involved, so for over 95% of stuff that it's sensible to run on a lower speed 486 it's identical. |(Don't "but quake" on this, it's barely sensible to run on fast 486.)

ronyket wrote on 2021-12-01, 14:54:

Does your Compaq have Onboard Cache memory?

Mine does not have any.

It struggles hard on Doom, unfortunately.

It doesn't. On these computers (and on yours too I believe) cache is an external module that connects to the slot next to the riser card slot.

Released in late February 1999 with general availability in late March 1999, the Super socket 7 AMD K6-III CPU was the last iteration of the NexGen Nx686 architecture implemented by AMD after the aquisition of the company.
Sporting full speed OnDie 256Kb L2 cache, this CPU had a faster Integer unit than the P6 Katmai. The FPU wasn´t bad either, but no match for the IPC of the Katmai. Basically the 4th iteration of the architecture, it supports enhanced 3DNow! and MMX instructions.
This K6-III 400 running at 450MHz (4.5 x 100MHz), operates on the good/fast ALi V chipset equiped with 512Kb of 100MHz SRAM. This efectively gives the CPU 3 levels of cache, called by AMD, Tri-Level. 128MB of PC100 @CL2-2-2-6 are installed.
After lots of tweaking the AGP is perfectly stable with the TNT2 Ultra. The choice of the card was purely contemporary and the possibility to have stellar 32bit at 1024x768 resolution. 800x600 Glide is garanted by the good 1998 Voodoo 2 12MB. The sound card doesn´t need introduction.

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