Reply 60 of 2713, by Mau1wurf1977
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That coffee tray is priceless 🤣
That coffee tray is priceless 🤣
wrote:Hehe, BTW, I'm fondly reminded of a little Windows joke program thing that was circulating around the Internet eons ago. I even think that it was actually released by the Coca Cola Company (but I don't really remember)... it was a "Free Beverage Holder!", and when ran on your PC it would open the CD tray 🤣! 😀
Hehe, found it 🤣!
Note that AFAIK it only will work in single CD-ROM drive PCs, and your CD-ROM drive has to be assigned to drive letter "D".
Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel
http://www.richnagel.net
wrote:wrote:Hehe, BTW, I'm fondly reminded of a little Windows joke program thing that was circulating around the Internet eons ago. I even think that it was actually released by the Coca Cola Company (but I don't really remember)... it was a "Free Beverage Holder!", and when ran on your PC it would open the CD tray 🤣! 😀
Hehe, found it 🤣!
Note that AFAIK it only will work in single CD-ROM drive PCs, and your CD-ROM drive has to be assigned to drive letter "D".
Aw man...when the harddrive has room, I always use 2 partitions 😜
1 partition for Windows and the rest for the rest. This helps minimizing data loss (and a lot of hours as I don't need to slave the drive and look for files on C: for very long 😉 ) when I need to reformat the C: drive 😉
So noone else got a couple rigs to show?
Anyway, I still got a couple more rigs on the way, I'm just taking it slowly 😁
I was looking for a file on my storage drive and came across a picture I snapped of my AT&T PC 6300 awhile back. I picked this machine up at a thrift store for $2 a couple years ago.
It's an interesting 'sorta-XT-class' machine, made by Olivetti around 1985, much faster than the IBM machines and it's fully 16-bit... runs a 7.16mhz 8086, with 640K RAM, 2x 360K/720K 5.25" floppy drives (switchable between 48tpi and 96tpi with a setting on the motherboard), and a monochrome display. The proprietary video card and display seem to be Hercules compatible, but can also do a 640x400 high-res mode... the video controller is capable of doing color, but it requires a different monitor, and those are extremely hard to find. It has built-in serial and parallel ports, and also native mouse support... it can even be used in a sort of keyboard emulation mode, where the mouse emulates arrow key presses.
It has some proprietary 16-bit expansion slots, which are backwards compatible with 8-bit XT slots, but are quite different from 16-bit ISA. There weren't many cards that made use of that feature, though I do have one of the rare 16-bit expanded memory cards for it (which I'll use if I can ever find the DIP switch settings to configure it).
One of these days I'll get around to setting up a hard drive in it. As it is, I don't really use the thing much since it's such a pain to deal with floppy disks.
Ok, so these are out of order, I may try to sort them out. These are my built retro-gear currently.
You will see a the Thermaltake V3 Black case (2 builds, first with beige drives then with the more final black drives). A DynaPower Beige case. Finally a Generic case with a Blue Albatron mobo. Oh, and my supper (packaging says supper, yes really!) mini keyboard and MS mouse for just the retro systems.
First Build I'll list is the Thermaltake V3 Case:
Pentium IIIS 1.4GHz
Gigabye GA-6VTXE
3x 256MB Kingmax PC-150 micro BGA ram
PNY Geforce 4 Ti4600
2x Diamond Voodoo 2 12MB SLI
Soundblaster 64AWE Gold with Simconnector loaded with 32MB EDO
10/100 Nic
7 Port USB card
16x DVD-ROM Pioneer
120GB WD SE HDD
Black Floppy Drive
X-clio 500w GOOD POWER.
2nd system is the Beige DynaPower:
Pentium IIIS 1.4GHz
Soyo TISU
2x 256MB Crucial CL2 PC-133
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
2 Port USB Hi-Speed PCI card
10/100 Nic
Diamond Monster MX300 with NEC XR385 Wavetable (DB50XG clone)
Corsair 430W PSU
WD 160GB HDD
Pioneer 16x Slot loading DVD-106S
Beige Floppy Drive
3rd Generic Case P4 build
3.2GHz Pentium 4 Skt 478
Albatron mobo (forget the model)
EVGA 7800GT 256MB PCI-E 16x
4x Mushkin 512MB PC3200 Dual-Channel
2x STB Voodoo 2 12MB SLI with Heatsinks and Fans
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
AGI 430W PSU
Seagate 320Gig 7200.10 Sata 2 drive
HP CD-RW (old and slow)
Original mock up build of Thermaltake V3 Case, not soo good lookin.
Edit: fixed most of the out of order pics.
I just ordered some more black IDE/Floppy cables for the Beige case. Also need to get some more black in that Thermaltake case. I just painted the SLI Bridge cable last night. You will see some goopy looking stuff on the DVD-ROM, its liquid electrical tape which was a quick blackening patch until I can repaint the casing again. Also need to paint the casing of the Floppy Drive for a more complete effect 😀 .
you mention having a simm-conn for your AWE64. happen to have a spare? 😁
I'd love to toss one on my awe64.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
wrote:you mention having a simm-conn for your AWE64. happen to have a spare? 😁
I'd love to toss one on my awe64.
I just bought mine a few months ago from here. They still sell them.
http://simmconn.tripod.com/
I tried the same, but it was "sold out" and I couldn't get any replies from the seller. 😜
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
wrote:I tried the same, but it was "sold out" and I couldn't get any replies from the seller. 😜
Sorry to hear that, maybe I got one of the last few then? Maybe try to contact the seller periodically and see if they come in stock again. Mine came without a hitch, I think it even had a tracking number which is better than most sellers.
I also didn't buy a second one since my next moves where my Vortex 2 cards and AWE32 to buy and accessorize 😉
🤣, most of the hardware in those pics are "mostly new (new and used parts)" purchases. I now have the harder part on what to use with on them and setting them up correctly still! (heres looking at you MX300 and XR385!!!)
What happened to the momentum??? I guess no one has camera's?
Lovin all the rigs posted up! The K6 and K7 rigs really take me back! Loved my K7 Slot A 750MHz till the MSI board blew caps everywhere! Wish I still had that setup.
> W98SE . P3 1.4S . 512MB . Q.FX3K . SB Live! . 64GB SSD
>WXP/W8.1 . AMD 960T . 8GB . GTX285 . SB X-Fi . 128GB SSD
> Win XI . i7 12700k . 32GB . GTX1070TI . 512GB NVME
wrote:What happened to the momentum??? I guess no one has camera's?
I think most of our rigs are in pieces most of the time...being hardware tinkerers and all 🤣
RG100 should post photos of his super stash. 😁
Yes, yes... seeing it would be like discovering the El Dorado of Retro PC Stuff! Anyway,, I would have posted my Tualeron rig here if not for the fact that it's not working ATM- and you can't post stuff that doesn't work here- hey no cheating, mmmkay!
But I have another rig that I call the Rat Rig that I'll post up soon as I have the time to take some photographs- no time ATM, been working really late the last few weeks.
Hehe, I don't have a single built system at the moment. No cases either! But I am starting to retest all of my stuff, and I hope to do lots of threads about them! 😀
Re: SimmConn AWE64 memory adapter. I'm surprised the seller has sold out. Several Vogons users have bought them fairly recently. I bought a couple about 2 months ago. I would send the seller another email!
RG100 have you considered the security of your retro reserve?
🤣!! Hehe. Well in reality, there's just a wobbly old garage between the outside world and my mountain of retro junk. But I reckon if the garage door was to fall of its hinges, it's more likely that the washing machine would get stolen! 😉
It's not a rig yet, but will hopefully become one today or tomorrow:
1. No-name socket3 mainboard - closest I could find (and use it as a model to configure mine) is this: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/B/BE … -BEK-V429S.html - although the page mentions DX4 and P24T (I happen to have a PODP5V83), mine has one of the relevant jumpers hard-wired, so I'll use a DX2. I also took the risk of not using an external battery and soldering a coin-like holder instead of the old barrel-type - if the old one was rechargeable and the new one is to explode, I'm thinking it would at least get warm before it does, which doesn't seem to happen. I do have another, identical, board though, just in case 😀...
RAM will probably be 16 or 20MB, as I don't intend to run higher than MS-DOS and WfW on it.
2. One of the four VLB cards (all maxed to 2MB RAM): Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM VLB (S3 864), no-name S3 805, no-name CL-GD5428, no-name TGUI9440 - I think I'll use either the Cirrus or the 805...
3. No-name OPTi 82c924 + Analog Devices AD1845JP Soundport - I also have a no-name ES1868F (for which I could use none of the config tools I found), a CT4380 and a Terratec Base-1, but I just like how the OPTi installs and sounds (currently I have it in a 386 system).
Good posts!
I love the Tualatin builds, the cases look VERY neat!
I wish I had some spare PC-133 cl2 memory 🤣.
Anyway, my father's staying at my place for the weekend so I've been too busy tidying the place up a ...bit 😁
wrote:What happened to the momentum??? I guess no one has camera's?
I still got a couple more rigs coming, but it'll have to wait till early next week 😉
...provided I don't spend too much time playing Sacred Gold...🤣!
Ok here's part 1 of my collection...mostly desktops
Ast Bravo MS P/100:
Upgraded the Pentium 1 CPU from 100mhz --> 166mhz
RAM = 128mb FPM
Onboard Ati Mach64 gfx
Voodoo 1 gfx
Onboard CL Sb Pro compatible sound
Gus Max rev 2.1
Intel 100mbit NIC
Windows 98SE, boots into pure DOS
386 system #1
Asus ISA-386C motherboard
386DX 33mhz
8mb RAM
Diamond Tseng ET4000 gfx card
1.2mb 5 1/4 + 1.44mb 3.5 floppy drives
Promise Fast EIDE I/O controller
2.1gig HDD
8x cd-rom drive
Sound Blaster Pro 2, PC speaker routed to this card
Gus Classic
Roland SCC-1 + CM32L or MT32
Adlib Gold
Commodore 386DX-33C, "C" meaning it has cache
386DX 33mhz
8mb RAM
Ati Mach32 2mb DRAM
MPU-401 card
Sound Blaster Pro 2
2.1gig hdd
1.44mb floppy
DOS 6.22 + Win 3.11 wfw
386 system #3:
Commodore PC-50-III
386SX 16mhz (sloooow as hell!!!)
4mb (SIPP) RAM
SCSI hdd (can't remember the size)
Adaptec 1542 SCSI card
Tseng ET4000 gfx card
Sound Blaster 1.5 with C/MS chips
1.44mb 3.5 + 1.2mb 5 1/2 floppy
Sony CDU33 cd-rom + interface card
MS-DOS 6.22 + Win 3.11 wfw
386 system #4:
Compaq Deskpro 386/20E
Cyrix 386->486 upgrade running @ 40mhz
Cyrix 387 fasmath FPU
16mb RAM
1.44mhz floppy
2.1gig hdd
Roland Lapc-I
Sound Blaster Pro 1
GUS Classic
Ati Mach 32 2mb DRAM
MS-DOS 6.22 + Win3.11 wfw
386 system #5:
Dell System 310
has a whopping 32k cache!
i386DX 20mhz
i387 fpu
8mb RAM
160mb, (HUGE!!) 5.25 full height ESDI hdd
1.2mb 5 1/4 + 1.44mb 3.5 floppy
Hercules Dynamite Pro 2mb Tseng ET4000
Sound Blaster Pro 2
MPU-401 card + Roland CM-32L or MT32
PC-DOS 2000
This is the first computer they called "Dell", their older models were called "PC's limited"
This system was very expensive back in the day, it retailed for $6399 back in the late 80's
286 system (EGA gaming rig):
Commodore PC 40-III
286 12mhz
1mb RAM
2.1gig hdd
Tseng ET3000 gfx card set to EGA
Adlib
Creative Game Blaster
1.2mb 5 1/4 + 720k 3.5 floppy
PC-DOS 2000
Cool thing about this machine is that it's compatible with Amiga mouse which I lack the driver for, it also has some built in mono sound I haven't figured out how to use/get working 😜
8088 XT class system:
Commodore PC 20-III
This also has suport for an Amiga mouse
8088 4mhz
640k RAM
built in CGA gfx
20mb (XT) IDE hdd
MS-DOS 5
486 system #1:
Gigabyte Eisa/VLB motherboard
Evergreen am5x86 133mhz
32mb RAM
Adaptec UWSCSI Eisa controller
18gig 15k RPM SCSI hdd
Plextor SCSI cd-rom
Diamond Stealth 64 2mb DRAM VLB gfx card
Sound Blaster AWE32 + Yamaha DB60XG
Voyetra MPU-401 card
Ensoniq Soundscape Elite
Gus PnP
PC-DOS 2000
486 system #2:
Compaq Deskpro 486/33M
Upgraded with a CPU card with 256k cache, the old cpu card had no cache.
Kingston am5x86 133mhz
48mb RAM
Adaptec FAST SCSI-2 EISA controller
9.1gig SCSI hdd
1.44mb 3.5 floppy
3com EISA 10/100mbit NIC
Elsa Winner 1000 2mb VRAM
Terratec EWS64S 32mb
Windows 95C, boots directly into DOS
My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327
WOW! That's amazing. So many cute PCs, I really like that Commodore 386-33. Very, very nice...