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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
Well, I dug out a system recently that I haven't had the pleasure of messing with in a long time... A Dell Dimension 4100. I apparently installed a 40gb hard disk and Windows 2000 pro the last time I had it out which I don't remember how long ago that was (Definitely before we moved, over a year ago). Otherwise, it's a 1Ghz Pentium 3 with 512mb of ram, a Geforce 2 MX 32mb graphics card and a Sound Blaster Live for sound. It's amazing how fast Win2k runs on it, and I've been busy the last couple evenings slowly installing more games on it. I think I'm gonna have to see if I can track down an IDE Zip drive to install in it as well... if I can find one for a reasonable price anyway. For the moment I at least have an external one I can use if I get the itch to It makes me want to finally use my old gateway socket A motherboard and Athlon 1100 and finally build myself a Thunderbird machine. -
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
Ah yes, the Abit BH6. I have a couple of them and they're fantastic boards. The soft menu in the BIOS for the processor FSB and Multiplier is great to have. They seem to be very stable boards too, at least with my experience with them. -
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
It shouldn't be too hard to track down the pieces you need. I'd offer mine up but the ones off my T23 are also broken. I do know that Disappearing Inc has a lot more T23 laptops as well, so depending on where you're located he may be a good source. -
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
Nice! I do know that the power management drivers seem to be needed on these old Thinkpads, I've had quite a few "unknown" devices suddenly become known after installing the PM drivers. I suspect maybe there's chipset drivers that are installed as well at that point, but not 100% on that. For XP I've generally found that 512mb is my bare minimum for running it acceptably, along with generally much faster cpus (Min. 1ghz, usually use with P4 or Athlon 64+). This is partly due to the fact that I ran Win2k until the end of service before I actually switched to XP, and find 2k runs much faster (Plus, you know... nostalgia and all that). The T22/T23 laptops are actually quite serviceable, I don't think it would be too hard to get it back together and workable again as long as you still have all the parts. They're great machines! -
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
Well, when I was in town for LTX I had a chance to swing by Disappearing Inc and got my hands on a Thinkpad T23 parts machine with a good screen which I needed for my T22. Got the LCD panel swapped over (Backlight in the old one was dead, swapped with one from another panel and still dead), backlight didn't work, though it did in the T23 when we tested. Swapped the inverter board and still nothing... swapped the display cable and it all came to life, so perhaps the lamp I have in the other display is still OK so I'll still be keeping it for a spare. Have the machine all back together and it's working great now! Good to know that the LCD, inverter and LCD cable are all the exact same between the T22 and T23, and I suspect I could actually swap the motherboard over as well (T23 lower case isn't in the greatest shape) but that's an eventual maybe. I'll be keeping the T22's old LCD, the T23's keyboard and motherboard for spare parts and realistically likely scrap the rest. T22 Specs: Intel Pentium III - 900Mhz, 256mb SD Ram, 20Gb HDD, S3 Savage IX Graphics (8Mb), Intel Pro/100 Ethernet and Crystal Sound. I've installed Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 on it, as I already have several newer Thinkpads that are all running Windows XP and I really wanted a Win2k laptop. This fits the bill nicely and is really a quick machine with Win2k. I've still got install the last couple drivers but just about all done getting it set back up. Judging by the Windows 98SE COA on the underside, I presume this was originally a Windows 98 system. Maybe one day I'll see if I can find a replacement battery for it, or maybe look at rebuilding the one that's in it. It, not surprisingly, doesn't hold a charge at all haha.
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
Does the motherboard have L2 cache? If memory serves some of the AST systems didn't have any on the mb, though I think that was the older earlier p1 systems. Looks like it's in great shape! Those old bigfoot drives are neat too, though they are slow compared to similar size 3.5" drives. -
If you get out of the city centre hotels should be cheaper too. Since we moved out of town, we'll be staying with family in Langley and I'll be driving in. Taking the bus from Langley would take a while though. Are you going to have a vehicle or rely on transit?
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What is your experience with the crowd at LTT Expo?
BrianTheElectrician replied to e22big's topic in WHALE LAN
I volunteered at ltx2019 and it had a great vibe. I'd def say the vast majority are more like those here on the forum, not reddit lol. Never had an issue with anybody and it was always fun chatting with people. I'll be volunteering this year as well and am very much looking forward to it. -
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
Best I can make out is it's a 100mhz pentium, which coincidentally was also our first family machine. Hardware wise ours had 8mb of edo ram, a diamond stealth 64 2mb pci video card (S3 trio64 chipset), a 33.6k modem and sound blaster 16. It was spec'd 16mb ram but my dad downgraded to 8mb because it saved $300. Also had a 1gb Wd caviar 11000 ide hard disk and 4x cdrom drive. Came running windows 95, and we later upgraded to 32mb of ram. The pentium 1s used either socket 5 for the earlier ones (75-166mhz), or socket 7. The very early 5v 60 and 66mhz ones were socket 4. The later pentiums and pentium mmxs are good paired with a voodoo 1, and the earlier are really 2d only for era correctness. -
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
I'd say I certainly do. Whole systems even -
https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-entertainm/best-of WinWorld has many disc/disk images of abandonware. I've used it for years and never had an issue, I consider all their images safe. I've linked the page for the "Best of" the entertainment pack which I believe has most of the games you're looking for, but there are other pages for images of each full collection. You should be able to directly mount the image in PCEM or most/all other emulation software.
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Hi, i had a question about a card brought up in the "tech hoarders" video.
Link, timestamped:
So linus said "at least this one has VR out". Was he making a joke or was this a card used for some kind of stereoscopic 3d glasses with CRT monitors back in the day? If not, what was the card used for?
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2 hours ago, whogaze said:So was it specifically for audio?
No, "stereo" meaning stereoscopic 3D. I don't think it carries any audio at all.
There's not much information out there but I would assume the pins carry clock signals. The glasses are shutter-based, they don't actually have video hardware from what I understand.
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Just now, Mel0n. said:
No, "stereo" meaning stereoscopic 3D. I don't think it carries any audio at all.
There's not much information out there but I would assume the pins carry clock signals. The glasses are shutter-based, they don't actually have video hardware from what I understand.
Very interesting, thank you!
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
Woah it's been a while since I've been on here. We're in the middle of Reno's and moving though so have been very busy. A shot of *most* of my old machines staged to go up to the interior. We will be somewhat space limited for the next couple years but we will eventually be building a new place, which also means a new workshop. The container were storing a lot of our stuff in I'll probably be converting into my new computer workshop.
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
Ok yeah that's pretty garbled lol. Surely an old version of Works could run on a newer system that that though!? Guess I know what I'm going to try this weekend lol. -
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BrianTheElectrician replied to TheTechnerd's topic in General Discussion
I'll have to hop onto archive and grab the images. If there are a lot of similarities to the 1685 it would certainly be good to have! The software looks like a good collection as well! That's a very clean looking machine, but it's interesting that your boss wants it for old software... I can't imagine they would need access to any files or software that old anymore...? Maybe the old software is games?
