by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 03/06/2017 at 19:05
by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 03/06/2017 at 19:05
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aww ye
dat Genoa/rebranded Cirrus Logic
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/06/2017 at 19:17, STARS: 0
Suddenly, VLB. You rolling with two whole megs of mems there?
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/06/2017 at 19:19, STARS: 0
Only 1
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/06/2017 at 19:23, STARS: 0
Could be worse, could be ISA only. It’s way more skookum than any old EGA card. I bet you can run the shit out of some Aces Over Europe or 688 Attack Sub.
"S65" (granthp)
03/06/2017 at 19:26, STARS: 0
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/06/2017 at 19:27, STARS: 0
Genesis!
"facw" (facw)
03/06/2017 at 19:34, STARS: 0
Saturn!
Genesis:
Dreamcast:
"S65" (granthp)
03/06/2017 at 19:35, STARS: 1
No Nibby it was a Saturn
"chaozbandit" (chaozbandit)
03/06/2017 at 19:43, STARS: 0
Why do the caps look broken
"whoarder is tellurium" (whoarder)
03/06/2017 at 19:46, STARS: 0
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
"jimz" (jimz)
03/06/2017 at 20:06, STARS: 0
shit, our first computer was an IBM 5160 PC/XT, with a CGA graphics card. we couldn’t afford to “get into megabytes” at the time, so the hard drive was pulled and ours had dual half-height floppy drives. I remember playing Space Quest in all of its dithered 4-color glory. When we upgraded to a Northgate 386, I sat in awe of being able to play the same game in 16-color EGA.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/06/2017 at 20:17, STARS: 0
Ahhh right my bag
"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
03/06/2017 at 20:44, STARS: 0
Tantalum caps just bent over from storage. Careful straightening will make them good as new. And that VLB never did like the DX50.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/06/2017 at 23:17, STARS: 0
I would if the machine’s PSU worked!
"TheBimmerGuyWhoNowOwnsAChevy" (thebimmerguy)
03/07/2017 at 00:54, STARS: 0
Probably still better than my gtx 1050 lol. I regret not getting the TI version, sigh
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
03/07/2017 at 05:58, STARS: 0
I still want the most insane use of VLB ever - the VTech Platinum SMP and its SMP Power Card. And, yes, that’s SMP in the modern sense, two 486DX2 66s running NT 3.1 (and they dual booted into MS-DOS 6+Windows 3.1 for when you wanted to run old stuff).
I believe the SMP Power Card actually uses a modified VLB slot, so you can’t just drop it into any VLB system, though. (Not to mention the requirement for APICs for interrupt handling in SMP.)
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/07/2017 at 08:36, STARS: 0
Definitely would be an upgrade over the 1050, Ti or not
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/07/2017 at 08:37, STARS: 0
That would be awesome! I found on eBay an old quad core 486 server tower in California. An internet buddy who also likes old machines got it. It’s super cool but needs a new power supply.
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
03/07/2017 at 08:54, STARS: 0
Quad 486?
That’ll be, what, a Compaq Proliant 2000 or 4000? (I think 4500 was Pentium-only). Otherwise, it’s something Corollary-based most likely.
Fun fact: As far as non-IBM/Intel-standard x86 platforms go, the SystemPro/Proliant 2000/4000/4500 multiprocessing architecture is the one that Microsoft supported the longest. It was supported in NT 3.1 at release, and it was still supported as of XP SP3 (but not Server 2003). Every other non-standard platform was dropped by the time XP came out, including ones introduced in NT 4 or even 2000. So, if your Proliant 2000/4000/4500 had Pentiums, you can dual-boot NT 3.1 RTM without adding any HALs, alongside fully-updated XP SP3 (and I wonder if the 2 socket limitation on XP Pro is honored by halsp.dll - I mean, the one family of machines that can actually run XP and uses halsp.dll has four sockets...)
Oh, and that Platinum SMP, if you add Pentium Overdrives (and VTech advertised it as ready to drop two PODPs in, in 1993), you can actually boot it into XP as well. Windows 7 needs ACPI, though, which didn’t exist in 1993... but if you wrote an ACPI BIOS for it, you actually could.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/07/2017 at 09:11, STARS: 0
It is an NCR 3450. He posted about it on vogons
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=52833
Did you use NT 3.x back in the day? I’ve played around with 3.51 but kept running into Dr. Watson errors so I rage-erased it >:D
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
03/07/2017 at 10:09, STARS: 0
Not when it was current, no. Actually, don’t think I’ve ever run it on metal, just in VMs.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/07/2017 at 12:42, STARS: 0
Argh, bad news. The machine turns on but the Genoa does not output any video. If I remove the card, the machine will beep.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/07/2017 at 12:42, STARS: 0
Argh, bad news. The machine turns on but the Genoa does not output any video. If I remove the card, the machine will beep.