by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 03/28/2017 at 15:34
by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 03/28/2017 at 15:34
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As previously mentioned a few weeks ago, I bought a Gateway 2000 on eBay a few weeks ago and ran into all sorts of issues. Decided to just replace it with a Socket 7 motherboard and build from there. It’s all done now. There’s nothing Gateway about this, except for the floppy drive, case and PC speaker. Reused the case and here are the rest of the specs:
FIC PT-2003 Socket 7 Motherboard
Pentium 133MHz (just like the Gateway 2000 I grew up with)
64MB SIMM RAM
3.5" floppy drive
40X IBM CDROM
420MB Conner 3600RPM hard drive
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Matrox Mystique 220 4MB PCI video card
YAMAHA Audician32 YMF-719 S ISA sound card
3COM 3C905-TX PCI ethernet card
Serial port card for my serial trackball (the original serial ports
designed for a Gateway 2000/Micronics 486 board uses different pinouts)
Clean outside
dem ports
Clean inside
dat Socket 7
Expansion cards
Matrox Mystique 220
Yamaha Audician32 YMF-719 S
Conner CFS420A with a 64GB microSD card
IBM KB8923 keyboard (the best rubber dome you can get)
Kensington ExpertMouse 2.0
System info utility (NSSI)
Defrag
Surfing the net
Playing games
Obligatory Doom
Might add a SCSI drive and dual boot it with 95
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
03/28/2017 at 15:40, STARS: 1
Dude, you’re getting a Gateway 2000!
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 15:42, STARS: 1
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
03/28/2017 at 15:44, STARS: 0
Jeff probably uses motherboard graphics.
"facw" (facw)
03/28/2017 at 15:44, STARS: 0
Man IE? Where’s your Netscape? Or even Mosaic?
"Jcarr" (jcarr)
03/28/2017 at 15:44, STARS: 3
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 15:45, STARS: 1
Look closer, Netscape is there under program manager
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 15:46, STARS: 0
LEGENDARY
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 15:46, STARS: 0
what a plebeian
"Jcarr" (jcarr)
03/28/2017 at 15:49, STARS: 0
Makes me miss playing Test Drive 5 on our Gateway Pentium III.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 15:50, STARS: 0
Did yours look like this
"500 Days of Kittens" (500daysofkittens)
03/28/2017 at 15:52, STARS: 1
I love this so hard. Makes me want to play with OS/2 Warp again; the one mountain of diskettes I never successfully climbed. *shakes fist*
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 15:54, STARS: 0
here ya go
https://winworldpc.com/product/os-2-3x
"Jcarr" (jcarr)
03/28/2017 at 15:54, STARS: 0
Yep, pretty much. It came with CD-ROM (or maybe it was a DVD-ROM, I don’t remember) and a 3.5". My dad put a CD burner in later.
I can still “feel” what that power button feels like to press.
"Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
03/28/2017 at 15:56, STARS: 0
Holy shit, the memories. Spent entirely too many hours of my childhood playing Doom, Wolfenstein, and Duke Nukem on a Gateway with that case. Still had the PS2 connection keyboard until about seven years ago. Loved the fact that the directional arrows had diagonals, as opposed to just cardinal directions
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 15:59, STARS: 0
They were surprisingly decent
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
03/28/2017 at 16:02, STARS: 0
MGA... those things were ballin’ back then.
I couldn’t even afford to have an S3 ViRGE.
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
03/28/2017 at 16:12, STARS: 0
“420MB Conner 3600RPM hard drive”
Conner hard drives sucked. The only drive maker worse was Kaloc.
Western Digital was much better.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 16:29, STARS: 0
ye it’s pretty slow
"Manwich - now Keto-Friendly" (manwich)
03/28/2017 at 17:15, STARS: 1
“Holy shit, the memories”
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
03/28/2017 at 17:30, STARS: 1
That’s awesome!
I’m not sure how I missed your earlier post; that’s too bad about the original motherboard, but at least this computer is living on in one form or another.
I never wrote about my ebay purchase GW2K P5-90 desktop after I first wrote about it; I managed to damage the motherboard with a faulty CD drive to the point where nothing would display. I was able to reflash the BIOS and get it to boot and display info on the screen, but the keyboard doesn’t work. I still need to look into that...
"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
03/28/2017 at 17:33, STARS: 1
Amusingly, my Conner is still working great, while my Western Digital is starting to have issues. Both are from 1995...
The WD is/was certainly better from a performance perspective though...
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/28/2017 at 22:29, STARS: 0
Good ol gateways... Is it at or PS2 keyboard
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/29/2017 at 09:26, STARS: 0
those programmable keyboards were awesome! Gateway Anykey
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/29/2017 at 09:26, STARS: 0
i think I have an S3 virge sitting around XD
"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
03/29/2017 at 21:04, STARS: 0
It all started from a cd drive not being detected... old Gateways are awesome, but quite finicky. I remember them being that way when new, and advanced age hasn’t helped in this regard...
It’s PS/2; I suspect it’s a blown soldered on fuse on the motherboard, but I’ve been too lazy to look into it. I also have a spare GW2K Pentium motherboard I could swap in... but again, lazy...
"Snuze: Needs another Swede" (markg)
03/30/2017 at 08:43, STARS: 0
My 1996 self is jealous AF.
First computer was a Packard Bell with a Pentium 133MHz. But we only had 32mb RAM and I think an S3 ViRGE. We did have a whopping 2.1GB HDD though. I remember thinking “my god, who needs that much storage? there’s no way I could fill this thing up in a thousand lifetimes”
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/30/2017 at 08:51, STARS: 0
That was quite impressive at the time! My uncle’s machine around the time was a 133MHz Gateway 2000 with 16MB RAM! I remember trying to play flash games on it in the early 2000s and it was super slow.
Funny how storage evolves, you can get 128GB microSD cards now.
"Snuze: Needs another Swede" (markg)
03/30/2017 at 09:13, STARS: 0
It blows my mind that my phone (Note 5) has more computing power, ram, graphics capability, and native storage than my first 3 or 4 computers combined.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/30/2017 at 09:26, STARS: 0
and longer battery life than most of the laptops you’ve had!
"Snuze: Needs another Swede" (markg)
03/30/2017 at 09:46, STARS: 0
It did when new... now going on 2 years it’s getting noticeably shorter, and since its a Note 5 and NOTHING IS ACCESSIBLE I can’t do anything about it. Nice move, Samsung.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/30/2017 at 10:39, STARS: 0
:(
we need moar user replaceable batteries