by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 09/18/2017 at 19:21
by "Nibby" (nibby68)
Published 09/18/2017 at 19:21
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What’s this? You’ll never guess. But first check out this ThinkPad 600E, it involves this machine:
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Now back to the IBM box...
An IBM Selectabase II, new in box!
Contents laid out. Power cable, hard drive caddy, bezels, some papers + manual and diskettes.
Help stickers are cool.
The dock, wrapped in plastic.
You can add a 5.25" disc drive and various IBM Ultrabay drives from the 90s.
Yeah, that’s right. ISA + PCI slots in docking station.
The cards I will use... Matrox Millennium G450 32MB PCI + Creative Sound Blaster 16 + WaveBlaster II. Unfortunately the dock didn’t like the sound card so I ended up not using it.
Installed.
The ports
IBM Selectabase 600 is required for the ThinkPad 600 series to work with the dock.
All docked! That’s a 600E Pentium II 366MHz, 288MB RAM, 60GB hard drive with Windows 98SE on it.
The input devices, speakers, and monitor.
Windows 98 desktop
Specs
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
09/18/2017 at 19:34, STARS: 0
Yiss.
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
09/18/2017 at 19:36, STARS: 4
I kinda want an old machine, but only for playing command and conquer
"Nibby" (nibby68)
09/18/2017 at 19:42, STARS: 0
DO IT! If you lived closer I’d send you something but shipping to Utah would be killer
"Funktheduck" (funktheduck)
09/18/2017 at 19:47, STARS: 0
They have updated-ish versions you can buy from Origin? They have cd sets from the past couple years as well.
"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
09/18/2017 at 19:52, STARS: 0
This is exactly why I’m always kicking around the idea of getting an old machine. I’ve got all the C&C games up to RA2, that was my childhood.
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
09/18/2017 at 19:53, STARS: 0
I just need a copy of 95, I have an old machine that would probably run it okay. Single core 4gb ramm
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
09/18/2017 at 19:54, STARS: 0
Yeah me too
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
09/18/2017 at 19:57, STARS: 0
GB or MB? GB ain’t retro...
"Nibby" (nibby68)
09/18/2017 at 19:57, STARS: 1
Too new, 9x doesn’t like anything more than 512MB RAM
"Jason Spears" (shadestalker)
09/18/2017 at 20:05, STARS: 1
Needs a 3-button Mouseman.
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
09/18/2017 at 20:28, STARS: 0
Don’t know those terms
"fintail" (fintail)
09/18/2017 at 20:53, STARS: 0
Any idea of production date? PII 366 must be 1998, although this likely never would have had such RAM or HDD back in the day.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
09/18/2017 at 21:19, STARS: 0
September 1999, the previous user max’d out the RAM and I had a spare drive lying around.
"fintail" (fintail)
09/18/2017 at 21:51, STARS: 0
PII in 1999? Maybe laptops had a different allocation, or production ran longer - I swear I recall PIII by spring of 1999. Why the hell I remember this stuff, I don’t know.
So much RAM would have been amusingly expensive back then.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
09/18/2017 at 22:44, STARS: 0
PIII desktops were new in early 1999
"Sergio526" (sergio526)
09/25/2017 at 09:13, STARS: 0
Now THAT is a damn docking station! I’m sad that the drop-in port replicators are going extinct. All the most recent Dell laptops that I’ve ordered for work lack the E-Port on the bottom and are forced to use USB-C for docking. There are pluses and minuses and I won’t go into them here, but there are definitely more pluses to the old-school drop in replicators/expanders like that IBM bad boy there!
"Nibby" (nibby68)
09/25/2017 at 09:14, STARS: 0
There will never be any docking station anywhere near as cool as this one ever again. ISA + PCI!