"Nibby" (nibby68)
05/01/2016 at 11:05 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
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Intel Pentium 200MHz
128mb RAM
Matrox Millennium 4mb PCI Graphics Card
Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card
3COM 3C905B-TX PCI Ethernet Card
Adaptec 2940UW PCI SCSI Card
2xSeagate Barracuda 2GB ST32550N SCSI 7200RPM
24X IDE CD-ROM Drive
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows NT4 SP6a Workstation
SCSI BIOS \o/
DOS loading
dat memory optimization
Legendary
Classic.
Windows NT4 Workstation on the 2nd SCSI drive
The front
Keyboard for size reference
The rear
Guts
Glory
vRAM (4mb of it!)
The SCSI HDs in use... 2GB 7200RPM which was high end stuff in 1996
A 1992 ST43400N that works but is insanely loud
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:12 |
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God I miss my stupidly large server case with a million DB9 cutouts on the back. It was a P133 machine running NT3.51. Right now the only working box like that I have is a 486DX2 minitower. Serial joystick, MS-DOS, Windows 3.11, Soundblaster 16, Etherexpress 16 NIC, I forget what the video card is, 1GB hard drive, two or three floppy drives, and a PS/2 monitor that will sometimes actually display proper colors.
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Nibby
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/01/2016 at 11:15 |
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That’s badass. What do you use your 486 for, DOS gaming?
BorkBorkBjork
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:18 |
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Chips Challenge!
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:21 |
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And make sure you have the ‘turbo’ turned on. Don’t wanna be stuck at 4.77mhz...
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Nibby
> BorkBorkBjork
05/01/2016 at 11:21 |
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aww yis
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Nibby
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
05/01/2016 at 11:21 |
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I got it for free, so...
Mercedes Streeter
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:23 |
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You and I are much of the same...except I love me some 1990s iMacs!
Slant6
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:23 |
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Any reason behind such a large case for such a normal sized motherboard?
Maybe the fancy business people buying them thinking they’re getting a bigger, better computer (which they are)?
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Nibby
> Slant6
05/01/2016 at 11:24 |
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No idea. The guy I got it from just wanted it gone. I didn’t even know the landmine of classic hardware inside it until I brought it home.
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Nibby
> Mercedes Streeter
05/01/2016 at 11:25 |
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aww yeah
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:26 |
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DESCENT MOTHERFUCKA! Also Skyroads and Doom. And wolfenstein 3D.
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Nibby
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
05/01/2016 at 11:28 |
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:28 |
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MEIN LEBEN
whoarder is tellurium
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:29 |
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Dr_Watson
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:32 |
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Jesus, I’ve actually owned all of those components before. Add 2 12MB SLI Voodoo II cards and you’ve got my first gaming PC.
TBH I think I still have a 3c905 in my router server on the cable modem side. Those NICs never die.
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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:36 |
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... You decided to take a trip into the past that you’ll use once or twice and then put off to the side to collect dust until one day you decide that you’ve collected too much shit and you find that you have a hard time finding a sucker who won’t charge you for taking it off your hands?
I understand completely... I did the same thing with a DEC Alpha 2100A (300mhz 64bit Alpha 21064A Cpu, 512mb ram, stupid-large case with dual redundant power supplies, with an even more stupid-large StorageWorks cabinet that required a 220V outlet) that was new in 1996... and at that time, had the fastest chip in the industry.
Original cost was at least $150,000 in 1996. Bought it off my company for $1 in 2006.
That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 11:36 |
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You've got Street Rod 2 on that thing, right? Best game ever.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Mercedes Streeter
05/01/2016 at 11:57 |
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Using modern hardware, you could probably build a badass PC in one of those.
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Nibby
> Dr_Watson
05/01/2016 at 12:12 |
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high end shit right there
boxrocket
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 12:26 |
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I’ve never heard of an Archie case before, but I want one, because Saint Louis Arch.
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Nibby
> Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
05/01/2016 at 12:34 |
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That old Alpha sounds pretty insane. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of old stuff and machines I don’t use anyways via eBay.
But I keep at least one old machine around for my game design projects, more specifically the MIDI stuff and to run older software that I use that doesn’t work on 64-bit Windows. I see your point though.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 12:44 |
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Nibby on a Sunday.
Wheelerguy
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 12:47 |
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Christ Jesus. I was born in 1997 so I didn’t reach this kind of tech. Or kinda, because my first house PC had a Pentium 4 and WinME. It lasted during the Win7/Core2Duo era, then after a year or so we got an Aspire Z Win8 which I have got to fix and upgrade now, or yesterday (but damn where can I find a Stage 1 for that mother?)
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Nibby
> Wheelerguy
05/01/2016 at 12:52 |
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Man, that makes me feel old.
I grew up on 486 + Pentium systems
tromoly
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 13:54 |
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Meanwhile I’m pricing out how to build a DIY 2-node server with 16-cores and 128GB RAM per node.... My how computers have changed.
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Nibby
> tromoly
05/01/2016 at 13:57 |
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Check eBay cause you can get a lot of power for cheap. My workstation is an HP Z620 with an 8 core Xeon E5-2670 and 64GB RAM
Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 13:57 |
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...8088 was my first PC processor, then I watched the 2/3/486 evolution.
Now you feel better :P
What’re you planning to do with it? Home NAS/streaming?
wkiernan
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 14:06 |
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That’s really nice. Pretty advanced compared to my first three PCs (286-10, 386sx-16, 486-33), I must say. I bet that thing would run AutoCAD Release 12 real fast. Your choices of operating systems win the Strong To Last Long award, too.
I’ve got an IBM PC-AT case lying around my house. No one makes computer cases that look as swell as that any more. One of these days I’d like to put a modern power supply and motherboard into it. It has a power supply in it, which would not be compatible with any modenm motherboards, but it has a big red on/off switch on it that is on the right-side back of the case. When I put the new motherboard in, I’ll have to figure out a way to re-wire that switch to turn the system on and off.
V6 or Bust
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 14:50 |
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Matrox? Pfft! All the cool kids have 3dfx now.
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tromoly
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 15:18 |
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Indeed, piecing a 2-node, 2x Xeon e5-2670 and 128GB RAM per node server (sans HDDs at the moment) is looking around $930, eBay is awesome.
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Nibby
> tromoly
05/01/2016 at 17:01 |
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chkdsk out
http://www.natex.us/default.asp
http://www.natex.us/product-p/inte…
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tromoly
> Nibby
05/01/2016 at 18:32 |
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Yep, that site was linked from another place, I’ve burned many pageviews there. Until a couple weeks ago they had a page with bulk RAM, sadly it appears to have gone away.
The problem with those filled motherboards is I don’t have a case, PSU, fans, etc. that are needed for the system to run correctly, that’s the only reason I’m not looking at them. I figure I can get one of
these
servers and populate both nodes with the same hardware for the price of two of those filled nodes from Natex.
4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> Nibby
05/03/2016 at 15:12 |
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Sir Halffast
> Nibby
05/04/2016 at 13:36 |
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Now you can play Age of Empires II: Age of Kings as it was intended.
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> Nibby
05/04/2016 at 13:40 |
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I just bought one of these for $19.95 to use as a dedicated remote screen/tape for my chronograph.
http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones…
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Nibby
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
05/04/2016 at 13:46 |
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Nice! put it to good use
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JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> Nibby
05/04/2016 at 13:48 |
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I still giggle at the advancement of technology... My $20, throw-away smart phone kicks that old servers ass in every measurable performance category.
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Nibby
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
05/04/2016 at 14:05 |
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Pretty much. But can it run Windows 95 natively with networking + sound + video working?
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JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> Nibby
05/04/2016 at 14:19 |
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Does Emulation count? lemme install DOSBox and get back to you on that ;)