"Nibby" (nibby68)
09/18/2017 at 19:21 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
09/18/2017 at 19:21 • Filed to: None | 3
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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
> Nibby
09/18/2017 at 19:34 |
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Yiss.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Nibby
09/18/2017 at 19:36 |
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I kinda want an old machine, but only for playing command and conquer
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Nibby
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/18/2017 at 19:42 |
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DO IT! If you lived closer I’d send you something but shipping to Utah would be killer
Funktheduck
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/18/2017 at 19:47 |
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They have updated-ish versions you can buy from Origin? They have cd sets from the past couple years as well.
Alfalfa
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/18/2017 at 19:52 |
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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.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Nibby
09/18/2017 at 19:53 |
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I just need a copy of 95, I have an old machine that would probably run it okay. Single core 4gb ramm
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Alfalfa
09/18/2017 at 19:54 |
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Yeah me too
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/18/2017 at 19:57 |
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GB or MB? GB ain’t retro...
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Nibby
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/18/2017 at 19:57 |
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Too new, 9x doesn’t like anything more than 512MB RAM
Jason Spears
> Nibby
09/18/2017 at 20:05 |
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Needs a 3-button Mouseman.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/18/2017 at 20:28 |
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Don’t know those terms
fintail
> Nibby
09/18/2017 at 20:53 |
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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.
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Nibby
> fintail
09/18/2017 at 21:19 |
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September 1999, the previous user max’d out the RAM and I had a spare drive lying around.
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fintail
> Nibby
09/18/2017 at 21:51 |
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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.
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Nibby
> fintail
09/18/2017 at 22:44 |
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PIII desktops were new in early 1999
Sergio526
> Nibby
09/25/2017 at 09:13 |
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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!
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Nibby
> Sergio526
09/25/2017 at 09:14 |
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There will never be any docking station anywhere near as cool as this one ever again. ISA + PCI!