"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/17/2017 at 15:46 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
07/17/2017 at 15:46 • Filed to: None | 4
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Got some retro parts for an older PC I am putting together. The desktop itself isn’t here yet, but hopefully tomorrow it’ll come.
CNet NE2000 ISA ethernet card (NE2000 clone)
Number Nine Imagine 128 Series II 4MB PCI video card
Creative Sound Blaster 16 CT1740 with Creative WaveBlaster II CT1910 daughterboard
Closer look at the CNet NE2000 clone, which has a bit of ethernet history. The Novell NE1000 and NE2000 were among the first “affordable” ethernet cards and it made home networking a lot easier and affordable in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
A closer look at the Number Nine Imagine 128 Series II 4MB PCI video card... I put a memory chip in the bottom right to add to the video memory... of the chip on the back. Yep, it has 2 cards, sort of, in one. For MS-DOS support, it has a 512KB Cirrus Logic CL-GD5424 card. Now it has 1MB VRAM for the Cirrus Logic chip.
Other side of the Number Nine card... what’s that? A Cirrus Logic CL-GD5424 chip for use in MS-DOS! Pretty cool.
SB16 with OPL3 YMF-262 chip and a WaveBlaster II daughtercard. Note the manual volume wheel!
Gonna be fun putting this together and getting it all working tomorrow.
jimz
> Nibby
07/17/2017 at 15:53 |
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I remember the first 3D graphics card we got was a Hercules Stingray 128/3D.
What a piece of shit. Back in those days, 3D accelerators were still separate chips/cards which had to be paired with a 2D card for normal Windows/desktop stuff. the Stingray used the Voodoo Rush which put the 3dfx chipset on one card with an Alliance AT25 2D graphics chip. IIRC ours was the later single-board card. They never got the drivers worked out completely, and didn’t support it for very long.
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Nibby
> jimz
07/17/2017 at 15:55 |
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“I miss you JimZ, bring me back”
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jimz
> Nibby
07/17/2017 at 15:57 |
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that’s the earlier version which put the 3D hardware on a daughtercard, which is missing from the card in that pic.
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Nibby
> jimz
07/17/2017 at 16:02 |
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ah, good catch. I just googled your card model
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jimz
> Nibby
07/17/2017 at 16:03 |
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I also had the original Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810,) which came with some pretty high-quality MIDI instrument sets. So you could make the music in DooM sound 100x better than using the standard Windows MIDI.
later ones still used the PCI 128 name but were cut down, cheapened POSs based on an Ensoniq chip and had far, far less capability.
tl;dr creative is a sack of dicks amirite
Wacko
> Nibby
07/17/2017 at 16:03 |
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man you would of freaked out living when these were all new, and paying the at time prices for them.
I still remember when ram was like 100$ a 1mb.
my first pentium had 2 mb of ram. p133 with 1.2gb hd with windows 95
I had no idea how much my tandy 1000 or then my 286 had.
Nibbles
> Nibby
07/17/2017 at 16:06 |
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BOO
ROM
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Nibby
> jimz
07/17/2017 at 16:07 |
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I think VMWare used SB128 PCI for sound emulation, or at least used to in older versions
Thomas Donohue
> Nibby
07/17/2017 at 17:29 |
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Ditch that coax crap and go Token Ring!
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Nibby
> Thomas Donohue
07/17/2017 at 19:04 |
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banyan networking is the future
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Thomas Donohue
> Nibby
07/18/2017 at 08:49 |
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Good one. Ironically, there were Vines servers on one of our TR networks before we moved to Netware. OS/2 workstations for the trifecta!
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Nibby
> Thomas Donohue
07/18/2017 at 09:12 |
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OS/2 MASTER RACE