I find that sort of machine absolutely boring...anything 486 through P4 bugs me for some reason
Here's an older (http://link.marktplaats.nl/323873621) one for you. The text says he found it in his garage.
IBM PS/2 Model 95? =P
I'd agree otherwise. x86 machines make me yawn.
Nice tape drive though. IDE?
Whoa...how does one just FIND a System/7 in their garage lol
Seems to me you'd need to put it there first...
There were 233 and I think also 266MHz P1s...nice try though :)
I find that sort of machine absolutely boring...anything 486 through P4 bugs me for some reason. Older = cooler, newer = useful, in between = annoying. Oh well.
You forgot the most important find. The Cow mousepad.Show Image(http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/viewFile/1192/2615/4063)
TexasFlood, is that the SGI server toy in your avatar?Yes, ;-) , a unique, if somwhat silly, reminder for me of days gone by. I thought you might recognize it if anyone would, given your avatar. And you didn't disappoint.
I used to have a computer like that. I gutted it and put a newer Pentium III based system in it. Mine had a 166MHz Pentium (non-MMX) and 32MB RAM. It also had a 1MB video card and an old SoundBlaster 16 ISA card. The best thing about it though was the motherboard. Does anyone remember cache-on-a-stick?
The case was a beast. It was such a pain in the ass to open, or at least mine was. I eventually found a used Gateway "Essential" case at a computer store and bought it for $10.
Yes, ;-) , a unique, if somwhat silly, reminder for me of days gone by. I thought you might recognize it if anyone would, given your avatar. And you didn't disappoint.
If you want to upgrade to an AWE64, I'm selling a couple for $5 a pop...
What a ripoff. I wouldn't pay more than $4.25 for one of those!
I'd jump on this one! What a bargain!
:rapture:
I may be able to help you out, Windows. I have an old Gateway G6-333c that used SB16. PCI-based though. Maybe the drivers will still work with the ISA version though?
*EDIT*
I just checked Creative's website. They do have the old SoundBlaster 16 and even just regular SoundBlaster listed. Since I don't know exactly what one you have, I just figured I'd give you a link to the site. http://support.creative.com/Products/product_list.aspx?catID=1&CatName=Sound+Blaster#
You may also want to try this link. http://www.pandpservices.com/drivers/soundblaster/ They only have the PCI driver for SB16, but it may just work.
You're not taking me seriously are you? I admit I used a smiley only in the second post, but still....
:boink:
I wasn't able to find a working driver. It turns out that the card is an old Ensoniq Soundscape Vivo 90. I tried other drivers, including the sound blaster ones, but they just don't seem to work. Oh well. Guess I'll just have to scrounge up an old sound card from someplace.
Gateway was famous for their Ensoniq crap, the mobo on my file server (440BX) has that junk on it lol. My Sony 440LX board had some nice yamaha sound with awesome MIDI which I could use with FF7 for amazing sound so it was a real downgrade.
I wasn't able to find a working driver. It turns out that the card is an old Ensoniq Soundscape Vivo 90. I tried other drivers, including the sound blaster ones, but they just don't seem to work. Oh well. Guess I'll just have to scrounge up an old sound card from someplace.
lol a wireless mouse on a 286, nice
Haha, DOOM - you vintage guys.
Good old After Dark, all my old computers are too fast for it. Even my Compaq, which runs at 120Mhz, is too fast to run the toasers properly.
DOSbox!
Speaking of junky computers, I just hooked my old Windows 95 machine up to ethernet.Wow. I probably still have a copy of Windows 95 around here somewhere. I know I have a copy of Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and OS/2 Warp! Although I don't think any copies of Windows 98 or Windows ME would have survived, :-D
You can download a copy of Internet Explorer 5.5 (http://www.oldapps.com/internet_explorer.php) SP2 on OldApps.com.Thanks for that, cool site. FYI, watch out for my penguin, ;-)
I have copies of all legacy versions of Windows if people want or need them.
I ran ME on my PC back when it came out, got if for free from my Dad's workplace. I remember the lack of DOS mode, and yes, it did crash a good bit more than 98. I would have been around 10 years old at the time, so I'm sure the novelty value outweighed these 'petty' usability issues.
Fortunately, I also got XP when it first came out a few months later, so it was a short and obscure chapter of my computer-using days.
I've run Neptune for a fair while on a few different machines and I simply can't see why they canceled it...
What is this Neptune? it sounds interesting, like a combination of Win2k and XP? that sounds like something for me.
One day while browsing for [closed source operating system made by a large company that sues people often] on a [decentralized method of sharing files] search engine, I stumbled upon it.
You can read the essentials here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Neptune).
Essentially it was a NT-based home-oriented operating system in development at a time that would make it "2000 Home Edition" if released. They canceled it because they were idiots.
Edit: to be clear, I say they were idiots because they could have gone a couple extra years floating on 2k Pro/Home had it been released...then done XP at a later time. XP was a great product though, and the work done on 2k/Neptune does show.
So if I understand correctly, Neptune was to Windows 2000 as XP Home was to XP? If so then I always run XP Pro, and there was a Windows 2000 Pro which I ran before XP so maybe there was no Windows 2000 OS gap for me, :smile:
Hell I remember running Mosaic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSA_Mosaic).
UAC was annoying in Vista, to be sure, and one of the first things I did after an install was turn it off. In 7, I have not had to turn it off at all on any of my three installs. It is very unobtrusive. In either case, I haven't had any problems with the OS itself. As a matter of fact, Windows 7 is the best OS I have ever used.
I have used ME before, and it's not the best, but its a hell of alot better than Windows 98. For me, Windows 98 would crash at least 5 times daily and 98SE sucks with wireless networking. ME ran pretty well on my dad's old Dell Dimension 4100, that is until it became infected with viruses, and even then it would still chug along. I have nothing against ME, except for the fact that Win2k, XP, and 7 are all alot more stable and can handle alot more modern software.
He said something to the effect that they had to do a pretty lightweight implementation in Vista, and that it would get stricter in subsequent releases as the quality of third party software picked up. Further proof that 2/3 of the problem with Windows is other people's software.
Windows 95 good? Not sure which Windows 95 you were using!
Of course, alot of what you described is due to the traditional NT/DOS divide between home and business version of Windows.
95-98-ME aren't OSs. They're complex shells (with an API) for DOS 6.x.
...and 7.x, and 8.x.
Today the garbage day was taken to extremes of awesomeness with the discovery of a cabinet of SGI Itanium racks.Show Image(http://www.nasi.com/images/sgi_altix350.jpg)
Despite the people who were dumping it telling me that they were useless by themselves, the good people at Nekochan have told me otherwise and I intend on getting it running soon.
Today the garbage day was taken to extremes of awesomeness with the discovery of a cabinet of SGI Itanium racks.
Despite the people who were dumping it telling me that they were useless by themselves, the good people at Nekochan have told me otherwise and I intend on getting it running soon.
Well I have Microsoft Neptune running on one of my computers now, and I like it, but I don't think it is very practical for everyday use. It actually worked with all the display and sound drivers out of the box, and it seems somewhat stable. However, I realized that you cannot runany programs off of USB flash devices, it will say that they are invalid Win32 programs. If this OS continues to work, I have no reason to get rid of it. It even let me install my USB wireless N card that is suppose to require Win2k SP4 minimum to run, but it works! Thanks to kishy for the info.
We have 240V over here... The rack had an impressive Industrial blue plug which went into a power unit. It in turn fed kettle leads to all the racks. A single rack can be powered off a wall socket though.
A screenshot of Neptune:Looks a lot like the 2000 or XP classic start menu. see a Neptune Build 5111 ISO out there, is that what you loaded?
Looks a lot like the 2000 or XP classic start menu. see a Neptune Build 5111 ISO out there, is that what you loaded?
There are a lot of different plug types. I often have to ask a facilities guy or look it up in a cheat sheet (http://www.coxhardware.com/pdf_files/NemaPlugChart.pdf). In general I know receptacles above the raised floor but most often not under which is probably the variety your device has.
Build 5111 is the only one that can still be found so it's gotta be what he has. It was released to testers and nobody was allowed to distribute it, but hey, it's a MS product...
One of these -Show Image(http://www.pumpsdirect2u.com/electricial-service-parts-10/industrial-plugs-69/230v-16amp-industrial-plug-811-320_medium.jpg)
Bare in mind that this was for a cabinet of 8 racks, each with redundant 500W PSUs.
Given that I intend on setting up at most two, regular kettle leads will be sufficient.
What is this Neptune? it sounds interesting, like a combination of Win2k and XP? that sounds like something for me.Seeing your image, I was inspired to Google, and found it was a beta version of a predecessor of XP that Microsoft worked on back before they gave up and came out with Windows ME.
Seeing your image, I was inspired to Google, and found it was a beta version of a predecessor of XP that Microsoft worked on back before they gave up and came out with Windows ME.
Remember, though, don't connect it to the Internet - unlike licensed versions of 2000 and XP, you can't get patches for the Sasser and Blaster worms for it, and it would be vulnerable to them, being based on Windows 2000.
While that's solid advice that I'll second, it's probably worth noting that he isn't likely to USE a computer running Neptune...likely just tinkering with it. It's never a good idea to rely on pre-release software for day-to-day anythingness.
But yet on a regular basis, I'm sure some of us hear of people having problems with their computers running Windows 7. How many of us have gotten "My computer keeps rebooting every two hours"?