RetroTech Chris

@SpinFlo That's so ridiculous. Hah. Wonder why they did that!!

@RetroTechChris seems only have one usb port active. the second one is for power external devices (only a little)

Last week, I took my ISA to USB card out of my Tandy 1000 TX. Today it finds a new home in my 486 DX4/66. Let's get it installed and talk about it briefly in a 🧵 here!

@SpinFlo Yea, and looks like you ordered the one with the Disk on Chip that has DOS! I did the same.

@RetroTechChris my unit a.aliexpress.com/_EvFOm3a

Oh hey, look! There is now a 2 USB port variant of the ISA to USB interface card. I think I'll have to order one, for science of course!

@SpinFlo Oh wow, that is what they sell now! I'll have to order one! aliexpress.com/i/325680845133…

@SpinFlo Can't say I have seen that variant before!

@Daveyk0 Like I said, this is some of it. But yea, I do have around 75 systems

@RetroTechChris Amateur!

Have any of my fellow retro collector friends looked around their houses and said "you know, I think I might have overdone it". Well, I think I might have overdone it 😅. This is "some" of that. I need to think on this a bit!

@JNS_Photos Agree on all counts personally. But if those OSes are somebody's thing, that is cool too!

@RetroTechChris Win98 wasn't bad, but ME was horrid. WinVista was absolute trash.

I thought I'd see if I could repair the Windows 2000 install on the dual Pentium Pro tonight. Ended up going quite well, though this computer does have some unique hardware in it, which does add an extra step or two. Let's talk about it, you guessed it, a 🧵 here

@JNS_Photos Win98/ME on the home market. But those OSes don't support multiple processors.

@RetroTechChris Been quite a long time since I've seen a Win2000 install there. If I remember right, wasn't this more for like the business side & not the home user? Can't remember what they had out for home users around this time.

@7alken2 x.com/i/status/20093…

@7alken2 I've installed OS/2 on some of my other systems!

Anyway, it's late again, so that is going to do it for now. Always nice when a repair goes off without a hitch. And, oh, this PC ran ALL day, with zero issues, so I think the power supply is good now. Thanks for reading! @threadreaderapp unroll

And, finally, with a good SATA cable in, I figured I could run DOS benchmarks. Last time I tried this, they froze. We can see the cache fall off right at the 1MB mark. Our new Pentium Pro processors are working properly!

@ooohglobbits Haha, well, perhaps at some point.

@RetroTechChris Not that modern pretender, I mean the original!

I got my Pentium Pro 200 MHz processors (with 1MB cache!) in the mail today. Thought I would get them installed and do some form of benchmarks. Did everything go off without a hitch? Of course not 😂. So, what happened this time? Let's talk about it! 🧵 time!