RetroSpector78

Just had someone over who wanted to see what the nineties was all about from a personal computer perspective. This is what I came up with. #nineties #retro #vintage

Nice set of hardware in Elon Musks command center in 1998 : youtu.be/KnXee-GN8AE?si…

Why is it that some rechargeable NiCd Battery on old computers leak really heavy, while others don't appear to leak (even after 30+ years). Is it storage ? battery type ? usage ?

@BollingHHoltIV It's an SL/2 : youtu.be/qfhAGW2-56g?si…

@RetroSpector78 Is that a TL series? And while you have it open, can you look for me and see if there is a jumper to enable the memory expansion? LOL. I believe the onboard IDE only works with a handful of drives. They like hard cards just fine and XT-IDE CF. I just...

My Tandy really doesn’t like this hard drive. Other western digital on the hard card works fine, but with this one attached it won’t even post.

@gordoslair Don’t think so. Power seems good. Have the same issue when putting it in another pc (minus the sound).

@RetroSpector78 Power issue maybe?

Lovely

@GromBeestje But as I understand now, the read only values should be interpreted as “the values to be used when you disable auto config”.

@RetroSpector78 Does auto even show it's values?

Any idea why my system is faster with auto config enabled vs auto config disabled (but using the same settings) ? Does that auto config setting do some other magic we cannot manually tweak ?

@crchad here are the numbers. In 3dbench / chris3d the auto config enabled is better, as well as a higher TopBench + LanMark Video score. With auto config disabled + tweaked mem timings I get much better memory throughput, but its as if the system doesn't take advantage from it.

@RetroSpector78 No, I meant what part of the system is faster: just cpu, or memory, etc.?

Found this from another motherboard documentation.

@crchad About 5% - 10%

@RetroSpector78 What is faster, though?

@MTM35276486 It always displays the default values or the values that were set when auto config was disabled.

@RetroSpector78 set "auto" and do a restart to see the changes after boot. 🤔

@Retrotogs Might need to see if there is an easy way to extract the values from the bios using some kind of tool. Otherwise I might need to dump the entire bios chip and poke around with a hex editor

@jengelenm It is probably setting some values based on the cpu configuration, and not necessarily using the read-only values displayed on the screen. But I haven’t been able to find the combo that matches the auto configuration.

@RetroSpector78 What does a duckduckgo-search say? (It’s just that i don’t use google, not meaning you can find more there)

@GromBeestje Yes. They are shown as read-only values.

Got the most amazing donation the other day : youtu.be/zVkkSuXzF_0 #3dfx #videocards #nvidia #pentium #intel #amd

Local listing : Bunch of computers. All working :)

Whenever I need to do a motherboard repair I always end up watching @necro_ware videos :) he has without a doubt the most impressive catalogue of motherboard repair videos. I can totally relate to the fact that every minute of footage corresponds to at least 1 hour of actual work

@Shmbler Probably didn’t fit in an 8 bit slot ? Will see check if it works in an xt machine

@RetroSpector78 I mean those Realtek cards are really slow. But not slow enough to justify mutilation...

That moment when you see this popping up for 20 EUR