RetroTech Chris
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RetroTech Chris
@RetroTechChris
IBM PC compatible retro tech enthusiast who likes trying out unique retro experiments!
가입일 Ocak 2021
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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!
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@Daveyk0 Like I said, this is some of it. But yea, I do have around 75 systems
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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!
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@JNS_Photos Agree on all counts personally. But if those OSes are somebody's thing, that is cool too!
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@RetroTechChris Win98 wasn't bad, but ME was horrid. WinVista was absolute trash.
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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
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@JNS_Photos Win98/ME on the home market. But those OSes don't support multiple processors.
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@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.
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@7alken2 I've installed OS/2 on some of my other systems!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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@ooohglobbits I've done Haiku on other systems! x.com/i/status/18695…
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I just finished getting Haiku configured on my eMachines T2341 (AMD Athlon XP 2400+), and I must say, once configured, it is seriously good! Anyway, let's talk about my setup and some of the configuration challenges I had in a very long 🧵 here. Buckle up!
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@dumptruck1978az As in a SMP kernel? Oh, absolutely! I only have SMP OSes on this box, well, except for DOS 😂
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Rapidly Aging Technology did a series 9 years ago about his blacktop pentium pros. Did you make sure to change the kernal in windows 2000 to the correct one? He saw high cpu usage at idle with the default one.
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LGR did a video about build a dual ppro system about 2 years ago too, but not with blacktops!
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@RetroTechChris This PC case is very pretty
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Thought I would stress test these new Pentium Pro CPUs during the day, so I am streaming music. Hopefully the power supply holds out this time 😂
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