@bugler @saraaa7447 Hah! I only advise, I don't direct. Well, at least not in the retro space, that is 😂😂
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RetroTech Chris
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RetroTech Chris
@RetroTechChris
IBM PC compatible retro tech enthusiast who likes trying out unique retro experiments!
شامل ہوئے Ocak 2021
184 فالونگ8.6K فالوورز
@saraaa7447 @RetroTechChris Help out here and tell this young one to wait until they have your disposable income and warehouse space! x.com/RetroTechChris…
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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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@StairwayToRetro Yep! If you choose the middle option it comes with said ROM. I think that Retro Eric made this work as well and has a video on it.
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@RetroTechChris Interesting. I’m wondering whether — with the proper ROM — it would be possible to have one USB stick for booting MS-DOS and another one just for the data.
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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!
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@SpinFlo That's so ridiculous. Hah. Wonder why they did that!!
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@RetroTechChris seems only have one usb port active. the second one is for power external devices (only a little)
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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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@SpinFlo Yea, and looks like you ordered the one with the Disk on Chip that has DOS! I did the same.
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@SpinFlo Oh wow, that is what they sell now! I'll have to order one! aliexpress.com/i/325680845133…
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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!
@threadreaderapp unroll
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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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