x86 goodies from the nineties
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2020
- This video is about an AT case pickup I did recently. I was lucky enough to receive a large number of machines where in this video I will be focussing on some 1995 - 1998 based computers.
#Nineties #Retro #PC - Наука та технологія
I feel like I've just entered one of my dreams, I periodically have dreams of owning a collection of random late 1990s/early 2000s PCs. 😊
My wife has them also but calls them nightmares.
Why is that? I have a 2005 dell dimension 9100 with a Pentium 4 :D very nice machine, very responsive in its entire 15 year lifespan it never crashed once
@@RetroSpector78 Does she call you the junk collector, or is she not that polite?
I feel you bro.
@@bombtwenty3867 She's actually pretty cool about it. As long as the collection is confined to 1 or 2 designated areas where no regular visitors ever see them :)
I remember trying to use the PC Speaker driver as a soundcard replacement on a 486 back in the day, the entire system would lock up while it tried to play anything as it took seemingly 100% of the cpu to figure out how to play back the audio.
Didn’t know the pc speaker driver was a thing :) first time I heard it was when I turned on this computer :)
Absolutely! The PC speaker driver was essentially a BIOS call that was in essence, a hardware interrupt synthesizing beeps. Really cool stuff back in that day. But for those of us who couldn't afford a sound card, it was the only way!!!
First learned about it with MODPlay back on my 486SX before I got a Sound Blaster Pro. Sounded terrible, but it was something!
And yes, the super tight loops to PWM the timer chip left no CPU time for anything else. Same problem as with peripherals that used the parallel port before DMA transfers and IRQ on completion. Whew, PCs had a rough start. ;-)
@@RetroSpector78 I'm surprised, I first knew about it in 2008 :P
try DOS games pinball illusion or Link the challenge of Golf with the PC Speaker ;-)
Really nice piece of hardware history. I'm also a happy owner of '90 -'95 AT PC collection containing every kind of system of that period (286, 386SX, 386DX, 486SX, 486DX, P75, P150, P233MMX, PII333). My wife hates me for that (still looking for high-end 486).
It is really a warm feeling that someone shares the same hobby and willing to talk about experience on subject matter.
PS. Those longer slots at 5:03 are most probably SDR SDRAMs, not SIMMs
And let's shout it loud: WE WANT MORE 286/386/486 VIDEOS !
greetings from Poland
Well, P75, P150 and P233MMX can be combined into one machine. I have it this way. Switching CPU on socket 7 is easy, and Pentium 150 can be downclocked to 75 (50x1.5), P MMX cannot go so low unfortunately, only to 2x50 (100mhz), as 1.5x multi is 3.5x when P MMX is inserted.
Maybe your wife hates you for that. :) cause she knows it. :)
Btw, great hobby. Glad to hear, you have these kind of machines. I just began last months, and bought P233 MMX AT case machine. it's great fun. Already upgraded 32 MB RAM to 64, few days ago.
I recently subbed to you after watching your Olivetti videos. I used to have one of those IBM PS2 towers you have under the bench, was given to me back in the late 90's. Mine was a 286 with a 100MB ESDI hard drive and 2mb ram all in 256K 30pin SIMMs. unfortunately it had a bad PSU so i binned it. How i now wish id kept it and so many old PC's I binned back then. Least I'm making amends now, I have quite a large collection from the 80's and 90's.
Nice overview of the systems. Pleased to see that the all where working. The Highscreen came from Vobis, I still have a stack of Quantum Bigfoot HD's, a lot of older HD's, floppy drives and so on. Will have another rummage thru my stuff.
I remember those Highscreen cases from when they where new and sold by Vobis. The bezel with the green button is one of it’s striking design features that just stands out. A former neighbour of mine had a Vobis Highscreen in the late 90’s / early 2000’s if my memory serves me well. They came in a few different sizes, I think they also had a bigtower version. Vobis stores used to be quite common in the netherlands.
After taking about 20 seconds to see the kinds of videos on this channel, I subscribed.
Those AT tower cases could be so annoying back in the day (trying to wiggle motherboards in and out of the case) but they definitely have their charm. I had a full height tower that I had completely filled up with hard drives. I think it weight 50lbs and I hauled it to LAN parties for at least 2 years.
That K5-based motherboard. Love that transition between addon cards and onboard options (but before all the ports were implemented on the boards themselves). You are bringing back a lot of memories (good AND bad - hehehe). :)
The 486 was the i9 of the early 90´s XD
No, it was the 68040! Yup!
@@mark12358 Sorry, yes it was the 68040 :P
Love videos like this. I think finding old lots like this today would be rare.
Those are some good looking beige boxes! I used to have the exact same case that you show at 18:25. Seems to be a pretty common case in the Netherlands. I remember getting a Bigfoot, it may not have been the fastest drive in the world, but it was cost effective for the amount of storage it offered. The nineties were a great time for PCs, there was so much stuff to get excited about.
I had that case too. Was the first one I bought when I built my first machine, a pentium 166 (non MMX :-)). It got upgraded with a 3DFX, kind of miss that machine.
Man when I think of how we used to just recycle these without a second thought. Glad some were saved!
I've only ever had classic cars and always wondered why people junked these works of art.
But having owned computers and dealt with them when they were old to me, I understand. Being space-poor doesn't help.
@@twentyrothmans7308 I certainly kick myself for some of the things I let go.. PS/2s, Tandy 1000s, but we had no concept of collectability then. There was no romance about it.. you wanted your games or whatever to run faster so once you got that Pentium the 486 became a worthless space eater. Out they went.
Back in the 90's: I hate beige boxes....now: we love beige boxes....
they were more white tho in that time
Wow, great finds especially the super socket 7 since they are quite rare. I grew up with a socket 7 system after we gave up on a XT clone so it's nice to see them.
Got a couple of super socket 7's but they all seem to have the same motherboard :) In this lot was alsoa nice ATX based super socket 7 board. So also interested in giving that a try.
Nice selection there. I remember someone who was still using a K6-2 Win 98 machine in 2008!
Planning on doing a benchmark / comparison video on that. Was pleasantly surprised to see lots of non intel cpu’s
You should do a room tour! It would be so interesting seeing all those old computers and operating system boxes.
Doing some home improvements (inside and out) ... so not the best time at the moment :)
Would be great if you did at some point in the future, though!
Wow the Quantum Bigfoot. I almost forgot I got such a drive back in the day. Great video.
See.. this is what i love from this Retro/Vintage Tech channel... all the other retro youtubers show weird machines.. machines i never see...
For me.. this are the "vintage" computers.. this "white refrigerators" are the computers l always see here in my country... nice collection @RetroSpector78...
Ramdileo. sys thx a lot ... glad you enjoyed it ... try to provide a mix of old, weird, cool, dirty, broken, fixed computers :) should be something here for most retro enthousiasts :)
Lucky thank you sir! These pc's are awesome.
Omg I had the one with the green energy star button.
the button nobody pressed
The irony is it probably wouldn't be classed as energy efficient by today's standards.
The table is flexin while your flexin with these beauties. There’s a whole lot of flexin going on in this video.
I had one of those cases on my first PC as well, third from right (tallest). Really brought back some memories. I can't remember much of what I did with the machine, but I sure remember the machine itself.
That's a great lot of old Dutch PCs. Socket 7 is probably my favorite PC type and you surely got a bunch of them here!
The last socket for both AMD and iNTEL (and few others).
Oh, man! I have been wanting one of those PS/2 full-tower machines for a while. Cool score!
Bolling Holt thx ... it is starting so that’s already good :) but floppy drive is dead, and had a brand new old stock one that also doesn’t seem to work. So will get its own dedicated video.
@@RetroSpector78 Looking forward to it!
Back when they actually built computers to last.
@@kalijasin EXACTLY!!!
I have never seen such a slim height 5.25" HDD like the Quantum Bigfoot. It is always nice to see one or the other surprise in these old computers. Good stuff.
Very nice to see the old pc. remembering the olden days of computers.
I had 2 Compact PCs like that on my father’s office when I was 12 ! Still love that case, super sleek for the time!
omg those 5,25 quantum fireball hard drives...you just CANT forget the sound of these and this pc has 2 of them! Who needs a landing strip when you have these!
You are very lucky to have found such a lot ! Being from Belgium as well, it is quite rare I manage to find similar kind in good condition !
Indeed ... a lot of luck is involved ... sometimes there are gems popping up online
The Compaq Presario is a major pain in the butt to work with, most interesting thing about it is the bigfoot hard drive
Can’t wait to see the IBM PS/2 tower in action. I acquired a model 95 as a throwaway from a prior job, though this one looks like a different model.
And the best part is they All still work. Thanks for Sharing
Awesome haul! You finally got that PS/2 I was anxiously waiting a video for, so good luck with that :) If it is in complete working order and an MCA system, your wallet will be happy too!
Not really in it for the money .... if I would be I would just immediately put all of this stuff on ebay and be done with it .... part of the fun is to discuss / review / repair them, and if I can do a nice trade and make somebody happy then that is good for me.
@@RetroSpector78 i didn't mean like you would sell it. Your wallet will be happy because you don't need to source all the rare and expensive spare parts:) Those aren't cheap machines to fix and maintain. Everything is pretty much proprietary.
Something really special about these socket 7/AT systems. Really feels like the golde age of computer games. Put a Voodoo 1/2 in any of those and you really will have a blast! I don’t have a Voodoo 1 but a Rush though and it makes such a difference :) You should so come to Sweden for our huge retro computer lans, we watch your videos all the time and would love to have you over!
yeah was going to come last time but my wife had surgery and couldn't make it there .... next one ! :)
Another great video!! Thanks for sharing! Quantum bigfoot.. a lot of BAD memories!!!
Nice collection. Mine is buried in the basement. I hope it will find new place in my new/old house we do renovate now and I will be able to show it to the public (on YT). I'm still missing MVP3 motherboard, what is kinda strange because back in the days I assembled probably close to 100 systems based on EPoXe's MVP3 motherboards.
Sweet Haul my cousin and i used to play on one of the those presarios back in 98'' good memories
Speaking about the Quantum Bigfoot hard drive, probably you'll find another one in the little Compaq Presario too, as it was a common hard drive choice for that model. So that's a grand total of 4 Bigfoots, good catch as they aren't so common.
Thank you for sharing!👍
That is a really nice haul! Back in the day I had the exact same sound card that is in the first PC you've shown, the CT4170 Sound Blaster 16. I believe that they were also called the Sound Blaster 16 Waveffects. It has a really nice sound if memory serves.
The "WavEffects" on that SB16 is a software thing inherited from the AWE64. The AWE32 has a hardware wavetable synthesizer with 32 (nominal) voices. The AWE64 adds another 32 voices generated by a software synthesizer that uses physical modelling (called WaveGuide synthesis). The SB16 WaveEffects includes the WaveGuide synthesizer developed for the AWE64, but the hardware is, as far as I know, identical to earlier SB16 cards.
Looked more like a sb16 vibra
@@DrDroogkloot You are completely right, my comment is unclear. The SB16 WavEffects is a Vibra 16 card. When I wrote "earlier SB16 cards", I didn't intend to mean the original pre-Vibra SB16 cards, but I thought about the non-WavEffects Vibra 16 cards as "earlier" compared to the WavEffects branding added later on.
worked with most of them in 90-2000s as it tech. Bring back memories.
My favorite little detail about any of this stuff is this one small detail, about one component that is common to all SCSI devices. They have this really neat scrolling set of numeric labels, zero through to seven, and a plus above and minus pushbutton below. The buttons are for scrolling through these eight digits, and this is how the SCSI address is set for these devices. Be sure to check that little detail if you ever need to buy a SCSI device online. Some people who aren’t knowing in the know will just call it SCSI because it’s old and it’s got a funky D-sub connector of sorts. Look for the little number with a plus and minus and you’re good!! NICE STUFF! THANKS FOR SHARING!!
Nice collection indeed. 👍🏾
That’s some nice vintage PCs. I wish you showed the other hard drives that were not the Bigfoot, I think hard drives are interesting. (But that may be just me, I like seeing older drives and listening to their seeking sounds.)
I understand ... you may have a point :) might do a 10min video some day with just hard drive sounds :)
@@RetroSpector78 Quantums are my favorites :)
From time to time I have dreams of finding that kind of haul of retro PCs :) I have vast collection, but still looking for more :)
Wow, that tower that looks like a PS/2 is really cool! Wish I could find one like that...
Damn! That Zeb Computer tower with the green bar at the front looks exactly like an old Peacock PC case I used to have for my first 486.
Thought these peacock systems were a little more stylish and high end than those clone cases
@@RetroSpector78 Not really. 1993 I was an apprentice at MediaMarkt in Germany. The peacock computers we sold were pretty generic. The only recurring elements were green power buttons or other parts of the case in this mint greenish colour. We also sold non-labled empty cases and other components like controller and video cards (actually Cirrus Logic). The range of pre built computers was pretty wide from mini tower 486SX machines up to midi tower Pentium 90.
Maybe the brand Peacock was more focussed on high end in other countrys.
This is why I just love the retro scene. Ive a substantial enough collection of my own and been at this since the early nineties and I can not recall ever running into the Quantum big foot. Dont know if I've ever heard of it.
Quantum was known for producing the FireBall and Bigfoot lines. They made RLL drives in the late 1980's too. They sold their hard drive division to Maxtor in 2001
You are a lucky man to purchase these beauties.
I know..... You wouldn't believe how long it took for me to find my first 486 when I started this hobby at the end of 2018.
@@RetroSpector78 Still have my dx2/66 in the attic that I plan to restore one day. And a Pentium 90 whose case looks very much like that one with the turbo button. I remember that the P90 was so much faster for playing doom on LAN. Good times!
what a haul, that old 386 is similar to my first computer that I'm still desperately looking for, an American Research Corp. 386S Skyscraper.
That K5 board would deserve another look. It came from an interesting time. Between AT and ATX when board manufacturers started to add more and more features that would normally be on external cards directly on the board. By then combining the features into one chip was easy and made room on the board for internal connectors but for external connectors they were stuck with AT case specs. Which basically just established board size, hold down points, where the keyboard plug hole was located and where the slots started and their sizes and spacing. This was before the back feature panel was established. So manufacturers had come up with those proprietary add on boards. Yours has the sound and video, which is on the motherboard, but notice that there’s also space on the small board. And often they had optional add-on boards which also included Network and Modem plugs or connectors, since by then those features had also turned into cloned single on chip solutions. It was an interesting time, and probably a frustrating one for manufacturers.
Awesome score!
We used to have a Highscreen computer once. A 486 DX2-66 that we later upgraded with a CD-ROM and Soundblaster. The best part: The case was an iconic Colani tower. That was when Highscreen partnered with German designer Luigi Colani back in the day.
Colani cases are great but extremely difficult to find ... remember looking at computer magazines and seeing all those 486dx highscreen colani pc’s (desktops and towers). Would love to have one someday.
I used to build and repair back then. Great times. Expensive too.
I was meticulous with procedure, if it wasn't my machine. I ran the screwless case also, that is I just never screwed the cards in.
I love the days of super socket 7. I had chips from AMD, Cyrix, perhaps even IBM but that could have been a 486.
Good to see a GP battery on that Motherboard. Never had one of those leaking. They're way more "long-time-stable" than the Varta ones. Very reliable.
Very cool. My first experience with a Quantum Bigfoot drive was in the context of a customer requesting data recovery; I'm thinking maybe 2001.
Loved my slim 2GB bigfoot. Insane capacity for dirt cheap prices in the days. We weren't picky with access time back then, having just left the realm of rll / mfm drives. The problem with BF is they put an insane amount of torque on the motor to begin spinning, so if left unexercised the spindle begins to catch, and sometime the motor won't be able to start. A light percussive maintenance may give it just enough kick to get going.
didn't these come when 3.5 inch IDE drives were already pretty mainstreams for some time ? I remember being pretty surprised when all of a sudden these 5.25inch drives came out.... (Disclaimer : I only saw or heard about 5.25 inch MFM drives at the end of 2018. So at the end had no frame of reference).
@@RetroSpector78 : Oh certainly, 3.5" drives were the norm, but with a capacity between 150 MB and 420 MB ; 2GB at roughly the price of a "speedy" 400 MB 3.5" was an awesome deal ;-)
It's a bit like today situation with speedy and smallish SSDs for the system and a fat slow mechanical drive for the data.
Aww man, the Highscreen tower brings back memories! I had two of those when I was a teenager. A Cyrix 166+ and later a Pentium 200 if I remember correctly. I remember skipping school and playing Diablo on them until my warrior was level 46. Never reached level 50, tho. 😁
The first one with the Highscreen case reminds me of my first PC. It had this exact case but was a P150, FIC PA2005, 24 MB RAM, Seagate ST31621A (actually Connor Peripherals), ESS Audiodrive 1868, Cirrus Logic 54something graphics card and an 8 speed Toshiba CD ROM. Bought it in August 1996 and served me well until about 2000 or so, I think. I then sold it on eBay for virtually nothing and later had regrets when my vintage PC gene developed. So I bought a very similar PC with this case from ebay for dirt cheap and upgraded it as much as I could with the FIC PA2005. It is a P233MMX now that is downclocked to 200MHz since the PA2005 doesn't support 233MHz nor does it support MMX. It has 160MB RAM, WDAC24300, Sound Blaster 128, S3 something graphics card and the old HP CD burner that came with the first Aldi PC in I think 1999 or 2000 or so. I installed all of my old games on it and some more. Of course Win95C with USB support. This thing is like a little time capsule but I rarely use it unfortunately (:
I wish Seagate would bring out an SMR drive in 5.25" dimensions. If it's SMR, it's slow as all get-out, so that's fine, let it be slow for archives, but if you want the capacity, bring back the 5.25". Would be plenty for archive drives and can't be much worse than the stuff they've stealth submarined as Barracuda's of late without telling anyone.
Unfortunately a lot of modern cases don't even have 5.25" slots. So it would be interesting to see how that gets solved. I personally haven't abandoned that particular mount on a case.
Wow, so many nice machines in one go! And they all work!? That's like the definition of luck right there. :)
I'm very jealous on all the super socket 7 goodness. I almost never find any of those up here, and when I do they're expensive.
Looking forwards to your video on the IBM PS/2 tower. Always wanted one of those (is it the model 80?), but it's never been practical. When they do show up for sale it's always pickup-only and in the wrong part of the country for me.. Never lucky.
I had one of those Quantum Bigfoots in the day. It was so loud you could tell the computer was running from outside the house.
I'm searching (occasionally) for an era compliant looking ATX midi or full tower case in good condition for my 1998 Asus P2B mobo and another AT midi tower case for a 486 (have a flat desktop one retrobrighted already) without any real success in the EU. Also I've lost the IO shield panel for the Asus some years ago unfortunately. Nice to see these cases are still very reachable somewhere! Brings back a lot of good memories from those times! :)
Look at these guys, all wiggling in the wind because they can't wait to be presented.
Yeah it was really really windy ... but wanted them outside cause they had been stored inside for I don’t know how long.
I really like those Quantum Bigfoot drives, the name suites them very well. :)
I had a similar Highscreen machine, kosted around 1600 Dutch guilders in 1997. That was was of course without audiocard and network card.
Pentium MMX 166 and an ATI graphics card with 2 MByte of video RAM. System memory was 8MByte
Good old days...cool stuff
Nice Highscreen, I have a similar case of theirs, but it's a slightly larger tower, and it's ATX. However, it's missing some stuff, including the power switch, so I could rig in an AT power connector and a 3D printed AT IO shield, and just use it like an AT system. It also has a front USB connector, but it uses a door in the round grey trim, a bit more elegant than a slide-off, button-like cover. A nice variety of CPUs there, AMD, Intel and Cyrix, nice stuff :)
Should mention that that ALS-100 card in the last PC has a real OPL3 chip, albeit one of those remarked "clones" (I think they're actually real, gray market chips, they're too accurate to be fakes).
I don't come across AT cases often, sadly, guess a lot of them have been lost to time.
I had a dx4 100 in Australia.... it was quite often prone to overheating, so I had to resort to taking off one side of the case, and had a desk fan blowing onto the mb, that didn’t help much. So I took off both sides of the case and that wasn’t enough to keep everything cool, so I use 2 desk fans blowing on it. It wasn’t a thermal paste issue, it was temps over 120F with no AC. eventually I got a K62-500, didn’t have overheating issues at all.
I have never encountered a machine with the Avance Logic ALS sound cards in them. I am always looking for cards that aren't creative labs because I am curious how the competition sounds. I hope someday to get my hands on a Thunderboard, along with the PAS and PAS16. I would be curious to see a comparison of sound quality between those ALS cards and Creative Labs cards.
The internals of those PCs were all pretty clean.
I had the exact same case as on the far right on the table as my first own PC as a kid. It was a Pentium III machine.
Sony, Sony, TEAC, Toshiba, NEC, Panasonic, ACER (Just ID'ing the optical drives by shape)
Those TEAC 6x CDROM drives had the fastest (and thinnest) tray ejection mechanisms. Meanwhile the Toshiba's would crawl out like a snail.
@@DaveMcAnulty TEAC really produced great quality optical drives (both ide and scsi) and speakers. I remember when working at the RMA department early 2000 that of all sales about 5% of the returns were Teac cd-rom drives while Sony floppy drives where about 12% and Mitsumi about 7%.
I recall seeing the Bigfoot go as high as 12GB but 1.2 was more common. Compaq used them a lot and there was a firmware update from Compaq to make them run more reliably.
These old PCs are in good hands now.
Interesting hard drives those "bigfoot" :)
It seems I'm back to my early childhood...
My first PC was a K6-2 300 MHz with 64 MB of RAM, 3 GB hard drive and an S3 graphics card, all in a BabyAT case like those...
When we soon upgraded the graphics to a Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo1, it was incredible... I miss those days...
Yeah ... seems like all these socket 7 systems came standard with S3 cards :) But also had fun times with Matrox Millenium, Matrox G200, Riva TNT (2), 3dfx Voodoo 1/2/3 ..... Great platform.
"S3 Trio64V+" - good old time///
I used to own a Highscreen like that! Remembers me of the power switch that got stuck when you didnt press it straight. I think it caused about 50 phone calls from my mom when she didnt manage to turn it on because of it haha
same thing happened to me a couple of times :) That or I keep on pressing that green button 10 times before I start realising that that is not the power button at all :)
18:10 - The place where the leakage occurred matches more or less the position of the pernicious Varta battery on a lot of 3/486 mainboards, so probably this machine was a 386 or a 486 in its first incarnation. Then the mainboard failed due to the CMOS battery leakage and was replaced with the actual Socket 7 (or 5?) one. Also the two 260 MB Seagate drives are quite typical of pre-Pentium machines, and putting two hard drives in a PC was quite a common thing in that era (me too I had 2 hard drives in my 486). This is another thing that makes me think that the mainboard you have there is not the machine's original one.
Good catch on the 2 old seagates :) had some footage of those but didn’t make it. Perhaps in a follow up video. Will recuperate those for 386/486 machines.
I love using those case for next PC build.
I'm using pc case from year 2000/01 for my build (AMD duron era case)
So many sleeper possibilities!
Very nice i have some of those old ones to nice
Yeah, i also like the 386-486 era, but socket 7 systems are great for gaming. Brings me back to my childhood
The first pc with the 233 MHz MMX was quite nice. I have that same Compaq tower on the bottom, also 2 desktop versions with built-in speakers (one side of the speakers is an enclosure for bass) on the desktop ones, all three are 233 MHz MMX ATX / Intergrated motherboards, with win98se 64 Mb ram. I added a S3 pci vga card 8 Mb, they run really good for their age. Plastics becoming brittle because of the caribbean weather though.
I was working as a computer engineer at a wholesale computers parts supplier when those Quantum Bigfoot drives were sold. taking up 5 1/4 slots, slow and prone to failure. Most of the RMA's came from the Seagate hdd's with Quantum Bigboot series in second place. Nobody wanted the Cyrix cpu's but I actually liked them. For the price you payed you got a lot of processing power (and heat lol). Game developers were the one's who killed Cyrix. some games did a check at startup and if you didn't have an Intel with MMX, you were crewed with your Cyrix processor.
Nice haul
We used to configure the LCD to say HI or LO for CPU's that exceeded the maximum speed the display could display.
The very first PC in my family was the first one you looked at, the Pentium-MMX. The only problem with the tower was that the reset-button was easily triggered it you were swinging your feet under the table as a child :D :D
i feel like getting one back of this retro pc but hard to get in my country. Wish to have one too.
i like to play the "is it a vibra?" game when watching these videos. it's always a vibra! :p
shuttle hot 591p for that socket 7 / cyrix build. i have one myself running a p1 166 mmx and it's a really great system for dos and windows. awkwardly placed pci slots considering how close they are to the cpu.
That small Compaq! Much want... Very wow
Hehe ... love the look of those ... no idea yet what is inside.
Hey a pair of bigfoots. I had one of those in a P2. Fond memories of a simpler time when i was a teenager
That takes me back
That far left grey tower w/ the Red switch, I had that case as my very first pc over 20 years ago, it was slightly shorter and used in a horizontal configuration
I have been looking for a case like that for over a decade
Is there any further case model Information and would you be willing to sell it?
I wish I could have found something like that. Actually the one on the table farthest to the right looks exactly like one I picked up a couple days ago.
The ESS AudioDrive is a great card! The ALS ones are very low cost budget cards, mostly noisy but very compatible. The ALS120 has integrated ALSFM, the 007 has a dedicated Yamaha OPL3 clone (LS212 I guess). The Vobis towers were sold in Germany, too. But as far as I remember from Intel Pentium 75 up to 133, so maybe this isn't the original equipment of the tower. Great bunch of old AT towers you got there👍 The smaller Bigfood HDD was exactly the same I bought back the days because it was the HDD with the best price to capacity ratio:-) It wasn't very fast but I really liked the look and the noise it made:-) Great video btw., very smooth camera views. Is that concrete floor the top of your fallout shelter or do you actually build a new home:-)
Thx ... its both actually ... wife gets a new kitchen and a pool table, daughter a new hobby area, and myself a basement and a new office :)
I hope that resistor ladder on the avance logic sound card isn't the 'DAC' but I have a feeling it is.
It certainly is.
It’s an ISA Covox Speech Thing!
Owned most of them at some time. I still have the machine top left, still like new.
dam i can remember when i saw those types of machines comming into the reclying place they were rather cool but easy to break kinda wish i'd pictured everything they we got but that would of been impossible
i cant wait to see the compaq. the one on the far left looks just like the one i had as a kid. citrix 333mhz with 32mb of ram.
Lovely lot :)