I was asked to bring my Amithlon Amiga to my day job to help someone
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- E533: In this episode, I was requested to bring my Amithlon Amiga to work to help an attorney recover some old files off of 5.25. but i have to convert it back to windows 98 to do so. I show the machine and what it is, and how it still does great for such a old girl. Abit VP-6 Dual P3 1ghz sequential serial numbers, with a Compaq PD650 MO drive, and a 5.25GB dial sided HP Optical disk, and some other stuff.
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your Cable management reminds me of all of my PCs back in the day before anyone cared about putting in fluorescent tubes. Let alone LEDs or fancy cables. You just shoved everything in there. I remember every time I had to upgrade my video card. It was always a nightmare, trying to put it in and take out the old one because of all the cables.
That Sony drive seems like it’s a full-size “Minidisc!”
Sometimes it's good to be a fat nerd with a drive collection. I had the regular Afterdark, Twisted and the Star Trek version which made for some fun. Left my computer hooked to my stereo forgot to turn it off and the "I am Nomad" robot came on after we had left for the day. My religious grandmother was the only one home, heard it thinking it was the voice of god. When we got home she was going through rosary beads like a belt fed.
I would've killed to have that machine back in the day.
Did very similar in the school I used to be the IT manager for. The kids were just amazed, how did you do stuff with only 1.44 mb and 720k, and 300mhz processor. Gotta love the innocence of their questions. It played Doom and they were all happy to give it a go.
Hi Ya & best wishes. SuperB! Thanks for work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea
Very cool Chris! It was neat to see some of that old tech! I had seen the combo drive "back in the day" but only had read about the magneto drive. Thanks for the quick demo of it. 😀👍
Hi Chris always learn something from your repairs. Cheers
Bring back some memories!
Some real BigDisk energy there... 🙀
Those dual floppy drives came on the compaq desktops back in the day. I have a few of them sitting around.
This was from my gateway2000
P3 wasn't this square in the capacitor plague era? Amazing this still works. My P3 1,3GHz machine from this era literally exploded with parts flying off the board etc.
Depends
Man, seeing this old PC stuff makes me wish I had kept all of my old machines over the years. I'm weird and miss floppies lol. Started with an A500 as a kid and had tons of hand-me-down 286, 386, and 486 machines through the 80s and 90s. New machines feel like they are missing something compared to the old ones. Anyway, keep up the Good Work.
You started off with a modern computer. It had a GUI and 3.5 inch floppy drives! 😉 The Sinclair ZX81 I had used an 8 bit CPU, was monochrome only, had blocky character graphics, no sound and initially just 1 Kilobyte of RAM, soon upgraded to 16Kb. It had the worst keyboard known to man, and like many 8 bit home computers, you loaded or saved programs on standard audio cassettes. I loved it. 😂
@@another3997 Lol true. I was born a little late for that one. I have seen some videos about them on CRG's channel, and would like to play around with one. I have some very vague memories of an Atari computer that my brothers had that used tapes, and had a cartridge slot on the the side, but I never messed around with it (I was like 5 lol) and have no idea what machine it was. It used the TV as the display.
@Neverknowsbest930 That would be the 1200xl, the only Atari 8bit with the cartridge port on the side. All of the others have them on the top (600xl/800xl/xegs), under a lid on top (400/800), or in the back, (65xe,800xe,130xe).
You can still find them for peanuts 🥜
They have lawyers in secret Antarctica base?
There are lawyers EVERYWHERE. Anywhere a man or woman can go, there will be lawyers, waiting to be activated by someone, like some dormant, infectious disease. True story. Apollo astronauts got to the moon and found the lawyers were waiting for them with a disclaimer in one hand and pencil in another. 😂
I enjoyed the video on Win 98 SE2. Just last night, I was just using my old 4 core with xp on it, because I have a commercial program on that computer I needed to run. Sometimes, it is better not to have everything installed on the daily driver.
It was interesting, to see those special disks and cartridges. I also didn't know that there were floppy drives, that were set up to handle both 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 in the same case. I still have some 5 1/4 floppy drives in storage, but haven't had the need to use one in ages.
I still have my Amiga External 5.25in Drive, and I try to keep some older tech when I run across something that isn't supported by newer tech.
This makes me want to finish attempting to recap my Abit BP6... I screwed up on my first attempt because I screwed up and lifted a trace...
AmiThlon, why was i expecting a AMD Athlon? :D
Take windows 2000 then you can multitask. And give this brother more Ram.😀
Really nice case Dr Chris 👍🏻 I like to use Iomega Zip 250 or 750 IDE drives and even 2GB JAZ SCSI on my A4000 systems. Have an Emergency disks setup on 750MB disks. Even built up a Amiga OS3.9 & 3.2 Installers with Jaz 2GB cartridges. Still great speeds. Cheers 🍻
i can only get the 1gb jazz to work, the 2gb never works for me, also the 100-250mb zips seem fine, but larger dont. its a hit or miss
@@ChrisEdwardsRestorationI use HDToolbox and partition and format them as either FFS or PFS3 V20.0, the same as if you were to do this on a HD or CF card. Just keep the buffers low say 80 and standard 512. Even use them as bootable media for testing OS installs.
Dang. you got the dual CPU variant, I used ta have the single CPU variant , but no Amithlon suff , just a windows box that was used only for games. (still will only use windows for games)
Stuff like needing to read antiquated data formats will continue to increase into the near future. Imagine companies and people specializing in data recovery with older formats can make a decent income.
They already do.
@@jimbotron70 must be profitable
Woah the Amiga decals got me going for some cool ideas on a boring old black PC tower case I have for my old 2017 PC. Thanks for this. Any links to where you got those decals?
Pentuim III @ 1GHz form 1998? Nope, that would be a wet dream...its more like from Y2K (couldnt help myself). The 1998 was more like 300-450MHz era.
Oh, I remember the card cpus of the day for sure. Heck, we had a few rich clients with the refrigerated case overclocking them to over 1ghz, but, yeah… those 370chips weren’t out until 99 or so.
Amithlon should've been allowed to thrive instead of being killed off.
i dont believe in cable management, if you can get it all inside the case and able close it up, its good enough
Depends on the unit to me
Lmaooooo same
Can you use one of those dual-floppy drives with an Amiga?
not direct as its a pc drive, but you could use it as PC0: on amithlon with the pc datatype as i showed at the end. you CAN use pc disks on Amiga drives 720k for the amiga 880 and 1.2m /1.44mb for the amiga high density 1.76mb using the same pc0: pc1: datatypes found in sys:storage/dosdrivers drag them to devs:dosdrivers and reboot then you can format /read/write pc/amiga on either one you want
VP6 came out in 2000, not 1998. Probably crashing a lot because it’s overheating. Dried up thermal paste or dying cpu fans? Also, why Windows 98. No dual processor support…
Thats what i had built. I used to run nt4
@@ChrisEdwardsRestorationI had a BP6 with Celerons back then. First Windows NT4 then Windows 2000. It didn’t last that long because it had capacitor plague caps. I think I’ve got it still somewhere. Went to a dual core Pentium after that, and then quad core.
what kind of cat is it???
does 98 even know how to multicpu?
nope, but i would run Windows NT4 on it
and that did
I toyed with Amithlon many years ago and it was blazingly fast. Sadly it hasn't been maintained in over 20 years so it won't run on newer systems without some tricky patches that you have to apply so that it will recognize larger amounts of RAM and newer CPUs. WinUAE and a Catweasel became a much better alternative as time progressed.
See my other amithlon playlist for a
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