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AnalogRocks
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Keith, start posting those parts in another thread. You have some awesome stuff there!
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Jeremy112
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | I remember those overdrive chips! I always wanted one for my 486 DX4-100 PC. |
I think I have 2 of those overdrive CPUs for sure, one is in a compaq PC that someone (likely) paid a pretty price to upgrade it to that (as the system of course by default did not support anything past 166MHz, the OD CPU in it is at 200MHz  ) It's maxed out with CPU & ram, working on a solid state hard drive solution for all my vintage PCs. As cool as the retro HDD jet engine sound is, I'd prefer using some old SATA I SSDs. I did manage to get it working in 2 of my compaqs. The best part is the adaptec SATA card I used is "Supported" by the compaq BIOS, so you dont see the SATA card Bootrom, you just see the compaq logo like it came from the factory that way (pressing the hotkey to get into the card configuration is of course still possible too)
I first tried with some IDE to SATA adapters, but as I suspected, they are totally useless and didnt work. the SATA PCI card worked like a charm, even in 20+ year old machines. I just need a few more of them and to find some more of the IBM 15GB SSDs that I already bought.
And yes, believe it or not, Windows 95 loads considerably faster even on the old P1 166MHz! (I always suspected the primitive mechanical drives held back old PCs more than was realized at the time)
I'd post my pics of my vintage ceramic CPUs but since rolling-off the club membership I've been unable to upload more pics  (gonna have to renew that  )
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AnalogRocks
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Industrial CF cards on CF to IDE adaptors. I just bought some.
I booted an old Compaq laptop 486 something with Win95. It took it 7.5 minutes to boot off that old 200mb HDD. Slow! 
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AnalogRocks
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BTW this project is on hold for 3 reasons. Number 1 my back is out, number 2 my PP200 box is in my trunk and #3 my 14 inch CRT monitor is in the front seat. I can't/won't risk lifting them right now. Sad part is I don't know how I injured myself this time ((shrug)).
EDIT and number 4 I have to find my Pentium Pro stuff I put safely away AND need some RAM to make this go!
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km987654
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | BTW this project is on hold for 3 reasons. Number 1 my back is out, number 2 my PP200 box is in my trunk and #3 my 14 inch CRT monitor is in the front seat. I can't/won't risk lifting them right now. Sad part is I don't know how I injured myself this time ((shrug)).
EDIT and number 4 I have to find my Pentium Pro stuff I put safely away AND need some RAM to make this go! |
Its called old age
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AnalogRocks
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| km987654 wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | BTW this project is on hold for 3 reasons. Number 1 my back is out, number 2 my PP200 box is in my trunk and #3 my 14 inch CRT monitor is in the front seat. I can't/won't risk lifting them right now. Sad part is I don't know how I injured myself this time ((shrug)).
EDIT and number 4 I have to find my Pentium Pro stuff I put safely away AND need some RAM to make this go! |
Its called old age |
"You're only as old as you feel"...um 72?
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | I can't/won't risk lifting them right now. Sad part is I don't know how I injured myself this time ((shrug)). |
I jacked up my neck last Thursday night. Apparently I just slept on it wrong or something because I woke up Friday morning and it hurt like hell. I literally couldn't turn my head to look over my right shoulder to back the car into the garage Friday after work because it was too painful. I had to use my mirrors and hope for the best.
It's getting better now, but was still hurting even last night. Looks like about a week until I'm mostly out of the woods. A frickin' week of neck pain just because I slept on it wrong... Or something.
Getting old sucks.
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WanMan
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Guys, I had a similar bad condition about three years ago. I woke up in pain--first for me. No, the wife wasn't kicking my ass as I slept but it may have been a combination of playing Sudoku on a tablet (always looking down; neck at extreme angle) and sitting for hours on a chaise, which kept the legs raised and by virtue my torso bent.
I actually got no help from my GP and wound up seeing a neurologist. I was put on a med that acted more like a tranquilizer than anything else as it essential interferes with the central nervous system to stop signals from going to the muscles in my neck. Talk about C6/C7 issue! I got rid of the old, disgusting chaise and stopped playing games on a tablet (just on consoles).
Now three years later I might take the medication once a month or so but much better. At its worse point the issue would cause a muscular locking of my left elbow. I could 'crack' my neck and release the lock. Something to say about bad posture and aging.
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