Roux's retro pc building thread.

My next project is to build a micro 8088 from scratch:

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First need to build the ATX backplane and then the Trident TVGA9000i

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PCB's have arrived and just waiting for the last few chips.
 
I'll be recieving this sometime next week hopefully in one piece. It unfortunately doesn't have a HDD. So if anyone has a Fast SCSI Hdd to sell me...hit.me up.
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crack2483 said:
I'll be recieving this sometime next week hopefully in one piece. It unfortunately doesn't have a HDD. So if anyone has a Fast SCSI Hdd to sell me...hit.me up.
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I thought I could help you, but I think the one I have in storage is much newer than what you're looking for. It has this connector:


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First time I get 4GB DDR2 modules working! A whole 16GB of them, however had to drop the speed a bit, 12GB @ DDR2-800 works but with 16GB it only works at DDR2-700. Maybe when I run a Phenom it will work at 800?

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Rouxenator said:
Yes - along with the cooler followed by and afternoon in the blazing sun - running Windows 10 now, nice and clean.
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Did you legit put it in a dishwasher?

I know that works but I always was under the impression it damages stuff like the Piezo electric speakers and metal parts (ie. the socket, but the rust on there could be from the dirt)
 
Gnome said:
Did you legit put it in a dishwasher?

I know that works but I always was under the impression it damages stuff like the Piezo electric speakers and metal parts (ie. the socket, but the rust on there could be from the dirt)
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Nope - speaker still beeps as intended. In fact, it's pretty loud, got some 4GB DDR3 modules at Takealot and I did not seat one properly - this motherboard made that known to me with some very loud beeps.

I have done this a few times before, some of it is in videos on my YouTube channel.
 
I heard of a cool retro pc hack of sorts, buy old Mac Minis and iMac's, especially the Core2Duo models(you can't install Mac OSX on them anymore because Apple servers to sign the OS install are MIA) which are dirt cheap and install Windows on them and convert them to the PC master race, you get a the awesome looks and build of Apple without the mangy OS.
 
airborne said:
I heard of a cool retro pc hack of sorts, buy old Mac Minis and iMac's, especially the Core2Duo models(you can't install Mac OSX on them anymore because Apple servers to sign the OS install are MIA) which are dirt cheap and install Windows on them and convert them to the PC master race, you get a the awesome looks and build of Apple without the mangy OS.
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Nice! People were doing that since Windows supported EFI. I recall way back in 2008 seeing a Macbook running Vista at Microsoft's Sandton campus.
 
Rouxenator said:
It runs on top of BOINC, same platform you can run SETI on. However it focuses on humanitarian computing problems. Here is what I have contributed thus far.
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Semi necro. This brings back memories. I don't have any stats on hand, but the 5 odd years I worked corporate, I used to leave my laptop at the office every afternoon with community grid running till the next morning. This included holidays. I always felt like my corporate employers were shafting me so this was my little way to shaft them back.
 
Harmonic said:
Semi necro. This brings back memories. I don't have any stats on hand, but the 5 odd years I worked corporate, I used to leave my laptop at the office every afternoon with community grid running till the next morning. This included holidays. I always felt like my corporate employers were shafting me so this was my little way to shaft them back.
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Still going strong over here. 10th place in South Africa.

All of it is now solar powered and I plan to deploy a few more old bangers at the holiday house where we have 6x550w panels and only a tiny 5KWh battery that is done charging before noon.
I can then have a couple of 65w~95w PCs sucking down the afternoon sun. Not that big on intel, but maybe a couple of Haswell i7s will do nicely.
 
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