Vintage Computers

^^Realtek 8029/8139 LAN card?
And that SIS 5595 chipset... eish... many hours fixing NT/95/98 issues with those! :eek:
 
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And playing the hunt-the-terminator game on an coax network you did not install... :D

Had a brush with ARCNet.

And fiddling and faffing around with ipx.com and netx.exe in order to get maximum RAM and Netware connectivity at the same time.....
 
Did you guys also got jabbering NE2000 NIC's, esp after a Transvaal thunderstorm? Drowned the network. Was fun trying to locate the guilty party.

Switching over to an Ethernet network was pure bliss, no more coax cable and terminators. Dang terminators.
 
I also seem to have a lot of old PC's at home I need to sort out ... I anyone buying stuff like this?
 
spiderz said:
I also seem to have a lot of old PC's at home I need to sort out ... I anyone buying stuff like this?
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Depends on your definition of 'old'.

If they're from the 70's and 80's, people (like myself and others) would be interested from a collector's point of view.

If they're relativly new (say P3/P4 onwards), I tend to fix them up and donate them to a school.

Just delivered a batch of 10 to a local school this weekend.

Maybe think about something like that?
 
The_Librarian said:
Did you guys also got jabbering NE2000 NIC's, esp after a Transvaal thunderstorm? Drowned the network. Was fun trying to locate the guilty party.

Switching over to an Ethernet network was pure bliss, no more coax cable and terminators. Dang terminators.
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Well, Ethernet was all about coax and terminators until UTP came out.
 
The_Librarian said:
And playing the hunt-the-terminator game on an coax network you did not install... :D

Had a brush with ARCNet.

And fiddling and faffing around with ipx.com and netx.exe in order to get maximum RAM and Netware connectivity at the same time.....
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The_Librarian said:
Did you guys also got jabbering NE2000 NIC's, esp after a Transvaal thunderstorm? Drowned the network. Was fun trying to locate the guilty party.

Switching over to an Ethernet network was pure bliss, no more coax cable and terminators. Dang terminators.
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+1000
Hunt the terminator :D :p
We didn't get those storms but definitely had that jabbering card. March around the building terminating / bridging... next stop... rinse, repeat... all the while dealing with intelligent people shouting 'it's working... oh... now it's broken again' as you went lol.
On the Arcnet, I think you and I must have gone pro at around the same time... early to mid 90s?
 
jannievanzyl said:
Well, Ethernet was all about coax and terminators until UTP came out.
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Yeah, NE2000s were Ethernet. Arcnet was a bit thicker than 10Base-2 - not sure what the cable rating was now - I just recall it was RG58.
We also used to also talk about CDDI vs FDDI. These days everything seems interchangeable.
 
Sabre Wulf said:
Yeah, NE2000s were Ethernet. Arcnet was a bit thicker than 10Base-2 - not sure what the cable rating was now - I just recall it was RG58.
We also used to also talk about CDDI vs FDDI. These days everything seems interchangeable.
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ARCNet was RG-62 @ 93ohm. Thin Ethernet (802.3/10BASE2) was RG-58 @ 50 ohm.

ARCNet was popular in SA from the late 80's. We replaced many IBM mainframe / Terminal setups with PCs on ARCNet as you could use the same cable and it was already in a star-topology.

I'm planning to build a Netware 3.11 / ARCNet network soon. Have got all the bits :)
 
jannievanzyl said:
ARCNet was RG-62 @ 93ohm. Thin Ethernet (802.3/10BASE2) was RG-58 @ 50 ohm.

ARCNet was popular in SA from the late 80's. We replaced many IBM mainframe / Terminal setups with PCs on ARCNet as you could use the same cable and it was already in a star-topology.

I'm planning to build a Netware 3.11 / ARCNet network soon. Have got all the bits :)
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Haha, lovely!
I had worked on a few Arcnet Netware 2.x and 3.11 systems. I recall dedicated and non-dedicated 2.x servers... and those clients who wanted to wring the last bit of value from their tech and wanted to run 123 on the non-dedicated server... trying to optimize the 640kb lol.
 
Here's a complete, working Comodoore 65 that sold on Ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-rare-...totype-working-serial-22-/171673209321?_ul=en

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Jannie, you haven't got a bit of spare cash lying around that you want to splash?


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Old computer equipment

This is to all collectors of vintage computing, i have many items that date back to before P4 processors, looking for someone that will display their collection so spreading the history
 
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