Subj : New findings
To   : All
From : Indrid Cold
Date : Sat Dec 03 2016 17:31:00

Hello,

as already said before, I love to restore old hardware, specifically all
those boards from 90s, early years over all. Is there anyone of you who like
to play retrogames for PC on original hardware, as I'm doing? I think
there's a particular feeling in doing this, running great classics on classic
machines and configurations, listening to sound and music directly from
famous soundboards of the era, using old joysticks and pads, maybe CRT *
having space * etc. - I'd like to share with you my last findings, in this
direction.

Yesterday I've saved from dumpster more than one old machine, 3 builds a
friend of mine asked me if I was interested in - one interesting minitower
with Pentium 100mhz platform, common S3 video card, SIMM RAM, etc - another
one is BX-440 chipset based, Pentium II 300mhz, Matrox Millennium G200 AGP,
nice Creative SoundBlaster AWE64 ISA and 64MB PC-100 RAM. The 3rd was nice to
see, although I know about the problems while restoring a branded-machine,
like the common presence of slots riser, proprietary PSU, etc.: a HP Vectra
4/100, platform AMD DX-4 100mhz. It contains Creative SoundBlaster 16 mod.
CT2950, Vibra PnP I think, working hard-disk with Windows 98 clean
installation, and everything is in good shape, after all.

I'll clean and do a good restoration on the Vectra, and I'm taking apart
every component of the other two machines - as spare parts for the retro-PCs
I'm currently using at home.

Is there anyone else is keeping old hardware at home, maybe forgotten in some
corner?


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