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You Am I posted:I wonder what the chances of me finding a Pentium Pro motherboard these days The Pro was never really marketed to consumers, and few OEM server manufacturers used it either. They seem to mostly turn up in very expensive dual-processor machines in my experience. Unfortunately a lot of Pentium Pros got melted down years ago by gold recyclers thanks to some dumb urban myth that each chip contains an entire ounce of gold.
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You Am I posted:Oh hai look what I brought today: Very nice. Check out geekenspiel on eBay for nice repro labels!
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You Am I posted:Oh hai look what I brought today: Oh nice. Check out A1 Used Computers if you're looking for period-appropriate bits and pieces at decent prices.
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c0burn posted:Very nice. holy poo poo:  that's the one I had
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c0burn posted:Very nice. Welp, saving that store for when I buy a new case soon. Modern 2020s case, full of 90s stickers 
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Creature posted:Our external 56k modem was translucent aqua plastic like the coolest iMac. It had a headphone jack on top which I never understood. Other than listening to the dial-up sound what was the purpose for that? Just throw poo poo at the wall you barely had to modify the hardware for, worry about there being broad consumer interest in it later.
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old bean factory posted:Welp, saving that store for when I buy a new case soon. Modern 2020s case, full of 90s stickers 
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I suddenly want to deck my laptop out with cyrix/adlib/voodoo stickers. Or perhaps a nice oldschool AMD one to go with the Ryzen?
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Sweevo posted:The Pro was never really marketed to consumers, and few OEM server manufacturers used it either. They seem to mostly turn up in very expensive dual-processor machines in my experience. Tell me about it… I got all my hardware as hand me downs until after college. It sort of worked out because my dad was a software developer and spent tons on computer hardware. At the time he gave me the pentium pro because the motherboard died and he upgraded to a dual Pentium MMX system. I spent so much time looking for a motherboard that wasn’t outrageously expensive. Then when I found one, it turned out that it only took ECC ram which cost $Texas. So many phone calls and so much walking into the myriad computer stores that existed then trying to find something that would work. It never did happen, I was stuck with my Pentium 90 for a long time :/ That’s my story of the Pentium Pro that got away e: SuperMicro is your only friend iirc
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c0burn posted:Very nice. One used to be able to e-mail AMD and they'd send you some pocessor stickers by letter. I put something like a K-3 whatever badge on my 286.
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Me: It seems like Techmoan isn’t uploading as often as he used to. Me, getting around to finishing his 2022 year in review video: …..oh. Bummer, hope things get better for him.
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Warbird posted:Me: It seems like Techmoan isn’t uploading as often as he used to. It's a long video, what was it?
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That reminds me of when I gutted my Pentium II HP Pavilion desktop except for the PSU and repurposed it to a print server with some janky ECS motherboard with a soldered-on processor of some kind (my memory fails me as to exactly what it was, but I think it was an AMD laptop chip of some kind).
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's a long video, what was it? He did a 2022 recap. Then he talked about some personal health and family issues.
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Sweevo posted:The Pro was never really marketed to consumers, and few OEM server manufacturers used it either. They seem to mostly turn up in very expensive dual-processor machines in my experience. In one of my first couple of computer toucher jobs in the late 90s my boss had a Pentium Pro as his office PC. I think it was 180mhz or something, which seemed cool compared to my P150. This was right before the MMX CPUs came out. It kept crashing and Gateway (I think was our OEM) wanted someone to handle reseating all of the hardware before they'd issue a replacement. We had like four IT guys in the computer room watching me work on it while we were on a speakerphone call with Gateway. Their top support level person had me basically just clearing the cmos, taking the ram out and putting it back in, and unplugging and plugging back the power supply cables and disk cables. It still crashed when we booted it up next so they issued a replacement motherboard that I think I ended up swapping in later. I got that job largely because I put my own PC together in 1996 and knew how to get cd rom drivers working in DOS and Windows and the like. I think I still have a 19 or 25 floppy disk installation for Windows 95 around somewhere that was probably from that job.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's a long video, what was it? Pretty much this: Mister Kingdom posted:He did a 2022 recap. Then he talked about some personal health and family issues. No one thing. Mother died, diabetes doing what it does, some issues with growths in his sinuses, and so on. He’s apparently going to be scaling back in frequency in favor of getting exercise and not editing all the time. Claimed the current pace of things was “killing him”. Hope get gets to a better place with things. Though I am going to miss having a Sunday morning tech thing to watch with my coffee.
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Sweevo posted:The Pro was never really marketed to consumers, and few OEM server manufacturers used it either. They seem to mostly turn up in very expensive dual-processor machines in my experience. I remember my uncle having a Pentium Pro 180MHz built for himself. So he could use it for word processing. I was so pissed off.
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I do recall seeing a Pentium 2 Overdrive chip for Socket 8 in the wild at some point, but I never owned one myself.
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I feel like that needs the old fortune cookie thing of adding "in bed" to the end.
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I can smell something. I don’t know if it’s the ad or the guy in it, but I can smell something.
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You Am I posted:I remember my uncle having a Pentium Pro 180MHz built for himself. Happens all the time - company upgrades their computers and the boss demands to have the best one, which he then uses solely for checking emails.
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I thought 9cm was the average. This is very troubling.
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I love LowSpecGamer's stuff, this one on Acorn is no exception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwdhPOVOUk
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I love sleeper builds. If I made one, I'd make the Turbo button do something crazy. Spit fire or something.
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old bean factory posted:I love sleeper builds. If I made one, I'd make the Turbo button do something crazy. Spit fire or something. "Pat, why is your computer currently doing a wheelie? Why did you build wheels into your computer in the first place?"
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Sweevo posted:The Pro was never really marketed to consumers, and few OEM server manufacturers used it either. They seem to mostly turn up in very expensive dual-processor machines in my experience. I'm old enough to remember when they were new and they were popular in flight sim circles due to Falcon 3.0 if you were a Real Gamer circa 1992 you had the Thrustmaster HOTAS rig and rudder pedals, and a Pentium Pro 133mhz for that framerate boost. Only $4-5k in 1992 dollars.
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Flashbacks of cutting out windows with jigsaws and fan holes with hole saws. Also these things 
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Wifi Toilet posted:Flashbacks of cutting out windows with jigsaws and fan holes with hole saws. Also these things Those and setting dipswitches on drives. 
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Those and setting dipswitches on drives. What drives had dip switches? I don’t recall one in 25 years that wasn’t jumper blocks.
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EoRaptor posted:What drives had dip switches? I don’t recall one in 25 years that wasn’t jumper blocks. I misspoke, I meant jumpers. Although I swear I've seen some drives with switches, but I worked at a recycling/MAR place that got all sorts of weird poo poo through, and before that in a University environment where we had shelves of old Apple computers in the basement. Or I could just be confusing one type of old tech with another.
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I think some of the old full-height SCSI drives had DIP switches rather than jumper blocks, although my memory is a bit fuzzy.
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yes, I had some with DIPs to set ID
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I also had some external SCSI CD ROM cases that used push buttons to set it.
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The coolest external SCSI drive I ever got my hands on had a rotating wheel for setting the ID. Absolutely loving rad.
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