Let's have a retro tech thread Sup Forums.
I found this at the ewaste depot today and brought it home. 25mhz 486SX, runs really well. Gonna put an ethernet card in it and get it online later today.
/retro/
Leo Clark
David Parker
the right way around
Xavier Clark
Does it have a THREE HUNDRED MEGABYTE hard drive?
Noah Reyes
nah, it's actually got a FIVE HUNDRED MEGABYTE hard drive.
Andrew Gonzalez
that's in pretty good shape
all you need now is a cheap little monitor to match it
Jack Baker
What architecture? What kind of Linuxes can you run on that thing with 8Mb of RAM?
Gavin Morris
It's just a typical consumer x86 system, there are lightweight distros out there that will run on it but they're pretty useless. Way better with DOS.
Jayden Cruz
THIS IS A MULTI. MEDIA. SYSTEM.
Lucas Foster
Bitch has some hairy arms.
Isaac Johnson
>25mhz 486sx, runs really well
it never ran well. a raspi0 has better specs. good luck getting win 3.1 / freedos / seal gui. i think you're 8 MHz shy of Windows 95. You have to have a 486dx to get the coprocessor, but pop open the case, see if the spot is filled.
Colton Kelly
Landon Phillips
the SX wasn't that bad at all as a new product, it just wasn't a great value, and they'll pull 3.x fine
Thomas Stewart
I can run 3.1 on my 386sx fine
Oliver Stewart
same here on a 386DX-16 and a couple SX-20s too
Cooper Flores
>an SBC from 2015 is generally more powerful than an entry-level consumer multimedia system from 1994
With insight that incredible you could be the next Steve Jobs, buddy. Now run along and play some games while the adults converse.
Ryan Cox
>shilling so hard for an overpriced fucking 486SX
>SX
>a fucking 386 with a bodykit
>25MHz
>in 1992
A fucking AMD 386 with 40MHz would blow that shit out of the water for much less.
Henry Ross
What kind of ewaste depot?
Did you have to haggle with someone or were you able to just take it?
Where can I find a magical place like that?
Gabriel Anderson
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Charles Morgan
>THE SUPER V G A IS THE BEST IN THE INDUSTRY
Nathaniel Johnson
8 Megs? That's nice
Easton Allen
"The lower the number the better the resolution"
Alright
Austin Turner
>he isn't playing sim city in wonderful 640x480 resolution.
Honestly I can't figure out how to get dos to run in 800x600, tried every thing from last thread, I think its some kind of more hardware based limitation.
Carter Gutierrez
I wasn't part of that thread, but, did someone recommend a VESA driver?
Mason Hernandez
but I am playing sim city in wonderful 640x480 resolution :^)
Daniel Hill
looks in pretty good shape
i'd probably run win95 and freedos on it
8M ram is a bit low for most win95 stuff though, see if you can bump it up to 24/32M
Dylan Gray
Pop open the case, I have old CPUs (including an overdrive) and RAM see Lets max out this fucker
Kayden Sanchez
Jacob Smith
go farm karma somewhere else you fucking leaf
Benjamin Clark
Fuck this impresses me every time I see it
Easton Anderson
yes, hope it has fsb jumpers
Joshua Hernandez
30-pin 256k SIMMs, ftw.
Levi Kelly
Cen I have more stuff like this? 1337-esque mid 90s desktop screenshots n shit.
Dylan Walker
>Can I
fixed
Andrew Bell
Just a reminder to picture your “retro tech” literally burning coal every time you plug it in, because that’s exactly what it’s doing.
Michael Brooks
Doesn't stop things like my Zenith from still working like the day it came off the assembly line almost 60 years ago, even after having approximately over 20,000 hours on it.
Luke Martin
awesome desu
if I turn all of it on at once will you drown faster?
Brandon Bennett
how? it still says "Cen I"
Wyatt Robinson
I saw a retro thread a while back and saw someone bought pic related.
Major nostalga ensued as it was my families first pc on dial-up in the 90s and later became mine when we upgraded the family pc early 2000s
I legit have one of these in storage that is upgraded and even has all of the stock stickers
Fond memories of D2 LOD and Runescape were had.
would it have any value now or should i just setup retroarch or freedos/reactos for muh games
Isaiah Barnes
>would it have any value now
no
but you can still have fun with it
Christian Thomas
look at this pretender, doesn't even know his dot pitch
William King
just gonna dump random BYTE articles because this thread is dead anyway
Jaxson Foster
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Joseph Morgan
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James Bell
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Noah Adams
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Jonathan Rivera
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Gabriel Walker
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Henry Miller
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Camden Turner
Has your drive bezel and thicc ethernet adapter arrived yet?
Parker Nelson
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Jose Smith
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Nathaniel Russell
somewhere in my basement i still have a working 286 with 2mb ram, 8mhz and 100mb hdd in storage. it ran dos 5 but i've catched a virus in like 1997 (i still used it back then for qbasic) and if i found the right peripherals i might boot it up with os/2 or something.
Asher Anderson
if you were talking to me I'm not that guy
Jose Powell
286-compatible versions of os/2 are depressing desu, since there's not really a ton of native software for 1.x you can come across easily and they can't do any multitasking or anything either
Asher Bailey
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Easton Anderson
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Adam Johnson
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Christopher Richardson
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Nathaniel Robinson
now that I think of it maybe I'm wrong? you definitely can't multitask DOS and OS/2 applications but maybe you could do it with just OS/2 applications
Aaron Hill
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Cameron Fisher
seems strange to pay for ad space in the middle of an article about your product but whatever
Andrew Rodriguez
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Jack Evans
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Joseph Fisher
the autism concludes
Eli Jones
My 380ED has a 30w power brick. The system idles at 1w.
Samuel Lee
Nicholas Russell
Nope, still waiting on both. The belt kit for the Betamax has arrived, though.
Kevin Bell
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Logan Howard
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Colton Hernandez
it's mainly a "yes, it works"-thing.
Christian Diaz
Computer Chronicles stream when?
Josiah Clark
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Wyatt Robinson
Pic related, my Goodwill find.
>Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil expansion pack
>Microsoft Cinemania '95
>SimCity Classic for Windows 95
All for $7.00 on discount.
Josiah Collins
I like where this is going
Jose Gomez
Keyboard?
Bentley Lopez
>256k
8chips, 32k per
10x15mm 5mm thick chip with 500 clusters of 64 bytes
one cubid milimiter per cluster
if you get it real close to your eye you can almost see the individual byte
Zachary Gonzalez
BUMPING FOR YAY /RETRO/ THREAD
Matthew Barnes
I have a Overdrive just sitting here
Asher Sanchez
>Where can I find a magical place like that?
That's the thing, you never know.
It's an exciting journey to ever nice find.
Christopher Collins
Didn't the Overdrive manage its clock speed itself independent of the FSB without requiring setting anything on the host board?, possibly nice if you can get faster FSB speeds.
Gabriel Reed
...I'm lazy as fuck
Levi Adams
>freedos
but muh compatibility
DOS 6.2 + 4DOS tho
Matthew Baker
Man, there's a guy selling plenty of 486DX chips locally, it would fit you nicely.
Angel Lee
>Buy C++
>get C for free
Kevin Lee
>thicc ethernet
wat
why thicc and not 10base-t?
Carson Russell
>leaf
wut
>the Glad box has french on it
Jesus nice catch
Christian Cox
>tfw MSDOS 7.1 standalone for FAT32 and 8GB CF cards
I had to compromise somewhere.
Adam Adams
7/10
It's not quite stale, but overused bait in these thread.
Does catch the eye, does want to make one reply.
Anyways, this /retro/ tech is here is very inefficient, for it's performance.
But it's performance is shit.
Most of the power supplies of the shit here don't even do more than 100W and neither do CRTs while running (except when switching on).
My desktop takes about 3x as much power on load then three 386 machines with CRTs.
Cooper James
Once every full Moon.
Chase Carter
bump
Lincoln Price
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Matthew Morgan
How much was the camera?
Adrian Allen
I think my 0.3MP digital mavica can take better pictures.
Jaxon Torres
dont slap linux on it, leave it as a tiny time machine to remind you of the better days user
Robert Bell
Very funny, I used my webcam to take that picture.
Lucas Morgan
Period correct webcam?
Thomas Sanchez
2012 entry level webcam.
Ian Green
>it never ran well
I think he was talking it ran well FOR A 486SX
Do you see people with old car hobbies selling or talking about their machines that "hurr they run like shit (compared to modern equivalent)."
No, they say it runs well, for what it's worth.
Ethan Nguyen
Is this the official /retro/ meme?
Bentley Butler
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