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@RetroTechChris
May 24, 2024 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Okay, time for the Pacman PC components swap! I swapped over the HDD enclosure and the Zip 100 drive. Let's talk about it in a 🧵 here!


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Here are the components I pulled out of the Gateway! I do have a future plan for the ones we don't use today, we'll talk about that here in a minute!
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Zip 100 drive is in the slot. Now I just need to find some screws. Luckily I have a few 🤣
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And I did pop out two slot covers. I labeled them for future safekeeping and ease of pairing with this PC! Image
With all devices installed, I powered up and went into BIOS. OOPS, for the second time today, I have a jumper issue. I took out the CD-ROM drive and jumpered it to be the slave device. That took care of it. Also, my boot manager detects the two hard drives and Zip 100 drive!


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The sound card that I pulled out of the Gateway is a CT5806, a Sound Blaster 128 PCI Digital. I like this card because it works in DOS... and that is why I am keeping it for now! The drivers for that are here: easymamecab.mameworld.info/html/snddosdr.…
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And the final card I pulled out is this FutureTel PrimeView NS 320 MPEG capture card. I had three or four of these at one point! I was able to locate drivers for it and use it in the past! I documented it in an old video of mine.
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I need to see if I can find the system requirements for the MPEG card! The web page for this card is on the Wayback Machine, which is where I found the drivers too! Wonder if it will work in my Pentium Pro. Anyway, thx for following along as always!
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Apr 27
Recently I updated the BIOS on my Compaq LTE 5400 to support large hard drives. However, this ended up causing a few other issues I had to solve. Anyone remember battling with DOS conventional memory and dealing with driver issues? Well... here we go! 🧵 Image
As I noted in the opening post, I upgraded the BIOS. This upgrade basically adds XTIDE to the system to support large hard drives. But, XTIDE is what is known as an option ROM. Which means that it is going to take a slice of the "upper memory area" in order to work. Image
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This caused two issues for me. First, my PCMCIA network card tended to "live" in the region that is now used by XTIDE. Okay, no problem. This computer uses SystemSoft software to manage PCMCIA. Through trial and error, I moved its memory region elsewhere. Network card fixed! Image
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If you know me, you know that I like retro connectivity! Recently I picked up this most excellent WiRSa v3 (WiFi to Serial Adapter) from RetroDisks. It provides many ways to get online. Let's go through them and talk about my experiences with this device in a 🧵 here! Image
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So, first, from the first post, you saw a picture of the device. I pulled that from the GitHub page that explains how to use this thing. You can find it here: github.com/nullvalue0/WiR…Image
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Apr 21
Can we add a 240 GB SSD to this Compaq LTE 5400 laptop from 1996 running Windows 95? Yes, yes we can, and it just got easier with a recent breakthrough! Let's talk about it in a 🧵 here! Image
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Okay! So, here we have a proprietary laptop with a proprietary BIOS. But we also have a persistent enthusiast who added XTIDE support to the LTE 5000 series BIOS. Wow! You can read about that here: bachler.se/lte5000xtide/Image
Alright, let's get started. I thought I had a rather large CF card around that I could use, but I think I gave it away. However, as you saw from the intro shot, I have a 240 GB SSD. I took it out of its shell, and fitted it with a SATA to IDE adapter! Image
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Apr 20
I picked up some interface cards at VCF East, and also found a CD-ROM drive on the free pile. Let's give them a test! We'll use one of my 486 DX2/66 systems. Let's go! Time for a 🧵 Image
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We'll start out with the CD-ROM. Looks like this was in a Compaq originally (allegedly a Presario). It's a model CR-581-KCQ, which I think makes it a 4X Panasonic drive. Anyway, I popped in my GCW Companion CD, and the drive passed! Hooray!! Image
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Next we have a DTC 2278E VLB controller. I have one of these, but the HDD pins are broken. It still works, but for $5 I was glad to have another 😂. I booted up Windows 98, I have a mouse, the HDD works, and the FDD works, calling it good! Image
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Let's explore this AT&T 6300 that I picked up from consignment at VCF East this weekend. It's going to go to a friend soon, but we can at least look at it first! Time for a 🧵 Image
First of all, here it is with the cover removed. What a weird computer!! Two disk drives. Apparently the video card connects the top logic board with the motherboard below. Image
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Let's get the cover back on. First, I removed the degraded foam after it made a mess everywhere. And then I learned that I really need to "pull" the left support a little to put it in place so that the case would latch properly. You can see wear marks where it was "hitting." Image
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Apr 19
How about some more exhibit pictures from VCF East? Here we have a cool Commodore / Atari accessor, an Amiga featuring me (😂) and a really cool AT&T Unix system Image
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There was a ham radio exhibit with a Win3.1 computer, and a block game on vintage hardware exhibit!! Image
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