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@RetroTechChris
May 24 • 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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May 26
I spent some time toying around with Microsoft Windows/386 today (Version 2.11). I installed Word 1.1a and Excel 2.0, and also (using mTCP NetDrive) connected up to a network share! Here's a little video I did (sped up in several parts). I'll make some observations in a 🧵here.
First, when it comes to Windows 2.x, I am a total novice. I've never used it before today. I was actually surprised at how capable it is. But, I have to put the disclaimer that I may have missed some features or did some things wrong since this was my first usage of it! Image
Getting it running was an interesting exercise. You can use it with DOS versions greater than 4.x, but you have to load setver. And Win2.x loads into the HMA, so you better load DOS low! Here are my configs. You'll see that I also loaded up mTCP NetDrive for a network share. Image
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May 25
I've got the FutureTel PrimeView NS 320 MPEG up and running on the CompUSA PC under Windows 2000! For reference, this PC is a Pentium II 350 MHz. I used some footage from The Great Outdoors to test things out capture a bit. Let's talk about it in a 🧵here!


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So, first, thanks to the Wayback machine, I was able to locate the software for this card! Although it does target Windows NT, we will be installing Windows 2000 to try things out!
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Using my boot manager BootIt, I carved out a Win2k partition and set up a Win2k boot option. I then set the BIOS to boot from CD, and we were off to the races.


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May 25
So, yesterday, I mentioned that I wanted to move an MPEG capture card to my dual Pentium Pro system. Oh man, did I ever go down the rabbit hole! Let's just say that in the end, I didn't do it, and I ended up swapping out a network card too. Let's talk about it in a 🧵here
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So, first, this dual Pentium Pro has multiple OSes on it, hence why my first screenshot is running Fedora Core 3. I like to have hardware in this system that is compatible with all of the OSes, because.. well.. why not! Image
And, second, this is NOT the first time I have had network card issues on this system. I used a PCI 3Com card in the past, and it had issues with drivers in SMP operating systems. I talk about it towards the end of this video for the interested
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May 24
Okay, I've done the "swap" on the Gateway, and it is all ready to go. Let's talk about where it ended up, it will make a nice system for someone! Time for a 🧵
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After swapping out the zip drive and the HDD carrier, and the sound card and MPEG capture card, I had some spots to fill! So, I added a 40GB HDD, a CD-ROM drive from the tower of CD-ROM power, a floppy drive, and some slot covers!
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The drive you see in the picture in the last post is this one, I had to keep it!
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May 22
The PS/2 Model 70 386 is back to full operating capacity with a new planar! Putting it back together was pretty straight forward. Let's hit some of the highlights in a 🧵 here Image
So, for those who aren't up to speed, basically what happened is that we ended up with a damaged MCA slot. Might attempt a repair later, but for now, we are doing a swap.
Earlier today, I took the system apart, knowing the new planar would arrive today!
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May 19
Did someone say "Bernoulli"? Well, I did! I recently received some new old stock 20MB disks from overseas. Let's revisit our past disk adventures and see how these new ones pan out! Time for another 🧵


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So, first, I decided to start with this disk. We knew it had bad sectors from the last time we explored it. Okay, no surprise there. Sadly, though, a few new ones are bad now too. Oh well!


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After running scandisk, I copied some files over, ran chkdsk, and then copied some more. We received a visit from good ol' General Failure, that guy is never nice to us! I did fill up the entire disk, but those failed file copies are a sign that things will not get better!

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