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Re: Retro Computer Networking Questions

Posted on 2023-03-04, 06:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, thanks to someone PMing me a link to two PDFs, A Ring Topology for ARCNET and ECONET is a no-go since it would cause an "Echo" in the network that could cause it to break. So with ARCNET, for what I want to do, I would need to do a daisy chain, with the endpoint being the RetroNAS, and with the …

Re: Retro Computer Networking Questions

Posted on 2023-03-04, 05:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't know about Econet, but none of the other network systems you mentioned use ring topology... - Coax Ethernet uses bus - Arcnet uses star or bus - Token Ring uses star at the physical layer, the "Ring" is virtual - it's about the order in which the token is being passed on Ring Topology is, …

Retro Computer Networking Questions

Posted on 2023-03-03, 20:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all. So I am in the middle of moving my family and I to a new place, and for once, I will have a room for my office that I will not need to share the space with. So I am planning to set up all my old systems, and I have network hardware for all of them. Sadly not all use the same Network …

IBM XT Graphics Options Help

Posted on 2022-04-18, 08:01

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hi all. So I got my hands on an A1060 Sidecar for the Amiga 1000, and I figured I should kit it out so I could have fun in both worlds. Seeing that the Sidecar is basically an IBM XT in a pod, I am looking into my options for contemporary audio and video options that can be high performance to the …

Re: RetroNAS - open source server software for your retro machines

Posted on 2022-03-26, 00:50

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Out of curiosity, has anyone tested RetroNAS on other hardware, or a Turing Pi? I wonder about the performance differences.

Hard Card restoration questions

Posted on 2021-12-07, 03:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, I have a quick question. I am looking into the possibility of rebuilding old ISA and NU-BUS Hard cards, by replacing the HDD with an SSD or Compact Flash adapter. I know that the HDDs on these devices had some funky partition tables and formating on them. So I am looking into the feasibility …

Re: Pi to Modem and pre renderer concept questions

Posted on 2020-07-26, 00:36

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

It depends, some of the machines are limited. In my collection is an Amiga 1000, Atari MEGA STe, MSX Turbo R, X68030, 286, 386, Pentium Overdrive, Commodore 128D, Mac 512, etc. to name a few.

Re: Pi to Modem and pre renderer concept questions

Posted on 2020-07-25, 17:49

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

No, this is new to me, thank you. My question then, is what are the limitations of this proxy? Are there alternatives to it that do the same or more? I ask so I know more of what to look for and what my options may be.

Pi to Modem and pre renderer concept questions

Posted on 2020-07-24, 22:22

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Hi all, I have a quick question, that for the last year my research on has had me like a dog, chasing my tail. So if someone on here, or on the rest of the World Wide What has already done it, please link me the page. The concept I am trying to figure out is a Pi Modem emulator, that can also pre- …

Looking for a Computer case with multiple Turbo speeds

Posted on 2020-04-06, 06:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all So I remember back in the day, my grandfather had a computer he built, that had multiple turbo button speeds. It was a Socket 3 Pentium Overdrive build. The turbo button had a line of smaller buttons under it, that if pressed, downclocked the CPU to lower speeds. It had a Readout above the …

Re: 5.25 Floppy Drive Options Help Needed

Posted on 2020-03-28, 20:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, they are to protect against the mechanism bouncing and damaging the head. Later and high-quality units had an anti-bounce mechanism, making the cardboard un-needed.

5.25 Floppy Drive Options Help Needed

Posted on 2020-03-28, 20:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, so I am on the hunt for a 5.25 Floppy drive, but first I am trying to find out which one is the best option. I'm looking for a unit that does not need a cardboard spacer when not in use, that is double-sided read/write, that can read and write on all standards of data density floppies, and …

Re: Jornada 728 Modern Uses?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 09:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am already rocking a Sub-net setup for my older handhelds like PSP and DS, its a Pi3 set up to also handle web browsing for my PC98 machine. So the Pi does all the work of rendering the web page, and the PC98 is remoting into it to display the page like a terminal station. Sorry if I'm not making …

Jornada 728 Modern Uses?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 08:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey all, hope you all are well. So I got my hands on a full kit HP Jornada 728. Fully functional, new old stock, an excellent piece of equipment, but I am looking to find a use for it, even if that is using it as a nettop. So I could use some help in figuring out a new use for it in 2019, or …

Re: Need help with figuring out PowerPC build.

Posted on 2017-10-19, 14:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@lazibayer You are right, I was half asleep when I posted this, and wrote what I misremembered, I was working on my DOS machine that runs MS-DOS 6.0, so got numbers all mixed. Still with that said, does anyone know the Board I am looking for? Also I'll correct the mistype.

Need help with figuring out PowerPC build.

Posted on 2017-10-19, 12:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, I need help on a curiosity build. I am looking to build a Windows NT PowerPC retro Workstation. The issue I am running into is finding a mainboard for this build. Namely one like the one in my old Workstation I used back in 2000. It was a dual PowerPC machine running Windows NT 4.0 and used …

Re: Dual Booting On A Dual CPU Board

Posted on 2017-03-16, 22:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, than I'll grab some of my older chips, and just load it with 2GB of RAM, or 1.5GB. Thanks all.

Dual Booting On A Dual CPU Board

Posted on 2017-03-15, 14:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, as the title says, I have a simple question, that I am finding little info on. I have come into possession of a P3 Dual CPU Board, Specifically the Alton Dual P3 Socket 370 Motherboard and 4GB of RAM sticks. The issue is that one of the OS's I want to install is Win 98, I know the other OS, …

Re: Help with finding the right hardware.

Posted on 2013-10-20, 07:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, still does anyone know of a rack mounted or pedestal case that takes IDE or SCSI HDD's? Or a good PCI RAID card for this machine?

Help with finding the right hardware.

Posted on 2013-10-13, 23:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, sorry if this in the wrong spot, but..... I am still working on my retro gaming PC, right now I need help finding a case and the right RAID card to do what I am planning as well as figuring out how to run two Graphics card in parallel. The first issue is the case and RAID card. what I am …

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