I mentioned this system came to me without a hard drive, which is fine. Period hard drives were small, slow, noisy, and could be prone to failure given inconsistent storage environments and long periods without spinning-up. This system would have had a drive in the neighborhood of 540MB. I recall in …

Gateway was always good about its video cards, at least in the mid-90s. This box has the "ATI Graphics Wonder PCI" Mach32-based card with 2MB DRAM. It won't be as fast as a VRAM card but it will get the job done for general computing and VGA gaming. The RAM is a collection of 16 V53C104HK45 chips, …

I dont mind Gateway. At least in the Pentium to P3 era they used Intel boards and other hardware was OEM but mostly not crippled like Dell or non standard like Compaq. They make a good foundation to build a decent gaming rig off There's something to be said for that, for sure. I felt the same way …

gdjacobs wrote: Yes, the default mix is way too loud, but this can be fixed. The major limitation is that the card doesn't, in fact, support SB Pro -- at least not fully. That's interesting. Do you have specifics about either of these assertions?

Photo of the case? Is that an intel-branded motherboard? I think that's what Gateway used, wasn't it? Exterior beauty shots are coming soon. This is an Intel Neptune (Intel Premiere/PCI II) (430NX) board. It supports the P5 75 and 90. It has jumper settings for but will not support a P5-100. This …

The Jazz-16 card is well-known but under-documented. As I mentioned previously it came in several flavors and this is a Gateway OEM version with an LMSI CD interface. IMG_1479b.jpg IMG_1480.jpg There's very little in the way of hardware configuration here: * J11 - DISJS - Joystick Disable * J12 - …

It took a while to get here but I didn't start a deep clean until I was sure the system was operational in all the ways I wanted it. She was pretty grimy. The motherboard occupies about half the case. It's interesting to recall how tightly integrated these systems used to be: note the first two RAM …

Deksor wrote: Actually I'm more intested by the 3.5" to USB adapter rather than 3.5" to 5"1/4 ^^ (By the way, there are many floppy cables that provide both connectors) It's likely that the USB adapter *is* the cable, i.e., it does not provide an opportunity to use your own cable.

Next order of business was the sound card. The Jazz-16 is one of the many OEM cards that Gateway 2000 sold while I worked there, along with the Ensoniq Soundscape (an early PnP ISA card), the Vibra16, and eventually the Ensoniq AudioPCI once Windows 95 was firmly established. Creative would …

I recently acquired a Gateway 2000 P5-90 from a late relative's estate. Though he left behind many computers stashed in his basement, I chose this one because of my personal connection with the brand, having worked as a phone support tech for them in 1995-1996. This computer is from 1994, so it …

Can you take a picture of disk #2? Sometimes floppy disks can get horribly bad physically (I've had disks getting its magnetic substrate peeled by the reading head in the past just because of the disk being bad. This happened to me several times with different disks and drive. And of course all …

You know, I’m new to the forum and trying to make conversation. I didn’t expect the very first reply I got would be from a jerk. I figured it’d at least take a week Peeps here are hyper sensitive to piracy imagined or real, and derSammler is better than everyone else regardless of how long they’ve …

In 1995-1996 I worked for Gateway 2000 as a phone tech. It was frustrating but a lot of fun, and I made friends there I've kept to this day. You might think a job like that would attract a certain "type" and while it did, it also attracted a rainbow of people who all had some interest or passion for …

I'm looking forward to playing with this idea using a Pi4. All I need is a 3D printable miniature MT-32 case to put it in.

Really? Are you sure you are not just making up a story trying to complete your illegal copy of Ultima VII? Because disk 2 is exactly the one that is missing in most disk image collections you can find out there: U6.JPG But of couse you own the original game, and of couse its second disk refuses to …

My Kryoflux came yesterday, and my goal was to start archiving all my 5.25" disks, but it turns out I don't have a working 5.25" drive so I pulled a couple of Ultimas off the shelf to dump their 3.5" disks instead. After a lot of trial and error I figured out a good workflow and got all the Serpent …