On an older system like that, SCSI is the way to go. My 486 has a BusLogic BT-445s w/ Seagate 420MB drive, I can get 10MB/s burst and I'm pretty sure you're not even going to come close with any kind of IDE setup on that bus. Besides, SCSI is just cooler. If you need an ISA SCSI card, PM me, got a …

What kind of wireless stick? The only ones I've had good success w/ were older Linksys sticks. What also worked well for me were the PCMCIA-to-PCI adapters w/ ahin PCMCIA wireless card. I have a nice little Hawking card in one of those in my P3 workstation. Lately, I've been buying up the cheap mini …

Back in about 94-95 I had a CTX 17", which was a low-qualiy, big monitor, paid around $500 for if I remember correctly. In about 96 I purchased a Sony GDM 20" from a local wholesaler/bulk place in Alpharetta, GA for about $900. I kept that until it died in late 2003 when I bought my first LCD, 15", …

Got a couple of P3 boards here, a P3C-LS and P3C-E. The LS board is fanorc'ed, corrupt BIOS my guess. Won't even give me the euro-siren no-cpu beeps. I dragged out the E board to try to do a "hot flash" of the PLCC, now the E board gives me the no-cpu beeps but nothing when I have no RDRAM or video …

Hopefully, this will let me get to 40MHz FSB on my 5x86 ADZ. It's a Swiftech Northbridge heatsink w/ 40x25 fan and a 40x40 peltier in between. The fan sounds like a mini jet @ 12v, though. http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/5025/dcp01522.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us UPDATE: This works like a …

Yeah, not that I really NEED a VLB NIC other than coolness/retro factor. Maybe I'll try it, but I'm enjoying it now as is. I'd still like to try it at 40MHz FSB just "to see".

Dang! That's a nice board! Would much rather have that than the C440GX I've got. My C440GX board has a support that mounts a couple of 40mm fans, I believe (or 60mm, can't remember now). Is that board the same? My IBM Xeons have passive heatsinks but no fans, so I think the fan bracket is probably a …

Thanks, definitely a good time! I actually had fun setting up my config.sys and autoexec.bat to get all of my devices and TSR's high. I scored a VLB LAN card, would be nice to include it but running 3x VLB? -- maybe asking for problems. I like to build mostly period correct machines, next one maybe …

I started to do something like this in wanting an old workstation, but ran into too many problems finding stuff for it. I've got the 900Mhz Xeon's and C440GX board, and Parhelia 256 (for my V2290b), but I never could find the CPU brackets for it and I was already well on my way with the dual 800 P3 …

Yes, sorry about that. Realized it after I already posted!

Sorry forgot to add pics. Taken before I added the backup drive and Ditto dash card.

Lots of us have been through this. Just about everything I have in my vintage PC's I "had" at one time and got rid of....only to buy again when I got the vintage gaming bug. Of course, my MAIN PC now used for IL-2 is probably vintage at about 3-4YO. Good job!

Hey everyone, first post! I've built a vintage 486 mostly for playing FPS FBpro, but also whatever else from the era interests me. It's great to add to my collection; I have a GLide PC, an early OpenGL/D3D PC, and my vintage dual-P3 workstation. I've referred a lot to the threads on the forum while …