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Upgrades to my variously archaic machines/notes to self

 
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:32 pm    Post subject: Upgrades to my variously archaic machines/notes to self Reply with quote

So here's what I have, in total in terms of old computers:

    -NuXT running at 9.55MHz with an 8087 co-processor, VGA graphics, 640K of RAM and 170-something K of VRAM, with a single 1.44MB floppy drive and a 64MB CF card as a C drive, running DOS 6.22 and Windows 2.03

    -Samsung Sensor SP-386SX, with the 2400BPS modem removed, an XT-CF card installed with 512MB CF card, Windows 3.11, 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive, 12MHz 386, 4MB RAM

    -Some build with a strange 100MHz Pentium board that accepts ATX power, came with a (working) mystery SVGA card, GoTek floppy emulator, 16MB RAM, 1GB CF card, nonfunctional 1.44MB floppy drive, running Windows 95 (the floppy version)

    -Upgraded Packard-Bell Multimedia 820, 300MHz Cyrix M-300, 32MB of RAM, Soundblaster 16 sound card, 3GB spinning hard disk, CD-ROM drive (from another machine, the old CD-ROM died, so I installed the new one), 1.44MB floppy drive, 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive, 10-megabit Ethernet card

    -The machine I'm writing this on, running an Athlon XP-M at 1.6GHz, 2GB of RAM, DVD burner, ATI Rage XL 8MB display adapter, nonfunctional 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive, connected to the LAN via a 100-megabit built-in Ethernet controller, 1TB SATA hard drive (I think)


To get list for each machine, in order:

NuXT:
    Replacement for the Adlib card
    360KB 5.25" floppy drive
    New case and PSU


Samsung Sensor SP-386SX:

    Tseng Labs ET4000 graphics card
    Spare serial modem


100MHz Pentium:

    S3 Trio3D graphics card
    IDE CD-ROM drive
    Sound card
    Spare serial modem


Packard-Bell Multimedia 820:

    Geforce FX 5500 PCI
    128MB RAM upgrade (2x64mb 168-pin EDO DIMMs)


XP machine:

    Geforce 210 (that's basically it)


Also would like to replace all of the flat-panels for the old machines with CRT's and get GamePort controllers, but that's for another day.
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