This video dates back to mid-July 2021. We were in the middle of a pandemic – the delta strain. Just today I was … Continue reading
Category: IBM PC
NetComm IG6000 Industrial Dial-up Modem
I stumbled upon the IG6000 modem by mistake, I was actually looking for a regular old dial-up modem for my test dial-up network. I’ve since learnt that NetComm has been eaten up by Casa Systems. That’s ironic because NetComm gobbled … Continue reading
Netcomm Mega-i-Modem CD2004 Capacitor List
One of the best parts about having retro gear pass through your hands is the ability to perform preventative maintenance on hardware. What’s the easiest preventative maintenance that can be carried out? Lovely little through-hole capacitors. Here’s the list for … Continue reading
NUC8i7BEH Hackintosh Catalina Overview
A bit of fiddling and we finally get bluetooth working on the NUC8i7BEH which is running the latest and greatest from Apple at … Continue reading
Miscellaneous TeraDrive Information
Teradrive various information secure
The story of becoming 486. The old log was uploaded to the data library with NDEV’s FDEVICE, and there was a story of 486 conversion in the fourth log. Specifically, you can remove the 286 of … Continue reading
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP Resources
While sorting through some old documents I came across my old Voodoo5 card and some vogons.org references to Glide and driver lists. I figured they should be somewhere on here, even if I don’t have a retro PC anymore! See … Continue reading
Sega TeraDrive Tidbits
The attached PDF is a translation from a Japanese message board located here. There’s some interesting tidbits here and there. It looks like the thread dates way back to 2001 and runs as recent as a few years ago.… Continue reading
The IBM Personal System/55 5510
The IBM PS/55 5510 information below was translated from Japanese here. This model has a lot in common with the Sega TeraDrive Model 2 which is why I’ve added it on here.
After removing the cover of the genuine … Continue reading
Sega TeraDrive Menu Demonstration Capture
Today we bumble around the Sega TeraDrive menus, they were quite exciting to play with. If only they had managed to get a 486-class CPU in the sucker it would have been the best retrogaming experience ever! Instead we end … Continue reading
Gigabyte Dual BIOS and the Host Protected Area
Gigabyte motherboards with an Xpress Recovery BIOS are apparently affected by a bug! The following is taken from here.
“When the drive is first in the boot order, Gigabyte’s BIOS will write a backup copy of itself to a … Continue reading
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