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Fedorenko
Junior Member
Australia
463 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2003 : 23:03:28
There shitty PCs, but yeh, Ill take anything. It seems that schools old fleet of P166s cant run Windows 2000, so they are running a 'raffle' to ditch them. Ofcourse, I dobut anybody other than myself and a few friends will go after them, so Im prety sure I got one in the bag....and anway, the guy incharge of the computers is my Maths C & B teacher.....he better give me one that works Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure... |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 01:21:04
Heh, cool! What type are they? If they're that shitty, they're probably Ipexes, but i thought i may as well ask anyway. Btw, if you get an Ipex, make sure you do the following: a) Take out any good parts it may have. (Oh no! what am i saying?) b) Find a nice Holden of the 6 or 8 cylinder variety c) Back over it. And then post pics! Btw, i thought your parents only let you have one comp at a time? "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
Fedorenko
Junior Member
Australia
463 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 01:40:20
Wouldnt that destroy the holden, they are shit remember . Yeh, the teacher, is a really could at selling stuff. On assembly, the pitch for them were: "They arnt any good. The wont run Windows 2000, and have small hardrives, adn they might not even work. Probably only good to rip apart and see how the computer goes together..then smash it". Pfft, the machine has BeOS or Rhaspody DR2 stamped all over it. [EDIT] Heck, the spelling in that line was bad. I can see you can now delete your own replies with this forum...nice. Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure... Edited by - Fedorenko on 06 Aug 2003 01:43:04 |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 02:09:49
LOL, Holdens aren't THAT bad! Sounds like a great marketing pitch though. Are they Ipexes? "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
Fedorenko
Junior Member
Australia
463 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 02:18:53
Some crapo brand taht doesnt exist anymore....hmmm Rhaspody.Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure... |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 02:39:43
Hmm, ok. They mustn't be that bad then, seeing as though they're NOT Ipexes. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
Fedorenko
Junior Member
Australia
463 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 03:00:06
ofcourse, if it was Ipex, I would get one just to set it on fire . I wonder what my parents are gonna think when I turn up home carrying a computer (Im lucky, I live 4 houses down from the school).Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure... |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 03:22:16
LOL. Good luck with the machine's implementation!FYI, a P166 WILL run '2k, just veeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyy ssssssssssslllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwlllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 08:51:02
A pentium 166 can run Windows 2000, it just needs to have enough RAM and alarge enough hard disk. My P166 with 64MB RAM ran Windows 2000 nicely, a little slow when using programs that use CPU alot, but other than that it was fine.RAM is the key issue though, if you can put 128 in it, the better. Or, for an added flavour, stir in 3 CD's of RedHat Linux, 1 CD of Knoppix, 1 CD of Windows 2000, stir untill smooth, boil for 20 minutes and serve hot.
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Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 12:31:28
A P166 makes a good retro pc gaming rig (assuming you can get a good sound/video card)
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llamaboy487
Full Member
USA
516 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 19:18:35
i got one, too...mine's a Packard Bell Legend 812CD, with a pentium in it... i havent opened it up yet to look at the innards, and currently its booting win95. More on this as i figure it out. I'm moving my machines all into one room tonight! ________________________ IBM PS/2 Fanboy http://www.kevcave.tk = The Kevcave Manager, the llama-X project.. |
Fedorenko
Junior Member
Australia
463 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 22:43:00
Yeh, right now its looking like retro gaming, or BeOS. Ill probably do teh cheapest upgrade ever..a bit of RAM, a CDROM drive, and a 200mhz CPU Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure... |
llamaboy487
Full Member
USA
516 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 22:52:50
I got mine put together... and i finished moving my machines into one room. i'll take piccies as soon as i ifnd a new infolithium battery for my camera somewhere.________________________ IBM PS/2 Fanboy http://www.kevcave.tk = The Kevcave Manager, the llama-X project.. |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2003 : 23:59:27
Man its nice having all your machines in one room. Now if only i was at home, and my LCII, Classic II and LC475 were out of storage! "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
SiliconValleyPirate
Junior Member
United Kingdom
273 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 04:53:30
FYI Windows 2000 is slow on anything P166 - represents a golden era when PC games ere simple and fun to play and you didn't have to learn your way around the keyboard backwards tp play them. Indycar Racing still stands up as the best race car sim of ALL time. I played it for days at a time. Carmageddon was another all time classic that echoed through the halls of my P150 around that time. Oh happy days..... As for crappy PC vendors, Packard Bell made really sucky machines over here. Large lumps of propriery board and a total bitch to upgrade. -- Mark Benson FlatPackMacs http://fpm.gotdns.com 2nd Lieutenant - 68kMLA, LC Quartermaster Holder of the Crowbar of Persistant Crate Opening "Never send a human to do a machine's job" - The Matrix Edited by - SiliconValleyPirate on 07 Aug 2003 05:02:47 |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 05:26:11
Lol, Crappard Smell is bad anywhere. But not as bad as Ipex, of course. As for the P166 representing the golden era of PC games, you're right there, although a lot of the games that came out in the 486 era weren't all that bad either. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 08:00:51
The 486 era was nice too. Daewoo made a kick-ass Logic Board that ran the 486 DX2 series and featured PCI slots. It was a high end board which would only suport a PCI Video card. If you tried booting with an ISA card it wouldn't work, it would just sit there. It had sound, onboard ports and, the BIOS was GUI based, allowing you to use a mouse to set everything up. It was a very nice board and had good speeds.Seanix made some very nice P166/200 machines in thier business line. The machines had fast boards, USB and lots of features. The Intel chipset was a little buggy, but once you got around it, had a nice chunk of ram in it, they flew. The P166 era and even the higher end 486 machines in DOS can use the ZSNES emulator, the best SNES emulator out there, to play fullscreen EagleFX enhanced games that make the game look and feel way better. Not to mention a keyboard has so many more options, so making a quick and useable gamepad keys out of a keyboard is a cinch, and easier to use. Gamepads always gave me blisters cause they were just awkward.
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llamaboy487
Full Member
USA
516 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 11:45:56
BIOS with a mouse!? you'd think that would be standard by now, if it first appeared in the 486 era...yeah this Packard Hell is gonna be a really good llama-X test machine! if only it had more than one 5.25" drive bay, so i'd put in a 5.25" floppy drive but it is a desktop case. I got the camera to work long enough to take two pictures, they'll be up on the kevcave soon. oh btw its a Socket 5 pentium with a massive blue heatsink stuck to it! the heatsink says "100MHz" but i dont know if thats what the heatsink is supposed to bring it up to or if its a pentium 100. ________________________ IBM PS/2 Fanboy http://www.kevcave.tk = The Kevcave Manager, the llama-X project.. Edited by - llamaboy487 on 07 Aug 2003 11:47:59 |
redrouteone
Junior Member
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 16:47:45
Oh God I hate that stupid win bios.About 4 years I worked at a used computer store. Mostly what we delt with was junk and was a pain in the ass to work with. One day this sound card just pushed me over the edge. So I went out in the parking lot backed over it with my truck, but with the sound card still under the tire. Reved the engine up to about 3500 and dropped the clutch. The tire ripped all of the componets off of the board and sent it flying about 15 feet. --Eric ___________________________ Have you seen my mojo? |
Christophillis
Forums Squadron Commander
USA
688 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 17:03:01
Way to get your anger out-------------------- Christophillis- Portable Squadren Commander 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68k Macs Liberated: 6.02x10^23 Or just 6 Number One, you have the helm. I'll be in my ready room. |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 18:40:18
HAR!™ Great idea! What sort of truck was it? "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
redrouteone
Junior Member
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 19:46:17
1985 Ford Ranger 4wd 2.8l V6 5 speed. Second year the Ranger was built, the first year for the 4wd. I have never seen another V6 with as much low end torque as that one. I could easily tow 6000 lbs behind it. Man I do miss that truck, I wish I had kept it when I bought my new truck. It only had 215,000 miles on it, but I let it get too low on oil. Killed the rings and the motor would not hold compression any more. That, no ac and July in Texas prompted me to buy my current truck. But I did not have the time to do what I wanted to it so decided to sell it.--Eric ___________________________ I Took the Road Less Traveled, and Now Where the Heck Am I? Edited by - redrouteone on 07 Aug 2003 19:47:25 |
Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 21:33:03
If a computer I am working on acts like its possesed by the devil I just take a walk and cool off,come back to it when I am in a better frame of mind and refreshed (works on any project that your stuck on).
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Christophillis
Forums Squadron Commander
USA
688 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 22:54:09
But its not as satisfying as seeing parts go flying through the rear view mirror. -------------------- Christophillis- Portable Squadren Commander 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Total 68k Macs Liberated: 6.02x10^23 Or just 6 Number One, you have the helm. I'll be in my ready room. |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2003 : 22:58:39
quote:
If a computer I am working on acts like its possesed by the devil I just take a walk and cool off,come back to it when I am in a better frame of mind and refreshed (works on any project that your stuck on).
If i'm on an Ipex and it acts up, i try and think of the day when i "rescue" a whole bunch of them from a trash can, and flatten them with a Holden, while having someone there to take piccies for me to upload. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 09:46:48
quote:
But its not as satisfying as seeing parts go flying through the rear view mirror.
Its an inanimate piece of equipment, unlike beating the crap out of somebody you cant stand or has harmed you, the sound card could care less. You also look like a dam fool to everybody around the shop doing something so unprofessional like that (also think about what would happen if the card hit somebodies car and made a dent).
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The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 16:14:38
So you're saying he should go beat the crap out of somebody instead? |
Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 17:12:18
quote:
So you're saying he should go beat the crap out of somebody instead?
I was trying to point out that if you beat the crap out of someone bugging you he wont bug you no more (problem solved). Beating the shit out of a soundcard doesnt make the next one work any better.
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 17:27:49
Yeah, but it makes you feel MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH better! "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
redrouteone
Junior Member
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 19:22:26
quote:
I was trying to point out that if you beat the crap out of someone bugging you he wont bug you no more (problem solved).
The sound card did not bother me any more either. Guess I should not menton the time we played football (socker) with a hard drive. Glad my boots were steel toed. Though I did not look like a fool, the atmosphere of the place was very laid back and fun. One day we were just dead not a single person came in. So we took very tray load CD-ROM we could find in the place and raced them to see wich one could close the fastest. And we were always doing stuff like this. --Eric ___________________________ I Took the Road Less Traveled, and Now Where the Heck Am I? Edited by - redrouteone on 08 Aug 2003 19:23:26 |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 19:42:28
quote: One day we were just dead not a single person came in. So we took very tray load CD-ROM we could find in the place and raced them to see wich one could close the fastest. And we were always doing stuff like this.
Lol, reminds me of one time back in grade 8, i went to Big W with a bunch of mates on shopping leave one morning, and we must've spent about 20 minutes racing the cassete decks in the electronics section, to see which one would open the fastest. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 20:56:04
lol...speaking of cassette decks, on my stereo, Deck B opens faster than Deck A... weird huh? One time, I plugged an 18 volt laptop into a 6 volt tape player... LOL you SHOULD have seen the smoke begin to pour from that thing!!! needless to say, it didn't work after that... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life" |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 21:04:58
quote:
One time, I plugged an 18 volt laptop into a 6 volt tape player... LOLyou SHOULD have seen the smoke begin to pour from that thing!!! needless to say, it didn't work after that...
Oops. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 21:53:10
lol... it dodn't work to begin with...ohwell... it was kinda fun and exciting to see it Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Editor of the MLAgazine "I'm just a normal computer geek who somehow landed a social life" |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2003 : 21:59:30
lol, i can imagine. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |
The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2003 : 00:12:58
Destruction.Why not reverse engineer these poor slaves of the PC world into Mac components? Use a little Borg nanotechnology, add a twist of Lime and voila! Mac to go!
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 09 Aug 2003 : 00:59:34
LOL...maybe. RAM and hard drives can be used on a Mac most of the time...30 pin SIMMs go into Compacts, older Quadras, LCs and LCIIs, 72 pinners go into newer LCs and Performas, as well as newer Quadras, IDE hard drives can be used in any Mac with an IDE bus, and SCSI HDs can be used in any Mac with a SCSI bus, 3.3v SDRAM DIMMs can be used in G3s, PCI video cards and other stuff can sometimes be recycled in PCI PowerMacs etc."**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers Warrior maclover5 68kMLA Official 68kMLA Detective Number of 68ks Liberated: 7 Number of Contraband (PPC) Liberated from the Dumpster: 1 |