Building a vintage y2k computer workstation

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SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

this oughta be posted here

Sombrerotron posted:

anyway get a load of this

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:15

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 04:34

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

i had a plextor cd burner. �160 lmao.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 19:25

Lain Iwakura: Aug 5, 2004; The body exists only to verify one's own existence.; Taco Defender

all y2k computers need zip drives

# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:15

Panty Saluter: Jan 17, 2004; Making learning fun!

OSI bean dip posted:

all y2k computers need zip drives

# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:16

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

we had a zip drive

I have never ever used a zip disk

# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:19

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

zip drives weren't around very long before usb flash drives took over

# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:20

Panty Saluter: Jan 17, 2004; Making learning fun!

Silver Alicorn posted:

zip drives weren't around very long before cd-r took over

# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:26

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

zip drives were much faster than cd-rs or the early usb keys

they were, however, much less reliable than either alternative

# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:31

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

those plexwriter 12/4/32s were bomb as gently caress because they were one of (if not?) the earliest burners to have buffer underrun protection, so you could do other stuff on your computer and if it didn't send data to the drive fast enough it wouldn't just instantly hose the burn.

i remember downloading music off napster and burning CDs for people at high school. good times

# ? Sep 4, 2016 22:58

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

UDF-formatted CD-RWs

# ? Sep 4, 2016 23:00

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

can you udf a hard drive

# ? Sep 4, 2016 23:32

krooj: Dec 2, 2006

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

those plexwriter 12/4/32s were bomb as gently caress because they were one of (if not?) the earliest burners to have buffer underrun protection, so you could do other stuff on your computer and if it didn't send data to the drive fast enough it wouldn't just instantly hose the burn.

i remember downloading music off napster and burning CDs for people at high school. good times

Fuuuuck - I remember burning CDs at 8x off a 5400RPM Maxtor without any underrun support. Risky business...

# ? Sep 5, 2016 06:36

r u ready to WALK: Sep 29, 2001

Made worse by the fact that each blank was around $10 in the early days of CD-R, most people were running Windows 98 with nasty IRQ sharing hardware and IDE hard drives that were barely fast enough to keep up.

Good times, I remember the ritual of rebooting your computer, closing all other applications and as many background tasks as possible to increase your chances of success :downs:

# ? Sep 5, 2016 06:46

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

surely someone remembers burning directly from a downloading file

# ? Sep 5, 2016 06:51

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

error1 posted:

Made worse by the fact that each blank was around $10 in the early days of CD-R, most people were running Windows 98 with nasty IRQ sharing hardware and IDE hard drives that were barely fast enough to keep up.

Good times, I remember the ritual of rebooting your computer, closing all other applications and as many background tasks as possible to increase your chances of success

and watching the buffer gauge plummet if you accidentally bumped the mouse

# ? Sep 5, 2016 12:00

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

remember to keep your hard drive and cdrom on a different ide channel

# ? Sep 5, 2016 15:35

krooj: Dec 2, 2006

Most important - make sure both the burner and HDD are capable of and set to DMA instead of PIO mode.

# ? Sep 5, 2016 17:34

krooj: Dec 2, 2006

i dont think this thread is complete until the op underruns a cd burning session with their warez'd software of choice

# ? Sep 5, 2016 17:36

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

we need some period appropriate malware. does anyone archive that poo poo, and how much of it would work anymore?

# ? Sep 5, 2016 17:47

Lain Iwakura: Aug 5, 2004; The body exists only to verify one's own existence.; Taco Defender

SO DEMANDING posted:

we need some period appropriate malware. does anyone archive that poo poo, and how much of it would work anymore?

danoct1

# ? Sep 5, 2016 18:10

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

I'm running windows 2000

# ? Sep 5, 2016 18:25

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

SO DEMANDING posted:

we need some period appropriate malware. does anyone archive that poo poo, and how much of it would work anymore?

also: https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum

# ? Sep 5, 2016 18:27

krooj: Dec 2, 2006

download everything you can find on a sling.to/fosi mirror. og site is down.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 18:45

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

krooj posted:

i dont think this thread is complete until the op underruns a cd burning session with their warez'd software of choice

discover clone cd and use it to distribute working copies of gta 2. dont breathe on the tower while it's writing.

# ? Sep 6, 2016 23:54

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

I've still got this thing. not sure what to do tbqh. is there any cool workstation software I should try to run?

# ? Sep 8, 2016 01:15

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Silver Alicorn posted:

I've still got this thing. not sure what to do tbqh. is there any cool workstation software I should try to run?

old games

that literally the only half-decent reason to build a POS like this

was that not what you had in mind?

# ? Sep 8, 2016 01:35

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

eh. mostly I wanted to explore the hardware. learned a lot I guess

# ? Sep 8, 2016 01:48

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

I mean it's not old enough to play the really old DOS games that are more CPU dependent

# ? Sep 8, 2016 01:49

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Silver Alicorn posted:

eh. mostly I wanted to explore the hardware. learned a lot I guess

congratulations on exploring a frankensteined hardware configuration no one actually had back then.

Silver Alicorn posted:

I mean it's not old enough to play the really old DOS games that are more CPU dependent

not that old, use dosbox for that stuff . but there's a bunch of win98-era stuff which is completely hosed up on anything modern and doesnt work well with VMs

though things are changing, i was playing around with this recently: http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/

it's very very neckbeardy and has literally zero documentation, but i managed to get simcopter running!

# ? Sep 8, 2016 02:06

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

hey, it's a compaq motherboard with a compaq cpu and a compaq power supply. idk what video card would have been in an actual ap550 tho

# ? Sep 8, 2016 02:18

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Silver Alicorn posted:

hey, it's a compaq motherboard with a compaq cpu and a compaq power supply. idk what video card would have been in an actual ap550 tho

matrox g400 probably

if it was fancy enough, wildcat 3d. that won't play any video games tho

# ? Sep 8, 2016 04:55

r u ready to WALK: Sep 29, 2001

Install BeOS imo

It opens up a whole new world of exciting computing if you've never tried it before

# ? Sep 8, 2016 06:11

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

hmmm....

# ? Sep 8, 2016 13:56

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

throw it in the trash where it belongs

# ? Sep 8, 2016 15:28

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

beos is cool but

Bloody posted:

throw it in the trash where it belongs

is the right answer

# ? Sep 8, 2016 15:37

Share Bear: Apr 27, 2004

Raluek posted:

cant be stealthy if you have a quantum fireball. i bet a bunch of them still work, tho. they were weird like that, i think the ones i had either failed within the first year, or never. i wonder if this bigfoot can be coaxed into functionality

witness my y2k-as-gently caress mousepad

actually, its copyright 96. i guess i got it kinda late in the game