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Reply With QuoteGuess this particular one failed, eh?
Guess what I just found out?
Windows 98, Firefox 2, K6 running at 350 MHz, just can't quite navigate today's world wide web...
One of my hobbies is to make old things work.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
Guess this particular one failed, eh?
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
Not yet. I can still try to upgrade the browser (IE5) to IE6. IE5 doesn't work too well. I know most of the net still works for IE6. And also I need to replace the old IBM "death star" drive (whopping 4.3 GB of storage space) to a shiny old WD 20 GB drive. That "death star" makes a high pitched whiny sound (reminds me of old Yeller hereOriginally Posted by bigross86
) that I just can't stand.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
And what are you going to do with this wonderful relic once you have it up and running?
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
Earth shattering news!Guess what I just found out?
Windows 98, Firefox 2, K6 running at 350 MHz, just can't quite navigate today's world wide web...
Someone notify Fox News.
It has a modem or 10/100 Ethernet?Guess what I just found out?
Windows 98, Firefox 2, K6 running at 350 MHz, just can't quite navigate today's world wide web...
One of my hobbies is to make old things work.
No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
It will be a running relic.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
Good enough, I guess...
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
10base2
Nah I'm just kidding. It has a 10/100 network card on PCI. However, I've noticed that I can only hit 450KB/s transfer rate when I copy a large file over. My wireless-G is faster than that, which shouldn't be the case.
Oh, it has a 5.25" floppy drive too, plus 2 USB1 ports on a PCI slot.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
My guess, The 450kB transfer is due to the architecture and the old HDD.
5,25" FDD and USB together? Man that machine is a museum of it's own. DVD?
No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
Are you going to get it running as is and use it to the best its abilities, or are you going to upgrade the shite out of it?
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
How...why...wha...
Actually, I hope there's a bunch of people keeping things like that running. Be nice to have a chain of working technology going back through the years so we don't lose archived data in obsolete formats. Props to you sir.
Though I still don't understand why it had that combo in the first place...
I enjoy being wrong too much to change my mind.
The 2 USB ports sit on a PCI adapter. Every single computer with a FDD port still supports the 5.25" drive. The trick is to find a working drive and the cable for it. It has a 48x CDROM. No burner though. I forgot what video card I put in there. It's AGP and might be a Voodoo 3 2000. Sound card might be a Sound Blaster Live! that I had lying around. Or it could be a cheapy SB compatible. I don't think it could handle an Audigy.My guess, The 450kB transfer is due to the architecture and the old HDD.
5,25" FDD and USB together? Man that machine is a museum of it's own. DVD?
It's not a bad computer, for 1999. The K6-2 (Chomper) was state of the art back then.
Amazing what has since taken place in the PC world in a little over 10 years. We now have 4 cores running at 10x the speed housing 16x the memory and 100x the storage space, all at the same price.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
It will be upgraded to the extent of the board's capability, which is AGP 2.0, PCI, and 168 pin SDRAM (I think that's what I have in there).
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
Why do guys do certain things? Just to see if they can be done.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
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