Presario 425

[houseisland]

House, I think I may be able to get you a nice, slightly used, ISA Digiboard multiline internal modem that would be killer for hosting a bulletin board. 2400 Baud my friend. 8 (? don't remember for sure) lines. Yee, HAH! Requires a full length expansion slot, though.

2400 Baud!

Whoah! Be still by beating heart!

And to think that I was looking at an old 3Com ISA FIDDI card and thinking about having the Internet run on Token Ring!

If I go with the chain saw, chop sticks, and five slot riser card, I could probably fit that digiboard in. Sweet.




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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
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[rgharper]

2400 Baud!

Whoah! Be still by beating heart!

And to think that I was looking at an old 3Com ISA FIDDI card and thinking about having the Internet run on Token Ring!

If I go with the chain saw, chop sticks, and five slot riser card, I could probably fit that digiboard in. Sweet.

Man, go for the big risercard ... yeah, 2400bps sounds awesome now but you have GOT to plan for expansion. Suppose this Internet thing takes off, then what do you do if all you have is a 2400bps modem?

[NooNoo]

Man, go for the big risercard ... yeah, 2400bps sounds awesome now but you have GOT to plan for expansion. Suppose this Internet thing takes off, then what do you do if all you have is a 2400bps modem?

There is no way the hamsters will cope with running that fast... you may have to upgrade to guinea pigs

[houseisland]

There is no way the hamsters will cope with running that fast... you may have to upgrade to guinea pigs

Now you've got me worried. I've looked for a way to get the guinea pigs inside the case, and I can't see how it can be done.

Damn! If my machine only had a VLB slot, I could put in this Socket 478 adapter card.



And the Slot One processors don't quite fit into the ISA slots. Hmmmm.. maybe if I filed out the notch a little wider.......



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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
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[slgrieb]

http://www.stanleytools.com/default....Nailing+Hammer

[Humilliation]

http://www.stanleytools.com/default....Nailing+Hammer

No, I think they'll need some high tech modding tool found here.

[Mayet]

3finger, I'm pretty sure I remember reading an editorial by John C. Dvorak back in the day where he said that anything faster than a 1200 Baud modem was mostly useless because the text on a bulletin board went by so fast at 2400, you couldn't read it.

crumbs I remember that...

Im sure I got some SX and DX chips around somewhere and some 30 pin 1mb strips


and you know whats scary... it doesn't seem that long ago..

[Mags]

...and I can remember the days when no-one had computers in their homes, to my knowledge, but I probably wasn't tall enough to see through front windows? And that doesn't seem that long ago either .... and I can't get the font any smaller, so I'll change the colour ...shhhh....

[slgrieb]

Sorry, Humiliation, I have to disagree with the Bosh hammer. Certainly, there are times when you just have to pound something really hard, but it is usually more important to use your tool with some control and finesse. After all, this is high tech equipment we're dealing with. Well, sorta, anyway. I think the Bosh power hammer is too much brute force and too little finesse.

One problem with conventional hammers is that the straight shafts may not permit much penetration of the head into the case because some wide case designs can block the stroke. The shaft hits the side of the case before the head hits the desired area. Sure, you can use a hammer with a larger head such as a sledgehammer or large machinist's hammer, but that decreases your control.

The reasons I like the FatMax Curve is that the shape of the shaft permits the head to get deep in the case without the shaft hitting the sides of the enclosure, and the 20 oz head combined with the excellent ergonomic handle design makes for a superb combination of power and control. Exactly what you want for seating those reluctant parts.

[houseisland]

This world-domination/internet thing is proving more difficult than initially anticipated.

The PODP5V83 (83 MHz Pentium Overdrive) chip I found in a box of stuff turned out not to be the P24T socket 2/3 variant but rather a somewhat less well documented socket 4 version.

Ref: http://www.cpu-collection.de/?l0=co&...um%20OverDrive




The stage set for disappointment. No Pentium processor for me, yet. Guess I'll have to look at the guinea pigs again.

Sorry about the fuzzy pic. If you look carefully you can see the cool cyclops image on the PCB to the left of the onboard 486 SX 25 chip.


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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
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[shamus]

Wow..when I started here in 1999 we had a lab with 16 of those connecting to a Novell server via DOS.
I actually managed to cram a very stripped down install of Win 95 and Office on those 100 MB drives!

[sinetrogue]

Don't laugh at me when I say this, but I actually have one of these. It's been sitting under my desk for the past 13 years. At first the floppy drive went kaput, but no big deal. I could still play games on it. Then the mouse started going funny. But that's ok, I could use keyboard shortcuts to get around. But now it's basically 30lbs of junk that I can't do much with, and it's time to throw it away.

However, before I do that, I'd like to salvage some of the documents and games on it. Even though I'm an electrical engineer, I have very limited experience taking apart computers, especially one this old. Can someone tell me if there's any way I can salvage the data and what I would need to do so?

Thanks!