Retro Net – Artisoft LANtastic

I acquired this card in a bundle from eBay. When I first saw it, I thought, „what on earth are these two SUB-D 9 connectors, that's not exactly standard.“ Then, when I randomly pulled it out of a box for the description, I thought the same thing again. It did ring a bell for Lantastic, though...

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Retro Motherboard – GA-586ATE Rev 4.D

A Socket 7 motherboard for the Pentium I, with only one voltage, so up to 166MHz without MMX. The board has an Intel 8243xFX chipset. It only supports 72-pin FPM and EDO RAM, but has six slots for it, and up to 128MB. My 2x 32MB modules were also recognised. As the benchmark shows, this motherboard, with…

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Retro Motherboard – FIC 486-HC-HD

The board started after a bit of a jump-start with contact spray. The Award BIOS is rubbish, but we'll surely find a better solution. The cache expansion is quite nice, unfortunately my 4MB SIMMs don't work with the board yet. Let's see what happens. Views Facts Manual BIOS TMS27C512 BIOS Chip The AMI BIOS found on RetroWeb works…

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Retro Net – 3Com Etherlink II/16

Predecessor to the Etherlink III card, unfortunately without an RJ45 connector. If you know how to do it, the card is quickly configured and easy to handle, even though it's still not clear to me how the IRQ is set. Please leave a comment if you know more.

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Retro Project – XT-CF-Lite Version 4.1

Eine weiterer XT Ide Controller, mit Compactflash Slot, welcher mit dem richtigen Slotblech von der Computer Rückseite zugänglich ist. Die Platine ist mit Durchloch Bauteilen aufgebaut nut der CompactFlash Slot bildet eine Ausnahme. Somit sollte die Platine leicht zu löten sein. Link zum Projekt Link zum Projekt Ansichten Fakten Schaltpläne Dokumentation SW1 – I/O Adressauswahl …

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