Recent content by Unknown_K

It's because people have no clue what they are good at or what they find interesting at that age so they hit them with a lot of things that might be useful down the road. If you want to get into college for a science degree, you might as well take chemistry. I am not a doctor, but biology was...

You would have to disinfect them, not worth the effort.

MCA can do what 40MBs @32 bit? Between video and hard disk there is probably enough bandwidth left for 100Mb ethernet. There are 10/100 Mb ethernet cards for 16-bit ISA, which could barely deal with that if nothing else was using the bus.

I figured OS/2 would run smoother and better on a PS/2 then a generic PC. Olicom OC-2335 10/100 Ethernet is the card you are talking about? There is at least one NIB on eBay now for $100 BIN.

Laptops had bad build quality until maybe the early Pentium era (same time most had TFT screens). Serial and Parallel ports lived on in laptops long after they got ditched on desktops. My diagnostic tester for my 20+ year old car is Bluetooth, I think. ECM on my 82 corvette is by the battery in...

I don't think that is the norm.

The motherboards are new so no leaky caps I assume. Most of the time it's the board that goes bad from capacitor rot or backup battery leaking.

Reliability of newly made designs compared to 30-year-old stuff plus smaller form factor.

I like MCA cards and have a bunch of them along with machines full of cards. While I have 2 MCA sound cards, they are not gamer cards. Ethernet is a must, along with a more modern XGA-2 card, RAM cards, and of course SCSI. My more exotic stuff would be CPU card, CPU upgrades that fit in...

All process nodes come to an end when orders drop.

I desoldered a Dallas chip on a gateway 2000 P5-66 motherboard a few times and it seems I broke a couple traces and the machine no longer boots. So, I was wondering if anybody has that machine and could take a picture of the area on the back side of the motherboard around the Dallas chip. Thanks

The way the fan fins are bent means it probably does move some air over those fins (higher pressure), but it is probably noisy. Newer fans need shroud's because they create little pressure and are optimized for low noise.

Apogee has 22 games on GOG.COM but not this one.

Some or most XBOX 1's have pads on the board for another 64MB of RAM chips for 128MB total (not sure how much uses that is). I have the original XBOX and other then recapping it and replacing the DVD ROM belt it still works. Even purchased a cable that allows for 1080P HDMI. The Original...

There are tons of 8bit, 16bit, 32bit, and 64bit chips being used in cars these days (mostly cheap MIPS that can stand up to harsh environments). https://www.makeuseof.com/cpu-for-car-ecu/#:~:text=Car%20manufacturers%20mostly%20use%20the,the%20MIPS%2032%2Dbit%20MCU. I don't see Intel getting...