23 Nov
2006
23 Nov
'06
12:10 p.m.
--- Tothwolf <tothwolf at concentric.net> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Chris M wrote:
Don't have a choice. This board has nothing. And I
don't intend to do anything with this board in
particular after today. That P166 is in storage in PA,
and that was essentially all I ever used/needed for
imaging and such. Maybe I never much played with
no-name stuph back in the 386-486 years, but this is
horrible! Yuck
And I do miss my Vectra 386 tower. Loved that poc. If
anyone has any 286-386 HP Vectras, I could be
interested. Just not on the west coast :(
And come to think of it my old DEC pizza box 486 (to
which this chip used to belong) wasn't so bad either.
And you could plug right into a workstation *fixed
frequency* monitor (w/the right cable of course). But
only base VGA modes. And at that they had to be
emulated on that weird TI graphics chipset. 34010 or
something like that.
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Funny, this mobo has no onboard anything. Nada.
Chips say "UMC". I have
this skinny little IDE/floppy controller, with a
Goldstar chip. This
thing doesn't even have headers for serial or
parallel ports. I have a
Cyrix 486 DX2-66 and 16 megs of ram. There's
an
empty socket besides the
uP - what in blazes is that for???
UMC's ATA implementation was horrible. You'd be far
better off using a
separate controller (especially if you plan to run
anything besides DOS).
-Toth