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ThisOldTech

@ThisOldTech2

Retelling the stories from early tech history... the glory of DOS, Windows 3.11/95 and the beauty of IRQs and Abort Retry Fail...

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Joined May 2021
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OG Windows 1.0 released 39 years ago today. 🎂
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Done. Now I have a nice 14" Compaq VGA monitor. Tube's also still quite bright and a lot of the other "left outside for a year...or five" filth is cleaned off.
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Couldn't say no to an S3 Virge DX with original box for 15€ shipped.
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Added a few more boxes to the shelf!
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Never seen a burlwood-style case before! Belongs to a long-time customer of mine who picked it up in the 90s at a German PC show. Can you handle the grain? 😬 Badges/stickers available at geekenspiel.com/
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Geekenspiel@geekenspiel1 Nov 2022
These came out great, I think. Thanks to @ThisOldTech2 for showing off his originals! ✨
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How do you update Windows 98 on a spaceship orbiting Mars? @esa is doing it for Mars Express, after 19 years. bit.ly/3A0L39L
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Just had someone over who wanted to see what the nineties was all about from a personal computer perspective. This is what I came up with. #nineties #retro #vintage
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It's official, ultimateretro.net has officially reached 10000 motherboards, and will reach new milestones in the future
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Just a few Cyrix 486s to choose from. Will probably be evaluating the DX2v80 and DX4/100 for my daily use rig. The DX2v80 is interesting because it’s the only 4.0V 486 I’ve ever come across 🤔
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AMIBIOS 786 sticker found in an industrial Pentium 4 motherboard
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Sound cards of the day: two rather generic looking ISA cards. Probably built in the same factory. Yamaha Audician 32 YMF719 and a ESS Audiodrive ES1868F. Both have great #Adlib and Sound Blaster compatibility though. @ThisOldTech2 @kal1mard0
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86Box@86BoxEmulator28 Oct 2021
Hey, 86Box... you look different...
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It's been a long time since I have been tinkering with retro hardware. Today I used ballistix tracer for the first time. And I'm surprised it had white let's on the bottom. Very 😎
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Welp, it's that time again! I'm finishing up the next vid showcasing ATI CIF! For those interested/unaware, CIF was ATI's very-quickly-abandoned proprietary API. So quickly, that on this page is the incredibly tiny list of games: vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=3…
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My 3dfx Voodoo5 6000's first power up! youtu.be/X5Gsn1fkcuY
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 First Power On!

3dfx Voodoo5 6000 First Power On!

My hands are shaking! EPoX 8K5A2+ Athlon XP 2400+ / 512MB Kings...

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