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   Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:11 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

   Anything that has a computer inside, I'm interested in!
   It's getting a bit obscure here:
   This is a 20+ year old POS (Point of Sale) system, that would have been in a shop.
   I bought this one as it was dirt cheap, Pentium 3 era, neat and small and a few other reasons (later).

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:04 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     The video card works in the PCI slot, winning!
     Let's do this, Windows 98 setup.....

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:05 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Well it's Tualatin compatible! Niiiice.

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:05 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Let's try a 32MB PCI Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead DVI

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:05 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Oh, I almost forgot, that laptop CD-ROM to IDE breakout works perfectly in this machine too, it's even got an audio out header! 👍

     ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ repeated this.
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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:06 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Perfect, that did the trick, the heads were just dusty.
     I've managed to boot Partition Magic 8 from floppy and the HDD is working, just unpartitioned.

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:06 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     What you recon'?
     Celeron Tualatin 1200?
     Let's try it!

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:07 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     This head cleaning disk that I made a while back is so useful!
     Let's see if it does the trick.

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:08 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Just doing a quick test tonight, the floppy tries to boot, but stops.....

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:09 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     2x PCI slots, that's sound and video sorted 👌

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:09 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Smol, but it works, looks like there's a Celeron 733 and 128MB RAM, also the HDD is detected, good sign.
     The really interesting thing is that this board is supposed to support Tualatin CPU's! 👍

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:10 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Slim floppy drive, and space for a slim dvd drive, that adapter I posted earlier will come in handy!

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:10 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     ATX motherboard, all the usuals, including Intel Pro 100 NIC, super compatible and useful.
     Also either one or two PCI slots:

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 03:30:10 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Here's the inside, the 80GB IDE HDD is a bonus!

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:29 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     This is system and board now all documented on theretroweb, big thanks to: oerg866 👍
     https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/epson-im-800

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:30 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     It's in.

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:30 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     It's an SST 49LF004A - EPROM

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:30 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Sorted, that went ok 👍

     ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ repeated this.
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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:31 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     I've taken the motherboard out, cleaned it and took a load of photos for The Retro Web archive.
     The size is in between Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX, here's the front and the back:

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:31 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Here's everything all taken out (exploded view), the design is fantastic, everything is hinged allowing you easily get to components and service stuff. I'm just waiting in a new PLCC32 to DIP32 adapter to arrive before dumping the bios and reassembling it all.

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:31 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Let's do a dump! 🤣

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:32 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     I tested Windows 2000 SP4 (with patches up to unofficial SP5), beautiful!

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:32 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Sooo, back to Windows 98, I've installed some drivers, but decided to install SBEMU in MS-DOS mode and test a game.
     Wow, this is Dos Quake in 800x600 and it's silky smooth - I'm very impressed!
     Ohh, the audio chip works perfectly with SBEMU, full Adlib and Soundblaster Pro mode!

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:32 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     OS/2 Warp 4.52 works great on this machine, even networking was fine without any additional drivers!
     I miss those Netscape 'old internet' days 🥹

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:32 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     Tomorrow I'll dump the bios, give this motherboard a clean and take some pictures for The Retro Web! 👍
     It does support 133Mhz FSB, so I need a spare Pentium 3 Tualatin to test in it (currently using a Celeron).
     Oh, I found out it has an amp and speaker connector, might fit one.

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:33 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     I've finished installing Win98 and installed an extra stick of RAM, before I get the drivers sorted, I thought I'd give a few live CDs a go - it seems to love everything I've thrown at it.
     TinyCore (Plus) Linux is a dream on this, runs really well!

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     Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 11:34:33 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     AntiX Linux runs well too.