Retro PC build

[bbz149]

Meanwhile back in the Loft! I pulled out another 20 Year Old work Monitor, one of the first Compaq 18" TFT 8030 Monitors from BITD

Also pulled out an old Spectrum to clean up and sell as already own a Toast Rack.

Nasty!!

After a good clean!

Monitor also has Composite input, so modded the Spectrum and tried it out!

 

[Brettster]

So much nostalgia!!!

I've been playing doom and some others recently just for the music on the sound canvas I got from Tyke

 

[bbz149]

So much nostalgia!!!

I've been playing doom and some others recently just for the music on the sound canvas I got from Tyke

Indeed! and the
Roland makes such a big difference!!

 

[bbz149]

Finally 99% done! Had fun with Doom and Heretic, ran slow as crap and would not output Midi audio but Duke Nukem 3D was fine. Finally worked out I had the Roland Midi out Jack connected to the Soundblaster Midi in. Well there was 2 Jacks on the SB Cable and thought both had to be connected!

The 7th Guest also sounds awesome

Also installed a Voltage Regulator to output the 9V for the Roland

Now time to finally have some gaming fun!!

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[Venom]

They were our standard desktop at work when i used to do server support.

Unless I have my dates wrong I think those were the sods we had to put a floppy disk in and run a bat files to help get them ready for the year 2000 date change.

I loved around that time as I was overpaid in IT with little but rent and beer to pay for !

Now I have sh*t loads to pay for, and feel sorry the sods who join IT on sh*t wages.

I think I was on about 18K but unlimited overtime in year 2000, I would guess helpdesk IT people get about that now, and probably work bloody hard for it.

 

[bbz149]

They were our standard desktop at work when i used to do server support.

Unless I have my dates wrong I think those were the sods we had to put a floppy disk in and run a bat files to help get them ready for the year 2000 date change.

I loved around that time as I was overpaid in IT with little but rent and beer to pay for !

Now I have sh*t loads to pay for, and feel sorry the sods who join IT on sh*t wages.

I think I was on about 18K but unlimited overtime in year 2000, I would guess helpdesk IT people get about that now, and probably work bloody hard for it.

Yeah they were cracking machines back then! I lost count how man of these we rolled out at BT. Wish I had kept some of the hundreds of Boxes and Manuals we chucked!

 

[bbz149]

The Compaq is having a new drive installed, I've had these 120MB Disks lying about for as long as the machine, I wonder whats on them

Since pulling the Compaq from the Loft, it's bugged me I never kept one of the LS120 Drives so I managed to get one for £20 delivered. They are IDE and Servo driven so also reads 1.44MB Floppies quicker!