“Normal service will resume shortly.” I’m taking a break from social media for a while to focus on offline things - reading books, getting outside, getting back into meditation and refocusing. If you need to contact me 📨 [email protected] Currently #AFK but I'll #BRB

Another repair I'll be doing at the same time is this: Kentech KJD-MUSIC16 ISA Soundcard Based on Crystal CX4235, it supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro (stereo too), and Windows Sound System (we won't talk about the horrific Adlib implementation 😄)

I've started looking at this Jetway J-603TCFL motherboard sent by @uhf_satcom (x.com)🙏 It's a Tualatin board & I have a penchant Jetway, it doesn't have AGP and I'm fine with that, running a PCI Geforce FX5500 will be great anyway, tried and tested before It'll need some work though☺️

Tonight's random retro experiment: Trying to install MS-DOS to a SCSI Magneto Optical (MO) drive and then booting from it on a 386! 👍

Something arrived today, from @2600.me (Retro Wizard Extrodianare)! The links will be below on what Henry has done, next I'll be retro-brighting, cosmetic makeover and other fun bits. 👍 Thanks dude! Amstrad PC1640DD - 8086 Powered Computer from 1986:

An absolutely amazing care package from my retro friend: UHF Satcom (x.com/uhf_satcom) Thank you so much, you don't know how many hours of fun this stuff is going to give me, and share it with everyone here! Eternally Grateful ☺️ Want to see what's inside? 👇

BeOS 5 - what a beautiful, functional and solid OS! 😍

I will never understand why AWARD BIOS 4.51PG never had the most logical (to me at least) boot sequence option: A, CD-ROM, C Did this also seem strange to anyone else, or just me?

If you repaired PC's in the late 90s / early 2000s this photo will give you some serious bad flashbacks! Reinstalling Windows 98/Me on a machine with one of these and no driver CD was an absolute nightmare!

I was given this Slot 1 Pentium II motherboard, by a new retro friend that lives in my village. As you can see it's frickin' mint condition, no dust, no wear, nothing, absolutely pristine - but it doesn't work, I would love to know the backstory! ABit AB-LX6 (1997)

I picked up a few freebies from a friend today. - 1st Gen i7 board, with legacy PCI slots and fully supports XP - A quite rare Socket 939 board that has both PCle and AGP (partially recapped, needs finishing) - Slot 1 Pentium II board - Socket A Athlon board (needs recapping)

Just as an aside: Seeing your photos with the Intel bunny suit figures made me go searching through my old computer equipment storage boxes and dig mine out too. 😄

Random one: Sun Solaris 8 running on a Pentium III, with networking up and running, you just can't beat Intel Pro 100 PCI network cards, this one is a cheeky dual NIC too.

NEC V20 CPU, pin compatible with the Intel 8088, with 63,000 transistors vs the 8088's 29,000. A nice upgrade giving you a 20-50% performance boost!

It's 2:53AM here, I can't sleep, so I decided to try out this untested Nvidia Geforce 7900GS. Installing Windows XP rn......

Here's a link to purchase for anyone interested: ebay.us/m/K4kqLx

Acorn A4000 / ARM250 CPU / 4MB RAM / Cumana CD-ROM / RiscOS 3.11 [1992]

This is the first compilation album I bought when I was a kid (age 6), I got this for £6 and it's pristine, so happy! 😊

Me trying to enter the BIOS:

Intel i486 DX2-66 (1992)

IBM Personal Computer 330 (1996)

The iconic IBM PS/2 Model 30 with ISA. 😍

If you're into vintage/retro computers, these are the moments that teleport you back in time and give you the nostalgia goosebumps!!!! I LIVE FOR THIS!!!!!! 😊😍

If you're into vintage/retro computers, these are the moments that teleport you back in time and give you the nostalgia goosebumps!!!! I LIVE FOR THIS!!!!!! 😊😍

The Trident TVGA8900C ISA video card I brought back from the dead works great in 8-bit mode! 👍

Having a Vintage night tonight, some 80s Turbo XT (8088) clone fun 😊

Anyone remember: Prime95 - Torture Test?

It's the year 2000 and I'm about to have a goooooood time! 🤘 #UnrealTournament

New toy to play with!

Tonight I'm playing with Socket A 462 Athlon's. I have this board that I've not fully tested before, I've put a Thunderbird 1333Mhz for now. But curiously this board is a bit unusual, nowhere online does it show that this can do 400Mhz FSB (DDR Rate), but it does for some reason.

This motherboard is my original Gigabyte GA-7IX ('99), with an AMD 750 Irongate chipset. I recapped it to use with the original 5000Mhz Slot A Athlon, I've now not only proven that it is exceptionally stable with the 500Mhz, but also the fastest 1Ghz Thunderbird. Beefy PSU FTW 👍

It is now safe to turn off your computer. 😴 💤

Sim City 2000 Big Box (MS-DOS 3.5" floppy version) [1993]

Modded another Nintendo Gameboy DMG-01 (1989) to sell, if there's any interest? Custom transparent and reflective case, new speaker, toughened glass bezel and an amazing IPS screen.

"So you're telling me I just invested £10,000 in this computer and a guy called Gammitin is going to acquire it for £35 in the future?"

I decided to swap my workbench monitor for something a little more retro, this one does some great low resolutions too - should have done it sooner!

I cannot believe how powerful this 386 is, here's Jazz Jackrabbit in high settings mode! 😲

Sun corner 🤓

Quake III Arena (1999)

Free CRT is a winner! 👍

NEC V40 CPU NEC's drop-in competitor and functional equivalent to Intel's 80188, which debuted in 1988. This one lives in my Olivetti Prodest PC1:

NEC V30 processor family is pin-compatible with 8086, runs at the same speed as the 8086, but can be 10 to 30% faster. It emulates all the 8080 instructions and also includes all 8086/8088/80186/80188 CPU instructions natively. It was manufactured by: 🔵NEC 🔵Sony 🔵Sharp 🔵Zilog

Remember the days before MPEG2 (DVD), back then we had VCD's, CD-i and MPEG1 video files. If you wanted to play videos on a computer you needed additional power, these were provided in the form of MPEG decoder cards. Here's my REALmagic Netstream 1 ISA card, let's investigate!

Love a Saturday retro mission!

Why is my cat so sassy and why does she have eyelashes? #caturday

3DFX fan? If so, check out Mike's new video 👇

After 9 long months, I've finally posted a new video! Today I explore the performance differences between SGRAM and SDRAM on 3dfx Voodoo3 cards. I also look at the Block Write and Write-Per-Bit features. The SGRAM advantage was larger than I expected! youtu.be/7VN6OyGcaL4

Picked this up as 'dead' Spares/Repairs (we shall see): Aztech Multimedia Pro 16

The votes are in, across all my socials: 🥇 AMD Athlon K7 Slot A 1Ghz - 41% 🥈 AMD 386-DX40 - 35% 🥉 AMD K6-2 400 - 24%

The glory days......