lightlover
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The LED Museum Needs a Computer
(see @ this link for background) http://www.candlepowerforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=22&t=000278&p=2
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by The LED Museum:
I don't think I need a whole new computer, but I do think I'd be better off with a different mainboard &CPU.
I'm currently using a Socket-7 "SiS 530" PC100 motherboard with SiS chipset and an AMD K6-2 500MHz processor. 128MB of PC100 RAM. Has two IDE ports, onboard USB (but nobody makes the connector), onboard video & sound, and daughterboard 56K modem & NIC. The NIC is not installed, as doing so automatically disables the modem. The board has 1 ISA and 2 PCI slots, of which the ISA slot hosts a bus mouse and a PCI slot hosts a USB card that can't be used in Win95 anyway.
So the board (or boardset) I'd need would have to have 2 IDE ports, 1 or 2 USB ports, at least 1 ISA and 1 PCI slot, and either have onboard or come with video, sound, and modem boards.
The keyboard uses the "big" DIN plug, but I think I have a gender bender for those small ones around here somewhere. (checking... nope, the male end of the adapter is the large 5-pin DIN, the female end is a small 6-pin thing, looks like PS/2.) I think I'd need one that goes the other way around if the new MB comes with the small keyboard socket.
Anything else... hmmm, not that I can think of. So it all comes down to finding a Win98 / P&P friendly mainboard (either with RAM, or able to use the PC100 junk off this board) and the basics (video/sound/modem). Minimum 400-500MHz CPU.
Any thoughts?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well, that's it.
Will the "World of Lights" spring into action like a well-oiled machine, or just creak a few times then fall to bits ?
lightlover
(see @ this link for background) http://www.candlepowerforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=22&t=000278&p=2
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by The LED Museum:
I don't think I need a whole new computer, but I do think I'd be better off with a different mainboard &CPU.
I'm currently using a Socket-7 "SiS 530" PC100 motherboard with SiS chipset and an AMD K6-2 500MHz processor. 128MB of PC100 RAM. Has two IDE ports, onboard USB (but nobody makes the connector), onboard video & sound, and daughterboard 56K modem & NIC. The NIC is not installed, as doing so automatically disables the modem. The board has 1 ISA and 2 PCI slots, of which the ISA slot hosts a bus mouse and a PCI slot hosts a USB card that can't be used in Win95 anyway.
So the board (or boardset) I'd need would have to have 2 IDE ports, 1 or 2 USB ports, at least 1 ISA and 1 PCI slot, and either have onboard or come with video, sound, and modem boards.
The keyboard uses the "big" DIN plug, but I think I have a gender bender for those small ones around here somewhere. (checking... nope, the male end of the adapter is the large 5-pin DIN, the female end is a small 6-pin thing, looks like PS/2.) I think I'd need one that goes the other way around if the new MB comes with the small keyboard socket.
Anything else... hmmm, not that I can think of. So it all comes down to finding a Win98 / P&P friendly mainboard (either with RAM, or able to use the PC100 junk off this board) and the basics (video/sound/modem). Minimum 400-500MHz CPU.
Any thoughts?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well, that's it.
Will the "World of Lights" spring into action like a well-oiled machine, or just creak a few times then fall to bits ?
lightlover