Hi, 'retroinside' is a good forum name 😀 welcome

that celeron machine is like so many late 90's machines, i can imagine all kind of mixed dos and early 9x games being played, some really stretching the capabilities to the limit

its amazing how we managed with such small hdd back then, 4gb! installing and uninstalling, managing space was a real necessity then

magazines were good then, often containing genuinely useful information as well as being entertaining

Welcome to Vogons! I hope you have a lot of fun and interesting discussions here.

Ciao Matt ? Where are you from in Italy? I also had a Celeron 333, I remember I overclocked it to 500MHz ... is it possible ? I'm not 100% sure 😅

Yo welcome, enjoy the trecherous adventure awaiting you, fixing retro hardware that will never truly behave.

Hi you all guys you are so Kind!Yes Gerry it was an unrepeatable times, we make all possible for have some fun, like install and unistall every day to have some space eheheheh
Ciao Luke7110 i came from Sicily!Yes it's not impossible, it had a 66 MHz FSB with a multiplier of 5 so if your CPU was lucky it may have been able to hold up 100 MHz FSB (100X5=500MHz).What a time!50% increase

Welcome to Vogons!

You must have at least one Olivetti machine right? 😉

Retroinside wrote on 2024-05-21, 14:32:

Hi you all guys you are so Kind!Yes Gerry it was an unrepeatable times, we make all possible for have some fun, like install and unistall every day to have some space eheheheh
Ciao Luke7110 i came from Sicily!Yes it's not impossible, it had a 66 MHz FSB with a multiplier of 5 so if your CPU was lucky it may have been able to hold up 100 MHz FSB (100X5=500MHz).What a time!50% increase

I had to put some tape on a few pins of the cpu in order to unlock the fsb or maybe increase the voltage... I don't remember ! It was a long time ago !!
I'm from Turin by the way 😉

Hi PD2JK of course eheheh i have an Olivetti Echos and i am so jelous about it!I love to play some DOS games with it, display is an Active Matrix so no ghosting and very much definited for the era!Play with it with Commander Keen and Doom is a pleasure every time..It's very fragile, i have to say it (plastic will broke only watching eheh) but so cute.

luke7110 yes what remember!!Pins to tape to force 100 MHz FSB 🤣. Ah ok then you also from Italy! Nice to know that people around the world stay here

Hello and welcome!

I had a Slot 1 AT computer during the late 90s, originally it came with a Mendocino Celeron CPU which I later upgraded it to a PIII-750. 😁

The one in my signature is primarily Slot 1 too, but with tweaks for flexibility reasons.

Retroinside wrote on 2024-05-21, 16:03:

luke7110 yes what remember!!Pins to tape to force 100 MHz FSB 🤣. Ah ok then you also from Italy! Nice to know that people around the world stay here

I should still have it somewhere. Must find it and try it on my P2B 😁

P2B is a very good MB!I have one boxed brand new that i want to preserve for the rest of my life eheheh

I did a full recap on mine, I had problems to boot it, i don't know in the end if it was about bad contacts between pins and socket (slot 1) or bad caps, I did it anyway and did a good clean of every slot as well (slot 1, ram and cards) and it just worked 😁

Where are you based in Italy?
Although I am in the UK. I work for a well known Italian company based in Milan as an IT engineer. Although I am stationed at one of their UK plants.

So I deal with them alot and we have good times. I'd say your English pretty good definitely understable.

Enjoy it, I was off and on here but that's life. Members here are incredible always helping. Alot of hardware would be dead and lost. It was here I found the iso disc for my turtle beach santa cruz. Massive thanks to vogons for that.

Anyway..

Buona giornata! (have a good day!)

Hi biohazardx9 many thanks! I came from Sicily (Catania).
Oh wow that's so cool, and did you work in smartworking in your place or are you sometimes located here in Italy? Yes the community here is something special! When some help is needed Vogons is a "source of wisdom" eheh

Thanks again and have a good day you too

Permanently based in the UK, supporting the UK arm.