keropi wrote:and here I was expecting to see a pentium4 or dualcore DOS pc 😀
nice build!
in my mind when I think of DOS i generally think of the 486 era so i consider something like a 66mhz 486 "normal" speed wise for DOS. In my mind anything Pentium or after is "fast". for me personally 200mhz is about as fast as I would go.
I do have an extra ISA slot so I will defiantly look into a second card for MIDI. of course then I won't have any spare ISA slots left for a ultrasound. Ive been interested in trying a YMF-71x card so I may look into that
as for internal shots. I'll try to post later but i'm notorious for terrible cable management so really its just going to mostly look like a mess of ide, floppy, scsi cables.
Skyscraper wrote:Nice system! I like the Zip-drive.
I would also like a Zip-drive in my DOS 6.22 computer.
I only have one Zip-drive though and […]
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Nice system! I like the Zip-drive.
I would also like a Zip-drive in my DOS 6.22 computer.
I only have one Zip-drive though and that kind of defeats the purpose.
I see that you and many other members use SCSI HDDs. in your Socket-7 systems.
Is there real benefits of using a SCSI HDD compared to lets say a 7200 RPM 8GB IDE disk?
I really like Zip drives so I try to include them on my older systems. its very easy to just grab files of the internet on my win 7 machine and USB zip drive and then transfer them to an old DOS PC via Zip
other then SCSI just kinda being cool. it gives you more options for peripherals. generally SCSI is seen as more reliable. Theres some debate on if its really any faster but I know it doesn't tax the CPU like IDE does since the SCSI controller does all the work in a faster machine I don't know if that's terribly noticeable though in my windows machines that use faster SCSI drives they do seem a little zippyer if that makes sense. you don't get the BIOS imposed size limitations from dos with it.