sciencebook
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Hello world!
I'm an EE in my late 30's who grew up around computers, my first being a Tandy 386, and I've been hooked ever since. I have computers of all vintages and oddities, but I'm looking for some specific things, and also looking to thin the herd a bit.
I've also started acquiring old industrial machinery recently that requires some old computers to interface properly. One of the exciting projects I'm working on is getting an old Brown and Sharpe CMM to interface through ISA with as new of computer as possible (however I'm not 100% sure if the ISA card it came with requires DMA). I'm pretty sure it does though, so I'm on a path to do a scratch build dual slot 1 PIII 500mhz on an Intel 440BX platform with Windows 2000 Pro.
My other CNC machine uses a 486dx2 specialty motherboard with RTC and some other fun features which I might post about and try eventually to get to run Doom or Wolfenstein on its native green screen; and I'm sure I have some old early AGP and Vesa local bus cards laying around somewhere I'd be willing to part with.
I'm happy to see this community thriving and look forward to being a part of it!
I'm an EE in my late 30's who grew up around computers, my first being a Tandy 386, and I've been hooked ever since. I have computers of all vintages and oddities, but I'm looking for some specific things, and also looking to thin the herd a bit.
I've also started acquiring old industrial machinery recently that requires some old computers to interface properly. One of the exciting projects I'm working on is getting an old Brown and Sharpe CMM to interface through ISA with as new of computer as possible (however I'm not 100% sure if the ISA card it came with requires DMA). I'm pretty sure it does though, so I'm on a path to do a scratch build dual slot 1 PIII 500mhz on an Intel 440BX platform with Windows 2000 Pro.
My other CNC machine uses a 486dx2 specialty motherboard with RTC and some other fun features which I might post about and try eventually to get to run Doom or Wolfenstein on its native green screen; and I'm sure I have some old early AGP and Vesa local bus cards laying around somewhere I'd be willing to part with.
I'm happy to see this community thriving and look forward to being a part of it!
