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Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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<p>Come with me now on a journey through time and space, to the world of... Gammitin&#39;s lab.<br />🤓 <br />Retro / Vintage Computer Mad Scientist <br />🥼💽📀💾<br />☕ <br /><a href="https://ko-fi.com/gammitin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ko-fi.com/gammitin</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br />Enq: gammitinofficial@gmail.com<br />[DM&#39;s &amp; Notifications are Off]</p>

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    The Whole Internet User&#39;s Guide and Catalog, published in September 1992. It referenced every website available at the time, mind blowing that you could visit every single site in one sitting, the golden times!

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    Let&#39;s build my ultimate Windows 98 retro PC! Highlights: - AMD Athlon Thunderbird Slot A 1Ghz - Gigabyte GA-7IXE - 512MB ECC RAM - 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 - Soundblaster Live! + Live! Drive - Creative INFRA CD-ROM - Intel Pro NIC Here&#39;s the Pre-Build line up:

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    Happy Friday Frens; tonight I&amp;#39;m playing with a Soyo motherboard (1999) with a Slot 1 500Mhz Pentium 3, 1GB RAM and gigabit LAN. I just installed Haiku on Sata RAID (no converters) and it&amp;#39;s bootable, damn it&amp;#39;s fast! 🤓

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    Night night, I&amp;#39;m thinking I want to do a side by side shootout between a: Slot A Athlon 500Mhz &amp;amp; Slot 1 Pentium III 500Mhz #BattleOfTheSlotCPUs

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    184-pin RIMM&amp;#39;s RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random-Access Memory)

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    Is the first gen - Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) retro yet (2008)? 🤔 I suppose it&amp;#39;s all down to the individual and how old you are really.

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    German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications. https://www.reuters.com/business/german-battery-maker-varta-files-insolvency-applications-2026-07-24/

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    Let&#39;s see if I can get this non-working 286 motherboard going. I can&#39;t find any info about it, so if you know any links etc. let me know. It&#39;s marked: &quot;QUANSAN/TRAD&quot;, has a 16Mhz AMD 286.

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    Here&#39;s a short clip, using hot air to melt the case glue and filler material:

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    Just cutting the battery out very carefully so I can reassemble after

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    I&#39;d absolutely love the challenge of refurbishing this Commodore PET, but there&#39;s no way I&#39;m paying £363 for it! 😮 https://ebay.io/m/MOTqsu

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    Not holding my breath for this repair, might be too far gone, but I&#39;ll do my best to try to revive it. MSI MS-5108

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    I bought this Dual Slot 1 Pentium II / III board for £10, it was sold as untested as it has a non-standard power connector and the sell couldn&#39;t test it. It&#39;s from Dell Poweredge 1300 (1999), should be fun for experimenting with if it works.

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    Back:

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    I picked up a functional retro purchase for my workshop: Sony Bravia KDL-15G2000 [2007] - DTV - VGA - Composite - Component - Svideo - RGB Scart - Picture-in-Picture Literally my ideal bench monitor! 👍

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    Amstrad PPC640 [1987] CPU: NEC V30 8 Mhz CPU MEM: 640k RAM (&#39;all you&#39;ll ever need&#39;) STORAGE: Dual 720kb DD Floppy Drives

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    Winamp + Milkdrop = Perfection!

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    I&amp;#39;ve started looking at this Jetway J-603TCFL motherboard sent by @uhf_satcom 🙏 It&amp;#39;s a Tualatin board &amp;amp; I have a penchant Jetway, it doesn&amp;#39;t have AGP and I&amp;#39;m fine with that, running a PCI Geforce FX5500 will be great anyway, tried and tested before It&amp;#39;ll need some work though☺️

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    Another repair I&amp;#39;ll be doing at the same time is this: Kentech KJD-MUSIC16 ISA Soundcard Based on Crystal CX4236, it supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro (stereo too), and Windows Sound System (we won&amp;#39;t talk about the horrific Adlib implementation 😄)

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

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    &amp;quot;So you&amp;#39;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?&amp;quot;

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

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    NEC V40 CPU NEC&#39;s drop-in competitor and functional equivalent to Intel&#39;s 80188, which debuted in 1988. This one lives in my Olivetti Prodest PC1:

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

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    I&#39;ve a few retro PC&#39;s to build now that I have everything fully tested, which one first do you think? 🤔

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    Checking out this cool gift from a Retro Fren: Henry on Retro Hardware Discord. Invite Link: https://discord.gg/gk5V7yDCB He rescued it from a Farm, it&amp;#39;s been exposed to the elements, rain and vermin for about &amp;gt;20 years. It&amp;#39;s a Super Socket 7 - Daewoo CB581X-VI Original Condition:

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    Sneaky peak of the absolute beast of a 386 I&amp;#39;m going to be building, many many thanks to uhf_satcom (x.com) for the motherboard and CPU and other bits! 🙏🙏🙏 I&amp;#39;ve managed to get it running on 16MB of RAM, but I&amp;#39;ve ordered 16 more, can&amp;#39;t even imagine a 386 with 32MB of RAM, but soon.... 😍

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    AMD Am386 DX/DXL-40 (A80386DX-40)

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    Literally no retro time at the moment, so something quite quick to do: Acer AnyWare 1100LX (386) - RAM Upgrade to 5MB