Anyone remember OCing back in the DOS days?

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: taltamir

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
I didn't even know it was possible to OC back in DOS. :Q

Jumpers on the motherboard, or swapping out clock crystals .

swapping crystals? sounds like a fantasy RPG ...

Are you being serious here? (i know you meant the pizo-electric quartz crystals, I just didn't know you could swap them.)

Yep, pretty common trick I remember seeing it done on an Amiga 1000, on the motorola side of things.

 

[Arkaign]

http://members.iinet.net.au/~davem2/overclock/osc.html

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Netopia
Sadly, Phil Katz (the PK in PKzip) was an alcoholic who basically drank himself to death just a couple years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Katz

Katz led a very troubled personal life and battled alcoholism for years. Attempts to help him proved fruitless, and it is reported that he died with no friends remaining. He was arrested several times for driving under the influence, and became known for spending more time in cheap motels and strip clubs than his own home.

Katz was found dead in a hotel room with an empty bottle of peppermint schnapps in his hand on April 14, 2000 at the age of 37. A coroner's report stated his death was a result of acute pancreatic bleeding caused by chronic alcoholism.

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: munky
My first OC was a TI-85 calculator, went from 6mhz to 18mhz by unsoldering a capacitor. Then all the games ran too fast to be playable. On the computer side, I only started it with my Athlon XP, went from 1.53ghz to about 1.8 with stock air cooloing.

Mine was a TI-83 from 6MHz to 15MHz with a "Turbo" Switch. It switched between two capacitor values so you could play those games at correct speeds. Then later on they came out with the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition which ran a 6/15MHz. I had a SE with Less Memory!

Then I also overclocked my Pentium 133. Can't remember by how much. It still works, with all 16MB of RAM and 2GB of HDD space. =D.

And then I jumped straight to P4, but didn't OC, and then to Core2, which of course I would OC like there's no tomorrow.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Netopia
One question on the hard drives.... anyone remember when in order to initialize a hard drive you had to go into debug and type "c=g800:5" before you could use fdisk or format it?

I think the command is actually, "g C800:0005". It jumps to a small offset into the disk controller's BIOS, for the low-level format routines.

Remember "overclocking" your HDs, reformatting an MFM drive with an RLL controller to get more space, and by optimizing the sector interleave in the LLF to get better access times? Spinrite was a godsend back in the day, it would perform interleave optimization and bad-sector remapping automatically.

Otherwise, you had to manually enter the bad sectors off of a sticker on the top of the drive, into the low-level format program.

 

[Uhtrinity]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: Avalon
Hmmm, I've got a working Packard Bell 386 in front of me that I'm playing Monopoly off a 5 and a quarter with
I wonder if I can do anything with it...

donate it to the smithsonian as an antique paper weight.

Seriously PDA's are faster then that now. My ATT Hermes 8525 would give it a run for its life.

I have an old running Packard Bell 8088 with a 40GB Seagate MFM HD in my computer lab. It makes a great visual and learning aid for the kids. I also regularly threaten that the bad ones will be punished by having them write an essay in Word Perfect 5.0