Right, after mistakenly posting halfway through a thread, not in a new one...

Just opened up this old Pentium 133 I've had lying around for a while, to see what was what inside - All seems OK to me... :confused: It looks so old I don't think it even has PCI slots in it... The network card in it looks well ancient, with some kind of co-axial connector on the outside as well as what I assume is CAT5? I only hope it all fires up and remains stable when it gets going. One thing I am thankful for is it has windows 98 installed so is compatible with my current PC I'm looking to upgrade from. Lets see if I can get this old heap of junk hooked up to my Netgear, about 8 or 9 years its superior in I.T terms. Anyone got any hints and tips for dealing with this? sledgehammer?

With a big pair of boots on...hold pc in both hands...swing your right leg back...then swing said leg in a forwards motion...as your boot comes in to contact with the pc release from your hands...see how far it goes!

Do i dare suggest selling on e-bay??? *lorna runs and hides from Jason!!!*

Do i dare suggest selling on e-bay??? *lorna runs and hides from Jason!!!*

It's worth next to nothing.

I've given away PCs better than that

With a big pair of boots on...hold pc in both hands...swing your right leg back...then swing said leg in a forwards motion...as your boot comes in to contact with the pc release from your hands...see how far it goes!

I'm determined to get this damn thing on my little folding mission and somehow its gotta talk to my Netgear router/modem... First thing I need is some network cable as I don't seem to have any here. :( Richard?

edit: NO intention of selling. It'll be in the skip if it fails to be of any folding help to me.

edit2: I'm on a roll. I've managed to get the old piece of cr4p talking to the network card, which it wasn't before. Got a little orange light flashing on the back of that old hunk of junk network connector now.

I have a network card knocking arround if you cant get that one working PM me

I have a network card knocking arround if you cant get that one working PM me

Card is working well now (I think) if orange flashes on the back is good news Just need the connecting cables now.

Jason, I'm only a PM away my friend. All I need is the length and an address and I'll send it tomorrow for you.

the white slots are pci from what i acan see and that funny coax looking connector on the back looks like a bnc network connector to me

Looks that way Bengie. The network card looks like it's BNC and Cat5 on one card. Unusual or what?

not really, just well old

had them in the past

even used bnc networking, cat5 networks are much better

I've seen a PC, very old, Cyrix chip in it, that had the huge 1.2GB hard drive built into the PSU. Now that was weird.

I've found out a little more about the PC now. Although its processor is well slow, it seems like a nice and clean system - nothing installed on it clogging it up, and it seems to have updated graphics on it too - I can get it to 32 bit colour and increase the screen size quite high.

Apart from that its gob*hite, but all it will be doing is folding away so I'm not too fussed.

Looks that way Bengie. The network card looks like it's BNC and Cat5 on one card. Unusual or what?

Nope , they all used to be like that.

It'll almost certainly just be a 10meg card rather than a 10/100 but for net access thats all it needs

Dear Jason

This is not sensible (cos Bengie's new avatar now has me in a totally hypnotic state - bone to pick with Bengie LOL)

The 230th dot from the left looks iffy to me... Then again, I'm not sure that you're not trying to turn it into today's Tardis??? If you do decide to recycle it on this planet, you could/should check out "wipe disk" -type software that makes sure it is clean of all your personal data before you either give it away to a deserving cause or bin it.

I take everything apart that breaks down just to see what's inside. at how these darn things work: tooling/engineering and worldwide bits and someone assembles them all into a living thinking computer :eek:

So if all else fails, gaze in wonderment. I think in computer terms, they are up to about 34 dimensions algaebraically(sp?) aren't they? It's usually about now that I think the grass needs cutting with the lawnmower - that's a plug and play isn't it?

Regards

Mo

Dear Jason

This is not sensible (cos Bengie's new avatar now has me in a totally hypnotic state - bone to pick with Bengie LOL)

The 230th dot from the left looks iffy to me... Then again' date=' I'm not sure that you're not trying to turn it into today's Tardis??? If you do decide to recycle it on this planet, you could/should check out "wipe disk" -type software that makes sure it is clean of all your personal data before you either give it away to a deserving cause or bin it.

I take everything apart that breaks down just to see what's inside. at how these darn things work: tooling/engineering and worldwide bits and someone assembles them all into a living thinking computer :eek:

So if all else fails, gaze in wonderment. I think in computer terms, they are up to about 34 dimensions algaebraically(sp?) aren't they? It's usually about now that I think the grass needs cutting with the lawnmower - that's a plug and play isn't it?

Regards

Mo[/quote']

I have to admit I scrapped two PII 300s recently because both simply would NOT remain stable at all, and I ended up ripping everything out of them, boxing up the scraps, then skipping the two empty towers...

So, now I have a box of "bits"... Might see if I can shove any of it into the old piece of junk above. Might be some bigger RAM in there I hope. The P133 has 64meg, and both slots full. might see if I can up that a wee bit.