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Yea, as I mentioned in the video, I'm out of slots!

@@Robert-j9p4h that is correct! Same with network card name, etc.

Oh nice! Yea, I need to load Xenix on here. Yea, great industrial design on the PS/2. I'm currently working on a NABU adaptor that might eventually run on here if I make it far enough :)

@@tenminutetokyo2643 perhaps! Not sure which one was first, Compaq or Apple.

Right on!

Thank you!! And... I caved... a tape drive controller will arrive today in the mail 🤣

Sure is! It's for the Compaq LTE 5000 series.

Nice! Yea, those ViewSonic monitors are great. I do have one in the basement!

@RetroTechChris 👍

@@johnstancliff7328 yea, quite the contrast! I too would mount the connectors to the case directly when I run out of slots!

@@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs thank you! This was a fun one to put together.

@@RetroTinkerer lol I think so, yea 😂

@@CadeEdwards2013 haha for sure!

@@ChingasoClown yea it is a solid system. Oddly it's not too heavy!

@@chrisblanchard6930 yea! motherboard needed some work and the case was not in great shape. The system is now in a new old stock case, and as we see the mobo was repaired. I powered this up this week, still going strong.

@@GarthBeagle haha, yea they are really easy to disassemble!

@@KomradeMikhail yea, we all did. Nostalgia is a weird thing, it hits us so much later in life!

Oh nice! Yea, NT's boot loader is great. I've become a fan of BootIt Bare Metal, it's been my easy button. Pretty much all of my 386 and up retro PCs are running it these days! Thanks for watching!

Haha, too funny. Did you catch 9:49? You might see something familiar!

Oh, it's simply fantastic. Partition management, operating system management, and creating an EMBR to choose which partitions are present for each OS. You might find this reference interesting as well: archive.org/details/50-dos-windows-boot-managers

Thank you very much! I appreciate it!

Same to you, my friend! Thanks for saying hello, and thanks for watching!

@RetroTechChris thanks

Oh, absolutely! I've installed that, and a TON of other OSes on it. See 0:21

Haha, yea, that would make things difficult! This is my first Microchannel system... and it is a curiosity, but I think will probably be my only one! LOL

@@RetroTechChris The industrial design/aesthetics though of those IBM systems are unrivaled, IMHO.

@@billlewis9740 oh yes, 110% agree there!!

Thank you! I really appreciate it! Thank you for watching!

@@BollingHolt thank you, and thanks for being the preview coordinator for this video release!

​@@RetroTechChris Well, Chris, it's a very demanding and tough job, one which burdens a lot of responsibility. That responsibility, however, is a privilege, and as you, TH-cam, and the retro computing community in general needs me, I perform these duties with pride and have no plans to retire in the foreseeable future 😂😎

It's a fun machine! Thanks for watching!!

Funny you should mention Serdashop... I just wrapped a video that has a Serdashop product, probably will release in the next couple of days!

@@RetroTechChris They make some great stuff aye, I've been enjoying those wave table cards. I've done a build for Doscember with an ESS Midi card that sounds pretty decent

And having at least one Apple one is a bonus!

Oh nice! Perchance was the Novell network running IBM ICLAS? I have a few videos on that here too!

@@RetroTechChris I'm based in the UK, not sure that was a thing here... maybe it was but I've never heard of it till your mention just now. I will look at those videos however as certainly the early part of my career was based in education institutions... with budgets to match :) Thank you again

@@judewestburner a strong chance you may have come across RM NET with the RM nimbus? they used something very similar to this.

@@procta2343 Hey Procta, not in the wild, I was only 16 back in '96 and doing an NVQ course where I looked after school networks - it was bizarre lol, so I hit it from the end of the Novell/Win311 era and the beginning on the Win95 era. I have seen those set up in The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge I think (was there about 2 months ago), and they were spectacular, like a little internet.

@@judewestburner the software you cannot get at all for the love of money, let a lone the systems. A lot of them were just chucked out back in the late 90s early 2000s. I think my old secondary school, was chucking them back in 1998, only one RM Net Nimbus network survived, by 2000. The Later RM connect was used, but again getting hold of the software is practically a no go. It was stated that the RM connect had the great windows Deployment services. I did manage to get hold of connect 3, which was the services for it. I passed that onto the centre of computing, as they managed to get hold of the server. Which the disc and the drivers for the chip set. So they were well chuffed, they said here there is the image of RM Net. Even though i cannot run it on any hardware at all, but its nice to have, but i think an RM nimbus emulator might run the software.

@@camjohnson2004 as I seem to recall, the price was right!

Ah the travan tapes are in scsi and ide as a far i can know but a SCSI thing for a Sony CDU-920S would be great.

Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video 😂

@@RetroTechChris yes and no 😂 first i viewing the and comment the thing about travan because i have a travan , SCSI of course and i had anothers from Seagate stt8000n (SCSI version).

@asanjuas all good, it gave me a laugh 😂

@@RetroTechorDie haha, love it. Yea MR BIOS is pretty cool, albeit a bit formal in name 😂

@@gaxiola1701 yea, tape drives of the day were...interesting for sure. Thanks for watching!

@@gaxiola1701 better to use a syquest for this SQ200 i believe.

@@johnvanwinkle4351 oh yea. I have had a lot of fun with this machine. I have a lot of systems, but have grown rather fond of this one!

@@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs thanks Dave! It was a lot of fun.

@@RetroTinkerer haha. Happy DOScember to you too!

@@retroboby007 perhaps we can make that happen!

Thank you, George! If I had a SCSI scanner, I would definitely give it a shot! I do have a dot matrix printer that I thought about adding to the vid, but it was running a little long. Always enjoy reading your comments on the vids! Happy DOScember right back at ya!

@@superangrybrit thank you! Thanks for watching!

@@GigAHerZ64 I actually do. I cover why in the video. It is a limitation of the DTC drivers of 504 cylinders

@RetroTechChris if XT-IDE can fix it, then MR BIOS should do it just as well. The issue obviously comes from original bios if XT-IDE can fix it as XT-IDE replaces the ide command routines in bios. MR BIOS does not have the same bug in it as the original, I'm quite certain.

@@GigAHerZ64 yep, in theory, it should have worked flawlessly as you describe, I thought I even had it sorted in this thread here (note that a follow-up to this thread is referenced in the video): threadreaderapp.com/thread/1753266081815265629.html. In practice, sadly, it didn't. I tried both translate and non translate modes. Believe me when I say I spent some time on it! But if there is a specific config you want me to try that you know will work, tell me the exact params you would try, and I will do such :)

@@RetroTechChris hmm. I also have a dtc VLB controller in my 486 and I also use some driver for it. But I have MR BIOS and I don't use XT-IDE and everything fully works. I'll check out, what driver exactly am I using...

@@GigAHerZ64 interesting! How many cylinders on your drive? If under 1024 (I mis-spoke when I said 504 earlier, that would be 504MB), you'll have no issues! Otherwise, I am very interested in your configuration. And I am not afraid to trash this drive in testing it if needed, LOL!!

@@procta2343 haha perhaps someday 😁

@@RetroTechChris when i say NT i mean windows NT 3.1

@@jdmcs it's a classic!

@@RetroTechChris You’re right there - I even built my first PC in this mid tower version of this case! But most folks settled for the mini tower version like yours…

I embrace my nerdiness! Thanks for watching.

Thank you! Very kind of you to say that. And, welcome to the channel!

@@RacerX- haha, thank you! Yea, putting this together was a lot of fun!

@@UKVampy oh yeah, those 4 or 6 disc changers were cool! And yea things have definitely progressed!

@@bennetfox very true!

DX2/100 is better if you can get everything working stably.

@@eDoc2020 didn't realize there was such a thing!

@@RetroTechChris Oops, there's not! I must've been thinking of the DX/50 which often outperforms the DX2/66.

@@eDoc2020 this board will support it, if I find one 😂

@@1BitFeverDreams haha, perhaps! I'm more of a nerd and less of a gamer, but perhaps! Hit me up on discord!

@@1BitFeverDreams I have one too! I technically do have a few open ISA slots! Currently my PicoGUS is on my Pocket 386. It might even be visible in the video!