pendell

Current Hyperfixation: Wizard of Oz

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

Check tags like Star Trek Archive and Media Piracy to find things I share for others.


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Oh shit, thin ITX was like a thing that ASROCK got really into. They even made an AMD Version that was used in a lot in knockoff consoles, using AMD 4000G and 5000G processors. They were all over Aliexpress for a hot minute during the GPU shortage and the pandemic. That board was also in an industrial PC that got tested on LTT of all things and the VRMs got HOT.

Found any other interesting ITX boards on your journeys?
The LV-602 (found in an old Lacie "Network Disk" home server) has the same integrated AdLib/Sound Blaster clone as some of the old HP thin clients, but uses Socket 370 CPUs instead of stranding you with some mediocre embedded chip.
If it had a gameport and the builder hadn't hotglued the front panel connector it would probably be the ultimate tiny DOS PC.

It came with a VIA C3, that I later swapped for a cheap Coppermine, but by the time I installed said upgrade I noticed that some of the capacitors were kinda crusty.
It still booted fine, but I've left it in storage to avoid potential breakage.

UCs used this kind of setup starting before the pandemic.

The one I had to use had some hilariously bad speech to text. "Introduction to Dill Structures" was a kind of representative transcription.