BenRedic wrote: But I'd seriously love to see some of these stuff.
Hi Ben,
In the coming weeks (maybe after Christmas) I start posting some pics of the different computers as well some of my old PC's.
On occasion over the years I have posted a couple here and there. Here for example are couple of pics that I had previous (wow almost 10 years ago) at Schachcomputer.info.
This for example is a custom 486-133 MHz.
AMD 486 OverDrive CPU @ 133MHz CPU
32MB RAM
613MB hard drive
3.5" Floppy Drive (1.44MB)
5.25" Floppy Drive (1.2MB)
CD-ROM
Trident 1MB ISA graphics card
ISA Multi-I/O Controller Card
Slots: 2 VESA, 1 8-Bit ISA, 5 16-bit ISA (EISA) slots (2 open)
Ports: 1 AT, 2 Serial/COM (DB-9 & DB-25), 1 Parallel, 2 Joystick/Game/Midi port
MS-DOS and Windows 3.11
Below is a Magnavox 386SX.
Intel 386SX-16MHz CPU
4MB RAM
80MB hard drive
3.5" floppy drive (1.44MB)
5.25" floppy drive (1.2MB)
VGA Graphics Cards
Slots: 3 16-Bit ISA (3 open), 1 8-Bit ISA
Ports: 1 AT, 2 Serial (DB-9 & DB-25), 1 Parallel
◦MS-DOS 6.0 & Windows 3.1
Both of the above computers are also stuffed with Tasc Chessmachine cards of which I have double of every card made except for the 32 MHz version of which I only have one. This allows me to also play all the different Chessmachine programs against each other. With Chessmaschine cards you have quite a few King and Schroeder programs so its good to have more than one of the same if you want to play them against each other.
Here is a test that test I did with Wchess 1.0 at one time in the past. Where I compares the Wchess nodes per move on both of the above computers.
Just shows you the kind of nutty things I do on occasion. But maybe not so nutty if someone were ever to do the same nodes test with DOSbox and have a cpu_frame setting that exactly matches the 386-16SX 16MHz nodes or the 486-133MHz nodes.
Below is a Tandy 2800 HD 12MHz Laptop.
Year: 1990
Prozessor: i80C286
Speed: 12 MHz
RAM: 1024K
Harddisk: 20MB
Display: Backlit Supertwist LCD Panel Display (640 x 400)
DOS: 3.3 with Norton Commander
Original Price: $3500,00
I have two of the Tandy 2800 HD, again this also allows me to play different chess software that works on a 286 against each other and compare their strengths exactly.
As I get around to it I will post a few others.
Here is something interesting too that I had previously posted a long time ago.
Description: Psion Series 3a
CPU Clock: 7.68 MHz
CPU: NEC V30H 16 Bit
RAM: 2 M/B
ROM: 1 M/B
DISPLAY TYPE: Monochrome STN, 4 scales
DISPLAY DIAGONAL: 5,3 Zoll (13,46 CM)
DISPLAY RESOLUTION: 480 X 160
Psion pretty much came out with the First PDA's. What was nice was that you have a few game modules that you could buy for it too. Above you can see me playing Psion Chess.
Here is a back view picture:
And here you can see the size of the chess game module:
Best regards