Upgrading a 1GHz Apple eMac: The Plan
My phased plan for turning a 1GHz PowerPC G4 eMac into a solid classic Mac, from maxing the RAM to swapping the old IDE drive for something faster.
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Dell Precision T7500: A 96GB, 24TB Upgrade Plan for an Old Workstation
My upgrade plan for a dual-Xeon Dell Precision T7500, with 96GB of ECC RAM, an LSI SAS/SATA controller and two 12TB drives, plus the one cabling detail I'd double-check.
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Installing MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 on a Gateway 2000 486, From Floppies
How I got MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 onto an old Gateway 2000 486 from a stack of floppies, including the two problems that ate most of the afternoon and the config files I ended up with.
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A BC-250 Cyberdeck: The Build Spec for a Console-Board Desktop
My v2 build spec for an all-in-one cyberdeck built around AMD's BC-250 mining board, a printed slim console case, a 15.6-inch touch panel, and Bazzite running the niri window manager.
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Dell Optiplex GX280: Turning an Office Box Into an XP Gaming PC
My parts list and order of operations for turning a Pentium 4 Dell Optiplex GX280 into a period-correct Windows XP gaming machine.
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