Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
check out this wackiness in a removable hard drive sled inside a TASCAM MMR-8: It has a key lock, but the key lock doesn't lock the door, as you'd expect. Instead the lock is just a switch, and it communicates back with some board, which controls a solenoid to unlock the door. Now that's some paranoid over-design!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
heh. The manual lists the approved hard drives for use with it.
I guess none of the letters in "SCSI" are "standard"!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022

also the weird one in that list is the Nikon thing with the asterisk.
It turns out it's a 2.5gb magneto-optical drive that I think was only released in japan?

https://item.rakuten.co.jp/waysas/10015260/?scid=s_kwa_pla_unpaid_211514

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
Anyway, this is the TASCAM MMR-8.
Sadly it's not as useful (for me) as I was hoping: it has a lot of video support, but it's not really for doing video: it's for syncing audio TO video. This is specifically an audio device, not a video device. Whoops.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
fun fact: it turns out that inside it's built on a Socket 7 motherboard. From ASUS!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
Also apparently the OS is stored on a Quantum Fireball IDE drive.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
So the motherboard is an ASUS TX97. That's based on an Intel 430TX chipset, and can run Pentiums throughs AMD-K6.
It supports up to 256mb of RAM in 168-pin SDRAM slots. 3 ISA slots, 3 PCI slots, and one combination PCI/MediaBus/ISA slot.
Built in IDE, can be powered by AT or ATX power supplies.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
And it turns out that CPU is a Pentium 133mhz, SY022.
Show threadFrikisada

@foone hey, I hope it's not a bother, but what range of ram do you reckon a pentium II 233MhZ could have had?

The other day somebody asked me about my first pc and I could almost recite the processor and hard drive but I can't remember the RAM, could be 32MB, 2GB or anything in between as far as I remember

Dec 19, 2022 at 7:55pmWeb
Show threadレイレイDec 19, 2022

@Frikisada @foone
p2 233 would fall into 32-64mb PC66/PC100 ram, though some luxury oems pigged out and had 128mb *cough*FNW*cough*. These are all realistic 1997 numbers. What's "2GB" would likely be about FAT16 partitions. Micron oddly didn't embrace FAT32 much that year. They had top built PCs with MMX and 3dfx with MS software still from 1995.

A Win9x machine could top out at 512MB before going unstable (9x ram limit patches were yet a thing)

Show threadFrikisadaDec 19, 2022

@leilei @foone then it was PII233MhZ, 3.2GB HDD and 32MB RAM

Back then I didn't know what was a partition (I was 9) so I can't tell you if it was fat16 or 32

Thanks for that