FUN FACT: ThinkPads/other laptops have dogshit thermal paste from the factory and it will "pump out" and leave little covering the CPU. This CPU was hitting 90c idle!
Replaced the paste with Thermal Grizzly PTM, let's go
in my opinion every nerd needs a sun ultra 5
they're cheap, can run Solaris 2.5.1-10 (though 10 is slow), is 64 bit despite being beige, uses easily obtainable ide drives, and it's cheap. probably gonna dump some vintage compilers on this because my other beige sun is a ss10
dollar tree USBc 20v cable...so sketchy lmao
the first vaccine that cripples your body until you give money to larry ellison right this minute
PSA: If you have a system with Windows 95/98 and it has the Windows Update folder (C:\Program Files or A:\Program Files on the PC-98), ESPECIALLY if it is not in the English language, please back these up as the Windows Update Restored project is seeking these (share them to MSFN or the DIscord)
This PC-98 I got from YAJ had catalog files for IE5.5 + Windows 95 for WU V3 that are going to be added soon to allow updates to work again.
https://windowsupdaterestored.com/
#retrocomputing #windows98 #windows95 #windows9x Windows Update Restored: Update Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, Me, 2000, and XP the old way!
okay the pc98 has FM good
i'm not joking when I say "mid"
the NiCD suspend battery might be leaking and buried deep in the case and I have no idea how to get it out, but I was able to get the battery itself out by removing a bottom cover.
There's just two problems: it has corrosion I need to get deep in the case to clean.......and who the fuck installed hentai games from the Bible Black dev
