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legend 402
I picked up a legend 402cdw that still has the original HD (500MB) working.
It is an 75MGHz. Is this the actual speed or is it more like 66. Does anyone know of any tricks to remove nicotine stains? This one obviously had an ash tray on one side of the computer.If anyone has any spare 32 MB edo's I could use 4. thanks mc |
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legend 402
"AWM" wrote in message news:EVT4k.42987$MF3.2217@trnddc06... I picked up a legend 402cdw that still has the original HD (500MB) working. It is an 75MGHz. Is this the actual speed or is it more like 66. Does anyone know of any tricks to remove nicotine stains? This one obviously had an ash tray on one side of the computer.If anyone has any spare 32 MB edo's I could use 4. thanks mc The cpu is 75 mhz. If the machine has win95 on it 16 -32megs of RAM will probably be enough... (My original win95 machine did fairly well with just 8 megs of ram) I use just plain rubbing alcohol to clean cases that are stained. |
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legend 402
Hi mc !
"AWM" wrote in message news:EVT4k.42987$MF3.2217@trnddc06... I picked up a legend 402cdw that still has the original HD (500MB) working. It is an 75MGHz. Is this the actual speed or is it more like 66. "back in the day" Intel released some CPU's running at a FSB ( front side bus ) of 50Mhz. Your 75MHz CPU runs at a FSB of 50MHz X 1.5 = 75MHz. The "normal" FSB for Socket 5 and 7 ( and even Socket 4 ) CPU's was 60 or 66MHz FSB. Cyrix made some CPU's that would run at 75MHz, and after that there was Super Socket 7 running at 100MHz. Some motherboards offered lots of tinkering, with FSB speeds of 50, 60, 66, 75, 83, 100, 105, 112, 133, etc, and even some numbers in between. I have never seen a 75MHz CPU that would not run at 60 or 66MHz. Intel probably made some "dud" CPU's that didn't pass testing, so they sold them to run at 50MHz bus speed. Also, these were sold as "value" machines, offering Pentium power for cheap, back in the day. ( My very first computer was a Compudyne 75MHz machine. Bought it new. Still have it. ) I would change the jumpers out, and run it at 100MHz, see what happens. Or failing that, locate a 133MHz CPU and shove that in there. Or ever better, a 200MHz Overdrive CPU. Best you're going to do, unless you find a 400MHz Evergreen kit, and update the BIOS. Does anyone know of any tricks to remove nicotine stains? This one obviously had an ash tray on one side of the computer. A lot of older computers seem to "yellow up" worse than others. I have some PB machines that will not clean up. It's probably not nicotine, but could be. I have computer cases that yellowed up, sitting on a shelf, wrapped in plastic, that never got sun on them. Go figure. I have never found anything that will return the case to the color it should be. And I have TRIED. bobwatts -- boBWatts®© EartH Watts Carburetion Service Whizzbang Computers Official collector of: transfat asian plastic junk trinkets ! |
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legend 402
I still have some 32MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs, and also a 133MHz Pentium or two. This
stuff is not worth too much any more, but if you want to contact me off-line and pay a few bucks to PayPal, I can send them out. Also, if you can determine the model of motherboard, I may be able to help with jumper settings to crank up the CPU speed. Or a photo of the motherboard would help, as PB used a lot of Intel made boards in their early Pentium systems. (After that, they switched to other motherboard manufacturers, and reliability went downhill.) The early Intel Plato and comparable LPX motherboards would support nothing faster than 100Mhz... Ben Myers On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:16:04 GMT, "AWM" wrote: I picked up a legend 402cdw that still has the original HD (500MB) working. It is an 75MGHz. Is this the actual speed or is it more like 66. Does anyone know of any tricks to remove nicotine stains? This one obviously had an ash tray on one side of the computer.If anyone has any spare 32 MB edo's I could use 4. thanks mc |
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legend 402
Does anyone know how this model was originally loaded (disks or cd)?
It has a create system disks option in the system tools menu which I do not see on my other versions(I think). mc "AWM" wrote in message news:EVT4k.42987$MF3.2217@trnddc06... I picked up a legend 402cdw that still has the original HD (500MB) working. It is an 75MGHz. Is this the actual speed or is it more like 66. Does anyone know of any tricks to remove nicotine stains? This one obviously had an ash tray on one side of the computer.If anyone has any spare 32 MB edo's I could use 4. thanks mc |
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legend 402
On Jun 16, 7:32*pm, "AWM" wrote:
Does anyone know how this model was originally *loaded (disks or cd)? It has a create system disks option in the system tools menu which I do not see on my other versions(I think). mc"AWM" wrote in message news:EVT4k.42987$MF3.2217@trnddc06... I picked up a legend 402cdw that still has the original HD (500MB) working. It is an 75MGHz. Is this the actual speed or is it more like 66. Does anyone know of any tricks to remove nicotine stains? This one obviously had an ash tray on one side of the computer.If anyone has any spare 32 MB edo's I could use 4. thanks mc- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I use alcohol(isopropyl 90%) to clean boards that I buy that have residue. Ethyl alcohol (denatured) also works ok I label them refurbished. I use mild bleach to clean the outside of units to clean the stains from smoking that resides on the plastic case. Ammonia also works but is known to etch plastics Painted metal should also follow the above rule |
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