DOS MIDI system
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:31 pm
Thought I'd make a thread about this thing now that I finally have it. As I've stated in some other threads I've been looking for a suitable PC with a few ISA slots to run some old-school music sequencers. I decided to go with a single-board PC and ISA backplane for... reasons that made sense to me at the time. Well, after screwing around with trying to get all the components on their own, this pops up on Trademe. It was about 4x more expensive than a comparable beige desktop box would have been, but where's the fun in that?
^^ I don't think I've ever seen an LS120 Superdisk drive in person before! This one is in a dubious state, although it does work well enough to recognize the floppy I put in as non-bootable. Anyone have media for me?
^^ A few ISA slots? How about 11 ISA slots? And PCI too!
Apparently I rescued this beasty from a call centre; it came with a generic PCI soundcard and some kind of 4-port telephony card installed. It sort-of boots to the (Win NT4!) startup menu but doesn't seem to want to follow through and load the OS itself. It also has some kind of earthing issue as it gave me a nasty shock after running it for a little while, so I have some dis- & re-assembly to do. VERY clean and tidy inside though.
As it was formerly in the business of robocalls, it will now have to restore its karmic balance by making pleasing electronic music in my studio rather than irritating electronic sales pitches. It's not exactly compact or portable like I'd wanted, but I have other 19" rack gear so fitting it in won't be too much of a stretch. (I do need a proper rack eventually though.)
Also, a buddy in Toronto just nabbed me three AWE64 cards for the princely sum of $10 each. Until those show up something from my grab box will do the job.
^^ I don't think I've ever seen an LS120 Superdisk drive in person before! This one is in a dubious state, although it does work well enough to recognize the floppy I put in as non-bootable. Anyone have media for me?
^^ A few ISA slots? How about 11 ISA slots? And PCI too!
Apparently I rescued this beasty from a call centre; it came with a generic PCI soundcard and some kind of 4-port telephony card installed. It sort-of boots to the (Win NT4!) startup menu but doesn't seem to want to follow through and load the OS itself. It also has some kind of earthing issue as it gave me a nasty shock after running it for a little while, so I have some dis- & re-assembly to do. VERY clean and tidy inside though.
As it was formerly in the business of robocalls, it will now have to restore its karmic balance by making pleasing electronic music in my studio rather than irritating electronic sales pitches. It's not exactly compact or portable like I'd wanted, but I have other 19" rack gear so fitting it in won't be too much of a stretch. (I do need a proper rack eventually though.)
Also, a buddy in Toronto just nabbed me three AWE64 cards for the princely sum of $10 each. Until those show up something from my grab box will do the job.