So, I found my spare PCMCIA adapter and rear panel. I could not yet find the think client that I installed the other one into, so I do not know for certain which model these are for. Many of the other clients in that particular box were all V10s, so chances are pretty high that it is a V10 as well.
I think they do use the same PCMCIA board. But the rear panel isn’t going to work if it is the wrong model. I will look some more over the next few days. My storage space is a bit of a disaster at the moment. From: Greg Swallow Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2021 11:23 PM To: Scott McDonnell Subject: Re: [M100] Converting Thin Client to PC Scott, I'll look into the HP. I would expect the HPs to be Windows friendly. I had an C2Q m9200t Pavillion Elite. Great through W7, but openSuse was a dog. I have a Dell inspiron 530 C2D that out performed the HP. Gutted the HP and now the Dell is the Quad. Have looked at some 486DX and up SBC, but budget caused me to check out thin clients. The V90LE because I know what to expect inside. I do have a ebay seller just dropped his price to $30 w/ free shipping for two Wyse D200 dual monitor thin clients. May grab them, but I'll look into HP as well GregS <>< Jul 8, 2021 5:29:35 PM Scott McDonnell <[email protected]>: BTW, for one of the test PCs I built here, I needed one with a single PCI slot that could run Windows 98. I found the HP T5720 with the extension chassis. That would make a great retro computer with a PCI soundblaster. I have had a lot of trouble trying to get Windows 98 to run on the Wyse terminals. It doesn't seem to like the VIA chipset. -------- Original message -------- From: Greg Swallow <[email protected]> Date: 7/8/21 8:18 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Scott McDonnell <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [M100] Converting Thin Client to PC Scott, That would be great! GregS <>< Jul 8, 2021 3:45:53 PM Scott McDonnell <[email protected]>: I just realized that I was confusing the C90LE with the V90LE. I actually think mine is a V90LE with the PCMCIA. And I actually bought an extra PCMCIA board for a second one that I never used. You are right, these come up very rarely. I will check what I have later tonight to be sure. I might be willing to part with the spare PCMCIA board. I thimk I have the replacement rear plate for that too. -------- Original message -------- From: Greg Swallow <[email protected]> Date: 7/8/21 2:03 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Scott McDonnell <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [M100] Converting Thin Client to PC Scott, V90 is faster than the V10 and the V90LE the fastest of the series. Suppose to be a 50% increase between V98L and the V90LE. I have found V90LE w/ PCMCIA on eBay from Germany. Some, in the US, claim to be V90, but a close look at the tag photo shows V10. May go the V10 route to get the PCMCIA port. AC97 is the why for PCMCIA. Intend to drop an SB16 PCMCIA into it. Though I don't mean to go for retro gaming. GregS <>< Jul 8, 2021 10:47:14 AM Scott McDonnell <[email protected]>: I use the Wyse thin clients quite a bit at my work for small single-purpose test PCs with DOS and also at home. I have not seen a V90LE with PCMCIA, but the V10 can be found with PCMCIA. I have a few of those running. My only real problem with using them for retro-computing is that they have AC97 sound with a VIA chipset and I have not been able to figure out how to get any sound-blaster compatibility out of them for games. From: Russell Flowers Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2021 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [M100] Converting Thin Client to PC That's weird, I don't see Stephen's original reply email to the list. Maybe it will pop in later. On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:33 AM Greg Swallow <[email protected]> wrote: Steve, DOS (DR or Free) with Disk+ and Lucid for DOS. Maybe Windows 3.1 and Lucid for Windows. I hope to find a Wyse V90LE XPE with duel video and PCMCIA somewhere in North America, but only ones I've found are in Germany. At $100+ after shipping kinda cost prohibative. Asking here to see if anyone has had luck with other models. GregS <>< Jul 8, 2021 7:18:07 AM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]>: Greg, what are you hoping to run on the converted thin clients? On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 10:14 AM Greg Swallow <[email protected]> wrote: All, Am looking to pickup some thin client systems and convert them to Retro PC an use with the M100. Too many tower systems taking up space. Just wondering if anyone has done such a conversion and what client et al. GregS <><
