Re: IBM Thinkpad 380Z - padlock boot

Posted on Yesterday, 20:20

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In some Thinkpads there was a jumper pad on the motherboard which you short to clear the startup password. https://thinkpads.com/support/hmm/hmm_pdf/38zhmm.pdf - see page 6 However, the supervisor password is harder to clear. For that era of TPs, a forgotten supervisor password would require a full …

---

Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on Yesterday, 00:58

by

by JidaiGeki

in Milliways

in Milliways

The Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Umpire - fight against the injustices of the zealous decision maker in this cricketing RPG The Polite Quest series - uncouth behaviour has broken out in the town of Lytton, and only you can restore order! Bunship - drop baked treats on your enemy from your AH64 Need …

---

Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-07-20, 09:49

by

by JidaiGeki

in Milliways

in Milliways

Ewe of the Beholder - lead your party on a perilous quest to capture the deadly Beholder’s prize sheep

---

Re: Floppy disk killing 5.25 floppy drives

Posted on 2021-07-01, 15:26

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got a Mitsubishi MF504C high density drive that was working perfectly until I tried to install a game off an old diskette. The diskette looked normal, but after I inserted it the drive made a loud rubbing noise, as if the heads were clamped too tightly on the disk's surface while it was …

---

Re: 90's 10/100 ethernet switch

Posted on 2021-05-23, 05:01

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Netgear had a range of unmanaged switches, 4, 8 and 16 port, IIRC in either the late 90s or very early 00s. I ran a Netgear setup at home in circa 97 to share cable internet, but the switch came later as I used my computer as a proxy first. Maybe some support manuals for the switches could assist, …

---

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-05-20, 15:01

by

by JidaiGeki

in Milliways

in Milliways

Loving the Esky megatron, reminds me I have to get mine back on the road for its 50th next year ... October ‘72 1300XL but with a Mexico 1600, but only a standard Motorcraft carb. Will probably just get the 1600 warmed up and some better carbs. 47DE28DF-AAAB-4A32-AD2D-0C69FE9209DF.jpeg My retro …

---

Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?

Posted on 2021-05-19, 13:17

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This guy has one which needs a 12V power pack, and his thread has some info on alternative power as well: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=77320&p=905746&hilit=kns#p905746 I’ve got one without PSU so have been looking for external power packs, or a power solution straight to the main …

---

Re: Intel Tiger Eye TE430VX motherboard boot issues

Posted on 2021-05-14, 09:50

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had one of these boards from Gateway 2000 back in the day, I don’t think it supports MMX processors. When it was getting long in the tooth the upgrade path needed a special Unicore-made BIOS to support non-Intel CPUs which I bought but couldn’t get it to flash. If you have one try a regular …

---

Re: Help with recovering some retro stuff from a storage unit (Sydney, Australia)

Posted on 2021-05-04, 12:26

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sydney-sider here (and OCAUer too), will send you a PM.

---

Re: A Goblin Hoard : My PC Big Box Collection

Posted on 2021-04-27, 14:17

by

by JidaiGeki

in Milliways

in Milliways

Nice collection! Were those collector cards standard in Dungeon Hack? Will need to check my copy! The embossed Diablo II seems to have one of our Australian government audience classification stickers on it ... always feel sad that they ruined some wonderful cover art of games of that era with those …

---

Re: Good looking CD / DVD drive

Posted on 2021-04-13, 06:56

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those Pioneers are very nice OP, but what does an awesome look mean? I would have thought it necessary to try to match the case design. Those drives would go very nicely with Lian Li brushed Al cases. For other options, a modern looking case or Shuttle XPC with a Perspex front might be matched with …

---

Re: Help finding Ensoniq Soundscape card type

Posted on 2021-04-12, 09:01

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

We had the Soundscape VIVO in a Gateway 2000 P5-166 or 200 in 1996. Not quite the same size operation as a local PC shop but I’d imagine it to have been a popular card into 1997. Luckily, VIVOs are easy to find still and relatively cheap so if it’s not that card it isn’t a big investment 😀

---

Re: What were your defining moments in computer history?

Posted on 2021-03-25, 05:52

by

by JidaiGeki

in Milliways

in Milliways

Of all the things I remember about computers in my life, the standout moments were: - coming across the BBC Micros at school, and always wanting to spend more time in the computer labs with them but never being able to due to class timetables. They (and my friend's IBM XT) were much more compelling …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-04, 09:24

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just nabbed this. Never seen one of these before, and I can't find any pictures of the card or the box online anywhere other than an old amazon.ca listing. Going by the pictures and feature set, I'm thinking it's a MediaVision Thunderboard variant. The real struggle will be to not open it play with …

---

Re: Need some help with a vlb graphics card! western digital something

Posted on 2021-02-03, 05:44

by

by JidaiGeki

in Milliways

in Milliways

Maybe try these DIP settings: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/graphics-cards/U … GA-WD90C31.html More discussion of what seems to be the same card (based on chipset) here: Western Digital Graphics Card

---

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-18, 01:44

by

by JidaiGeki

in Milliways

in Milliways

My retro hobby started when I was blind drunk one night 10 years ago, and took home an old computer out of the garage of an office building. Not long after I joined VOGONS 😀

---

Re: OrangePC Bios help

Posted on 2020-10-05, 00:26

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does anyone have any sort of list of the different key combinations for getting into setup on computers with scatsx bios? Is there another forum that may be of better assistance? I had high hopes here due to the high activity on the old hardware sections, but it seems like no one here has any idea …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-13, 23:28

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I love #9 cards for the same reason - no logical reason :) Don't have many yet though. Could be all the Beatles references :) Number 9, Ticket to Ride, Imagine, etc. As for my purchases, I bought a MiroConnect 34 Wave, in sealed box. Box is huge! Pictured next to a sewing machine for scale. Really …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-07, 07:44

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Miphee wrote on 2020-08-07, 07:31: Yet another IBM product... no idea what system it was used for. It's for the PCjr.

---

Re: Were CD-ROMs common on 386 computers?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 14:52

by

by JidaiGeki

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had to petition my dad to get me a CD-ROM in 1994. It was a Toshiba 4x caddy loader (XM3501B), and cost the not insignificant amount of AUD700, so I understood his reluctance. However I'd been mowing lawns for months to save up to buy a sound card (MV Pro 3D) so I guess he felt sorry for me. It …

---