Re: I Felt Conflicted at a Yard Sale

Posted on 2023-09-11, 20:53

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't do yard sales mostly because I never found anything interesting there. Back in the day before collecting computers was a thing people would post stuff on freecycle and when you went there, they would always try to load you up with other computer gear on the way out. One guy had a garage sale …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-09-07, 21:00

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by Unknown_K

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K5's were the budget Pentium class chips and I purchased one for a spare motherboard I had to build a system so my friend could play C&C with me in the spare room. Most of the oddball K5, Winchip, 486sx/2, 3rd party 486 chips I have were found at a recycler that parted out very low budget retail …

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Re: Dual Pentium 133: what to use it for?

Posted on 2023-09-06, 00:33

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When I think of the first Pentiums like this I think more of Windows NT 3.51 and NT4 rather than Win2k. I have a dual P1 board like that and NT 3.51/4 is what you would normally run on it or some kind of supported UNIX OS. It's a perfect candidate for an old school PCI based CAD card or old analog …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-06, 00:27

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by Unknown_K

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I have an early 1280x1024 LCD that ghosts like hell in FPS games (BENQ FP731 25ms late 2003 vintage). The monitor was free because it was broken (cheap and easy soldering job to fix) and I just used it for test bench video since it was lighter than a CRT to lug around. The first LCD I purchased …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-07-25, 21:28

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by Unknown_K

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Listing is free so you can put a few hundred expensive auctions up a month and wait for a few to sell to make some money. I think people who list junk at $1 and have to ship tons of packages for little to no profit are kind of nuts. Most sellers do the in between when they feel like it. You forgot …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-07-25, 05:40

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by Unknown_K

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Listing is free so you can put a few hundred expensive auctions up a month and wait for a few to sell to make some money. I think people who list junk at $1 and have to ship tons of packages for little to no profit are kind of nuts. Most sellers do the in between when they feel like it. NEC Versas …

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Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft

Posted on 2023-07-25, 05:33

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by Unknown_K

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Somewhere down the line the only old games that will be playable will be ones with original media that didn't have crazy copy protections on the media, and pirated copies. This would only be for single player games as pretty much every online game will have the servers shut down. New games are all …

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Re: Any hope of fixing an NEC 2x SCSI CD-ROM that won't read?

Posted on 2023-07-02, 08:26

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The early CDROM drives were built fairly well compared to later IDE and SATA models (which is why they were expensive). Generally, I would bet some SMD capacitors are out of spec.

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Re: What is the theoretical Success Chance of a brute force motherboard repair method? (Replacing every single component

Posted on 2023-07-02, 08:19

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Motherboards are multilayer PCBs and sometimes there are shorts where you can't get to them, and the board is toast. I have seen videos of techs grinding a hole in a GPU ground plane to get rid of an internal short and it was not pretty, but they fixed it.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-06-13, 22:07

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by Unknown_K

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W510's with I7's have 4 RAM slots, I5 models have 2. So you can put 32GB of RAM into that unit. I have two of that model and its funny how slow the 4C/8T CPU is compared to the next couple generations of I5's.

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Re: How did the 80x86DX help MS Excel or dBase

Posted on 2023-06-11, 03:41

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by Unknown_K

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I had a 386DX40 setup with 16MB of RAM running Windows 3.1 and the IIt math coprocessor I added made Excel run quite a bit faster crunching spreadsheets. When I started collecting, I snagged an early 486DX33 ISA board just because it had a Weitek socket and then snagged a 25mhz chip for it. From my …

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Re: When buying a 486 motherboard back in the day. What accessories came with it?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 01:34

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even the boxes back then were fairly generic looking.

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Re: When buying a 486 motherboard back in the day. What accessories came with it?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 23:58

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by Unknown_K

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486 boards were made for a long time starting with basic ISA slots, VLB, EISA if you were rich and needed a server, and finally PCI and some combinations. ISA boards just came with a manual. Everything else needed came with the peripherals (cables, driver disks, etc). EISA and PCI boards came with …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 23:51

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by Unknown_K

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I've always loved Vista, even though it has high requirements, I think its graphical interface is incredible, and I've always hated people saying "garbage vista, seven wonderful", that's completely stupid, because seven is just a vista service pack 3, but with a theme Modified for marketing reasons …

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Re: i5 Sandy Bridge with Windows XP - SATA AHCI mode issues

Posted on 2023-06-08, 23:45

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by Unknown_K

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Install in IDE mode install AHCI drivers when done change the SATA controller settings in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\"whatever the driver for the SATA is called" from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 forget which. Reboot into BIOS and switch to AHCI mode. Thats what I had to do for Win7 …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 22:11

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by Unknown_K

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I never had an issue with ME when used with hardware that had drivers for it. Any of the W9x/ME versions can be unstable as hell with bad drivers. To be honest when I could play games on Win2k I ditched 9x/me altogether.

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Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?

Posted on 2023-06-07, 05:45

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by Unknown_K

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For a full blow late 286/12 or faster you might as well get a SB Pro 2.0 CT1600, but for an early 5170 a CT1350 makes sense.

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Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?

Posted on 2023-06-06, 23:30

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ Sound

I have a 1350b and 1320c I intended to use in my early 5150 16KB motherboard but never got around to it (NO CMS chips in either). Just easier to run a Tandy 1000 and use Tandy Sound on those old games.

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Re: Worth trying to sell? - Pentium MMX

Posted on 2023-06-05, 22:26

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Case would be worth selling as it is a good one.

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Re: IBM LTO-3 Ultrium tape drive - setup help

Posted on 2023-06-05, 08:52

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by Unknown_K

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Most old PCI SCSI cards don't have drivers past Windows 7 x64 if that (Adaptec anyway). ATTO has a PCIE SCSI card but they are hard to find.

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