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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2019-07-27, 15:00

liqmat wrote: Shot this back in December 2018, but just getting around to posting it now. Unboxing a case of factory sealed Intel Pentium Pro 200MHz 1MB cache CPUs from the haul. https://youtu.be/6QE4vv8RcaY It looks like they were vacuum packed for freshness. Amazing. Thanks for the video.

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2019-07-24, 15:38

On paper it sounds like an improvement. But with the processor your selected, other than more cores, it actually doesn't perform much better than what you have right now. More cores doesn't automatically equal significantly better performance. it also sounds a bit like epeen to me. And Skylake as …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2019-07-24, 13:28

Supermicro just make awesome products. I'm so happy with my X9DAE Yes they do. This would be my fifth Supermicro motherboard. I have one in my router, one on my VM/storage server, and one colocated (not powered off in five years.) I made sure my workstation upgrade didn't get BMC as they take too …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2019-07-24, 02:20

Finally, after nursing my MSI Z77A-GD65 and i7-3770 for probably over seven years, I bought a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and a Noctua HSF. The i7-3770 and DDR3 1600 weren't cutting it for editing large photos any more. Plus the lack of PCIe lanes is a bummer. I opted for an older Intel system rather …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2019-07-24, 01:12

Srandista wrote: And the last one with support for soundfonts 😉 I think the Sound Blaster Audigy RX (2013) is the last card released that has a hardware synth with Sound Font support. The X-Fi Titanium was released in 2008.

Re: Lastest vídeo of LGR

Posted on 2019-07-14, 15:35

quit drinking the flavor aid What's this? A historically accurate slam? Oeuvre and above! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_Aid#Jonestown_massacre But on topic. OH MY FREAKING GLOB! I would have loaded a semi with stuff from there. And he takes home a McAfee Virusscan. That place is a retro gold …

Re: Other hobbies?

Posted on 2019-07-06, 03:18

Oh, hey, what a coincidence! I was just researching how to scan medium format negatives yesterday and saw this contraption: https://petapixel.com/2016/08/24/built-medium-format-film-scanner-shoe-box/ I don't have a dslr to do it with, but you could probably do something like this with your Olympus …

Re: Other hobbies?

Posted on 2019-07-04, 15:31

I'll bite. Photography has always been a hobby for me. Although I drop it and come back to it too often. Too many cameras to list, but I have medium format film, 35mm SLRs, and new mirrorless digicams. I like taking portraits, architectural shots, landscapes, and sometimes "street" shots when I'm in …

Re: CRT TV / Monitor repair

Posted on 2019-07-01, 01:09

Here's the next victim, My Mag Innovision 15" CRT. mag-01.jpg I haven't turned it on in years, and took it apart for the first time only a week ago. Of course I grounded the anode to make sure I live and started poking around today. Everything looked alright. The diodes for the rectifier were fine. …

Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2019-06-29, 17:45

My current avatar is from an ad from one of the original online multiplayer services, Genie. This ad graced the pages of Computer Gaming World in the early 1990s, when I was in my early 20s and deep into PC gaming. I thought the guy looked like a clueless1, the rest is history. Incidentally, I kind …

Re: CRT TV / Monitor repair

Posted on 2019-06-25, 13:52

So true. It's amazing how quickly obsolete technology just vanishes from the greater economy. It's like the Planet X3 video where David talks about having difficulty finding a place with 3.5" floppy label templates. How does ANY print shop not have a template for labels that were in massive demand …

Re: CRT TV / Monitor repair

Posted on 2019-06-23, 19:12

great repair! I would not bother with geometry much - it looks as good as these sets can do maybe mess with V.PHASE to center the image better Thanks! I'm glad to have it working and I'll take your advice on the geometry. I hope others with successful CRT repairs will tack on to this thread and …

Re: CRT TV / Monitor repair

Posted on 2019-06-23, 14:22

Continued... The solder mask crumbled off in that spot and it looks like a mess, but it works! Commodore 64 looks good through composite. I'll worry about the geometry later when I figure out what pots to adjust. It had shifted up gradually over the years. 6-c64.jpg TD;DR: TV fixed. Purdy Skeletor …

CRT TV / Monitor repair

Posted on 2019-06-23, 14:17

I finally got around to fixing my teen years 1991 vintage 19" Magnetbox set. This was my main TV until 2009 when I finally got an HD set. And it worked fine until I moved it from one spot on basement's concrete basement floor to another. From then on the screen had a red cast to it. 1-red.jpg 2-red- …

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