Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-04-27, 01:35

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Nope, it's only for the larger form factor V1DA-15B drive in the Compaq LTE Lite models. The Citizen W1D is actually quite unique in that it's about the thinnest laptop floppy drive ever made, so there's no easily available replacement. Personally I'm just very good at repairing W1D drives now, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-04-25, 01:02

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4: I got thanks to the kindness of acl a slot 1 mobo with a pentium 2, it's a non common form factor, so i'm planning to create a WIP thread and work on a 3d printable case for it, lucky me i work with professional 3d scanners and printers so i already have a 3d scan of the board to work with. Wow …

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Re: How to configure Nobell RPL network boot

Posted on 2022-03-01, 00:46

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Yes good idea. Already did it or better tested it with remote boot service. I got stucked in the detailed profile setup unfortunately :( So if anyone has a good link for a how to... Hi Marco, This is quite an old topic so I don’t know if the question is still unanswered, but I recently found a …

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Re: NEC Ready 7022 Remote Control Driver

Posted on 2021-06-09, 18:07

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Hi Kiwa, aware I'm replying to a super old post. If you're around, could you share some insight how you cracked the restore files? I'm working on a nostalgia project: https://archive.org/download/NECReady962X/NEC-Ready-962X-Recovery-CD.iso Got it working! Maybe you can't share the file directly but …

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Intel 8/16 Lan adapter and XT-IDE?

Posted on 2019-02-18, 15:40

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Hi, so i have this card and tested every combination i could to get it to boot from the bootrom, the eeprom i'm using works on a D-Link card i have. Does anyone uses this card for xt-ide? if so can you share the softset settings? According to the vogons wiki it should work. https://www.vogonswiki. …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-08-26, 21:20

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Thanks, From uname i get: Linux orangepipc 3.4.113-sun8i #16 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 13 14:15:57 CEST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux The cpu: Architecture: armv7l Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 CPU max MHz: 1536.0000 CPU min …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-08-25, 21:58

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Hi, So i compiled this on my orange pi one, seems to work, but i get high cpu usage and constant Output buffer underrun, idk if my device is just underpowered or i did something wrong compiling munt, can anyone give me some pointers? Filename Screen Shot 2017-08-25 at 6.56.37 PM.png File size 208. …

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

Posted on 2017-08-24, 00:08

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Ok guys, got a happy update on this pc! Filename 2017-08-23 21.05.24.jpg File size 4.49 MiB Views 1442 views Filename 2017-08-23 21.05.33.jpg File size 4.6 MiB Views 1442 views i used really big caps because that's the only thing i had on hand, but for a quick test i was successful, gonna get new …

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

Posted on 2017-08-23, 23:25

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Indeed it's a quite exotic Socket A system from 2002-2003. If it's the AMD version, then it has the Nforce2 chipset and 333FSB support. Don't give up on it, check what the PSU is doing and if there are any bulging caps around. BTW, a few days ago I've learned that bulging caps WILL vent at some …

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

Posted on 2017-08-23, 19:04

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I just found this thing on the street, a msi mega 180 Filename 2017-08-23 15.58.30.jpg File size 3.17 MiB Views 1526 views the pc side seems to be dead, tested different ram sticks and still constantly beeps but the radio part seems to work. At least is a decent thing for some spare parts.

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Re: IDE disk-on-module + 386

Posted on 2017-08-23, 18:51

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Amazing, Thanks for the download, was looking everywhere in my files for that

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Re: IDE disk-on-module + 386

Posted on 2017-08-23, 18:41

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I use those modules a lot, i would say that they are more reliable than cf cards, in the datasheets sometimes include the CHS info, or iirc there is a utility that helps you detect that info. Filename 2017-08-23 15.36.08.jpg File size 3.1 MiB Views 4538 views

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-08-22, 13:32

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Re: Post your Retro Laptops here

Posted on 2017-08-21, 13:54

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I have 3 laptops with me right now (all my others are stored in my parents house in other city) so i will do an overview of all of them, but first the one i use the most, a thinkpad 755cd 1.) The laptop specs Dos 6.22 and W.3.11fwg Has a 486dx2 @ 100mhz 24mb of ram (8 on board + 16 weird card thing) …

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Re: Has anyone dumped the ROM and/or drive of the HP 200LX?

Posted on 2017-08-16, 02:12

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Do you have the 200lx connectivity pack? i can't find it. only for the 100lx. Also i have a 200lx, let me do a dump of the drives. give me a few minutes. Edit: Done, dumped the drive D: that is the rom, check the attachment. Filename 200.zip File size 622.41 KiB Downloads 159 downloads

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Re: Soldering on a second ISA slot

Posted on 2017-08-14, 11:54

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I can confirm that it does work on this mb, i did exactly the same thing years ago, the hardest thing was getting an spare isa slot.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-09, 23:00

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Filename 2017-08-07 22.29.30.jpg File size 3.82 MiB Views 1209 views Friend gave me this dead thinkpad 755cd, replaced all the leaky caps and replaced crusty hdd with a sd to ide adapter, now got it working fine. Filename 2017-08-09 18.59.40.jpg File size 3.48 MiB Views 1209 views

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Re: modem over VOIP?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 19:22

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i have done a lot of testing in this area, dial-up over voip works but yeah, slow speeds, the max i did reliably working was 14.4k speeds with linksys ATA that have the "fax" option, if that is what you refer with #99 then yeah it will work with any number, it just set the ATA (the device that …

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

Posted on 2017-07-25, 19:57

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OK, so today i found this board, i can't find any info, it's obviously not a PC motherboard, has a Motorola Coldfire and Altera Cyclone IC's, i got it because the DOM is useful, but I'm really interested in know what this board is, can't find any model or stuff like that on the pcb 2017-07-25 15.46. …

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

Posted on 2017-07-25, 19:53

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Screen Shot 2017-07-25 at 1.13.00 AM.png i found this card, seems to be a matrox video capture card, no use for this and no cables, but interesting anyways. I think these are very interesting reliques, even though they are basically useless. I still got my IBM/Intel ActionMedia II card. It's …

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