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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-19, 02:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Motherboards again. And i promiss i'll stop spamming this thread (5 pictures/post limit is ... limiting) I really hope these two ALI SS7 boards are working. I only had bad experiences with SS7 with super unstable boards. I hope to change my mind with these. Very nice lot of boards! That was a …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-18, 02:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am so jealous of some of those sound cards, great haul man! Thanks ! For my use, I think the highlight is the Pro Audio Spectrum 16. Will probably replace my SB16 with this one. The PAS16 is a neat card, but I don't think you'd really be upgrading going from an SB16 to a PAS16. You'll lose …

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

Posted on 2023-07-02, 01:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Shouldn't an optical disk laser be visible with a digital camera? I know that other infrared sources, like a TV remote LED, are visible with my phone camera, but a little while ago I decided to try looking for signs of life inside this thing and saw absolutely nothing. I looked in the front with the …

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

Posted on 2023-07-01, 23:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which game disks did you try ? Try to find the oldest retail cd disk you have, and try an original Win95 cd if you have it. The electronics is late 93 so a 1994 or 1995 cd would be best to try.....just a suggestion From my experience way backwhen found that a lot of the 2x and 4x drives were very …

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

Posted on 2023-07-01, 23:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I see a ton if electrolytic caps on there. Replace them. If the drive appears functional but just doesn't recognize/read disks, that's usually the issue. Some people will try cranking up the laser power, which is hit or miss and only burns out the laser diode. (cough xbox drives) From much …

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

Posted on 2023-07-01, 21:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A looong post and you didn't provide any actual details. Please select: a) SCSI driver doesn't see it on the bus b) driver loads but no spin c) spins but doesn't read Make sure to test with a known good CD-ROM (as in, not a CD-R, RW, or anything recordable). Also, since there are no photos of the …

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

Posted on 2023-07-01, 21:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have scads of old IDE CD-ROM drives which all work, but I have one NEC CDR-210 Double Speed SCSI drive that just won't read any disks and I'd love to get it working if at all possible. I'm pretty sure this drive was part of a MediaVision CD upgrade kit (PAS16, CDROM and speakers), and it came …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 23:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've just got a Sony Vaio PCV-RX402 for small money in absolute untinkered condition and I now want to run a clean setup with Windows XP. Luckily the drivers are still saved in a separate folder on the Harddrive but the original Sony Software is missing 🙁 ... and unfortunately Sony stopped to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-26, 05:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ran across this on the site people love to hate: PXL_20230525_231211763~2.jpg What's in the box? PXL_20230525_231351701~2.jpg PXL_20230525_231419521~2.jpg PXL_20230525_231633891~2.jpg PXL_20230525_231703427~2.jpg Is this really just a dtk serial port card with a custom board that plugs into the dip …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-17, 18:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

HanJammer wrote on 2023-05-17, 10:22: When I bough it I didn't realized what was hidden inside... I'm looking at the pics and I still don't realize what is hidden inside. Looks like all Tandon parts and a Hercules card. What am I missing? ... Nice system BTW! 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-13, 07:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On my new items, I received yesterday this sweet Tseng Labs ET6100. Lucky to find it super cheap. It works perfectly. It will go directly in my late DOS/W95 system. IMG_20230513_064213.jpg Wow, what a goofy card! It is probably from no earlier than 1997/1998, and yet it has those really old school …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-11, 20:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

This is a dumb thought, but seeing one of those bluetooth cassette adapters mentioned on a retro computing site immediately made me think of using bluetooth to playback or record data wirelessly between a vintage PC cassette drive and a modern PC or smart phone. :lol: Yes you might be able to load …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-11, 14:17

in Milliways

in Milliways

"Bin store" binge... $2 day. "Bin stores" are springing up all over Southern Ontario like mushrooms, and are stores with raised bins on legs into which are dumped Amazon and other warehouse, liquidation and closeout returns. Some have a fixed price like $5 to $7 an item on all days, and cherry pick …

Re: Shipping from US to Europe why so expensive?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 05:56

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hah... International registered mail. That would run $50+ Registered mail is meant to be able to track every single step of the way... a signature is required at every handoff and at delivery. First class international should be fine. For continental USA packages, the limit is anything less than …

Re: Shipping from US to Europe why so expensive?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 03:56

in Milliways

in Milliways

There is registered mail in the USA.... That requires signatures all along the way and is something like $10+. Have only used it like once or twice. USPS priority also comes with tracking. And if you ship through eBay, even first class has free tracking. Shipping overseas is quite expensive though. …

Re: Shipping from US to Europe why so expensive?

Posted on 2023-05-06, 18:39

in Milliways

in Milliways

Not sure if this is related, but just recently (early 2023 was when they contacted me about it) ebay started yet another new program to replace or enhance the "Global Shipping Program". I can't remember what they have labeled it, maybe Ebay International Shipping or something, but basically they …

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

Posted on 2023-05-05, 19:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Better pics per request. It's a good thing that this place exists, because good luck trying to explain to most people why this is such an epic score. LOL, I was just telling my wife that. She thinks I'm insane. Well, if we're being honest, a lot of us would have also felt this way 15 years ago. "Oh …

Re: I remember a common windows 98/me troubleshooting step was to drag hw acceleration one notch below max. Why?

Posted on 2023-05-05, 18:04

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I remember doing this for both audio and video acceleration, and in many cases it worked... though there were usually some compromises. Does anyone here actually know what these sliders do? I don't know how it works on Windows . But i worked on the Linux graphic stack in a previous job. I can risk …

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

Posted on 2023-05-05, 04:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

CRAIGSLIST SCORE OF THE DECADE While technically I did give the guy 20 bucks to meet me halfway from his house, all of these items were essentially free. All boot up, all work perfectly, All WinME.... PC1: Asus P2B w/P2 350 Slot 1 768 MB RAM GeForce Ti4200 SB 16 PC2: Shuttle AV18E w/P3 633 …

Re: I remember a common windows 98/me troubleshooting step was to drag hw acceleration one notch below max. Why?

Posted on 2023-05-05, 02:50

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I remember doing this for both audio and video acceleration, and in many cases it worked... though there were usually some compromises. Does anyone here actually know what these sliders do?

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