Re: Best 286 / 287 match up

Posted on 2019-01-27, 04:41

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Ok, just re-read this thread, my current 286 Motherboard has a Harris 286-16, and a 287-6, there's also a large 32MHz Crystal which I'm assuming is to clock rate the 286-16, plus there's two other small Crystals, a 16MHz, and a 14.31818MHz, which I've no real idea what they control, but presumably …

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Matrox Millenium 2 connectors?

Posted on 2018-07-20, 18:50

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I have a Matrox Millenium 2 4MB PCI Card with a Rainbow Runner Add-on Card fitted, but there also looks to be three other interfaces to plug stuff in, I have this to fit in a J530BF with AMD K6-2 550MHz and 768MB of PC133, and a Creative Sound Blaster PCI128 What other stuff used to plug in the …

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

Posted on 2018-06-22, 22:57

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Well, it's been a wait, and I've had to save pennies before being able to make purchases (as we all do), but I'm finally getting things together. I'm awaiting memory being delivered but basically two desktop machines are going to be put together in the next week or so, an ATX Socket 754 3700+ on a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-13, 19:08

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Mmm...was given an IBM Thinkpad 600E on Sunday, needs the CMOS Battery replaced, and the BIOS screen has a weird flying bird cursor, and came with an original Windows XP on it from 2002, which was nice, but I much prefer SP3, so installed that, works perfectly, just need ethernet, so it will likely …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-10, 02:14

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Found an AT-Case locally (same region of my country) online for sale. 12 US Dollars plus shipping. (sellers pictures) The case is complete with the caseshield/cover, though the case has one tiny bend and one tiny scratch. AT-01.jpg AT-02.jpg AT-03.jpg Happy champ.... I have an identical case, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-07, 19:20

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Well, I just watched, because I couldn't afford to participate, as an, 'as new, K5 PR200', from Indiana went for $415 on eBay, which is about £295, to which you'd have to add ~£63 in import charges and postage, so about $504 / £358 to my door here in the UK. For a processor best suited to Windows 95 …

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GA-K7N400 Pro 2

Posted on 2018-03-30, 16:32

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Mmm...bought two of these, they are supposed to support Socket 462 and 4GB DDR400 (using double data rate at 200 MHz FSB), but in reality seem only to recognise 2GB even with the latest version FK Bios, I bought them to run Windows 7 Pro 32 bit, and an Athlon XP 3200+, for a practical machine …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-15, 19:33

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Well, somebody wanted rid of an old computer and I said I'd take because they were heading for the local council tip, its Windows 7 version something, a 2x AMD Phenom HP Tower with 8GB Ram, not fired it up yet as because I wanted the 22 inch Monitor on a Video Editing machine I built, and then there …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-07, 12:35

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Just bought one, NOS unused, works perfect, new smell, all looks brand new. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RETRO-P4-Dell-Lati … 353.m2749.l2649 £49 plus delivery? No brainer.

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Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2018-02-07, 14:48

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Wow a five year old thread. If Socket 462 is the cut off, then currently running is 3, 8086 8MHz DOS 6.22 486DX4-100MHz Win 95OSR2.1 Plus! Pentium 75 laptop Win 95OSR2.5 although I have the following boards awaiting re-build, 286 386 Socket 7 2x Socket 462's but I have a Tyan Dual 462 with two …

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

Posted on 2018-02-05, 21:07

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Not sure where to post this, but I guess it could be considered retro activity. Recently I started to get old pc hardware in mail that I had not bought and there was no senders address or anything. I tried to track who was sending it and eventually realised someone who I had bought a graphics card …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-05, 20:55

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If you want to run Harris 25 at 25MHz you will have to replace the clock oscillator for 50MHz one. Now 32MHz is installed. Maybe put a socket first so you can swap them as you wish. Ah...so the KOYO KCO-O1OT 32MHz Crystal is the one I need to change, weird that the one furthest away from the two …

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

Posted on 2018-02-05, 01:44

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What a faff today has been, changed out what I thought was a duff GA-K8N Mobo, and discovered the replacement wouldn't POST when the SLI Board was put in the Mobo, I'd had it POST and installed Windows before I noted that the Mobo was missing its SLI Board, so switched off and inserted it. WTH, took …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-01, 14:46

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Wow, took a month to be processed by UK Customs, but it's finally here My 286 Motherboard, a BIOSTAR MB-1216VE https://scontent.flhr3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/27540546_10210894627263395_2881528194735972941_n.jpg?oh=14ff1b64d5a27d688bd909c8f1494dc6&oe=5B23F250 The chipset, with 286-16 and 287-6 …

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

Posted on 2018-01-31, 23:18

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Well, I'm making copies of software and OS on some NOS Floppies I've managed to get hold of using a 486, but I've also been reinstalling Windows 10 in a 20 year old case after fitting a 2TB HDD and a Front Panel if that counts, plus burning a DVD image of the Windows Enterprise Evaluation for my son …

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Re: Compaq Armada 1110 LCD Screen Issue

Posted on 2018-01-31, 21:37

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It's my own fault using £5 second hand SATA 160GB Drives, nah, these 1.5GBit drives were too slow anyway, I can see putting another one in and the stress of the rebuild would cause another to fail. The System hadn't been running that long, I set it up to start transferring Film and Analogue/Digital …

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Re: Compaq Armada 1110 LCD Screen Issue

Posted on 2018-01-31, 07:15

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I've shut the machine down for the time being, I have noted its running the wrong Video Driver, it has a Cirrus Logic GD7543 1MB Video Chipset, but appears to be running the CL 7543 PCI Driver. There's definitely two drivers for Win95 and I have downloaded both to the nearest Windows 10 PC, but only …

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Compaq Armada 1110 LCD Screen Issue

Posted on 2018-01-31, 03:13

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Hi All, Just not sure what the fault is on my LCD Screen, it was working perfectly up until yesterday, and now I get a 1.5 inch wide set of coloured lines running vertical on the right hand edge of the screen, which change with the screen display, they don't extend to the bottom of the screen either …

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Maxi Disk 4.2

Posted on 2018-01-29, 03:18

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What a useful utility this is. I'm going through a pile of pre-owned 3.5 floppies, using Maxi Disk 4.2, and I don't appear to be able to register or buy it as the software is so old, indeed the last entry on the website is in 2002, and he was charging $2 to register it at the time. I suspect it is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-29, 02:57

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why would You need it to support 8bit arches? would a 8088 even be able to pull 15kbps from this? can this work in parallel with a printer? this has an builtin amp too? how is the mic used with this? I think the earlier Backpack CD-ROMs could work with some 8086 builds, I think IBM 5150 is one of …

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