Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-07, 22:35

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That corrosion you see is from a leaking bios battery. Your best bet is to cut the batteries off and give the boards a good once over with some white vinegar and a toothbrush and then a nice rinse in distilled water. No it's not, the battery is a long way away and is a cr button type that is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-07, 21:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got 2 computers and 3 crts today. Both computers are 486. The desktop have dx33, Trident 9000 vga, full size AT psu, caddy CD rom and a SB 2 pro 😁 The baby AT tower have dx4-75 overdrive and CL 5428 VLB 2mb The mainboard are damaged, anyone know what happened? There is no caps who look damaged in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-03, 13:37

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not bought yet, but i am about to get another car full of retro parts, when i find time to go . There is a place that looks like a computer graveyard, its probably like 50 computers there ^^ I will have to start selling more of my stuff to be able to get things now tho x) I got some pictures. One …

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Re: Need help finding childhood Super 7 mobo w/ big Dragonfly on box (ALI Aladdin chipset)

Posted on 2020-10-30, 19:33

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSweaD7PWqw This reminded me of this tread. There should be enough retro dragonflies in this video to satisfy a lifetime x)

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2020-10-30, 19:15

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Ahh okay, i have never seen one before^^ Yeah i found some info on it now, it is apparently not very good x) Wont be buying that then.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2020-10-30, 18:21

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I found this for sale, anyone seen this strange card before? It looks like it got a crystal cs4236 chip and a modem with game/midi port and a wavetable header(?).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-22, 21:28

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Nice, i just got some MIDI too 😁 The RA-50 Are these really not able to show the MT-32 MIDI messages? It got a led with "MIDI message" written over it. Also i got a S3 Trio 64v+ 4mb(!) With original box and manual. Never seen one with this amount of memory before. Btw i love the fact all memory are …

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Re: Need help finding childhood Super 7 mobo w/ big Dragonfly on box (ALI Aladdin chipset)

Posted on 2020-10-22, 16:34

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not a MB, but it got a dragonfly. Was it anything like this?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-22, 16:16

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Nice, i just got some MIDI too 😁 The RA-50 Are these really not able to show the MT-32 MIDI messages? It got a led with "MIDI message" written over it. Also i got a S3 Trio 64v+ 4mb(!) With original box and manual. Never seen one with this amount of memory before. Btw i love the fact all memory are …

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Re: What display do you use for gaming ?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 13:01

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I use a samtron 96p 19" CRT, but will change to a Nokia 445xi 21" when i feel like lifting it up on to the table. I have enough CRT's so even if one brakes, i will just use another. Maybe i will recap the Nokia for good measure. With my modern computer i use a samsung 4k 60hz.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-19, 21:38

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Well, not quite as retro, but here is a 2010 model that will maximize your drive space for sure.....! 😆 https://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/lian_li_pc_a77f_review.html More models: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/16925-tower-cases-with-525quot-drive-bays-top-to-bottom/ As I predict you will have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-19, 20:54

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... I also got a kg of ram at least, a new AT power supply, several new socket 7 heatsinks, socket 8 heatsinks, hard drives MFM, ESDI, ATA, SCSI. 5.25" floppies. joystick. On top of the CD rom stack there is an LS-drive. So i have an LS-drive, 2 ZIP, 2 JAZ, 1 DAT, 1 DLT. I got several QIC-150 tapes …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-19, 13:28

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appiah4 wrote on 2020-10-19, 13:23: SVD wrote on 2020-10-18, 18:55: And there is more That joystick (or whatever it is in the second photo) looks like a sex toy.. That is a (ball) mouse. The weirdest i have seen x) A stick with two buttons on top, and (just) one ball in the bottom part :p

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-18, 21:16

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And even more Btw, that mouse (with joystick look) have to go to LGR oddware or something 😂 That Vibra based sound card is kinda interesting, not special though. Some discussion here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=51793 Yeah, it looks good to me tho, they talked about a OPL clone in that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-18, 20:53

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The multi-i/o ISA card is made for HP equipment and is desirable quality 4 layer PCB should make sensitive audio card more quieter try that experiment (buzz, pops and hums when hard drive, floppy or serial is in play ). And this is only one of very few multi-i/o card with 4 layer PCB. Someone …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-18, 18:58

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And even more Btw, that mouse (with joystick look) have to go to LGR oddware or something 😂

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-18, 18:55

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And there is more

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-18, 18:53

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Scored today 😁 This is maybe half of what i got for about 120 usd (1200nok).

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2020-10-15, 20:00

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Posted this in the bought today tread already, did not know about this tread. This Nokia 21" 445Xi will be my main retro monitor now ^^ It also made the biggest degauss sound i ever heard when i fired it up the first time, so i guess that is normal :) Unfortunately it got a scratch in the antiglare, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-15, 19:17

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I got this Siemens w26361 w10 with a pentium iii 700/256/100 for about nothing along with a ton of other stuff. Anyone know something about it? It's an OEM so is it worth having? I guess it can't do 133 fsb since it came with that processor. Chipset is FW82443BX Actual model is D1107-A (with LAN), …

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