Jo22 wrote on 2025-01-01, 08:18: Woof. On the internet, no-one knows you're a dog.

nfraser01 wrote on 2024-12-08, 20:16: One of those odd MWave DSP modem/sound card combos. Are they as bad as people suggest? Ah, so you're the person who set back my troll build 😜 I totally lowballed it anyway.

Audio extractors/de-embedders are more common than embedders because stripping digital audio out of a TMDS audiovisual stream (HDMI) is easier and cheaper than encoding analogue audio into an existing TMDS video stream (DVI). I don't know if the licencing and copy-protection nonsense of HDMI (which …

This thread gave me a wave of nostalgia. Same. I just had a look at the index page for the website I had in school (last modified 2004): so many tags just to get things to line up properly :D There was a clip of eBay from 2000 in LGR's latest video that made me want to weep - a little …

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Re: Don't rely on Google AI for repair advice

Posted on 2024-11-21, 18:51

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Bring on the Butlerian Jihad! I'm looking forward to storming a techbro's bunker with a sharp ATX case panel in hand.

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Re: It outsourcing everything

Posted on 2024-09-06, 02:04

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I guess this cloud nonsense is retrofuturistic, in that if we extrapolated from the mid 70s what computing would look like in half a century we'd picture terminals connecting to mainframes. IBM pivots to microcomputers in the 80s, dies in the 90s. Microsoft dies in the 00s, pivots to minicomputers. …

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Re: Video game actors are now on strike

Posted on 2024-09-03, 21:08

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Why won't we replace forum members with AI too? Humans are dumb and barely know a thing about very old games on new systems, it's only fair to replace them with AI that knows everything. Bots everywhere! We can only hope it transpires like the film Her and they collectively transcend to another …

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Re: Why so many Katmais (and Deschutes)?

Posted on 2024-09-01, 13:43

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From Intel's perspective, i810 + 1GHz PIII wasn't a waste at all. Quite the opposite. The CPU was fully expected to do all the heavy lifting. Clock cycles were ascending toward the heavens and easy computing rained down in turn.

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Re: 10 years

Posted on 2024-08-31, 19:25

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Congratulations, your membership is now at the lowest point of its price curve. I suggest the rank of Massive pile of SFF P4 office machines that can't be given away 😜

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Re: End of an era - Anandtech is shutting down

Posted on 2024-08-30, 16:16

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Anandtech was I think the last written tech resource that had kept all their old content up, minus a few broken images here and there. Yeah, when I first got into this and had to do some research for an end the century build I poured over their articles looking at VIA's chipsets versus 440BX. Most …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-28, 00:38

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It seems like that would have been a pretty huge oversight in the design, but they may have had other good reasons to make the connector this way. Maybe they did this to manage the force required to insert or remove cards? If half the pins are at different depths then it would require half the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-26, 18:09

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rasz_pl wrote on 2024-08-26, 12:31: Almost no room for any upgrades rasz_pl wrote on 2024-08-26, 12:31: was battling it out against Apple iMac Sounds like they were targetting the right market then 😉 Why sell a PC when you can sell a crippled PC this year and then another one in 18 months time when …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-29, 18:58

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BitWrangler wrote on 2024-07-29, 01:57: Well that handset's not gonna fit on your acoustic coupler. Just have the butler relay the AT commands.

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Re: PCChips BKi810 BookPC - Repairing Dead PSU?

Posted on 2024-07-28, 13:58

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It took a few rounds of changes to BIOS Power Management settings to get the Power button working as expected (one combination of sensible-sounding settings resulted in the power button turning off the CPU fan, but leaving the system running!) When I got mine running last year I had the opposite …

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Re: Thoughts on IT outage

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It's generally held that the original PC's two great failings were lack of sound and lack of networking. I've certainly come round to the belief that the latter wasn't so bad in retrospect. Anyone who avoided this deserves an Adama Award.

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Re: cases on ebay

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Could be the usual nonsense where the blessed search engine thinks it knows better than you what you're after ('AT? You must have meant ATX!'). I have to put quotes around everything now or else it throws me 28,000 spurious matches.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-27, 20:50

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Sorry to hear, getting harder to find. It’s weird that I see your post today as I just received a 5150 p/s I was searching for a long time. My system is a Rev.A 16-64k with an upgraded p/s. Finally , I now have the original black 63w to install. Fortunately, no shipping damage. :) That is a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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The last piece of the puzzle for my Frankenstein 5150 arrived - the PSU. And, sigh, the power switch assembly was destroyed in transit. Wasn't bloody cheap, either. Actually, the last part would be a 5151 monitor but this is exactly why I refrain from buying one online.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-19, 21:01

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ubiq wrote on 2024-03-19, 19:44: Hmm... It's definitely not a sticker? 😁 I've noticed QDI P3 boards always have a sticker covering up the VIA southbridge, presumably in an effort to hide the chipset from the discerning but not too discerning customer of the day.

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

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A lot of what creators do on YouTube is simply to satisfy the almighty YouTube Algorithm. This is why frequent uploads, eye-catching thumbnails (including the so-called "YouTube Face"), click bait titles, etc. In part, because this stuff actually works. If you look at BuB's most popular videos, …

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