Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-31, 02:49

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Saw a iBook G3 Clamshell (graphite) for sale and after debating for a few days, I finally pulled the trigger (long story short, ever since I was a kid I always dreamt of owning one of these)... Looks like I'm on a roll when it comes to Macs lately. I paid more than I would like to, but honestly, I …

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Re: Help recovering a Bull Micral 30 and a Macintosh LC

Posted on 2022-07-27, 04:20

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The LC will definitely need a through wash and recap, no exception, Macintoshes from this era are NOTORIOUS for leaky SMD caps (and that reminds me, I've got a LC II I've got to recap... But for now I'm being kept busy by a Power Macintosh 7500), both the logic board and the PSU will need to be …

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Re: What is your most hated/feard task in building a (retro)PC?

Posted on 2022-07-22, 20:45

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I have a few that I greatly dislike, in no particular order (warning: long wall of text inbound, it's 11PM where I live as I'm writing this 😂 so please excuse any typos) When you buy a system and find out it needs parts that are hard to find and/or expensive (hello 128MB FPM/EDO 5V DIMMs) …

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Re: Computers in disguise, do you know any?

Posted on 2022-06-19, 01:25

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I recall some Astaro (laher Sophos) security gateways were built around Pentium 4 motherboards, and with a little fiddling you could get them to boot a different OS. There's another one that I don't remember pretty well (I think it was the Cisco PIX 506E?) at the moment that used a Celeron 300A PPGA …

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Re: Dell 2001FP or Dell Ultrascan p990 Monitor with 486/Pentium 1/4 VGA Gaming Boxes?

Posted on 2022-06-13, 00:26

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I might be wrong but given your Dell P990 is a rebadged Sony Trinitron monitor.. There's something about them that causes them to become overtly bright and washed out after some time.. Bear with me for a second (and I apologize in advance for any inaccuracies). That is because they have a (for a …

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Re: Dell 1130 21" Trinitron CRT monitor - need help with an issue

Posted on 2022-05-04, 11:51

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I have a Apple M1212 monitor that did the same thing, every time I powered it up, it would do just as you described: a tick with the raster expanding then shrinking back to size. After using it for a while, it started doing it less and less until it fully stopped, probably was some dust that somehow …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-01, 19:46

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Just nabbed a Yamaha SCSI CD burner for 10€ and a box of sealed EMTEC floppy disks for 1€. The floppies I'm not holding my breath out for all of them to be working, probably a dud or two, or more if worse comes to worst.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-19, 00:43

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A few days ago I bought Sony Trinitron PVM 2130QM. Sellers photo: https://i.imgur.com/GSNVXPP.jpg Has SCART input but no speakers. Will do more testing on retro consoles soon :D Hope it takes RGB signal through that Scart port, and not just Video signal. Oh it does, in addition to that, the 2130QM/ …

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Re: Help identifying this computer from a picture

Posted on 2022-04-02, 18:23

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That "mysterious PC" could be a early Tandy 1000 (OG 1000, 1000HD or even a 1000SX/TX) judging from the shape of the case, when you compare the case of this one with this picture, it seems to be a 1:1 match, on the shape alone:

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Re: Identifying a 386SX SBC

Posted on 2022-03-16, 21:53

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Alright this gets a little bit confusing now as from all the tables I could find about AMI beep codes list two different entries for the two beeps, either RAM parity error or POST failure: Screenshot_2022-03-16-22-37-27-518_com.android.chrome.jpg The 286 on the other hand, there's a huge chance that …

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Re: Identifying a 386SX SBC

Posted on 2022-03-16, 17:19

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If I remember correctly, two short beeps on an AMIBIOS indicates a RAM parity error and 8 beeps would indicate a missing or defective video card. (At least to what I could find online, I couldn't find anything regarding 8 long beeps, only for 8 short beeps) Another thing, I'm pretty certain that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-15, 00:49

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Just like the HP Omnibook XE3-GC I used to have (but the Omnibook's screen was shit). I have 2 and the screens aren't that bad. S3 + Polka audio! :) I've got one as well, with the XGA screen, unfortunately mine isn't in the best of condition and needs a new HDD connector (previous one crumbled in …

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Re: UEFI card on a old motherboard?

Posted on 2021-09-05, 20:56

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Some graphic cards had a switch to force them to run into legacy BIOS mode. It should be just a matter of flicking the switch to legacy/BIOS..

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Re: Help to identify 386 motherboard

Posted on 2021-08-18, 21:53

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Hi! That looks like to be a Soyo motherboard, judging from the ETEQ-labeled chipset. That may not be much but it should be a start. The most surefire way to be 100% sure would be to get the BIOS POST string...

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Re: custom cabinet whit a 386 AMD

Posted on 2021-07-31, 19:45

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Cool stuff, reminiscent of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable_Personal_Computer or maybe the Osborne portables that had 5" tubes. Is there somewhere selling surplus medical CRTs? ... coz my 5155 has a sick CRT and I dunno if it would be easier to replace than get it fixed. Monochrome …

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Re: Is this rechargeable batteryn in my new 486 evil?

Posted on 2021-07-26, 18:08

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Yup, that's the classic Varta NiCad barrel of corrosive Death, the embodiment of Evil itself. Get that thing out before it eats up the traces on the mobo.

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Re: SCSI on a modern PC

Posted on 2021-07-26, 02:13

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There is the Atto ExpressPCI UL5D that also is PCIe and seems to have 64-bit drivers, although it uses very-high density connectors (so you'll need a adapter dongle and all of that crap) and seems to be rather expensive on the used market.

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Re: Using POS Printer in DOS

Posted on 2021-07-25, 14:29

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I'm not an expert on Point-of-Sale (and not Piece of Sh*t) stuff nor printers, but if the printer's got a LPT interface and has DOS drivers (again, I never used a LPT port printer), it should work.. Unless it can work transparently like a dot matrix printer and doesn't need drivers. That said, I …

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Re: Advice for (near) permanently erasing IBM X3500 M2 RAID server, and installing new server software.

Posted on 2021-07-13, 22:32

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Hi You could make a single RAID0 array with all the drives and zero-fill it using DD, something like this (where sdX is the path to the RAID0 array volume): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX Or use the "shred" command: shred -Z /dev/sdX Just throwing some suggestions around, at least for the first …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-13, 18:14

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Don't forget about caps too, they love to go bad on the SE/30, it's the plague of old Macintoshes. (the Classic and Color Classic are also affected to name a few... If it has SMD caps, you can be sure they'll already be leaking all over the board)

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