Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-30, 16:02

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Watched 'Samaritan' last night with my wife. I saw parts of that, will now need to actively rewatch, for me the movie was named wrong, ah well, was fun seeing Stallone in that role . Finally finished Stargate Atlantis (started in February) Now Starting SG1, episode 3, gonna take a while fun to see …

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Re: ebay enters the ashbin of history

Posted on 2022-08-29, 17:48

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You do know PayPal reports your transactions to the government for tax purposes. I only sell things that I generally bought new at full retail. As another alluded to it’s usually “illegal “ to tax when there is no overall financial gain, basically means everyone now has to become a business to …

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Re: What to keep and what to throw out?

Posted on 2022-08-28, 22:37

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You can likely sell some of the stuff as long as you don’t care how much you get. For me ebaying the stuff was a lot of work, hassle and at the time prices were very depressed. I attempted to get local pickups but nobody local wanted the stuff so I tore a lot of it down and got my $0.50 a pound as …

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Re: ebay enters the ashbin of history

Posted on 2022-08-28, 04:38

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Ever since they blocked communication and went to descriptive feedback moving listings up and down alongside the massive influx of foreign spam products in every category got me to quit selling because nobody seemed to find what I was selling anymore. I was always low volume and close to 50/50 buy …

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Re: easiest way to record tv shows

Posted on 2022-08-27, 18:04

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Sune Salminen wrote on 2022-08-27, 14:32: Same idea, except it will work: Get any old VHS recorder, tune in and record from the composite video out. That’s exactly what I did many years during the first 6 years of digital TV.

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Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!

Posted on 2022-08-27, 04:54

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dJOS wrote on 2022-08-26, 23:21: Yes RGBs is analogue, however CGA is RGBi and that is TTL, not analogue. Your monitor just has both sets of decoder circuitry. Certainly does but doesn’t help to make the 15khz analog signal compatible with vga

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Re: The Old-Timey Computer Show

Posted on 2022-08-26, 23:28

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There are modern recreations of this type of content also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WaawXXqXExo

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Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!

Posted on 2022-08-26, 14:36

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dJOS wrote on 2022-08-23, 21:45: rmay635703 wrote on 2022-08-23, 21:42: I wonder what would need to be modded so your device works with 15khz RGB+S (Analog CGA) CGA is TTL RGB, not analogue. RGB+S is definitely analog, Amiga and my QLT Futura 100 output an analog signal to a 15khz CGA monitor that …

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Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!

Posted on 2022-08-23, 21:42

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I wonder what would need to be modded so your device works with 15khz RGB+S (Analog CGA)

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Re: Any chance repairing 128MB FPM-SIMMS with parity?

Posted on 2022-08-22, 12:02

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I don’t know of a reliable way without destroying the pcb There isn’t enough clearance or latency to buddy up a chip to an identical one.

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Re: Area 5150: New IBM PC+CGA demo

Posted on 2022-08-22, 01:09

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That would be really cool, I wonder if there is a way to convert a 320x200 8-bit color backbuffer to ASCII from Hell in realtime (that including dithering). I would think it wouldn’t be that complicated since you have X combinations available at a given pixel size You would loose the ability to …

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Re: Is it worth throwing away nostalgic stuff?

Posted on 2022-08-20, 21:26

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Hmm, I can’t even join this Facebook group, says I violated assist rule during signup Answered truthfully was recommended in my feed was mainly curious what type of posts were there. Maybe I should link this thread in the answers next time Filename 0365A3B3-FACD-4EBB-BB8E-E53766ADB5DC.png File size …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-15, 17:52

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Nothing like a GPU that costs $876+ a year of power off the wall 1200 watts is near the practical continuous limit of a U.S. facing power outlets Beyond that you need a hospital or HD outlet, the rear stab in outlets in most homes flame up above 1200 watts, the really good (hospital grade / …

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Re: Matrox Parhelia P650 (LX) PCI - Anyone know of this card?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 22:47

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. The proprietary driver was stopped updating at far 2009. Matrox is just a shame. BTW, in Windows 7 the P650 driver even doesn't support Aero That’s putting it mildly My college LAN party thought about group ordering 40 Parhelias because they were cheaper than a GeForce 2 and good enough We found …

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Re: With prices down, are you buying a new GPU, waiting for the next generation, or staying on the sidelines?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 16:49

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Used to get an adequate gaming card for $100, let’s see how long that takes :0 Even Intels PUC systems are rather overpriced but at least they can sort of run games now

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Re: 80286 article at hackaday.com

Posted on 2022-08-14, 05:03

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It’s long been known by folks that examined the die (depending on rev) that the 286 has unused / inaccessible circuitry that cannot be activated in normal operations. Some circuitry looked to be intentionally disabled and superfluous. In the day it was assumed that the 286 was released incomplete …

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Re: Is it worth throwing away nostalgic stuff?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 01:09

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I recycled truckloads in the last big retro collapse when I lost my job and had to remove. Tried to give it away but no one was willing to pick up freebies. I did get paid a small amount for gold recovery

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Re: Play Incorporated Snappy v3

Posted on 2022-08-12, 15:21

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Mine was ntsc and burned it up hot swapping the ntsc cable to it while working. Really stupid the devices aren’t load limited and protected, not sure if I kept the rather minimalist documentation after it blew

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Re: Cyrix 5x86 with no clock speed?

Posted on 2022-08-11, 18:48

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g5lb601c Was 120mhz or 133mhz on all the chips I’ve seen with that code. Why the actual speed isn’t marked no idea

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Re: Cyrix MediaGX owners, I need your help! :)

Posted on 2022-08-11, 04:39

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This is something I’ve wondered about is the timeline Of the different packages and types of MediaGX chips vrs the corresponding cpu socket and release dates. I strongly remember “MediaGX” talk before the official 97 release date back in 1996 and vaguely remember prototypes being evaluated at that …

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