Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on Yesterday, 03:24

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Most enthusiasts are just being too particular and want to buy cheap rare hardware online instead of looking at garage sales and things like that. With patience you can still find cool retro hardware. Thing is, that you can build an ok DOS machine from a pentium 4 and a DOS compatible PCI sound …

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on Yesterday, 03:21

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neat! ...but no gold PCB? x3

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-21, 15:33

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if it came with a little box it's probably EL and not LED

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Re: max system on pico PSU (and pico PSU problems)

Posted on 2022-05-18, 02:26

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are you using that power brick on the picture? that says it's only 102W, I don't see that supplying enough stable power for a P4 system, and while pico psus work great for older systems their 5V rating is usually pretty low so it'll struggle with a more demanding socket 7 system.

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Re: Caution / Beware - of ebay listing... not as advertised!

Posted on 2022-05-17, 17:06

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for some reason the other pictures wouldn't load on my phone... that certainly looks like a shoddy hand soldering job ^^

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Re: Caution / Beware - of ebay listing... not as advertised!

Posted on 2022-05-17, 12:57

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you got a picture of the actual chip being sold?

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Re: Caution / Beware - of ebay listing... not as advertised!

Posted on 2022-05-17, 03:05

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there's clearly a VRM on the bottom there? if that's actually the one they're selling, seeing as it's not an actual photo, which is what makes this highly suspicious in the first place, how hard can it be to just put up a photo of it?

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Re: GA-5AX prices on Ebay are outrageous; why?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 16:58

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-05-13, 00:10: Who would pay this much, and why would they do so? nobody does

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-13, 12:25

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that's the first time I read hama and "high quality stuff" in the same sentence 😁 the board is nice though ^^

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-11, 12:29

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BetaC wrote on 2022-05-11, 05:29: Yeah, a Graphite colored CRT Studio Display. It ain’t my old 22inch screen, but I’ll take a Diamondtron that’s easier to lug any day. interesting, I thought apple only used sony tubes in those, but apparently they were only in the 21" ones

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2022-05-10, 21:59

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love that P133 case <3

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-09, 18:43

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nice haul, love those tandon drives :3

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-09, 17:25

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the 4 cache chips are a dead givaway though x3

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Re: make the case for owning a vintage computer

Posted on 2022-05-08, 23:21

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but I've been contemplating selling off my ST gear. Too much stuff, too little money. well nobody can really tell you what to do, this is after all a decision you have to make for yourself, there's nothing wrong with sticking to emulation, if you'd rather have the money for something else. just …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-08, 23:16

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they can also scale 320x200 perfectly ^^ unfortunately a lot of the 1600x1200 LCDs are really old by now and many of them suffer from deteriorating panels, but there's also 1920x1200 and some of them can do proper 4:3 scaling.

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Re: Breaking the internet privacy

Posted on 2022-05-08, 16:11

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Errius wrote on 2022-05-08, 16:08: The 737 MAX is a good plane not even boeing engineers themselves believe that x3

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Re: make the case for owning a vintage computer

Posted on 2022-05-08, 12:49

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What's a pc? Does it have an 8088/8086? An 80286. .. 386 ... 486 ... pentium blah blah. Even if pc's pertained to this converdation, why? Does an old puter offer anything a new computer doesn't? PC in retro terms usually means IBM PC compatible, so yes that means 8088 or x86 compatible CPU and …

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Re: make the case for owning a vintage computer

Posted on 2022-05-08, 01:28

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nah, rather get a PC... unless well, you specifically want an Atari... to do, you know... Atari things.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-07, 02:51

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why so many people talking down other's purchases lately? you don't need to have "the best" stuff to have fun with retro hardware, this hobby is for enjoyment, and I'm always happy to see what other people got, may it be that ultra rare unicorn or just a cheap thing they found and wanna have fun …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-06, 15:48

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I just won a Terratec XLerate with the original beetle. For a single Øre, no one else wanted that thing. Am I missing something? It has a golden backplate, MIDI connector and bent pins, what's not to like there? oh I was watching it, but I already have one ^^ and got the MX300 recently so might as …

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