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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-16, 17:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I understand your differing opinion on shipping, but I've gotten stuff packed far worse that only made it because it was new and robust enough to survive the trip. If that eBay seller had gone for the ol' "bubble wrap the item and fill in the rest of the box with brown paper fill/packing peanuts" …

Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-15, 23:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Packing was quite good, computer was wrapped in at least 2 inches of bubble wrap with a block of foam at the bottom of the box and then another at the top, with some padding around the sides as well. These are the seller's photos he sent me before shipping, and they match what arrived today. …

Re: Difficult games to get working

Posted on 2020-08-15, 22:09

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've heard that POD is really picky about running, it seems to demand a certain range of CPU performance? I've never owned the game, though.

Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-15, 22:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I hate FedEx so, so much. Seller packs a fragile vintage computer with great care and it still arrives like this!

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-08-15, 21:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I still have this exact same model, it's at my parents house. I bought it in 2003 or 2004, it is not used enymore, but it's working. And yes, the picture quality is very good, but not as good as the Sony Trinitron's... Funny you say that, the other CRT mostly out of frame is a Sony Trinitron KV- …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-08-15, 18:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found this TV in my neighbor's trash, did some external (and internal cleaning), and got it working. It's a 20" Phillips, with S-video and component inputs.

Re: If you were able to go back say 15-20 years ago what one motherboard would you buy ?

Posted on 2020-08-01, 17:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

15 years ago is 2005, so...the best Socket 939 board I could get, I guess. Whatever that would be.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-01, 02:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-08-01, 01:39: If it's just surface rust you can treat it with CLR or a similar rust remover. I was actually thinking Evaporust, but CLR would probably work too! Part of the problem is that the motor for the floppy drive also has some serious surface rust and that would be …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-01, 01:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

speaking of microchannel stuff, I picked up this PS/2 56slc with 486slc2 processor upgrade :3c 56 SLC is a lovely machine, especially with the CPU upgrade installed. Built like a tank and takes 16 MB on planar - also fairly spacious for such a compact form factor (me likes : ) Did I mention SCSI …

Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-27, 21:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Or this could go the way of old classic cars that keep increasing in value even though nostalgia is in no way associated with them most of the time. The only way to know is to be there and see it happen. Let's see how things are 10 years from now, but I doubt prices will decrease. As someone who …

Re: Were CD-ROMs common on 386 computers?

Posted on 2020-07-27, 17:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My 386 tower is fitted with a proprietary interface caddy-load CD drive but I believe that was a later addition. It is a somewhat late 386 system (386DX-33 with a 1991 date BIOS) but even that's before CD drives started to become commonplace in 1993 and 1994.

Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-27, 04:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I need either a factory replacement screen or a compatible XGA upgrade for my iMac G3 (466MHz Graphite) and with the only documentation on the upgrade being some over 10 year old blog posts and no documentation of the factory screen part number, that's no fun at all. I've found a bunch of different …

Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-27, 02:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I need either a factory replacement screen or a compatible XGA upgrade for my iMac G3 (466MHz Graphite) and with the only documentation on the upgrade being some over 10 year old blog posts and no documentation of the factory screen part number, that's no fun at all. I've found a bunch of different …

Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-24, 14:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a very strange incident that happened just this morning, I made an offer on an item only to see an hour later that it had somehow sold for over twice the BIN price(???) without my offer being declined or anything. Guess I should have just hit the BIN...

Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-22, 01:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The real problem (which I feel like I mentioned in this same thread ages ago) is when people who aren't on eBay punch in whatever their computer is, see some pants on head crazy listing, and then put their computer up on Craigslist at that price. And probably when it doesn't sell after a while, …

Re: Would you break a plastic piece covering a port in a 30-year old laptop? Does old hardware deserve "special" treatme

Posted on 2020-07-13, 22:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

"Just get rid of the plasma display!" I bet that guy hackjobbed a nice vintage mechanical keyboard into a USB one too, or pillaged one for its keycaps and threw the rest in the trash.

Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform

Posted on 2020-07-13, 03:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's honestly kinda insane how much headroom LGA1366 chips have, especially the Xeons as they were never intended to run faster than stock to begin with.

Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform

Posted on 2020-07-13, 02:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Socket 1366, though not yet retro, is my favourite . Bandwith, expandability (Xeon compatibility), native support for legacy PCI, longevity are the key factors . I have a Xeon X5675 based one with 48GB of RAM as a triple boot Windows 7/ Windows 10/Linux setup and I intend to keep it a long time . I …

Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform

Posted on 2020-07-12, 14:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm a big fan of LGA775, LGA1366, and Socket 939/AM2 but I don't really consider those retro. Socket 7, Socket 370, and Socket A are probably my favorite retro sockets.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-11, 20:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I personally went with an active heatsink on my DX4-100 just for a little extra longevity.

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