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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-11, 15:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a thing for subnotebooks. 2 x Toshiba Portege 3110ct (one has minor screen issues, the other broken keys) 1 x Toshiba Portege 3020ct (wtf it has a tillamook) Plus all the accessories for each one (external floppy, cdrom and docks). All for ~100€, perhaps a bit too much but they are getting …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-13, 07:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-03-12, 20:58: Matrox G400 with Dual Head, its a nice card ! It is but, for the life of me, I can't get mine to work at a higher agp rate, it is stuck at 1x, no matter motherboard is plugged in. I guess I have a faulty one.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-20, 07:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice :) Great that it's working with just BIOS updates. Do you know if Asus had similar problems to Abit? I've had to recap the VH6T board where all the caps over 100uF were bursting. I heard that Abit was the worst of all during the plague caps era. This particular Asus motherboard has near mint …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-19, 21:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought an entire untested PC for very cheap because it was hiding an Asus TUV4X inside. And seem to fully work! It came with an 1Ghz Coppermine (133 bus, nice). At first it wasn't booting with two different Tualerons but after a bios update to the latest beta, it POSTs successfully.

Re: Ibm as/400

Posted on 2023-12-20, 19:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

We have like 5-6 AS400/i Series servers laying around at work. They are so f-ing heavy. Some should actually be fully functional.

Re: Compaq Contura 430c

Posted on 2023-12-09, 10:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I do have a 430 which had the original installation with the hidden setup utility partition. The bios then has the option to create the floppy disks in order to restore the hidden partition itself. I can make a copy of the floppies later today or tomorrow.

Re: Easier way to install Win 9x ??

Posted on 2023-12-05, 15:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Windows 98 Setup is completely unattend if a MSBATCH.INF file is supplied, literally zero prompt requested from user from start to finish. Online there are guides on how create that file.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-12-03, 21:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Restored an HP Compaq nx9420 I have found at work. I never had personally a 17'' notebook and I think this model is a very good specimen. It sports a Centrino Duo T2500 @ 2 Ghz, ATi Radeon X1600 (default res of 1440x900) and 3 GB of DDR2. With the help of the SSD now XP flies in this machine. It's …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-12-01, 12:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First power up of the DK440LX and, as most of you have guessed, it has two 266 Klamath cores. Filename Screenshot 2023-12-01 12-49-09.png File size 802.32 KiB Views 2000 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception Filename PXL_20231201_120132730.jpg File size 1.39 MiB Views 2000 views File …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-11-30, 12:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I always wanted an external Zip 100 SCSI drive but prices for a working unit are prohibitive. Yesterday while I was in the storage room of a customer I saw it, that case with that color is instantly recognizable. I grabbed it and "oh no!" it had cracks all over the back of the case, but the worst …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-29, 14:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Apparently the dual slot-1 builds hunting season is open

Re: Keeping track of parts and builds - inventory/asset tracking

Posted on 2023-11-29, 14:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't like Snipe-it for only one reason, it showed me exactly how much I have spent for my retro collection. Otherwise it's good, obviously it's not targeted for our use case, it does more of what we need.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-29, 14:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I will definitely let you know what processors it has when it arrives. It looks like you're going to need an E-ATX case to fit that beast. It's quite lovely though. I don't have one yet but I have this in my watchlist, it should be good. But I will test the board before buy the case too. It was sold …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-28, 21:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

An Intel DK440LX with two unknown PII for 25€. It has also ethernet and sound built-in. This will be the starting point for my Windows NT build with SCSI drives (I have a tape drive that asks to have a home). Filename s-l1600.jpg File size 295.7 KiB Views 1694 views File license Fair use/fair …

Re: Logitech Unifying with Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2023-11-26, 20:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use my Logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3 in 98 without issues. But I don't know if they are supported out-of-box or it is thanks to the NUSB package which I always install in any 98 box of mine.

PC sold with pre-installed Windows 1.x/2.x?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 08:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

We all know that Windows became the real deal with version 3.0 but nonetheless versions 1.x and 2.x do exist. So out of curiosity, there were PC shipped with those versions already installed out of the box?

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-11-12, 17:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

More subnotebooks! Today I finished fixing my "new" Compaq Contura 430cx. It's really nice machine with the iDX4, but it misses a sound card. Replaced the tired IBM harddrive with a CF, glued some small plastic parts and here it is running Windows 3.1 with COMPAQ goodies installed. I wanted to …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-18, 13:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Omnibook 800CT arrived . Hooked up to a VGA monitor and it works. Pop-up mouse, floppy and cdrom too. I have already dissasembled it. Monitor cables are okay, reseated them but screen still white. So I guess I will have to find a replacement. But there is another big issue, I noticed that some …

Re: A cheap mATX Slot-1 motherboard with AGP?

Posted on 2023-10-18, 13:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I will look into every option, the Chaintech models with integrated sound card seem a good idea. I'm not interested in 100% DOS compatibility, I do have other dedicated systems for that.

Re: A cheap mATX Slot-1 motherboard with AGP?

Posted on 2023-10-18, 06:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wanted a mATX because I already had only a mATX case available but yesterday just before closing time a PC arrived in my office to be scrapped... and it's a nice black full ATX case with an IDE DVD-ROM and floppy, both with black faces. Of course now that case is safe at my home!

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