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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2023-12-10, 11:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yo guys, I’ve recently got a kvm by dlink ( dkvm-4u) which has 4 vga and usb inputs. It works great on my windows 98 p3 rig and a windows xp barton rig which have native USB support. I have another rig i would love to join and it’s a pentium 133 dos/win95 dual os and under windows 95 “should work “ …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-15, 10:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Subbed! thank you!

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-15, 08:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice. I love Olivetti. My Dad got an M24 in the late 80's via work. 8086, 2x 5" 1/4 disk drives, CGA color screen, no hard drive. For a 15 year old it sucked compared to the C64's (and the one Amiga) my friends had but I learned to love it. In less than a decade all those friends were on PC's... :) …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-06-14, 14:10

in Milliways

in Milliways

Before brexit I found that boxed games in Uk where a heaven for purchasing on ebay....lot of stuff with low initial biddings and you could find a lot of deals without so much effort....but yeah it always depends of what we are talking about but usually I found them to be reasonable priced, Germany …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-14, 12:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey guys... Here are two of my latest purchases for my Olivetti collection.... Olivetti M19 https://i.ibb.co/H2thddL/m19-running.jpg https://i.ibb.co/z838cRB/m19.png Olivetti M300 Italia https://i.ibb.co/WVzL3vJ/m300-closeup.jpg https://i.ibb.co/DYkbqMQ/m300-in.jpg https://i.ibb.co/gtLfZZM/m300.jpg …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-06-14, 12:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

So english version? Italian version are waaaaaaaaay over that......because essentially in the 90s there was a pirated ratio of 1:10 so original games where very rare or at least this is my assumption. MI1 or MI2 are well over 500€ For example I had been extremely lucky to find a complete italian …

Re: 486 UMC based mobo: keyboard error or no keyboard present

Posted on 2023-06-14, 09:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ops don't know what happened but I was sure to have posted yesterday with the picture but... I can't see it! So, here it is the photo of the area near the keyboard connector and I have to say that I was wrong...to me that trace is completely corroded by acid and I think the issue is there....funny …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-06-14, 08:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

MI2.JPG Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge I find it impossible to make any kind of absolute top lists of things I like, but if you were to put a gun to my head and force me to pick my all time favorite game this is the one I might choose. This has been the big box game I've wanted the most for …

Re: 486 UMC based mobo: keyboard error or no keyboard present

Posted on 2023-06-13, 12:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pictures please! Yeah, I can't find any on my phone right now so I'll make some photos of the RTC battery area and the KB controller this evening.... Seems the gods won't let me have a 486 build: 2 socket 3 mobos I have around they both have various issues that are preventing me from having a …

Re: 486 UMC based mobo: keyboard error or no keyboard present

Posted on 2023-06-13, 11:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi guys, this U-GREEN socket 3 mobo (UMC 491F chipset) does not want to see my keyboard at boot... I checked the 5V on the keyboard connector and I get 4,97V so seems ok there....any damaged traces maybe? Love to see some thoughts about this....it's for a new full tower 486 build I have in progress …

486 UMC based mobo: keyboard error or no keyboard present

Posted on 2023-06-11, 22:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi guys, this U-GREEN socket 3 mobo (UMC 491F chipset) does not want to see my keyboard at boot... I checked the 5V on the keyboard connector and I get 4,97V so seems ok there....any damaged traces maybe? Love to see some thoughts about this....it's for a new full tower 486 build I have in progress …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2023-06-09, 14:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hi there! Some new entries in my collection.... https://i.ibb.co/m4krYCj/gio2.jpg https://i.ibb.co/HzHTH5Q/gio1.jpg https://i.ibb.co/fQCF0fx/comet.jpg https://i.ibb.co/bmnstTm/5.jpg Also I'm slowly collecting old releases of The Games Machine (italian version, not the original UK) and this one is …

Re: EISA SCSI card faulty? [AST 486 SERVER help)

Posted on 2022-03-31, 10:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My usual "workflow" during a restoration/deassembly of a pc goes through cleaning the electrical connections with iso alcool and/or electrical wd40 of all mobo slots and expansion cards, fans and so on... Here are some pictures of my little boy https://i.ibb.co/PYQG8cp/3.jpg https://i.ibb.co/hcxzjbF …

Re: EISA SCSI card faulty? [AST 486 SERVER help)

Posted on 2022-03-30, 13:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks! Yeah I have some pictures around of the "whole" system but not right now. I'll post them later. In the mean time I suddenly can't have it to boot again :( yesterday I got a post screen initially that halted after the base and extended memory check, turned it off and turn it back on it …

Re: EISA SCSI card faulty? [AST 486 SERVER help)

Posted on 2022-03-29, 16:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The scsi card number is 230193-003 as you said and it was paired with the server itself. The mobo number should be 202377 or 202377-002G

Re: EISA SCSI card faulty? [AST 486 SERVER help)

Posted on 2022-03-29, 09:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Whoa, lot of info there 😁 I’ll try your links and see what I can find… I think I started it the first I got it and it booted fine then I leave it there for some months amd started disassembling it and …here we are. I’ll check the card number too and report it back! Many thanks cheers

EISA SCSI card faulty? [AST 486 SERVER help)

Posted on 2022-03-28, 21:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi there, I got this AST PREMIUM SE 4/33 server, a 30kgs monster, that I'm trying to restore, despite being a lot of time in a wet environment (mold). After some cleaning (lot of) I'm managing to test it out and unfortunately (long story short) whenever I have the ESIA Scsi card inserted the machine …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-28, 21:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Spoiler I got these four Plextor PX-760A PATA drives today. One needed a lens cleaning. All work fine and are flashed to the latest RPC1 firmware now. This and the SATA version PX-760SA are the last drives made by Plextor. (The successors were made by various OEMs like Pioneer.) Question regarding …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-18, 13:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got these four Plextor PX-760A PATA drives today. One needed a lens cleaning. All work fine and are flashed to the latest RPC1 firmware now. This and the SATA version PX-760SA are the last drives made by Plextor. (The successors were made by various OEMs like Pioneer.) Question regarding plextors …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2022-01-18, 12:52

in Milliways

in Milliways

Grazie ;) I made the list somewhere in March 2020 (you know, when we had to figure out what to do during our lockdown :( ) and after a lot of search I ended up with 71 games! Both physical or digital.....and the list keeps growing! The last I'm aware of for example is "the sinking city". Of course I …

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