Re: Do you think prices will stay high?

Posted on 2024-01-21, 00:17

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I wonder if some of these prices might be generated automatically via a pricing algorithm. On occasion I've seen the same products with price differences a couple order of magnitudes apart. Ebay does have a suggested or automatic pricing feature, so maybe people are just pricing things without …

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Re: Do you think prices will stay high?

Posted on 2024-01-20, 23:20

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There's this guy on eBay who wants $888 (starting bid!) for an IBM XT 286 and 5151 monitor together. He wants to charge $240 for shipping. Every time he lists it, it gets 0 bids. Zero. There is an "offer" button, but presumably he is rejecting them all. Every time it runs out with 0 bids, he …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2024-01-11, 16:45

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good example - high price for little utility this represents all such upgrade processors to me I sorta get the appeal of it as a curio, but they do absolutely nothing for me I think it's easy to get into the upgrade hype again once you built your 486 and try to push it to the max. At least that's …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2024-01-10, 12:53

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Intel POD 83 new old stock unopened in wrapped package just changed owners for 201 euros on German eBay. Camped there for 100 bucks until 1 minute before the end. Which I would even have payed for it lol. While it was a special thing back then and not many people could afford it it was never meat …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2024-01-07, 16:09

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Intel POD 83 new old stock unopened in wrapped package just changed owners for 201 euros on German eBay. Camped there for 100 bucks until 1 minute before the end. Which I would even have payed for it lol. While it was a special thing back then and not many people could afford it it was never meat …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-10-30, 13:32

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Unfortunately I missed that one by a second maybe. 178Euros for one of the better voodoo 2's. I already own one which I got for 190 in March 23. Haven't seen them below 250-ish+ prices lately. But I think this was but a fluke. Voodoo's have increased in price a lot in the last couple of month …

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

Posted on 2023-10-06, 20:27

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Well, they were probably transmitting with 5 or maybe even 10 Watts back then. A modern smartphone is no more than one Watt if not even less .. Yeah I know. Early GSM still used like 2watts if reception was bad and we had them close to our head. With 5G its closer to 0.2w. One other thing that was …

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Re: First computers you've used

Posted on 2023-10-06, 12:17

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Interesting thread. Let me add to that :) Unfortunately without photos. Okay, maybe two ... The first Computer I have used was somewhere at the end of the 80. And it was a GDR Computer. Namely the KC-85/3 that someone my father knew brought with him when he visited. We played some weird game that I …

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

Posted on 2023-10-06, 11:38

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The first car phone i remember was a Siemens C1. https://img.motor-talk.de/JxlQECC_fuipTegK.107.jpg My father brought one of these home once when they were new because he was on call for a some critical thing at his job. Anyway I still remember that the manual said to stay at leat 50cm away from …

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Re: What kind of computer towers did you choose for your retro systems?

Posted on 2023-10-06, 11:23

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10 years ago i put this thing in a dark corner and never looked at it again... After i moved 2 years ago i saw that this box got wet and starts to fall apart. Today i finally looked inside and found this neat new case. 2023-09-28 14.49.36.jpg After years of just hoarding stuff its neat to find …

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

Posted on 2023-10-06, 10:45

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I was offered two AMD K6. A K6-2+@550 and a K6-III+@400. Which one you would choose to pick up? The III+ even if it has lower freq? Does it have any overclock margin? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=85071 is a good read before buying any plus'es :) Think that somebody finding that out …

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Re: Voodoo 3 Fan Solution

Posted on 2023-09-27, 15:21

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I had a 50mm fan on mine for some time. But since I switched to a modern tower for that build I have a huge case fan blowing on the V3 directly and therefore removed the fan again. It stays nice and cool now

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Re: What kind of computer towers did you choose for your retro systems?

Posted on 2023-09-27, 15:13

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I usually try to go period correct. But it also depends what I get here for a reasonable price. If I have something special in mind though, then it has to be the case that I have in mind. In general I try to go for as simple as possible.

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

Posted on 2023-09-27, 14:49

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Today I finished up the repair and rebuild of my SNI PCD-4H/SX (486SX25, 4MB RAM) where a PS/2 port was broken. ( https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=96375 ) The replacement parts came today and of course I soldered in two new PS/2 ports right after opening the package as well as replaced …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-09-25, 08:53

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Last week I found an eBay offer depicting a total crap looking PC case and the status "defective - for parts only" from a commercial seller that also said they just got this and didn't test it so they sell it as defective. Totally tempted I pulled the trigger on this for 63 Euros and free shipping. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-09-23, 21:04

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Found these little gems at the flea market today: 20230923_121549.jpg It looks to be a TOPTEK 286 system board, at least this is the closes I found on theretroweb.com archive. It came with an Intel 80286 SX005 @12 MHz and 4 MB of RAM, if I'm right about the onboard memory chips. 20230923_121851.jpg …

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Re: Can a PS/2 Keyboard be incompatible with a computer or is something just broken?

Posted on 2023-09-23, 09:48

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-09-23, 05:32: marbury wrote on 2023-09-22, 16:02: So desperate times call for desperate measures. I took a DIN-port and whipped up this contraption to test with thicker wires. Guess what ... it works. omg! 👍 beautiful bodge Whatever works, right? 😅

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Re: Can a PS/2 Keyboard be incompatible with a computer or is something just broken?

Posted on 2023-09-22, 22:32

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Alrighty. Ordered 2 mini din sockets from Reichelt for waaaaay to much money because of 6 bucks for shipping for 2 x 1 euro items. But Conrad would have been even more expensive 🥴 In the meantime I desoldered both PS/2 sockets and replaced the broken one with the one for the mouse. That way I can …

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Re: Can a PS/2 Keyboard be incompatible with a computer or is something just broken?

Posted on 2023-09-22, 18:52

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I just had to verify this searched conrad.de for this "mini din" Yeah, you're right. I always neglect that this is "mini din" *sigh* Btw, there are still three Conrad "shops" open, it seems. Hm. yeah I know. They are ... as you said already ... somewhere nobody wants to go to ;o) And the one in R …

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Re: Can a PS/2 Keyboard be incompatible with a computer or is something just broken?

Posted on 2023-09-22, 17:32

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Yeah but now I need a PS/2 socket and stupid Munich, Germany does not have any electronics store left where I can buy one socket for 50ct without paying 6bucks for shipping Hm. All that comes to mind is Conrad Electronic. It had a big outlet there, if not the most important one, but that was in the …

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