Re: Your first Digital (or film )) ) Camera...

Posted on 2016-08-07, 00:50

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The first film camera I could call my own was probably a Kodak Star 110, but as developing film was expensive I never used it very much. http://wwwcl.kodak.com/CL/images/es/consumer/fotoParaAficiona/camaras/cam110/star110.jpg The first digital camera I've ever used was a 3.2 Mpx Sony Cybershot DSC- …

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

Posted on 2016-07-30, 20:22

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Just yesterday I was walking on a busy main street and spotted an LCD monitor next to some garbage bags lying near the curb, screen looked spotless so I picked it up. Powered it up at home, came up with no backlight. Lamps tested OK with my ghetto tester (flatbed scanner CCFL inverter) so I was …

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Re: Would a DB-9 serial switchbox be safe for CGA/EGA monitor?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 23:14

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Mechanical switchboxes are the equivalent of manually unplugging and plugging cables in terms of what happens electrically, but a little bit nicer since shielding ground is usually maintained at all times between all devices, eliminating the surges & sparks associated with joining two connectors at …

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Re: Is DSL Linux dead?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 20:12

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For some reason the DSL developers were stubbornly committed to that silly 50.5MB disc size limit. Their web site comments on that topic say that they think the disc size was the appeal of the distro, and it really is the first thing everybody brags about, but I never understood why. I guess that's …

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Re: Windows 10 on an old laptop. Impressive!

Posted on 2016-07-28, 19:50

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-What is up with Windows Search? It's not as quick and accurate as it was in Windows 7. Disabling Web search and Cortana helps immensely, but it's still far from consistent. For example, a search for Device Manager worked properly on 3 out of the 4 systems I tested. However, on the laptop, Search …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 330CDT, is it a good dos notebook?

Posted on 2016-07-27, 08:46

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I also have an almost identical notebook and it's my favorite DOS gaming portable. The TFT LCD is really good, resolution scaling is more than OK for the time and it can also be disabled if desired. The Yamaha sound chip is great for DOS, both compatibility and quality-wise. Real volume knob is also …

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Re: My new Libretto 70CT

Posted on 2016-07-25, 03:55

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RacoonRider wrote: Are you from Russia? I'd say Spain or Latin America, based on the keyboard layout and Maniac Mansion in Spanish. 😜

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Re: Windows 10 on an old laptop. Impressive!

Posted on 2016-07-25, 00:47

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I'm with Phil that it's probably the strength of the C2D combined with the 4GB of system memory. I remember reading something to the tune of 'Windows 10 runs great on netbooks!' so I tried it on my Asus Eee 1005PE with 2GB of RAM and a 60GB SanDisk SSD by doing a clean install and I was not …

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Re: What to do with rusted cases?

Posted on 2016-06-28, 17:35

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For light surface rust you can't go wrong with keenerb's suggestion of acid and rubbing with aluminum foil - the cool thing about it is that the aluminum is abrasive enough to remove oxide but not so much as to attack the plating or other features. Another suggestion of mine for light rust ( …

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Re: Did people ever build multiple-CRT articulating arm setups?

Posted on 2016-06-22, 06:49

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I have a pretty beefy NOS articulated arm for CRT monitor + keyboard but even with a typical 14" color display fixed to a strong table it's quite wobbly and doesn't inspire any sort of confidence, especially in a seismic country like the one I live in. Mounting multiple expensive and front-heavy …

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Re: Reworking a DS12B887 Clock Chip

Posted on 2016-06-18, 00:33

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Ze_ro wrote: or would the old battery drain current from the new one? That's exactly what will happen so go ahead and break at least one of the connections completely. 😀

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Re: Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware

Posted on 2016-06-15, 00:11

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male-A-to-male-A USB cable [...] I would not have expected to ever find something that could ever use such a fundamentally useless cable, despite the fact that the cables themselves are readily available for some strange reason. Its useless cousins, the male-A-to-female-B USB cable and the female …

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Re: Retro Ringtones!

Posted on 2016-06-02, 22:29

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For years I've had the intro from Pressure Cooker (Atari 2600) as my phone ringtone mainly because I love the history behind it and it's a really catchy tune. Thing is, I really liked it but now I absolutely hate it! I believe it' some subconscious negative reinforcement thing that I have, maybe …

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

Posted on 2016-05-30, 22:24

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That mini tower makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. <3

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Re: Outer rubber coating restoration/cleaning

Posted on 2016-05-26, 16:04

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When I've encountered that I've used isopropyl alcohol to remove the rotten coating completely from the plastic surface.

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Re: DTK Data-1000 XT-clone restoration

Posted on 2016-05-24, 03:43

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I've found bad capacitors causing problems on vintage floppy drives more than once, they didn't look physically bad (bloating or leaking) but replacing them brought the drives back to life.

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Re: DTK Data-1000 XT-clone restoration

Posted on 2016-05-22, 21:33

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Beautiful! I love how shiny the sheet metal on the inside turned out - no pitting or rusting of any kind. Did you retrobright the front piece or is it just a color balance thing? I assume you used some metal polish on the PSU, how did you protect/preserve the labels? That LCD monitor is just for …

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Re: SS7 board with keyboard leds flashing/blinking

Posted on 2016-05-12, 05:49

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Do you have the +5V VCC present at the keyboard connector? It could be missing (blown fuse/severed trace) and the keyboard could be trying to power itself up from the data/clock lines by voltage backfeeding through clamping diodes, causing such erratic/intermittent behavior.

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Re: Molex to SATA connectors?

Posted on 2016-05-12, 00:29

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Ouch, I'd say that it looks like the 12V rail passed some serious current through there, but then it'd have triggered the OCP on the PSU - so it probably shorted just enough to overheat and catch fire but not so much as to cause a shutdown. I've had crappy PSUs with their molex pins protruding too …

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Re: should i repair my 7600GS AGP

Posted on 2016-05-04, 20:51

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For me it's a question of: Is it still working enough to show that it's a simple repair or am I taking a gamble and possibly wasting my time on something that could be unfeasible to revive? Do I have replacement parts in stock, or can I get them at zero cost (e.g. donor boards) or at a reasonable …

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