Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-25, 22:58

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by Unknown_K

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You either have to check Ebay every nite before bed or hustle around your area of town to see what is available. EISA/VLB cards used to be plentiful and dirt cheap a few years back but now are not. I think Ebay pricing is killing the cheap item market because of fees on shipping. No point in listing …

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Re: The Death of Minidisc

Posted on 2016-05-24, 05:12

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by Unknown_K

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I was going to buy one when they were new in the store (kept looking at them at BestBuy) but changed my mind. At the time my Alpine CD deck in my car could read CDR so I just made CDs. Also a 100 CD changer was more practical. The only gear of that era I bothered getting later on was a Panasonic DAT …

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Re: Circa 2000 PCI Graphics Cards

Posted on 2016-05-09, 19:30

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by Unknown_K

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I stuck an ELSA Gloria XL into a dual PPro system with just PCI slots. You can't game on it, but it makes for a nice vintage CAD or Workstation if you like to dabble in old apps.

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Re: Would you use this board?

Posted on 2016-05-08, 05:47

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by Unknown_K

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Wouldn't it straighten out a bit once you screw it into a case?

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Re: Bought these (server and networking) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-07, 03:26

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by Unknown_K

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The board came in today and works, 3GB RAM. Will install either NT 4 or 2000 on it once I find a case (E-ATX) it will fit in. Only so many super sized cases to go around.

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Re: Which FTP server do you use?

Posted on 2016-05-05, 17:54

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by Unknown_K

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I purchased FTP Serv-U back when it was shareware with free lifetime upgrades (basically all features). Think that costs a couple thousand these days with all the options since its commercial now. One of the better shareware purchases I made. http://www.serv-u.com/ You get a fee 30 day trial if you …

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Re: Which FTP server do you use?

Posted on 2016-05-04, 21:13

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by Unknown_K

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I purchased FTP Serv-U back when it was shareware with free lifetime upgrades (basically all features). Think that costs a couple thousand these days with all the options since its commercial now. One of the better shareware purchases I made. http://www.serv-u.com/ You get a fee 30 day trial if you …

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Re: Bought these (server and networking) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-04, 01:57

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by Unknown_K

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I just won a dual XEON socket 603 board on ebay (Supermicro P4DME-M with 2x 2.4ghz CPUs, heatsinks, and RAM). Anybody have experience with these?

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Re: Hardware requirements for burning a Blu-Ray disc

Posted on 2016-05-03, 03:22

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by Unknown_K

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Buffer Underrun Protection came about when CDR drives jumped from SCSI to cheaper IDE which at the time didn't use DMA transfers by default. Since CPU utilization was high and early IDE drives were slow you needed to have a way to restart the burning process when the buffer ended up empty. These …

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Re: Is a Voodoo 5 worth it?

Posted on 2016-05-03, 02:01

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by Unknown_K

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Prices are always supply/demand sadly. If people want them and not many are selling them then price gets unrealistic. There is a difference in short term bubbles and long term trends. I picked up a few 3DFX cards over the last decade for little more then shipping or free locally (3500 and 4500 for …

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Re: a 586/90

Posted on 2016-05-03, 00:34

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by Unknown_K

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Nice, never had a Nexgen system.

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Re: Anyone have good luck on lots on ebay?

Posted on 2016-05-03, 00:12

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by Unknown_K

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Not without pictures, no. 30 misc PCI cards could end up being nothing but old modems. 50 processors for gold recycling could have all the pins ripped off. Without pictures I would not bother.

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Re: Is a Voodoo 5 worth it?

Posted on 2016-05-03, 00:07

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by Unknown_K

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Nice to know I can get some of my money back on my 5500 3dfx (purchased new), still have the box and everything. ;) Never bothered with a GLIDE wrapper since I had (and still have) pretty much all the common 3dfx cards made. For me using the original hardware is fun, some people just want to play …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-21, 20:53

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by Unknown_K

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I haven't actually bought these, but they caught my eye and figured this would be a good place to ask... what am I looking at here? strangeboard1.jpg strangeboard2.jpg It looks to me like a Socket 7 (or 370?) board with S3 video chips and Opti sound chips on it, but it also looks like it has a …

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 00:07

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by Unknown_K

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Amigas were much cheaper a decade ago when die hard users finally dumped them for Mac/Unix/X86 pcs. Most of the machines I purchased were from that time period plus a couple I got as-is from fellow collectors. Also helped that the dollar was high and shipping from Canada was cheap at that time. …

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-18, 23:54

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by Unknown_K

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I have a few AGA enhanced games but the differences are not that big. Heck early Amiga games were just simple ports of Atari ST games that didn't even use the special Amiga chips at all (100% CPU). Most of the AGA games ended up canceled when Commodore went bankrupt and the PC gaming scene took over …

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-18, 04:12

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by Unknown_K

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Is it true that less than a million A1200s were sold? Not sure, but Amiga didn't sell that many before they went bankrupt and tons more were sold when their assets were purchased and sold again. The A4000 tower sold more units after the bankruptcy I think then before. Quite a few people stripped …

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-18, 04:08

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by Unknown_K

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If you never used an Amiga before I recommend an Amiga 500 with the 512K trapdoor RAM, mouse, external floppy drive, serial transfer cable, Amiga explorer Software, TOSEC games archive, a good bootable Workbench 1.3 disk, a stack of DSDD 720k 3.5" floppies, some kind of Atari 2600 compatible …

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Re: Artex's 3DFX Voodoo5 6000 Thread

Posted on 2016-04-08, 18:50

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by Unknown_K

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That is one card I don't think I would be running incase I destroyed it.

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2016-04-08, 18:48

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by Unknown_K

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I used ME for a while back in the day. On hardware ME was designed for it ran well, too many people tried using it on older hardware and had issues. I ended up going Win2k and liked it more because one app (or game) didn't take out the whole system. By the time ME came out I don't think too many …

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