Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-14, 04:39

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by CelGen

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Good lord this video card is from SGI... Anyone know what it might be good for? Congrats. You are now one of the handful of people known to own an IrisVision ( http://www.4crawler.com/IrisVision/index.shtml ) It's perhaps the first 3D accelerator made for a PC. There's pretty much no support for …

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

Posted on 2015-08-31, 04:31

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by CelGen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That MO drive is still cranky. Doesn't like cold starts but once it is behaving it's a dream machine. Even got it to boot off an OD finally. Slow, but this was someone's dream. :lol: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_1028.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/ …

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

Posted on 2015-08-28, 17:25

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by CelGen

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Performed a board swap on a NeXT Magneto Optical drive on the assumption that the Digital control board was mysteriously dead. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/NeXT%20MO/CGS_1008.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/NeXT%20MO/CGS_ …

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Re: What is this hard drive interface?

Posted on 2015-08-24, 02:43

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by CelGen

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The only real difference that I seem to recall between ST506 and ST412 in terms of the interface was the ST506 used a higher current for signalling but electrically they are compatible. I'm putting my bets on both drives being the famous ST225. They are considered the most reliable hard drive ever …

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

Posted on 2015-08-15, 04:47

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by CelGen

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Began to pull apart the X68000 ACE HD I bought in Japan for 6800 yen that from the outside had no power supply and a broken volume knob. Internally I can tell that the system ROM's are missing, the SASI cabling, drive and bracket are also gone and the battery has leaked. The handle is also sticking. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-12, 04:27

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by CelGen

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Whenever I buy something through china I always backburner whatever the item is for for a month. It NEVER arrives within two weeks or so.

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

Posted on 2015-08-11, 11:06

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by CelGen

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I rebuilt my Windows 98 Pentium III gaming pc. Installed a 200GB hard drive. :D you're going to love it after you stuff it with more than 110gb!!! (DON'T DO IT YOU'LL LOSE EVERYTHING) Do tell, 110GB limit? FAT32 supposedly supports partitions up to 2tb each but in reality it does not. Very bad …

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Re: Remember the 16550 UART (and the modem era)?

Posted on 2015-08-11, 10:58

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by CelGen

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As a Canadian I started off with an ATI 9600 etc/e about 12 years ago. Used that along with Procomm plus to reach a bulletin board in Vancouver. Still use a number of modems to this day to remotely dial into my machine at home because my ISP blocks the default ports for everything "for my safety and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-11, 09:53

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by CelGen

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http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_0796.jpg -NEC PC-FX GA, pretty much the PC-FX on an ISA card and fully supports being used as a devkit -Japanese system 7.6 software disc for the Power Macintosh 8600/9600 -Strange little PCI video card with an S3 Vision 968 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-09, 11:30

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by CelGen

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I'm still here on vacation for another two days. I've been wandering just about everywhere for the last two weeks. Are the prices much cheaper than north america or does the attraction lie rather in the rarity of the items? Oh hell yes. You're totally eliminating the importer and the reseller so …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-09, 10:58

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by CelGen

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Greetings from Shinjuku! There's a little bit of everything mixed in here, but what can you recognize? Those two large Canon lenses set me back a good $1000. It put me $300 overbudget on "stuff spending"...

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Re: Quad-Monitor cards?

Posted on 2015-07-22, 15:18

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by CelGen

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well its a shame you want to do P4, because you can do this with modern GPU's For something like this, I wanna do it on a dime and because all I need is 2D, I'm not really interested in doing it on faster and more expensive cards. ;) That should be doable only by buying them at some company selling …

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Re: Quad-Monitor cards?

Posted on 2015-07-22, 01:53

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by CelGen

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Well the Matrox G200's don't seem to be that terribly uncommon, as are their pigtails. They totally lack 3D accelerations which is fair enough and right now there's a guy on ebay selling a small mountian of the cards for $30 each. That looks like a good approach and a good starting point. Now the …

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Quad-Monitor cards?

Posted on 2015-07-21, 15:24

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by CelGen

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Last night I had this ridiculous idea. See if I can strike a deal with some business or school disposing of a large lot of identical CRT monitors (there has to be a few stragglers left) and build a massive 16-monitor setup. Straight crazy, but think of the bragging rights. :lol: Anyways, I'm trying …

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Re: Still much old hardware available?

Posted on 2015-07-21, 04:51

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by CelGen

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I think we still have some ATMs that are using OS/2 with green displays too. Though last time I used one was in 2008/9, had no reason to go back to that part of town yet. I'd kill to have one of those in the garage if not for the novelty. Until about six years ago the grocery store across town had …

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

Posted on 2015-07-21, 04:44

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by CelGen

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Buddy out east needs a suitable IDE disk for his PS/2. The 8 gig thing he has isn't detecting properly and CF cards aren't working. Pulled out two disks. One just over 1gb, the other 500mb. Formatted and recertified both, then threw on a copy of PC-DOS 6.1 and verified both would be bootable out of …

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Re: Still much old hardware available?

Posted on 2015-07-20, 04:26

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by CelGen

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It's dead in the Pacific Northwest. After copper took off about nine years ago and it suddenly became BIG business to recycle used electronics (more like stuff it in a shipping container and ship it to China) and warn about the risks of not destroying your old data. All the usual places from second …

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Re: Would you buy modified hardware? (5999)

Posted on 2015-07-20, 03:57

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by CelGen

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Yes. Absolutely. I'm not building authentic looking riceboxes most of the time and nobody's ever gonna look under the hood so what other's can't see I have free will to do whatever I want.

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Re: Damage on CPU edge

Posted on 2015-07-17, 19:23

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by CelGen

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Why are you even questioning it before you even try it? You got nothing to lose. I've dealt with a number of coppermines and Athlons where the die got chipped around the edges and they were fine.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-14, 03:01

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by CelGen

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lolo799 wrote: Bought a Roland DV-7 with the controller, very cheap, for an obvious reason: no hdd included! dv7-front.jpg dv7c.jpg Hey wait a minute. I know that machine. In fact, I know who also owns that Sun and half built Beige box behind it. You live in Vancouver, don't you? 😉

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