Re: Are any new Baby-AT boards being made that support 500MHz or faster CPUs and will fit in an IBM 5160 chassis?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 04:58

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You will likely find a multitude of newly made industrial ATX boards meant for older CPUs and sporting ISA and/or legacy PCI slots, but AT format ones appear less likely. Maybe you could consider using an ATX board and adapting it to fit in your preferred AT case non destructively. I believe this …

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Re: Anyone else noticing the large number of misleading titles/descriptions on ebay for items?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 04:38

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I've noticed this where sellers will use stock photos of items that don't necessarily match the description. I usually just avoid those particular items because who knows what one will end up receiving. Yup, I totally agree. It is 2024, there is no reason or acceptable answer as to why a seller …

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Re: What is there in New York City for a Retro PC Enthusiast to check out?

Posted on 2024-04-14, 16:41

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Take an empty suitcase to fill with Raspberry Pis, Pi zeros, Pi picos, Microcenter seems to be about the only place that has them at MRSP... a lot of others claim to but the shipping is mysteriously 10 or 15 higher than any same size or weight item, can't be combined and is single unit. I have …

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Re: Having trouble with MUNT and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Posted on 2024-04-12, 23:29

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Is the GOG release better in that respect ?

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Re: NVME partioning advice

Posted on 2024-04-12, 22:01

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Does the laptop have a free NVME slot or SATA bay ?

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Re: Conner CP30204 USB/IDE Adapter

Posted on 2024-04-12, 14:29

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by darry

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The Mitsumi FX-001D CD-ROM drive is not IDE, it uses a proprietary interface. To make it work set the port/IRQ on the interface card and connect it to the drive using a regular 40-pin IDE cable. Refer to the attached manual for the I/F card settings and general setup. I also include a ZIP file with …

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Re: Help identifying this ASUS Motherboard

Posted on 2024-04-12, 14:18

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Trashbytes wrote on 2024-04-12, 07:35: Are there any good but simple ftp programs around ? I would prefer to not awaken the sleeping cancer that is IE. Filezilla

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2024-04-12, 05:10

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Supertramp : Fool's Overture

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Re: Any Extended 3Dnow video players out there?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 13:46

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by darry

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A mini PCIE card based on the Broadcom BCM970012 or BCM970015 decoder card might be an option -if it can work through a PCIE to PCI bridge -if its drivers do not require SSE -if you don't consider this "cheating" somehow - if you can find one at a good price

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Re: USB/PS/2 mouse not working on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-04-11, 06:33

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Hey all. I've recently bought a USB mouse with PS/2 compatibility to use on my Windows 98 PC, a Kensington Pro Fit Full-Size Mouse . However, I think the information on the site where I bought it might have been wrong or something, because when I attached it via a USB-PS/2 converter it doesn't work …

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Re: Where to attach a SD to IDE converter?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 00:23

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Mounting in a drive bay would be one option. Another option would be to use a straight angle IDC 40-pin female to female adapter to plug the adapter directly into the IDE port, like a makeshift IDE DOM.

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Re: Anyone else noticing the large number of misleading titles/descriptions on ebay for items?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 04:14

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At the end of the day, if I want an item that I just want to install/use and don't care about the original box, having the option of buying something with the original packaging actually counts against a given auction (for me). I have no use for the box AND it adds to the perceived value (for some …

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Re: Which Sound Canvas Module to use for a MIDI Soundtrack?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 02:26

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I like the SC-88 best in most cases.

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Re: Anyone else noticing the large number of misleading titles/descriptions on ebay for items?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 02:24

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Shponglefan wrote on 2024-04-09, 14:53: I've noticed this where sellers will use stock photos of items that don't necessarily match the description. I usually just avoid those particular items because who knows what one will end up receiving. As do I. Category c (extended) : seller is a moron and/ …

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Re: Can a faster ISA Graphics card be built?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 02:21

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Sphere478 wrote on 2024-04-10, 01:54: Well, there is one way to make an isa card that is fast. […] Show full quote Well, there is one way to make an isa card that is fast. Give it a socket on a ribbon cable that plugs into an interposer on 486 socket Quasi VL bus What was the most capable VL GPU? …

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Re: no impact live Linux distros

Posted on 2024-04-09, 08:45

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Technically, it can work fine if the initrd is never reclaimed... The squashfs can be inside the initrd, and be wholly inside ram. Grub uses its own driver to invoke kernel and initrd. Once kernel is hot, not loading any modules at all for storage devices is entirely plausible. Agreed - this method …

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Re: no impact live Linux distros

Posted on 2024-04-09, 08:39

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Technically, it can work fine if the initrd is never reclaimed... The squashfs can be inside the initrd, and be wholly inside ram. Grub uses its own driver to invoke kernel and initrd. Once kernel is hot, not loading any modules at all for storage devices is entirely plausible. If the purpose is to …

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Re: no impact live Linux distros

Posted on 2024-04-09, 08:31

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Not so. I cannot even see my internal drive w/Fedora. Can't. If there is a way to circumvent this, I'd be happy to hear how (not that I'm interested). I produced a bootable drive w/Peppermimt and prefer a non-gnome based gui. But I can see and preaumably alter the internal h/d's contents. While I …

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Re: no impact live Linux distros

Posted on 2024-04-09, 07:36

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I know Fedora is 1. I was wondering which other distros allow booting off of a thumb drive, but to which the native internal hard drive is neither accessible nor even visible. All so called live Linux distros that can be booted from a USB flash drive or a CD/DVD can be booted and used independently …

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-09, 05:52

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Even a Canadian Tire Mastercraft (store branded) one served me well for a few years. It was more of a volt meter + ohm meter. It's current range was extremely limited (to the point of being unsafe to even try using in most use cases, AFAICR), but it cost like 15$ in Canada in the late 90s and it did …

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