Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-10, 23:06

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YYYYYESSSSS! I managed to get some help from a steady-handed relative and we managed to separate out the shorted legs just enough. Card seems to work fine now, just waiting for the SLI bridge :D (witness my cheap testbench. A unused table in the living room :P) Congrats, a voodoo that lives to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-10, 22:08

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You can use a small, flat tipped (bladed) screwdriver and press the legs to the left (rear of the chip) and to the left (front of the chip) in question. Please be careful with this and the sewing needle method should work as well. I can't for the life of me figure out how I'm suppose to do separate …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-10, 19:08

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This passed week was most generous in findings !! At the local "car boot sale " managed to find this lot of cool games and app: market.jpg Later @ evilBay, temptation was too strong, and this is the result : evilbay.jpg An original Gateway GP-7 software bundle: gateway_gp7.jpg Nice to complement my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-29, 13:38

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There are many kinds of GPU props out there that sits on bottom panel with a hook to hold one end of GPU up. Cheers, Were are they to be found? I am curious as to how they look. I believe that they are commonly called "anti-sag" holders/brackets. They can be found all-over the "PC enthusiast" …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-19, 11:49

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My newest addition to the "fleet", the awesome Toshiba libretto 100ct.... Wasn't running when I committed to buy, but luckily the reason why it didn't post was because the hdd was fried. Replaced the hard disk, and now "...It's Alive !!! " libretto_100ct.jpg I also removed the infamous Ni-MH cmos …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-13, 13:08

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PS: Having the "Reaction image posts are off-topic on VOGONS." problem ... does anyone has it too ? Or am I doing something wrong ? Seems to be a recent issue. Some users reported success by editing the post and adding the images afterwards. The workaround seems to fix the issue. Obrigado (thanks) …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-13, 12:46

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I present to you my latest acquisition, the ultimately pointless Ageia PhysX. Don't really know why, but I'm attracted to this type of acceleration cards. Edited: AgeiaPhysX.jpg Now, where shall I put this thing ? P4 or C2D ? Probably I may go with a 680i +C2D and a 7800gtx that I have laying around …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-06, 11:53

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Yesterday I received a unexciting keyboard overlay for my Timex 2068. I was hunting for this for a long time, and the Gray colour doesn't help eider, they seem more elusive somehow . 20200204_212653_sml.jpg Fortunately a Ebay seller surfaced on my search, and now my Timex is whole again. 20200204_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-28, 11:24

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Last Sunday I manage to find a asus 9800GX2 at local flea market @ the incredible price of 7€ ..... At first I thought that it was broken in some way, so I wasn't expecting much. 20200126_181729_small.jpg 20200126_181719_small.jpg As luck would have it, the card was without fault. It posted fine and …

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

Posted on 2020-01-07, 18:22

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Or this one if you're fancy to design a smaller one: https://getprostorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ProStorage-Pelican-2.5-Hard-Drive-Storage-Case-05.jpg I tend to reuse the shipping boxes from resellers, usually they send the complete box if you buy a lager number of disks. You can also …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-07, 17:32

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Ladies and Gentleman, I present to you a book I just received , "Computer dictionary and handbook" from the dawn of the computer age (1966). 20200107_170535_sml.jpg Half of the book is in fact a dictionary, but the other half is a nice introduction on the then "state of the art". Not very " hard " …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-03, 11:38

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Hi everyone, hope that this new year may bring you all more enjoyment of computer nostalgia. Today, I received a nice Intel SE440BX2 motherboard. It is a beautiful slot 1 440Bx with a Yamaha YMF740c sound chip onboard: 20200103_104324_small.jpg 20200103_105912_small.jpg Time to test and push it into …

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

Posted on 2019-12-15, 15:10

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brostenen wrote: Playing Dynablaster and Gianasisters with my son today, on this Amiga. Assembling-06.jpg That case is very close to a Unisys 486 workstation. Is that Amiga retrofitted in any way on a pc case ??

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

Posted on 2019-11-19, 17:03

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This psu only has 1 rail of 5V, as its common on all Chinese AT style PSU. Usually they tend to use a pair of fast recovery diodes to form a rail. The concept of multi-rail per voltage is a tad new in cheap PSU's. At 5A I could see a 0.5v drop, from the nominal 5V, and I suspect that the ripple …

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

Posted on 2019-11-19, 16:09

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During resurrecting a k6II-450 I suspected immediately that the PSU has not to be trusted. The voltage was ok @ empty or in mild loads, there was indeed a fault lurking. Used my "Chinezium" electronic load to test the 5V rail, and for my amusement @10A I was getting a severe undervoltage. Psu_fail. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-19, 15:20

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Have been in a busy frenzy @ the last couple of weeks, managed to rescue and buy a mixed "assortment" of hardware. "Donated" (one can say that a couple of cups of Glenrothes where involved) by a friend, a cool keyboard from Cherry, and true cherry on top is it has a AT/XT selector :cool: . It had a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-25, 16:05

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Ooooh, nice. I've been wanting to get a couple GTX 690 but the prices are just too high to justify it. There's a guy in Scunthorpe who's selling some for roughly 50 bucks or so, but they appear to be non-functional. I'll grab one soon enough just for shit and giggles for my collection. I was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-25, 14:26

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In the past days I received a couple of treats, namely a Simcheck adapter for plcc/soj Dram and a pair of GTX690. Probably these graphics cards are not yet vintage for my definition but surely matches some hardware vendors ("Vintage products are those that have not been manufactured for more than 5 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-27, 17:15

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Managed to pickup this goodies : Sim_Check.jpg A DRAM tester, and a very good at it. The cool thing is that it has a NEC v20 inside .... Sim_Check_02.jpg "don't turn it on, take it a part" ..... Had to, 110v tranny had to be replaced. Also a ultra rare diagnostics card for Schneider Euro-PC .... …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-07-12, 18:38

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got this for 1€ off ebay... (and paid 29€ for shipping :dead:) hardware06.jpg it's missing a power switch which I presume was attached to the PSU that got removed, but I should have a nice fitting red lever switch laying around somewhere. probably going to house my first PC (It was an ARC 386s, …

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