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

Posted on 2021-05-10, 04:02

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by Jed118

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Also found two great and working boards with AMI Winbios: winbios01.jpg winbios02.jpg Biostar MB-1433/40/50UIV. Probably same as PCChips M912? Anyway, well-known board with big potential with its VLB slots and a good UMC chipset. [hr] pcchips.jpg PCChips M919. Geez, I love this one. Just look at …

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

Posted on 2021-05-10, 03:53

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by Jed118

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Listed the 486 just now, and spent the early afternoon doing bodywork to a 2005 Mazda 3 which I plan to sell later on. Next up is the 486 EISA system and the JUKO NEST machine. I kinda hate to get rid of all this vintage stuff, but it's better in someone else's hands than mine, as I won't have the …

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

Posted on 2021-05-07, 16:06

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gerry wrote on 2021-05-07, 08:12: looks as good as new! I even painted the inside of the case in a few spots 😁 - It was a fun project which took up many hours 🤣.

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

Posted on 2021-05-07, 16:05

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by Jed118

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Seems very underwhelming in windows98 so far. For some reason the sims1 is my first benchmark and it was unplayable despite technically meeting/exceeding the requirements. I will do some of the DOS tests from phils pack later. I have a graph to compare against all of my other systems pre P2. If …

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

Posted on 2021-05-07, 03:32

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by Jed118

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So my 2 "untested" motherboard arrived today: https://i.ibb.co/MfvRqM8/s-l1600-2021-05-02-T205658-170.jpg I was quite worried because another member had pointed out that it looked like they had been worked on before. The seller is indeed selling of bucketloads of old "untested" gear so could …

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MMX vs K6 vs MX PR333 - Recommendations?

Posted on 2021-05-07, 02:15

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by Jed118

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Good evening folks, I have a question for you Socket 7 fans - I had a 233 MMX in my teens, and I rather liked it. I always got good prices on hardware as I worked in a computer store, so there was no incentive to shop around or get anything other than Intel (Except 386s, those 40 MHz AMD units were …

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Re: Did PC-Chips ever release a high quality motherboard?

Posted on 2021-05-05, 18:27

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by Jed118

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Can you please scan the manual, make a straight on top picture and a bios dump of that Soyo SY-013 board? We are missing a few bits & pieces here: http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/4638 Sorry, that computer is long gone. Check out the thread though, I had taken pictures of some of the …

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Re: Did PC-Chips ever release a high quality motherboard?

Posted on 2021-05-04, 02:30

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by Jed118

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Apparently don't fill both banks up and put a 16 bit video card in any of those two last slots or it'll only read the first bank's worth of RAM. Oh, so that is normal operation? In my book that is insufficient power i.e. skimped too much on the capacitors and the power planes. Ah, not a PC CHIPS …

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Re: Did PC-Chips ever release a high quality motherboard?

Posted on 2021-05-03, 03:28

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by Jed118

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I recently sold a 25 MHz 386 with some kind of PC Chips board - the thing looked ancient for its age, full length board too with proprietary memory expansion on two extended ISA bus-like connectors. Apparently don't fill both banks up and put a 16 bit video card in any of those two last slots or …

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

Posted on 2021-04-28, 23:52

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by Jed118

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Good to know. I have not run into any issues, yet, luckily. I also must have been lucky - I've converted and sold a bunch of ATX systems to AT (and just did my own 233MMX with a nice new ATX supply) but I have heard of this problem. I only use decent-and-up power supplies for these conversions and …

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

Posted on 2021-04-28, 01:18

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by Jed118

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No sir. Just your standard 30-pin. On another note, one of the cheap plastic memory clips snapped from age, but the remaining clip is holding it nicely in one of the slots. The entire memory mounting assembly is one piece so Luckybob directed me to a higher quality replacement that has metals clips …

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

Posted on 2021-04-27, 06:38

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by Jed118

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Building a new old stock vintage system, at no cost other than shipping, for a friend who's a member here and at VCF. He's looking forward to it. NOS In Win A500 ATX Computer Case NOS Supermicro P6DBE Dual Slot 1 Motherboard NOS Intel Pentium II 300MHz x2 512MB RAM (128MB x 4) 13GB IDE HDD Sound …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-04-26, 02:28

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digger wrote on 2021-04-25, 09:07: Woody72 wrote on 2021-04-25, 08:27: Nope. I'm an IT engineer, not a hairdresser 🤣. I thought the Audi TT was the ultimate hairdresser's car. 🤣 My ex wife had one - she was more of an interior designer than a hairdresser.

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

Posted on 2021-04-25, 02:17

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by Jed118

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Hooked up some ridiculous * (edit just figured out there's a W in front of the name) Wave Master 240 speakers to my retro corner: https://i.imgur.com/1fXrJcRh.jpg I couldn't pass these up at the thrift store for $6 - too big to ship with an eBay system, but perfect for the Retro Corner :D https://i. …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-04-25, 02:10

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by Jed118

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Woody72 wrote on 2021-04-24, 13:07: This my current ride, a 2014 Seat Leon FR with the 184PS 2.0 turbodiesel. It's my other hobby, I do all the maintenance on her: […] Show full quote This my current ride, a 2014 Seat Leon FR with the 184PS 2.0 turbodiesel. It's my other hobby, I do all the …

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

Posted on 2021-04-24, 15:04

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by Jed118

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Took my mom (85) to hospital, she fell this morning. All is good no serious damage but could have been. Spent the afternoon re-working her bedroom so is more senior sensitive (with many arguments). Same thing happened to me last week, same preparations were made around the room. Glad she's OK :D

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

Posted on 2021-04-24, 14:59

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by Jed118

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Oh man, last time I was at college, I was getting A+ training on Pentium systems (As in , Pentium 133 MHz) running Windows 98. Of all my post-secondary studies (College, BA, Hons. BA, currently Masters), the most fun and enjoyable (academically) was in fact college. Enjoy it man!

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

Posted on 2021-04-23, 18:03

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by Jed118

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Kid saw me do this a bunch of times, and he keeps getting into my good diskettes, so I gave him a stack of colorful broken ones. General failure reading drive A:...

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-04-22, 21:00

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Elon Musk said the Germans are the leaders in Green energy but they lack electric Vehicles. Germany said they are going GREEN and are going to flood the American market with Green German products including cars and trucks. The Germans lost the war, and we're going to get flooded by VAG products. …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-04-22, 20:55

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by Jed118

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recently picked this up. I don't think i've ever owned anything that revved to 9k RPM. A lot of little things to work on, but I do like a project. https://i.imgur.com/BfyiHedh.jpg S2000? *edit And nevermind, I scrolled down. A friend of mine has had both the first gen with the smaller engine which …

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