Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-03-04, 13:08

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On second day I had even less time, about an hour. And this load. http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah276/krivulak/P_20170303_095543_zpsvzj9r0ni.jpg Again, same crap, but this time I found this whatnot. http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah276/krivulak/P_20170303_102857_zpszja3y8f1.jpg Seriously? …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-03-04, 12:50

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Sometimes you can't find anything and someday it is spilled on you like from giant truck. Two days ago it happened to me. Our school was scrapping some old electronics and our school building manager told me if I want take a look on what will be scrapped. Of course I did, and wow, it was quite a …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-02-27, 09:11

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Yeah. They have nothing in common, only that company Tesla is named after him. Nikola Tesla was already deceased at the time the company was estabilished.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-02-27, 07:55

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That's a sweet piece of gear. Question, though... Why is Tesla a Czech brand and not Croatian? Well, Croatia per se was estabilished in 1991, back then it was Yugoslavia, and I don't want to be rude or something, but technological evolution has missed them a little bit. There is no world-wide known …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-02-26, 21:08

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Not a great haul, but at least anything. I love harddrives so much that I try to rescue every single one. But few days ago I came around two HDDs that even I was hesitating to get them. About two weeks ago it was snowing so hard that I can't even remember if it was this bad before. Week after it …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-02-24, 07:16

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Hit a goldmine yesterday, not a retro goldmine, but a goldmine nonetheless. I found a complete WORKING Asus Essentio CM6870 system, which has Intel i5 3450 cpu, 8gb of ram, 2Tb hard drive, Geforce 530GT 2GB GPU and Asus p8h77-m pro motherboard. Swapped the GPU out to GTX 750Ti and added 4 more gigs …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-02-08, 20:35

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I don't know. I managed to rescue and revive worse, like Commodore PC20-III left in metal scrap pile in friend's backyard for a year. Still worth a try in my opinion. First step is getting it clean. When it will be, it will look thousand times more salvageable.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-07, 22:42

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So, I "bought" this computer by helping out a family member with his (current) computer. IMG_1846.JPG It's a Compaq Armada 4150T, complete with dockingstation, external battery (!), and charger. Everything seems to working fine, except the battery is almost dead, as expected. Nice! I am searching …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-02-06, 11:16

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Thanks for the info. That sure does ring a bell. On the other hand I will not bother with trying to revive this board since I don't have the memory and I am currently not in position where I can afford to buy something I don't really need, sadly enough, so to the non-working/parts/unknown hardware …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-02-06, 09:38

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A week ago I found an old reel-to-reel player just sitting on one of those big 100W speaker next to the dumpser. Since I need one for parts I grabbed it, and the speaker too. http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah276/krivulak/P_20170129_180413_zpse9i5u8f2.jpg http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ …

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Re: Hard disk running hours, anyone beating this?

Posted on 2017-02-06, 09:14

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http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah276/krivulak/hehe%202_zpsr2pkhynw.png I think I won. :D (Zapnuto hodin == Power On Hours) What is more funny, it actually is 120 GB drive made by Fujitsu. It worked quite well, I was able to go through the data, but at some point it started behaving weird. It …

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Re: 775/771 systems old school or not?

Posted on 2017-01-17, 18:03

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Most of them are just now considered junk by consumers. They are the stuff thrown around trash bins and recycle centres, being sold for few bucks at thrift shops and nobody wants them. They will be oldschool, but you have to let 20-30 years fly around. But in my opinion they are good even today, I …

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Re: Need a good old and noisy hdd.

Posted on 2017-01-17, 18:00

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Yeah, for sure Quantum drives. I have Quantum Prodrive LPS, and when reading it sounds almost like if you walk with a stick along iron fence and just let the stick slip from rod to rod. Super nice sound! Oh, god, I need to hear that right now! BRB 😁

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-01-17, 15:57

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Today I pulled HDD out of the electronics scrap bin, it is WD Protégé 20 GB EIDE drive, but it has all of the screws removed. And the head is ripped, so RIP. Took it for the magnet though.

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Re: Are these battery leakage still recoverable ?

Posted on 2017-01-16, 09:32

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I usually say everything is fixable. It is only the matter of time, effort and mainly money. I guess it could be fixed by jumping dead tracks with cable.

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

Posted on 2017-01-10, 19:30

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Few days ago old Technics SA-EX100 Amplifier died in our music class room. I thought it has its time, because it is not new, actually, it was made in August 1997, so it is as old as me. :D Yesterday they bought new one and man, is that a piece of shit! So I volunteerly got the old amp home to look …

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

Posted on 2017-01-03, 18:19

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Yeah, exactly. My brother dropped four connected pieces of Duplo on SAMSUNG HD103SJ in external case while reading and boom, dead. And with it went majority of my photos, all movies and games, rare software saved from floppies, basically everything. It was three years ago and I am still thinking if …

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

Posted on 2017-01-02, 18:14

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Today I came to conclusion that Conner HDDs are hell of a weirdos. Dug out my old Conner CP30174E that has nice circular scratch in the middle of the top plate (the drive was hanging loose in PC, so I think somebody bumped into the case while it was reading). Years ago I was able to read that drive …

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Re: What was your worst screw-up with retro tech?

Posted on 2016-12-29, 20:13

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Week ago while I was carying in one hand a laptop with charger, three harddrives, empty box and bunch of floppies and two meters from my door while I was searching for correct key I accidently dropped WD400 harddrive on stone stairs. Instant click of death. Whoops! But it didn't bug me too much, I …

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Re: MFM ST-251-1 HDD: drive not ready error

Posted on 2016-12-29, 18:32

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Yeah, it looks like Low Level Format has degraded greatly. Looks like the partition is no longer existing, so I am afraid you will not be able to read data again. If you want to use the drive, you must LLF it. Also, in debug try g=c800:0 If it hangs the machine, it does mean that it cannot access …

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