Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-29, 15:12

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I won the auction for a Vendex Headstart III. 1576_resize.JPG I could not resist the urge to power it up when it got home. BIOS battery was toast but in its own shell. I was able to look up the HDD parameters and get it booted to the HDD! It mostly appears fine. More photos to come. I need to get …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-26, 21:12

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They make modern ones, but, wireless only and expensive at best. @SpeedySPCFan you got yourself a new subscriber. There are some that are not expensive.. They used to be but the price has come down quite a lot in the last few years. Logitech Trackman Marble - wired - $21.99 https://www.bhphotovideo …

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Modify an ALR Socket 8 HSF for standard Molex or 3-pin?

Posted on 2018-10-26, 16:14

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This may be an easy fix so I thought I would ask the community here. The Pentium Pro haul had tons of these ALR dual fan Socket 8 coolers. I would like to modify or adapt some of them for a standard PPro PC. Does it look like an easy mod and what would be the easiest approach? They are fairly quiet …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-25, 23:56

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I'm trying to wrap my head around 100Mbit over ISA. I'm guessing there's a lot of caching and that's a "theoretical maximum burst speed", but still. IIRC the bus itself has a "you'll never, ever, see this in practice" theoretical max around 8MB/s (=64Mb/s) and that gets shared between everything on …

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

Posted on 2018-10-25, 02:44

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Ha! OK LB, I'll shut up now.

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

Posted on 2018-10-25, 00:59

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Oh I've got the case for you. I have six tall server cases from the PPro haul that would fit that very nicely. Also has a nice HDD cage in it. Now, just getting it to you at an affordable rate.

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

Posted on 2018-10-24, 20:07

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Went to the Portland retro gaming expo this weekend. Lots of good deals on stuff surprisingly. A booth in their annex costs $75 for the whole weekend. I should rent a uhaul next year and cart all my spares up for "redistribution" https://youtu.be/nniB5P6uy0E if you want to get an idea what it was …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-24, 00:44

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bjwil1991 wrote: I had that SCSI RAID card that was in a Dell PowerEdge 6300 server, and I used it in my K6/2-300 system until I killed the card when I was updating the BIOS (never do that). I still have the RAM and the battery pack. I wonder if somehow I could dump the BIOS for you and you could …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-23, 19:58

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A very interesting RAID card, to me anyway. A nice fat ceramic i960 CPU on the card. New old stock from the haul. Also has a battery pack that comes with it still sealed. Have no idea if that pack is still good. Also has a socketed Dallas and both 68-pin and 50-pin connections. Filename raidcard. …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-22, 16:00

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Once again, Discord invites are CLOSED for now. This is a hobby of mine and NOT a job so I don't need the stress of too many people in the Discord channel. Invites will happen again at a later date once I catch up. There still will be the occasional hardware giveaway here at Vogons so look for that …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-21, 22:02

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kixs wrote: Nice card... VRAM version is even nicer 😁 Could care less what is nicer. It's being sold immediately to help pay for the haul.

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-20, 16:07

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Mmmmm... minty fresh! Found this in a box. Filename ati_mach64_vlb.jpg File size 1.52 MiB Views 1579 views

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

Posted on 2018-10-18, 16:44

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I used to donate to museums and now have decided to halt all donations to museums, in general, after some bad experiences. My train of thought, now, is to give back to the community that supports my endeavors.

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-17, 16:08

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Nice! Thanks for your work guys.

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

Posted on 2018-10-16, 02:26

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As I go through the Pentium Pro haul I am finding some old sealed utility software. Don't know if this needed archiving, but I did it anyway. You will find the floppy image below the photo. Filename Seagate Tape Diag Util.jpg File size 1.01 MiB Views 1204 views Filename Seagate Tape Diagnostic …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2018-10-16, 01:47

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As I've been going through the boxes from this haul, which I am about 40% done, I have run into some leaking batteries. Luckily, so far, no permanent damage and everything has been saved minus one 486 board. Here is a stack of eleven hard to find new old stock ALR dual socket Pentium Pro …

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

Posted on 2018-10-15, 01:23

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Still not as bad as what Vcfed.org member Connorthecarguy's friend found at the dump. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?651 … ight=worst+5150 Filename worst_5150.jpg File size 89.41 KiB Views 2233 views Photo is from Vcfed.org member: Connorthecarguy

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

Posted on 2018-10-15, 00:10

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^^^ I've heard of cars being left in the woods to rot, but I have never seen computer systems just sitting in the sticks like that. Where in the world is this?

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

Posted on 2018-10-14, 23:24

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Saving as many of the new old stock ALR (Advanced Logic Research) dual Pentium Pro server motherboards as I can from battery damage. So far no casualties thank goodness. All the three legged batteries had started to leak, but luckily I picked up this lot in time. A few more years or possibly even …

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

Posted on 2018-10-14, 16:54

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As I've said before, that sound of an old noisy hard drive spinning up is music to my ears. I love that sound.

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