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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-19, 22:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

... there was also an adorable little tiny Matrox card from 1997 that I totally didn't expect to find in this lot. ;) Could you share a picture of this one, please? Here's a gallery of a bunch of cards in this lot. https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/w3kZLnltIvmcp4KZFIJetUTp7zLK5sj1qxAE2AM9RWa …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-19, 18:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So, two days ago I drove about a hundred miles to pick up a gigantic lot of old computer parts and misc electronics from a guy who did PC repair for about 30 years. While he did get rid of a lot of other stuff over the past few years, I'm very very pleased with what I've brought home. Especially …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-16, 16:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IWILL P54 TS, Pentium 133mhz, 32mb ram, SB Pro 2.0 CT1600. Comes with a fancy Iwill cooler. Now I need to find any documentation for this board, looks like it was quite uncommon. Anyone have one? I have one of those boards in its original box with all the original accessories and the crazy …

Re: What 3.5 inch floppy drive is works with all 3.5 inch disks?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 19:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you really want to just appear to run stuff the way it was back in the floppy drive days, you could just put a bunch of shortcuts on the floppy and then have the game files on your HDD or SSD. Insert floppy, browse floppy, double click on the game shortcut for the game you want to run. …

Re: What 3.5 inch floppy drive is works with all 3.5 inch disks?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 16:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While the SuperDisk / LS-120 is quite good on paper (can read DD/HD 3.5" disks as well as the LS media), it's reliability is even worse than Zip100. For Zip100, the reliability is of no importance to me, since I only use it for transfering files, not for storage. But if you intend to play games …

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

Posted on 2018-01-15, 05:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yep. Had to sit there and watch too. It didn't really sink in for the kid until he actually saw what dban was doing, then shit hit the fan when I walked out the door. There was a dell keyboard and mouse, but just thinking about those grubbly little fingers made me ill. I trashed them outside and …

Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 05:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How rare would you guys say the original 1000Mhz Athlon that won the "Ghz race" back in 2000 would be? http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon%201000%20-%20AMD-K7100MNR53B%20A.html I recently got my hands on one in an Asus K7V KX133 board and it seems to work (bad PS/2 ports on the board but the …

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

Posted on 2018-01-15, 05:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh man... it would have been punishment enough to make the kid play Minecraft on a Geforce 210. That is one abysmal graphics card for gaming... even for Minecraft.

Re: What 3.5 inch floppy drive is works with all 3.5 inch disks?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 03:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PixelLogix wrote: What about ZIP Disks, HiFD Disks, or "Floptical" Disks? Will those work in a SuperDisk drive? Zip is not a floppy, I'm not sure what HiFD is and I don't think I've ever seen a floptical either.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-15, 03:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, here's a weird one. I got some really nice lots of parts recently and was just going through some of the miscellaneous stuff that came in the boxes. I saw this card and was trying to figure out where I'd seen it before and where I'd read that model number. Its a Gigabyte GA-107: IMG_20180114_ …

Re: What 3.5 inch floppy drive is works with all 3.5 inch disks?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 01:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've personally never seen or used a 2.88MB disk. I wouldn't worry about it. Superdisk drives are awesome if you have a spare IDE connector.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-15, 01:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh damn! I have its little brother, the 19" inch one, and it already is a massive and glorious monitor. The guy that gave it to me was working on a graphic design office and had a 22" inch one as well, but I foolishly didn't pick it up at the time. Please tell us more, it must be a fascinating …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-14, 01:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found this thing sitting in a box of junk. Intel AL440LX. Already had a 440LX board, but I didn't want a quality motherboard to rust away in a pile of scrap. For 8 Euros this looked like a good piece to save. P_20180113_200325[1].jpg The bad? Bios is all German. Still ok to navigate, despite my …

Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2018-01-14, 01:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cool thread. The closest thing I have is a Toshiba Tecra 720CDT, which makes for a very solid early 98SE (or maybe 95) machine with good DOS compatibility. I wrote about it in this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=50636&p=539273&hilit=tecra#p539273 If there was some way to cobble …

Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-13, 01:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Or you can order two modded Tualatin PIII-S 1.4 CPUs from Korea (still no SSE2 though). They are kind of getting expensive but that goes for non modded Tualatin PIII-S 1.4 aswell. I can say for sure that they work in the DVD266 and DVD266-R as the modded CPUs from Korea is what I'm using. For …

Re: Broken graphics cards?

Posted on 2018-01-13, 01:11

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Having done things like this myself, I would recommend just buying a heat gun. The oven method can work, but its excessive and its really not healthy to directly expose your cooking appliance to whatever comes out of the board when heated. Anything made of plastic will melt unless it is a high …

Re: Dual PIII-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz Success Stories

Posted on 2018-01-12, 22:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also had 133 Pro board, I think it was Asus CUV4X-DLS. It was kinda flakey. I find the 266T to be in a different ballpark. Was curious about memory and cache performance between the two chipsets. I find this a good read, mostly because the Iwill DVD266 is performing well... 8). Not much cache …

Re: Need help with my first 486 boards.

Posted on 2018-01-12, 20:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, I got some 60ns Fast Page Parity RAM and the board still hangs up with the same post code (0503 mostly). The memory has 12 chips, even though the picture showed 9, but I got 10 brand new 16MB sticks for $19, which I thought was pretty good! Being 12 chips shouldn't matter, right? As far as I …

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

Posted on 2018-01-12, 20:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tested out an ASUS P5A v1.04 which appears to be dead. I get no power whatsoever. No beep codes, no fan spinning. :depressed: Tried with 2 different known good CPUs. One of them was a K6-2 500 that I spent forever straightening the pins out on. All other hardware is known working on another …

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

Posted on 2018-01-12, 19:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tested out an ASUS P5A v1.04 which appears to be dead. I get no power whatsoever. No beep codes, no fan spinning. :depressed: Tried with 2 different known good CPUs. One of them was a K6-2 500 that I spent forever straightening the pins out on. All other hardware is known working on another …

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