Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-10, 09:47

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by yawetaG

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The first card looks like a matrox graphics card - the second looks like an "image grabber" - a card that collects data from the medical imaging device it's connected to - be it xray, CT, MRI or even an ultrasound machine - the latter being most likely since it has silicon image chips on it. Did …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-09, 22:39

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by yawetaG

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Got some medical use mystery cards (radiology)....sadly Eizo have driver download only for registered users and cannot find any info for Fuji... These likely are interface cards for driving the imaging hardware used for taking X-rays. They probably can only be used together with the imaging …

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Re: Show off your tiny PCs

Posted on 2017-01-09, 22:28

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by yawetaG

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M-HT wrote: I guess it doesn't have x86 processor, but probably arm. So viruses/trojans using x86 instructions wouldn't work. Possibly, but nothing can be 100% safe.

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Re: Those "New" AT Cases on EBay

Posted on 2017-01-09, 11:15

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by yawetaG

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Just because such prices for RARE!!!!11/NOS/Boxed old products are common and we're getting used to them, it doesn't also mean that they're logical/fair. Right now I so wish I hadn't thrown away all my old 1990s computer magazines a few years back, because if I showed you how crazily expensive old …

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Re: Those "New" AT Cases on EBay

Posted on 2017-01-09, 08:15

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by yawetaG

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There are a couple of sellers with NOS AT cases. Both are asking outrageous prices. I think one $70US for the case + $80 shipping - INSANE. Love the case, but it's not worth it. Not even if it is NOS. Er...that might be the original MSRP, and 80 bucks shipping sounds about right for a computer case …

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Re: Gateway 2000 P5-120

Posted on 2017-01-09, 08:12

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by yawetaG

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Hello Everyone I just came into possession of a gateway 2000 tower It has a pentium 120 and 32megs of ram. the motherboard Id is AA 652605-501 with a 430fx chipset Chip number SB82437FX66 Does anyone know where I can get motherboard info- Jumper settings of download chipset drivers? I would like to …

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Re: Best PCI VGA card for Windows 3.11 performance?

Posted on 2017-01-08, 12:34

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by yawetaG

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ElBrunzy wrote: do you think WingG stand for "Windows Graphic" ? The Wikipedia page doesn't say what the abbreviation stands for, but seeing it was essentially the predecessor of DirectX it's likely it stands for "Windows Games"...

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Re: lookking for a nice set of speakers

Posted on 2017-01-07, 13:29

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by yawetaG

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As for speakers, I have a set of Altec Lansing speakers (off-white with a grey screen) that comes with the left and right table / shelf speakers and a really nice sized poweredd sub. They sound really really nice when playing music and games....this is them: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Altec-Lansing- …

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Re: Buying/Selling hardware Places

Posted on 2017-01-06, 22:43

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by yawetaG

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I get 90% off eBay. Plenty of good prices to be had, just don't buy from those recyclers. Especially for common stuff like a Trident or S3 card. How about MIDI equipment? I've been looking for a good deal on MT-32 for a while now, but most offers are from US (so shipping to Russia is very expensive …

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Re: SCSI SSD's?

Posted on 2017-01-06, 22:36

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by yawetaG

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Without having used one, I'd think that part of the speed advantage disappears because the SCSI bus speed and the speed of the interface between SCSI and motherboard serve as bottlenecks. Furthermore, I would expect that there needs to be cache present on the drives themselves to minimize further …

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Re: Tell me this Vogons Wiki information about Voodoo 2 is false...

Posted on 2017-01-06, 10:36

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by yawetaG

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The first and most obvious conclusion is that they're the same person, and they forgot to switch accounts. But yeah, the writing style is different enough that I think that perhaps DOSfan1994 is just a bit crazy, lost track of what he/she did/didn't actually post, and thought Jade Falcon was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-05, 23:23

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by yawetaG

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The EFI chip appears to be a video controller chip; see for example this Ebay auction http://www.ebay.com/itm/Konica-Minolta-Bizhub-EFI-PCI-X-Video-Controller-45046123-45055041-/271979569052 EFI apparently is an industrial digital imagings manufacturer who make a variety of hard- and software: …

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Re: Retro 3D Graphics/CGI Hardware/Software?

Posted on 2017-01-05, 16:30

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by yawetaG

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Of course, you should also make the difference between 2D/3D CAD/CAM vector-based technical drawing/manufacturing software, and 3D modelling software where the primary objective is to obtain pretty rendered pictures (most of the stuff cited until now). The former has much lower technical …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-05, 16:17

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by yawetaG

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elod wrote: As it does not have interfaces it does some kind of processing partially implemented in the FPGA. Maybe the chip under the heatsink/fan would give us a clue? Maybe a hardware encryption card?

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Re: Bought a Gateway Socket 370 board, is the PSU proprietary?

Posted on 2017-01-04, 16:30

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by yawetaG

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Gateway's Slot 1 boards use normal PSUs, so for their (later) Socket 370 boards to use proprietary PSUs would be strange...

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Re: Best/cheapest way to read a bunch of old Apple (or Mac) formatted floppies?

Posted on 2017-01-03, 17:46

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by yawetaG

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I've only used it with 1.4MB disks though, I have no Mac-formatted 800K disks to try with it. Standard PC floppy hardware is fundamentally incapable of reading 800K Mac floppies. The same applies to Amiga floppies. There is a program called DISK2FDI which exploits a "feature" of systems with two …

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Re: Tell me this Vogons Wiki information about Voodoo 2 is false...

Posted on 2017-01-03, 12:25

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by yawetaG

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https://secure.thementalmilitia.com/forums/Smileys/default/Popcorn.gif It's like watching a train crash unfold in which the person riding at the center of the train crash is woefully unaware of the train crash even happening. Let me further it a little bit: How would a Voodoo 2 render GDI? https:// …

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Re: The oldest mac that could browse the internet?

Posted on 2017-01-03, 12:06

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by yawetaG

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I heard you can browse the internet on System 7.5.5 is this true? If yes then the Macintosh Plus computer could actually go on the internet :neutral: Why do you keep starting threads with the same question over and over again? As for the question, get a Mac with system 7.5 and try it. Unless I am …

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Re: Ati Rage XL Question

Posted on 2017-01-03, 11:20

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by yawetaG

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I have one of these cards. It came out of a Point of sale computer from a shop somewhere. It worked fine in Win95 and Dos. Good Dos image quality. That might be the other option, that those cards are produced for point of sale and industrial systems that need to survive decades of use. The …

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Re: The oldest mac that could browse the internet?

Posted on 2017-01-03, 11:08

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by yawetaG

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a_macintosh wrote: I heard you can browse the internet on System 7.5.5 is this true? If yes then the Macintosh Plus computer could actually go on the internet 😐 Get a Mac with system 7.5 and try it.

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