Re: Got a NEC Ready 9616 today
Posted on 2016-09-10, 08:05
The construction of that (riser card in a tower case + case layout) is quite reminiscent of their Japan-only (well, mostly) PC-98 systems.
Re: Microsoft MSE 'killed' on Windows XP, temp fix available
Posted on 2016-09-07, 14:15
HI everyone long time lurker and huge fan of this site. I have a xp pro laptop and i dual boot my main rig with xp pro an win 7 ultimate and on both of my XP installs MSE still updates just fine in fact my laptop just finished downloading new definitions. Quite to the point: this problem only hit a …
Re: Microsoft MSE 'killed' on Windows XP, temp fix available
Posted on 2016-09-05, 21:57
Isn't there some other free AV option? I thought they killed MSE for XP long ago. I didn't know there were crafty hacks to get around that. Basically what they did is to make it throw up a nag screen at every single boot some time back. Going back one version fixed that. Now they've again made an …
Re: Microsoft MSE 'killed' on Windows XP, temp fix available
Posted on 2016-09-05, 17:53
I wonder what kinds of horrible unpatched vulnerabilities XP has accumulated. Quite a few, like every version of Windows, likely (one issue that anyone should fix now is to disable NetBIOS on Windows, because apparently there's a major security hole in its implementation that goes all the way back …
Microsoft MSE 'killed' on Windows XP, temp fix available
Posted on 2016-09-05, 09:13
So it seems Microsoft finally caught up with those people who had used the "Security Essentials nag screen"-fix on Windows XP (and possibly other users) and we are now bumping into this problem: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/mse-protect_updating/strange-microsoft-security- …
Re: Any interest in collecting old game system requirements?
Posted on 2016-09-03, 07:52
clueless1 wrote: I wasn't quite sure how to integrate that into the spreadsheet in a concise way that would make sense, so I added a "Comments" field at the very end. Do you think that will do? Yeah, should be fine.
Re: 1998 Bondi Blue iMac won't boot
Posted on 2016-09-03, 07:46
intermittent problems like that are very common with macs. 90% of the time it needs to be recapped. I LITERALLY have a PILE of mid 90's macs that all would require a recap to get into stable operation. I have neither the time or the money to do it right now. This . It's not only mid 1990 macs, it's …
Re: Any interest in collecting old game system requirements?
Posted on 2016-09-02, 12:59
It would also be helpful to list which games have OS or hardware limitations that can be fixed by using a patch, e.g. the original PC version of Cyber Troopers Virtual-On won't run on systems with MMX technology without a patch. A later Japanese rerelease of the game has updated files right on the …
FDD Compact Flash adapter!
Posted on 2016-09-01, 18:06
Just spotted this article on The Register, about a compact flash adapter that can replace a floppy drive (and fits into a floppy drive bay) and that looks like a floppy drive to the computer's BIOS, marketed specially at people and companies that still have old (industrial) hardware. It's a drop-in …
Re: Is there a way to make a CD spin "forever" ?
Posted on 2016-08-30, 21:15
Another approach would be to simply dump the CD to the hard drive, and mount the resulting image with Daemon Tools, or whatever optical drive emulation tool you prefer. If you go for Daemon Tools, I believe version 3.47 is the latest non-bloated one. Should be available at oldversions.com. I …
Re: Assistance finding an 8-port RJ45 jack for PC
Posted on 2016-08-30, 07:40
He says it's for an 8-port specialty NIC card some client of his wants designed, but only if it's possible to. In that case, make the card single or dual slot with one or two connectors, and the 8-port jack plugs into those connectors via an adapter board on the outside (basically sandwiching the …
Re: Assistance finding an 8-port RJ45 jack for PC
Posted on 2016-08-30, 04:44
Why not attach it elsewhere to the case (or in its own small case), and link it to the card with a cable?
Re: Sudden death
Posted on 2016-08-29, 10:31
Well, shoot... So I left the computer for about ten minutes unplugged and with the battery out, and after powering it back up the audio magically has started working again. Something I should have tried before calling the warranty people, who told me that since I have repartitioned the hard drive, …
Re: Mythbusting: irreconcilable VESA cards (3 VESA cards in a high-speed 486 system)
Posted on 2016-08-21, 14:20
The PCNet-32 chips is only 10BaseT. I wouldn't be surprised if performance is no better than an ISA card. VLBus network cards were never popular and I think the BocaLAN was the only one ever made. There are other VLB network cards out there, I had one with connectors for three different network …
Re: How does a system admin deal with users?
Posted on 2016-08-19, 06:52
@SqualStrife: That. And a lot of company IT departments don't understand that. However, it does not mean you have to let users install anything they want. Personally I never understood why a previous employer did not block certain entertainment websites or let some users to install iTunes while at …
Re: How to fix your dead on-board floppy controller
Posted on 2016-08-17, 12:30
Er...why not just install a multi-I/O card with floppy and/or IDE connectors instead of throwing out the motherboard? These motherboards, and hardware of this age in general, have becoming collectable items. As collectable items, having a defective onboard floppy/serial/IDE port severely weakens …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-08-11, 18:14
Swapped out my 15+ year old Trust PS/2 Direct Access Keyboard for a somewhat newer and less used Cherry PS/2 RS 6000 M keyboard I got out of a stack of parts some time ago, as more and more of the keys on the Trust keyboard started to need really hard :dead: mashing down to actually register. This …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-08-10, 14:53
@chose007: I like that case. Looks like it could take a passive slot backplane + system on a card. Do you have a picture of the internals of the other side where the drives mount?
Re: Era correct web hosting/design software.
Posted on 2016-08-10, 14:22
I have a degree in information security among many other security certs and degrees and I work in the information security field and I'm more then aware of the risks involved. Not that new versions of windows and hosting apps are any better, jut less people out there that know how to exploit them. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-08-09, 16:44
So the last few days I've been considering whether it's worth it to buy a PC-98 system (that's NEC's Japanese PC-9801 and PC-9821 systems, not the Microsoft standard). Some of those systems are quite impressive when it comes to the sound cards included as standard (FM sound + MIDI). Things that …
Page 86 of 87