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Re: Old rack cabinet, finally

Posted on 2018-07-29, 21:12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Slowly, I'm beginning to 'fill' the old but proud giant. I like the vintage touch of the LED lamp that I have put inside. The clear rack case is empty for now, while on the lower tray I simply laid down the FreeNAS rig that takes care of network backups. Fortunately, the old 10/100 rack switch seems …

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

Posted on 2018-07-28, 10:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks mate, I'll let you know for sure what I'll find inside.

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

Posted on 2018-07-28, 09:31

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This tower: The friend of mine that saved it from certain death told me it's a 486 DX-33, not sure about it... I have not opened it yet.

Re: Old rack cabinet, finally

Posted on 2018-07-20, 16:53

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You are really kind, thanks for all the infos. I told that about the value strangely high for the age, after doing some fast research on eBay: https://www.ebay.it/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xmatrox+orion.TRS0&_nkw=matrox+orion&_sacat=0 Maybe we can tell is not …

Re: Old rack cabinet, finally

Posted on 2018-07-20, 16:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks, now I'm just collecting info about that, never had this VGA in my hands before. EDIT: DAFUQ 😮 really expensive I see, still today?

Old rack cabinet, finally

Posted on 2018-07-20, 16:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally, I found a rack to migrate the PCs I use in my bunker and take up less space, once the appropriate case were found (not so easy). This is the rack cabinet that was given to me by an office... old but still as robust as a tank. The front plexiglass luckily still had the protective film, while …

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

Posted on 2018-05-14, 14:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mission Impossible. Looking for additional information and especially software and drivers for this nice multimedia machine, based on Core2, media center desktop factor, as you can see from the photos. The recovery partition is not present, for now I'm running AntiX Linux, but I have some problems …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-05-14, 14:50

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in Milliways

In the middle of: The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel , played on AM486 DX4-100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Files_of_Sherlock_Holmes Cute and cinematographic, like a real Holmes movie. Never finished, when I was a child... I can remember me playing it on …

Olivetti mod. M24 'NEW' (P133-based)

Posted on 2018-05-14, 14:42

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A few months ago now, I came across the not so rare (at least here in Italy) pile of old PCs and miscellaneous material, outside a school building, obviously waiting to be withdrawn and demolished. Luckily I had seen it before the retirement, so I went saving the salvable, including 2x M24-marked …

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-26, 15:50

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These are my three expanded A600. The fourth one has been kept original. web_P3101373.jpg ShapeShifter runs just fine with the Furia: IMG_20170308_213640273.jpg P1300971.JPG P9191199.JPG This is fantastic, thanks for sharing, derSammler - it's such a pleasure, to admire your splendid collection. I …

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-26, 15:46

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well.... It is not that hard, to get an overview of the various models. I mean.... The various original models. Commodore did not really produce that many as a whole. A couple of consoles (well... one of them a multimedia machine) Then they produced around 4 of those computer in a keyboard models ( …

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-25, 22:14

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you are thinking about this http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=725 Then it is allready build into the 600. Understood, thanks - I just supposed it was for A500 models. Regarding the IndivisionECS, then you need the 604 mem upgrade for the a600 in order for it to work. As …

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-24, 23:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are you going to keep it as era correct as possible, or are you going for accelerator upgrade? I have no money to invest, but I think that one of interesting aspects about Amiga hardware is its expandability. I'd like to play with the different updates and expansions, new and old, and see how to …

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-24, 18:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

brostenen wrote: Entering early startup menu, using keyboard alone, was asked in this tread as well.... http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=65619 I can confirm that using the 'Amiga' key together with the arrows move the cursor without a mouse - the left and right ALT keys act as mouse buttons.

Re: What can you do with a LAN card?

Posted on 2018-01-24, 16:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What are these acronyms?! Seriously, I don't know anything about networking. Not even my "Idiots Guide to the Internet" from 1994 seems to know. I do kind of know one thing I'd like to do. I have experimented with BBS servers on my new PC. Is there some way I can communicate to a BBS server from a …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-24, 16:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, not retro, but retro-useful for my Amiga 600: Now, I've asked a friend of mine with 3D printer to print an internal support to rightly align the floppy emulator inside the retropc.

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-24, 16:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In the meantime, the Gotek arrived to me:

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-23, 16:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mouse isn't working well, damn it... It seems the buttons don't respond, and in this moment no ball movement in X axis... Stupid question: can I get into that boot configuration menu without using mouse? I'm asking you this while I'm trying to open the mouse and search for a fix...

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-23, 16:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Timo, I've mounted the CF with the 1GB image you've kindly linked me by mail, but I get this error - I suppose I can't use this CF system without upgrading a little memory or other? Just remove acatune from S:Startup-Sequence. This is to init the ACA-620, which you don't have. You can press both …

Re: Commodore Amiga A600 restoration

Posted on 2018-01-23, 16:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When I google "error #8000003", I get the following: https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/16-122 Yes, but I can't understand what kind of problem it is about - if I'm right, I just don't have the right architecture mounted inside the machine, ACA68020? So I can't use direct CF loading of a minimal …

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