Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-26, 22:50

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Picked this up yesterday. Its a Viglen Contender 2 650. Tower, 17" Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse and All manuals. Its a Pentium III 650 (100mhz) On a MSI 6119 1.6 BX board, 256mb ram, Geforce 256 SDR card, SB Live. Its in excellent contition for its age! Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor …

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

Posted on 2018-09-19, 01:00

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I'm a little late to the party, but a post on here finally pushed me to go woodgrain for one of my machines (386sx-25). The cover was in rough shape before, so this was more of a test than anything. But I'm really happy with the result!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-16, 19:11

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Got myself a CRT for €5. P_20180916_135600.jpg P_20180916_141506.jpg I now consider those €5 wasted. Every time I turn it on it makes a REALLY loud buzzer sound that actually shakes my table as well as the image. The time it took to take the attached images was more than enough sphincter clenching …

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Re: A computer I built i felt like sharing

Posted on 2018-09-15, 03:28

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That is pure class! I have the black version of that case (a little taller with 2x 3.5" bays as well). Makes me want to find some dark teak or cherry woodgrain vinyl

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

Posted on 2018-09-15, 02:26

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Decided to boot up the hard drive that came with my k6/2-300 "free day" find. And, look at that time machine!

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Re: New here

Posted on 2018-09-15, 02:05

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user33331 wrote: I believe every member here has at least a one Voodoo card. (Probably the common Voodoo 2 twins="SLI") Voodoo 3dfx is "the" entry level card to PC-gaming world. Not me 🙁 I had a banshee when I was young though...does that mean I can stay?

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

Posted on 2018-09-09, 18:11

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Keep the case. Put some 70% rubbing alchohol in a spray bottle and spray the case down and the cigarette dust should come right off.. after removing everything of course. You may also want to take the front bezel off of the case so you can clean everything really well. If it still smells, use some …

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

Posted on 2018-09-08, 22:45

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"P5XV3" returns me DFI motherboard on google, this has nothing to do with PCChips' crap ^^ (And the mobo doesn't look that bad) Sweet! I just assumed it was ECS/PCChips/whatever because that's what all beige systems around here used (and the model# sounded like an ECS model). ... The power supply …

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

Posted on 2018-09-08, 21:14

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This weekend is giveway (or free) weekend in my city. I wasn't planning to even grab anything (especially since it's been raining all day), but happened to drive by this. I was going to pass, but the 2x Mistumi CD-ROM had me curious. http://i.imgur.com/o7e12xgl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Wphkmckl.jpg …

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

Posted on 2018-08-11, 19:39

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Was doing my weekly bike ride before trash day looking for anything interesting and spotted this old TV on the curb. It was sitting next to some 1950's era console radio cabinets that had been completely gutted and some other miscellaneous junk. When I was tying it to the back of my bike the lady …

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Re: Old photos of old rigs thread

Posted on 2018-07-22, 15:42

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You guys had good cameras back then. I had...a webcam and really shitty camera. Also, apologies for the long post... 2001: Celeron 633Mhz/128mb/4GB hdd (located on top of the case), TTX 1774 monitor (This picture is right after I replaced a 14" TTX monitor) https://i.imgur.com/5vNNQPfl.jpg https:// …

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Re: Old photos of old rigs thread

Posted on 2018-07-22, 00:59

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I love looking at these old computer magazine articles, especially from around 1993 thru 1998. I think the idea of the thread is to place some of the images here for lustier viewing. I had a CTX monitor, similar to the one in this image. Micro_Express_Infoworld_Feb_1996.jpg I have a few old …

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Re: Old photos of old rigs thread

Posted on 2018-07-21, 21:38

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I think the thread would be great showing the old computers that users here had.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2018-07-03, 01:43

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This was my room 15 years ago. Athlon 1.4GHz, 256Ram, Geforce3, 15" Hitachi lcd (payed an arm and a leg for it at the time) Aureal Vortex 2, Creative 2.1 and a wireless mouse. And a VCR to record my Babylon5 episodes back in the day. 14.JPG I love old photos like this. We should have a "retro rig …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-12, 22:47

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Just a couple of months ago I came very close to buying a large 1960s era TV that was in factory new condition from an estate sale, but it was big, heavy and $350 which I thought was steep. It did have the original remote and manuals which was amazing. I didn't know remote control TVs were a thing …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-12, 04:17

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I would be shocked if the transmitter went further than 35ft. It's a little consumer grade deal with a 3ft telescopic antenna. Is harmless! :happy: As long as they don't detect anything. Unlike VHF FM radio, there is no low powered micro-broadcasting allowance for VHF broadcast TV channels. :-/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-12, 02:30

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Wow, what a great score!! what did the rest of the lot look like? Bought a complete 286 from someone who clearly knew nothing about it. Inside was this. Can't complain about that. rsz_img_20180610_164959.jpg Thirded! You left out pics of the coolest part! If they ask, tell Industry Canada you've …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-11, 03:03

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verysaving wrote: Analog TV in 2018 ? Digital converter box + transmitter. Also, it came with a schematic! I didn't know they did this as late as 1987! EDIT: Twins!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-11, 00:25

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omg I had one of those for a while... Wasn't citizen branded as I remember, but still identical. Obviously american companies re-branded the Samsung ones. It's interesting how Samsung manufactured for such a cheap brand like Jutan International (known for such names like Citizen, Candle, Craig, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-10, 23:04

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Kinda off topic (but still retro) Found this at a garage sale for $8, still new in the box. https://i.imgur.com/7tgWPMFm.jpg https://imgur.com/aLvf74Wm.jpg https://imgur.com/p4aDjP2m.jpg https://imgur.com/IJhnOLwm.jpg https://imgur.com/oWLdw67m.jpg https://imgur.com/0ohJYQZm.jpg It was low end then, …

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