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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-11-25, 16:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Quadro FX 4000 SDI PCI-E in pristine condition. That's gone? I was pondering some uses for it's special skills. Do tell. Just capturing vid camera output really. Though I might have tested it on HD output from a TV box. Though I am still not clear whether pshipkov was saying everything from the …

Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2023-11-24, 15:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pshipkov wrote on 2023-11-21, 19:05: Quadro FX 4000 SDI PCI-E in pristine condition. That's gone? I was pondering some uses for it's special skills.

Re: Why isn't there a 8086 PC remake?

Posted on 2023-11-23, 15:06

in Milliways

in Milliways

"The IBM PC had the memory throughput of an Atari 2600." Source: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14096/how-much-did-ibm-save-by-limiting-the-pc-to-4-77-mhz PS: I've deleted my previous posting. It was too long and probably of no real use, except of angering some people. I'll …

Re: Link Repository for Vintage PC Driver\Documentation Archives, FTPs, Websites

Posted on 2023-11-22, 03:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One of the rare few places you can even find mention of the Ambra line of PCs any more never mind any support... https://www.praxis8.com/ambra/default.htm I was also intending to post an AST support page, but it must be bookmarked on another machine... will add in edit. Edit: aha, here it is …

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

Posted on 2023-11-22, 03:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sometimes i have the feeling i am a little bit stupid. ... Just took me 6 Weeks to figure that out :D Heh, I can't talk, took me 2 years, some gap in between to figure out a drive screwup. It was with IDE CDROMs though went through a load and was getting 90% bad ones... come to figure out some long …

Re: AMD R7 240 poor performance comapred to HD8490

Posted on 2023-11-21, 22:06

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Yeah that's odd, should be something like twice the GPU performance. A lot of people are talking about DX9 problems with later AMD GPU though and the general recommendation is to try https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk which implements DX9 in Vulkan, but I am not sure if this GPU is beefy enough in …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2023-11-21, 21:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

That's quite impressive. There's a Turbo LeBaron selling locally, that I keep mooning over the ad for, it's a ragtop though, which i could maybe find two sunny days a year where my allergies aren't bad to drive with the hood down. So I need to confine myself to hardtops really.... and with cabin air …

Re: Very strange issue discovered with pre pnp umb pci motherboards!

Posted on 2023-11-21, 21:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yah, maybe should have remembered that with owning one of these https://theretroweb.com/motherboard/manual/34548.pdf but it's 2 decades since I set it up.

Re: Very strange issue discovered with pre pnp umb pci motherboards!

Posted on 2023-11-21, 18:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes you may come across this on Pre 1996 boards 486 or Pentium, Intel, UMC, Opti. No PCI no ACPI steering, assign IRQs in CMOS setup.

Re: Your sport choice

Posted on 2023-11-21, 15:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

I am banned from all forms of shooting and target sports for being too good.... ... actually it's that I'm on a medication that's meant to be an unfair advantage in steadying your hand.... you wouldn't know it when I try to solder 🤣

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

Posted on 2023-11-21, 04:44

in Milliways

in Milliways

I am mostly just grabbing dollar store CR-2032s at present .. mostly they are okay, about 1 in 5 is too low to use. The problem with these is, they age in the pack too, so unless you get them from somewhere with decent turnover, the "good" brands can be stale and the grocery stores just look at you …

Re: IBM Aptiva E series build

Posted on 2023-11-20, 21:53

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

That PSU placement is a bit of a problem for where most ATX boards put their CPUs, for getting a decently large cooler on. So probably want to think about what you can get a decent small cooler for and work back from there. Though a slot CPU would fit under it maybe. One thought is a 775 board, with …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2023-11-20, 20:01

in Milliways

in Milliways

Heh, my thinking is "don't buy old Chrysler products if you don't like noises... but they'll rattle on down the road with a dozen things wrong with them" lol though yeah alt, starter etc I kinda think of as 10 year parts so if you buy 10 year old cars, you're replacing them.. yeah weird that 3.1 …

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

Posted on 2023-11-20, 19:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wah, I've been buying broken 3DFX cards for a while to see if I can fix them. Today I was looking over a Voodoo 1 that I'd bought last year and I could never get it to do anything. It would only report 0xDEAD for the TMU status with 57005 TMUs. I'd thought it was down to a broken pin since there …

Re: Powering old motherboards with 5V only?

Posted on 2023-11-20, 19:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not super special, I just go higher than a kilohm because some of the extra super low power CMOS can backfeed off a milliamp. I'd use 2 in series of the 2.2K I guess.

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

Posted on 2023-11-20, 15:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Speccy!!!! Awesome haul, my very very first computer ever, 48k spectrum and picked up a plus a few years later, and an Interface 1. Really really wanted to find a +3 with the 3.5 disk but never got my hands on one.

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2023-11-20, 14:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

My old 90/91 LeBaron had a Mitsy 3.0. Good engine but for the blown valve stem seals. If I sat at a light for at least 30 seconds I'd drive away with a wad of smoke behind me. I ran one of those motors for 10 years in a Voyager, and found out it was a three part thing. Yes, the valve guides could …

Re: Why isn't there a 8086 PC remake?

Posted on 2023-11-19, 04:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

ducts to users of various 8-bit hardware, IBM PC, and MS-DOS compatibles. With games, hardware independence was pretty much impossible! I guess there were also games targetted at certain "MS-DOS compatibles", but not nearly as many as for the IBM PC. Not really my experience. I had Amstrad PC1640 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-19, 00:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

late 90s linux was fairly bearable on hercules with xfree86 and fvwm or something basic, was as useable as a mac classic anyway. It was better than if you had some spectacularly unsupported 256kb VGA I think that it could barely do 16 colors on the 640x480 mode... mainly because everything expected …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-18, 23:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I love it when my past self sends me unexpected gifts.... kind of annoying when he hid things I know about though.

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