Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-10, 23:51

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by SteveC

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No idea what this is but it was a tenner and includes an HP 19" LCD monitor (not that I want that as I have one or two already!). It says P4 at the bottom but who knows! Seller's only photo.... I just hope it has something exciting in it! I picked this up today and it's...... as dull as dishwater …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-10, 20:51

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by SteveC

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No idea what this is but it was a tenner and includes an HP 19" LCD monitor (not that I want that as I have one or two already!). It says P4 at the bottom but who knows! Seller's only photo.... I just hope it has something exciting in it! I picked this up today and it's...... as dull as dishwater …

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

Posted on 2022-05-10, 18:54

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by SteveC

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Installed Windows 98 on an IBM Point-of-Sale Machine. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/aa0AAOSwG7Via~hY/s-l1600.png https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BvQAAOSwZ21ia~hi/s-l1600.png Got rid of the old mechanical drive and put in a Disk-on-Module SSD. It has 1 PCI slot which I filled with a cheap-o Radeon …

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Re: Toshiba Libretto 50CT - Contemplating Purchase - What Repair Knowledge/Info/Resources Is/Are Out There?

Posted on 2022-05-08, 17:18

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by SteveC

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got a CF card working in my 50CT after some fun and games. The height being the biggest hurdle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbR3g8whD0 I also did an LED replacement for a CCFL in an old Compaq 386 here which might give you some inspiration Saved a Compaq Contura 3/25

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-08, 17:06

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by SteveC

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chrismes wrote on 2022-05-08, 15:28: I posted the transparent case and some other goodies I scored a few days ago. But there was more in that haul. I also got a plastic bag with fans and cables and the real score hid among that rubbish. Behold the Revoltec LightWriter: I love that! 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-08, 17:03

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by SteveC

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No idea what this is but it was a tenner and includes an HP 19" LCD monitor (not that I want that as I have one or two already!). It says P4 at the bottom but who knows! Seller's only photo.... I just hope it has something exciting in it!

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Re: Freecom Parallel CD ROM Drive Help

Posted on 2022-05-07, 12:05

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by SteveC

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Revisiting this.... I stole the drive out of the unit as I needed a working beige drive that had no problems reading CDRs and I put in the first drive I picked up from my pile and it's a much more modern (black bezel) DVD Writer. Just testing this still works in this Freecom chassis and it works …

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra 16 not detecting on any address

Posted on 2022-05-07, 11:20

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by SteveC

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Old thread bump but this helped me get my Vibra16 working in DOS - I had digital audio but no FM synth/MIDI/music From the PNPCFG download, I had to run CTCU.EXE "Creative Plug and Play Configuration Utility" and in the PnP section I changed the "Configuration 0" to 1. After choosing "Reconfigure" …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-07, 11:18

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by SteveC

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"One man's rubbish is another man's treasure :)" Very well said m8, many say these old PC parts are just garbage, meanwhile me and all other HW collectors think specific parts are gold (not like these nasty scrappers) and are worthy of being saved from the garbage or someone that is whatever to him …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-07, 10:45

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by SteveC

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why so many people talking down other's purchases lately? you don't need to have "the best" stuff to have fun with retro hardware, this hobby is for enjoyment, and I'm always happy to see what other people got, may it be that ultra rare unicorn or just a cheap thing they found and wanna have fun …

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Re: 1MB Video RAM upgrade - are they all standard?

Posted on 2022-05-07, 10:19

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by SteveC

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Oh bit of digging and I found I need "1MB Video Memory Upgrade 60ns DRAM" part number 92G7432 Not sure that helps :) Also noticed the second item in the eBay screenshot has a typo should be WF264265-35 edit: It appears you can have EDO and 'normal' FPM which makes sense like normal SIMMs. I'm …

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1MB Video RAM upgrade - are they all standard?

Posted on 2022-05-07, 10:15

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by SteveC

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Hi all, I want to put in an extra 1MB (2x512KB) into my IBM PC 330 onboard S3 Trio 64 graphics card - are they all pretty much generic so if it looks like it'll fit then it'll probably work? Like these two items on eBay? One has -70 and one has -35 on the part numbers, I assume that's the speed in …

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

Posted on 2022-05-07, 10:04

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by SteveC

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Fired up Encarta 95 on my refurbished IBM PC 330 P133 and got lost in a world from 27 years ago last night. I have a dream! One small step for man...! Postage stamp videos ahhh bliss 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-07, 10:03

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by SteveC

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

why so many people talking down other's purchases lately? you don't need to have "the best" stuff to have fun with retro hardware, this hobby is for enjoyment, and I'm always happy to see what other people got, may it be that ultra rare unicorn or just a cheap thing they found and wanna have fun …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-06, 08:36

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by SteveC

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see, this is why we can't have nice things. Sadly, Ebay has a quasi monopoly in their field. Otherwise it would be really, really disturbing with what flabbergasting amounts of shitfuckery they let their sellers get away with... "flabbergasting amounts of shitfuckery" is a sentence I hope to re-use …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-05, 23:39

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by SteveC

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Quick video on the ThinkPad R50e I got the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-au_1-NtbM

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Re: Socket 5/7/SS7 (Voltage Interposer) Tweaker.

Posted on 2022-05-05, 23:18

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by SteveC

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So this type of thing might let me run an MMX on a non-MMX board? 😳

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-05, 23:16

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by SteveC

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For the price of a pint of beer I bought these (seller's photo and description) Intel® Pentium® 4 220/512 Intel® Pentium® 3 1000/256/133 AMD Athlon XKDA3000# I have a pin straightening session ahead! :) And I have bought yet another ThinkPad (R50e) - looks like a Celeron/Pentium M but I have no …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-05, 22:42

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by SteveC

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For the price of a pint of beer I bought these (seller's photo and description) Intel® Pentium® 4 220/512 Intel® Pentium® 3 1000/256/133 AMD Athlon XKDA3000# I have a pin straightening session ahead! :) And I have bought yet another ThinkPad (R50e) - looks like a Celeron/Pentium M but I have no …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-05, 18:28

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by SteveC

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Does the Titan post? Because if it's working you should be able to find a dead one with a intact HSF on Evilbay. Worse case you have a second complete card that maybe will fair better to attempted efforts to revive it. It does post. When drivers are installed the system becomes mostly unresponsive. …

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