Re: 1:1 Replacement 3,5" IDE (HDD->CF, mSD,SSD)

Posted on 2021-09-17, 00:50

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by Vaudane

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Just use a 2.5" to 3.5" bay mount and an IDE-to-SATA adaptor. Although I had a search and I'm surprised StarTech don't sell kits for this, they sell some weird and wonderful bits and pieces.

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Re: PC tower cases by year

Posted on 2021-09-16, 00:50

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Yes they are. iiyama Vision Master Pro 17" Diamondtron Did some searching and yes, definitely had one of those. It was the last CRT I had before moving from The Netherlands to Australia. Can't recall what happened to it, it's been more than 15 years, was impossible to take with me. Probably ended …

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Re: Imaging Copy-Protected CDs

Posted on 2021-09-06, 00:49

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I can't decide if these answers have cleared things up or muddied the water further :laughing: but I appreciate the info. So basically, I need to get a drive that can actually do the ripping and spend all the pennies in doing so, or try to track down a rip someone else has done and hope it all …

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Re: PSU for retro/modern pc opinions?

Posted on 2021-09-05, 12:02

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Lga775 is classed as retro now? Ooft, I'm getting old. The E6700 rig I build as my first computer is still happily chugging away. Just use a modern psu for it. Old PSUs are a risk and only really worth it if you both need the strong +5V that old CPUs needed and are decent at soldering to keep them …

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Re: Floppy drive only reads disks if formatted in that drive

Posted on 2021-09-05, 11:55

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Definitely sounds like head alignment issue. Guides used to exist for head alignment on 5.25" drives, but 3.5" drives were deemed as "too cheap" to bother with. They also often lack the alignment screws to actually move the heads. Crack it open and see if there's any obvious misalignment. You could …

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Imaging Copy-Protected CDs

Posted on 2021-09-05, 02:53

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I feel like in reasearching this subject, I have been wandering around an abandoned theme park. Some of the rides still standing, all the stalls boarded up, nothing working and everything faded and old. I have a bunch of games I'd like to image the disks for standard reasons, some of them are …

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Re: Best way to image disks and scan old manuals?

Posted on 2021-07-08, 16:38

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Thanks for the information guys! I don't know what form the manual will be in, if its a thick book, booklets bound by arch lever, or stapled books but these are all good methods to know. For disk imaging under DOS environments I highly recommend M. Brutman's DskImage . It's a very simple utility, …

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Best way to image disks and scan old manuals?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 19:28

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All going well I will soon be receiving a new-old-stock piece of hardware with all manuals and installation disks. On all me searches online I have never found mention of either of these beyond they exist so it wouldn't be a stretch to say these may be the last in existence. For the 3.5" disks I …

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Re: Did a 486/50 Compaq Deskpro exist?

Posted on 2021-07-02, 23:20

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See a few mentions in the computer press of the time... https://www.google.com/search?q=50Mhz+486+deskpro&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=bks&ei=ZZrfYOe6Is-stQaWxpvIBQ&oq=50Mhz+486+deskpro&gs_l=psy-ab.3...14948.21916.0.22532.10.9.1.0.0.0.1124.1890.2j3j1j7-1.7.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..2.0.0....0.-y0DTiT0N88 …

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Did a 486/50 Compaq Deskpro exist?

Posted on 2021-07-02, 22:48

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As the title says. I'd quite like to expand my Compaq collection with an old style 486. I have read mention online of a 50MHz version, but I can find no real trace of it aside from that mention. Did a 50 exist, or was 33 the highest it went?

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Re: With the announcement that Microsoft has purchased Bethesda...

Posted on 2020-09-21, 15:01

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they have nothing to do with apogee/ Interceptor 3drealms I stand partially corrected. Bethesda own Id sofware which has several Apogee titles in it, however Apogee itself seems to be 3D realms, which has purchased various ID software IPs over the years. Either way, with the potential legal limbo …

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With the announcement that Microsoft has purchased Bethesda...

Posted on 2020-09-21, 13:57

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And by extension, ID software/3D realms, anyone who wants it should make dumps of their legacy software they have here: https://legacy.3drealms.com/downloads.html Just in case M$ decide that they don't want to be bothered with that anymore.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-15, 15:08

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Today the PSU for my pentium III system arrived. I originally ordered an Aopen 300W psu, but it got lost in the post. The seller sent a replacement FSP unit, the FSP300-60PNA. Is this any good? It feels fairly solid but I've only ever heard FSP are crap in a can. AOpen used to order their ATX PSUs …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-15, 14:53

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by Vaudane

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Today the PSU for my pentium III system arrived. I originally ordered an Aopen 300W psu, but it got lost in the post. The seller sent a replacement FSP unit, the FSP300-60PNA. Is this any good? It feels fairly solid but I've only ever heard FSP are crap in a can.

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Re: Compaq Deskpro 386S boot loop

Posted on 2020-09-11, 12:35

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Okay so I've popped the memory and graphics card out and ran it with dip switches set to default (ie only on-board 1MB of memory and on-board graphics). Still have the same issue. It's been sitting off, but plugged in and thus I'm inclined to think it's a power supply issue. Will recap the PSU when …

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Compaq Deskpro 386S boot loop

Posted on 2020-09-11, 11:21

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This is something I've never seen before. Turned it on just to boot up and re-energise everything for maintenance, and its stuck on a boot loop. It keeps verifying the memory then restarting. "7168 kB OK" Has the memory gone faulty? Is it something else?

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Re: "I'm ready for my close-up now" said Ol' Bessie.

Posted on 2020-09-09, 00:29

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The memory: 20180803_001444r.jpg On top of the whopping 1 MB on board, we have this additional board - a Kingston KTC-1000s which supplies an additional 1 MB RAM and if documentation on the internet is anything to go by, it never existed at all. The pins are for additional memory modules (of which …

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Re: Softpaq diagnostic setup disk for 386/25e wanted.

Posted on 2020-09-08, 14:33

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I was lucky that I kept the disk when I had LTE 386s/20 (bought new in 1993! Was for college and worth having it for a grand purchase.) Works great, found out the Kingston KTC-1000E 1MB 32 bit expansion card itself is defective. Even that booted with diagnostic disc and detected correct size (eg …

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Re: Softpaq diagnostic setup disk for 386/25e wanted.

Posted on 2020-09-08, 13:50

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I was lucky that I kept the disk when I had LTE 386s/20 (bought new in 1993! Was for college and worth having it for a grand purchase.) Works great, found out the Kingston KTC-1000E 1MB 32 bit expansion card itself is defective. Even that booted with diagnostic disc and detected correct size (eg …

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Bug, V0.1

Posted on 2020-09-07, 22:24

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My "Y2K birthday build", which I have decided to name "Bug" after ... well... I'm sure know, has finally begun! And with this, I present version 0.1. bug01.jpg So far, it's in a temporary case I had lying around from an old inherited PC. Does the job but I'm on the lookout for a Coolermaster ATCS …

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