Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-10-05, 21:06
oeuvre wrote: this was the worst PC beep I've heard, from some old Gateway 2000 motherboard Tell Gateway to stop hiring truck horn engineers to make their motherboards!
Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)
Posted on 2019-10-04, 01:50
Today I had my first twinkie. Our local supermarket has got a new American sweets aisle! It was a box of 10 for £5!!!!! https://i.imgur.com/IlQ2sImh.jpg They're not that great. The cream has a weird aftertaste or something. Hostess Twinkies today taste nothing like the ones 20 years ago. Hostess …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-10-04, 00:52
Today, I learned the hard way to always read spec sheets on stuff before you buy accessories for it. Bought a NIC for my Libretto 50CT. Found out that 32-bit and 16-bit PCMCIA are wildly different. Thankfully, the card I bought was cheap, and I do have other uses for it, so not a total loss. :) …
Re: Getting files onto a Libretto
Posted on 2019-10-04, 00:05
I definitely need to get one of those, along with the network card. This whole convoluted hard drive transport method will be very temporary. I'm not going to do it often because I don't want to break anything (not likely that I will because I will be incredibly gentle, but still) as this …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-10-03, 23:30
Today, I learned the hard way to always read spec sheets on stuff before you buy accessories for it. Bought a NIC for my Libretto 50CT. Found out that 32-bit and 16-bit PCMCIA are wildly different. Thankfully, the card I bought was cheap, and I do have other uses for it, so not a total loss. 😀
Re: Getting files onto a Libretto
Posted on 2019-10-03, 23:29
I definitely need to get one of those, along with the network card. This whole convoluted hard drive transport method will be very temporary. I'm not going to do it often because I don't want to break anything (not likely that I will because I will be incredibly gentle, but still) as this particular …
Getting files onto a Libretto
Posted on 2019-10-03, 21:00
I recently got a Libretto 50CT. Absolutely fantastic little thing. Still waiting on the AC adapter to arrive so I can use it - didn't come with one. I ordered a PCMCIA Ethernet card on eBay for it, but upon arrival, the card did not fit. I then realized that this is a 32-bit card, and the Libretto …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-10-03, 01:55
Toshiba Libretto 50CT :) Everyone seems to love these. Now I know why... it's tiny! Floppy disk for scale. Still waiting on my AC adapter to arrive so I can actually use it. These things are great, especially with the RAM upgrade and a working battery. I've got a couple 50CTs that work beautifully, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-10-02, 20:04
Toshiba Libretto 50CT 😀 Everyone seems to love these. Now I know why... it's tiny! Floppy disk for scale. Still waiting on my AC adapter to arrive so I can actually use it. Filename Libretto50CT.jpg File size 1.68 MiB Views 1591 views
Re: "Fat Face" Compaq Presario: why?
Posted on 2019-09-30, 16:49
I bet this is the house it was intended to be used in Filename home.jpg File size 41.73 KiB Views 2071 views
Re: Toshiba Libretto replacement AC adapter question
Posted on 2019-09-30, 16:48
That costs less than the one I bought! 🤣 I'll probably buy it soon. Thanks for showing me, I somehow didn't see it when I originally searched
Re: Toshiba Libretto replacement AC adapter question
Posted on 2019-09-30, 13:20
Thanks for the insight. I'll definitely be on the lookout for a Toshiba adapter - unfortunately there seems to be none currently on eBay for the 50CT. The adapter appears to be of okay quality, so I'm not too worried about it failing overvolted, but nonetheless I'm still going to pick up a Toshiba …
Toshiba Libretto replacement AC adapter question
Posted on 2019-09-29, 22:38
I recently purchased a Toshiba Libretto 50CT. The seller was able to test it with a borrowed power cord, but couldn't include one in the sale. I instantly hit eBay searching for a replacement cord. I bought this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/AC-Adapter-for-Toshiba-Libretto-20CT-30CT-50-50CT-60CT- …
Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors
Posted on 2019-09-29, 22:27
It looks pretty decent! 1600 x 1200 @ 92 Hz, and 1800 x 1440 @ 71 Hz. Very respectable
Re: Why my PentiumIII laptop has a liquid cooling system?
Posted on 2019-09-29, 21:16
Almost all relatively modern laptops have this. It's not liquid cooling per se, rather it's called a "heat pipe". It may contain a very, very small amount of liquid.
Re: Very compact retro PCs?
Posted on 2019-09-25, 14:55
I doubt Unisys was the only company making them, but they seem to be the only ones I can find. If you don't have the space for a PC and CRT monitor, there are also all-in-ones such as the Compaq Presario 425. They combine a great quality 14" SVGA monitor with a 486 PC (with ODP socket) and don't …
Re: Random All In One design observations
Posted on 2019-09-21, 09:02
Filename Capture2.PNG File size 11.82 KiB Views 230 views Filename Capture1.PNG File size 13.58 KiB Views 230 views I meant this part, whatever it's called. Inner bezel? Looks similar to me anyway.
Random All In One design observations
Posted on 2019-09-21, 07:11
I was doing some browsing earlier and came across this Philips monitor: 2019-09-20.png (not my photo) Something about it looked familiar. Then I remembered this All In One from Compaq: 2019-09-20 (1).png (also not my photo) Notice something? The screen borders and power buttons are the same! I …
Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.
Posted on 2019-09-15, 07:54
hellofrommydeskpro.png (sent from a modern windows 8.1 tablet, unfortunately paint in nt4 cannot save a png so had to convert) For those wondering, the system has a 3Com Etherlink IITP and was connected directly into the cable modem/router via Cat5e. The page was the correct color, but the …
Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.
Posted on 2019-09-15, 07:19
Hello from my Compaq Deskpro XE 450 from 1994! This system sports a 486 DX2 running at 50 MHz, 32 MB of RAM, and dual-boots Windows NT 4.0 Workstation SP6 and Windows 95. I'm posting from Opera 4.02, which is realistically the oldest browser I can expect to log in from. For those of you wondering …
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