Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-09-04, 19:04

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Dammit. It happened again. I thought I would be outbid on this Voodoo Banshee so I placed a bid on a second one that popped up. Won both of them. This is the TNT2 Ultra situation all over again.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-09-03, 21:32

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-09-03, 19:29: But the real score was this pizza box case That's a hell of a deep dish if that qualifies as a pizza box.

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Re: Any Dell Dimension users out there?

Posted on 2023-08-18, 16:34

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Errius wrote on 2023-08-18, 16:12: Is there a list of all these machines somewhere? There are so many models, it's confusing. Wikipedia has a list.

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

Posted on 2023-08-12, 21:27

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First time dealing with VLB. I had read it takes a lot of force to seat the cards but I was not truly prepared to experience it. Very Likely to Break!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-07, 15:59

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So earlier in the year I got lumbered with a 5150 case when I thought I was getting a 5160. Naturally this then unleashed a new (and expensive) restoration project. All the motherboard listings on this side of the pond were well above three figures, leading me to look stateside. Got an offer for …

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Re: Powering Speakers from PC PSU - like my old IBM Aptiva did?

Posted on 2023-08-05, 19:06

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tbh that sounds like it might be a broken unit. They can't have designed it that way, right? ...right? It's a pretty basic looking board probably designed around the fact the manufacturer came into possession of a bin of 10,000 linear regulators of unknown quality. Hasn't effected me much since my …

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Re: Powering Speakers from PC PSU - like my old IBM Aptiva did?

Posted on 2023-08-03, 19:47

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I also liked the idea of powering the speakers from the PSU rather than take up another wall socket. I came across the following and grabbed a bunch off eBay a while back.

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Re: Collection rationale

Posted on 2023-07-31, 20:10

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Nostalgia seems to run in 20-year cycles. It really kicks in once people hit their 30s; that when things from their own youth become sought after. It's fascinating to me to see how things like even PS2 games selling for hundreds of dollars. Meanwhile, nobody seems to want old Atari 2600 stuff. …

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Re: WinGPT, AI chat bot for Windows 3.1

Posted on 2023-07-28, 14:53

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Wow TLS 1.2 and 1.3 on Windows 3.1x.... 😮 There is a possibility of a functional browser without a proxy. And it will be the most secure. Today no hackers, malware and viruses know about 16bit Windows enviroment. 🤣 Forget 2FA. Bank online with Windows 3.1 and only take money out of cash machines …

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Re: Decent PCI video card for K6-2 platforms

Posted on 2023-07-09, 18:59

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altarofmelektaus wrote on 2023-07-09, 18:21: No AGP anywhere on the board despite front sticker boasting AGP 2x graphics. The onboard graphics are linked to the northbridge by a 2x AGP bus. It's just that the AGP bus isn't externalised to an AGP slot - it's buried in the PCB.

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Re: Capacity of standard CD-R

Posted on 2023-07-08, 13:44

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The old scene standard for DVD rips to be burned to CD-R was 700MB. https://slate.com/culture/2008/11/the-secrets … vie-pirate.html Finally, the files are a predictable size: right around 700 megabytes, the amount of data that fits on a single CD-R.

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-05, 15:04

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2mg wrote on 2023-07-05, 13:12: OTOH I can't seem to find any PCX GPU on eBayou, am I missing something here? They're not common and tend to be misidentified. There's one Leadtek PCX 5750 currently listed by an IT business in Germany, which is the only one I've seen for ages.

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Re: AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born

Posted on 2023-06-28, 22:10

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Oh, I forgot to cite Dead Internet Theory. If it isn't already true, it soon will be.

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Re: AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born

Posted on 2023-06-28, 15:31

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lol "old web" What in the world does that even mean? There's plenty of "old fashioned" websites still existing plain as day. How is "AI" going to suddenly delete/kill/usurp any of that? We're entering Web 3.0 now (vomits), so Web 2.0 is now the old web - these kids aren't old enough to remember the …

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Re: Apple M1 computer SSD

Posted on 2023-06-20, 16:46

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It Appears to be that Apple is intentionally hacking up its computers to make them run slower in order To Milk its customer base to get them to fork out more money to purchase the fully functional computers. It doesn't appear that way - it is that way. It's just not perceptable for those trapped …

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

Posted on 2023-06-10, 15:04

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Is that just a generic ATX breakout board? That looks great. I've gotta try something similar with a DigiPOS computer that has a crazy external PSU. No, a French seller on eBay was making them two or three years ago. There's a website address silkscreened on them but it fails to load now. I hadn't …

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

Posted on 2023-06-09, 13:26

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Rummaging around in the basement for something else this morning and instead instantly found the thing I couldn't find last month. With the ATX breakout board installed, the BKi810 lives. Couple of things still to work on, but I'm just happy this wasn't another failed project.

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Re: Any Optical Drive Bay Caddy Supports 2.5" IDE Drive?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 12:55

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Found the caddy in the basement, but unfortunately it seems to be bog standard SATA. Sorry to get your hopes up.

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Re: A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 23:49

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Rikintosh wrote on 2023-06-08, 21:51: Yes, I know, but imagine a world where the Windows GUI has the same aero effects as later Windows, done using 3D acceleration, or advanced software processing. Speeding up 9x so it can run aero bloat is giving with one hand only to take with the other. So right …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-08, 16:05

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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-06-08, 13:18: edit: Aha, it's one of those mythical "Book PC" units. Maybe Amptron made it. It's virtually identical to the i810-based one I have which is variously branded PCChips / ECS / Amptron.

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