Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-14, 14:48

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Got myself this cute lil' Sony 9042QM monitor, well, I bought it on the 9th of January, and it only arrived today, it came from all the way in Italy. This unit is dated from January 2002, and it's in very good condition, the tube looks brand new.

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Re: The Case Badge Thread

Posted on 2020-01-11, 16:06

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There's one I'd like to see remade, it's the "Designed for Windows 2000 and 98" one. It looks like that :

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Re: SIS 496-PCI question

Posted on 2020-01-07, 15:24

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With a system of that old, it's pretty certain that it only takes fast-page RAM (FPM). AFAIK EDO RAM was more of a Pentium thing

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Re: What HDD do you use? (1GB to 10GB)

Posted on 2020-01-02, 04:02

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I also have two Seagate 10K Cheetah 300GB drives, though just like the Fujitsu, they're HP OEM hard drives, these two are also untested. Along with that there's also a Maxtor SCSI drive that I have, that one however... I don't have very high hopes (it's kinda in rough condition). The day I'll get a …

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Re: What HDD do you use? (1GB to 10GB)

Posted on 2019-12-31, 20:01

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I can't really speak for IDE hard drives as I have a slew of SCSI HDDs, when it comes to IDE hard drives I stick with whatever I have on hand. Right now I have a IBM Ultrastar 9ES (aka DDRS-39130) hard drive in my P133 rig, this thing is quite snappy (well for a hard drive of its time) and makes all …

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Re: What is your dream computer, including terminals?

Posted on 2019-12-31, 10:39

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For me it would be these : IBM System Unit 5162 (XT-286) Apple Macintosh SE/30 or IIfx (or even a G4 MDD DP) Logabax Persona 1600 (Olivetti M24 rebadge) Anything that is in a full-tower case, really. Any old system that has EISA and PCI (such as those NEC Proserv-something with dual Pentiums) Any …

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

Posted on 2019-12-28, 21:25

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It's a bit like on some PS/2s machines, the switch on the outside if the case actually pulled another switch on the PSU itself.

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Re: Game keys for free

Posted on 2019-12-28, 21:21

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Does the GMOD key is still available? If so, I'm more than interested, alas I don't have any other key to give back 😒 Thanks.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-28, 21:18

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Wowza... So far so good, I'm going to really miss the old theme... I still miss the older old theme, circa 2011. I guess we will all (well, most of us maybe?) miss a bit of the old Vogons. I never saw that 2011 theme personally, so I can't really see how it looked at the time (maaayyyyybe there's a …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-28, 10:17

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Wowza... So far so good, I'm going to really miss the old theme but this one feels like it could have a option for those few stragglers who still use a low-DPI display (me included, well until I get my LCD monitor fixed. The CRT is usually my secondary display, that is.), right now I don't have …

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Re: This 486, can mount the pentium overdrive?

Posted on 2019-12-27, 12:52

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Yes the 487SX is just a 486DX with a extra pin to disable the on-board 486SX. Kinda a scam if you ask me, but ofc there are some 486 Overdrive chips that have that extra pin to disable the 486SX.

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Re: What Hard-drives have the best retro "ticking" sound ?

Posted on 2019-12-24, 23:40

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I have a IBM Ultrastar 9ES (aka DDRS-39130) that ticks like a typewriter when seeking, it also makes a soft whirring noise when idling. Only caveat is that it is a SCSI drive and is fairly noisy. Also in terms of ticking hard drives I'd say the Seagate ST-251/ST-277R also holds its own, when it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-24, 23:18

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There are some 3.3V PCI cards and slots but they are kinda rare. Most PCI cards you can encounter are either 5V or universal (keyed for both 3.3V and 5V)

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

Posted on 2019-12-24, 17:07

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One of them looks to still have a floppy disk in its drive... As if those were thrown out in a hurry? Either way I'm confident that the ST-506/412 in the 5160 might still work, those old Seagate hard drives were built like tanks.

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Re: 386 motherboard recommendation

Posted on 2019-12-24, 09:27

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There is also the infamous Alaris Cougar motherboard, which has a on-board 486DLC on steroids (clock tripled), I think it has two VLB slots too.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-22, 22:19

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No I definitely saw it first in a (now gone) video on YouTube (but back then I couldn't put a model # on it, I only knew it was a MiTAC), but then I saw your topic about the 4022 (which might be the predecessor to the 4023) dunno why it got stuck in my mind, presumably because the 4023 has a uncanny …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-22, 18:35

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You probably heard of them because they built many well-known notebooks. The MiTAC 5033 was also sold e.g. by Fujitsu-Siemens as the Liteline 5033, by IPC as Topnote, etc. They are even still around and made notebooks until not that long ago. I remember now, it was the MiTAC 4023 that I once saw, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-22, 17:10

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MiTAC... That name sure rings a bell to me, I know I've heard of this brand before but where? I can't remember for the life of me. Anyways I didn't know they went as far as putting K6s in some of their laptops.

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Re: Hardware tools for speeding up file transfers to legacy laptops (and possibly other things)

Posted on 2019-12-19, 17:45

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I personally had no issues with them, I get about 80mbits (which is pretty good considering that they're only 10/100M), the wiring in my house has been redone two years ago, so I guess I should be in the clear ._. Either way, nothing can beat a good ol' fashioned cable, powerline adapters work in a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-18, 09:53

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@gex85 unfortunately you're right, it's a pretty bad case. I have one with a different face plate but same insides. It's horrible, it even broke my only super socket 7 motherboard by bending it :( Second that, I have the same case, and it's horrible. And to make matters worse, it's incredibly …

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