My parcel arrived, I opened it once I got home only to find a bunch of bubble wrap and newspaper (along with a note from the seller: "Have fun!", sure thing). First I was baffled by how heavy that package was, and for a good reason, the seller included a Data8 tape drive!! An Exabyte EX-8200, that …

Can you take a picture of the CPU? It's really hard to tell which 286 version you have (on the picture however, I see that it's an Intel, that's a given) as the picture is kinda blurry. It should have a number like this written on it: 80286-NN where "NN" is the frequency of the CPU (e.g: 80286-12 …

Chances are that during shipping, the read/write heads got knocked out of alignment, it's fixable (t'was easier on old Tandon full-height floppy drives) but very difficult on a 3½-inch drive. That could explain why it does not want to read anything.

brostenen wrote: Well... Moving on. And I found the perfect way to "patch" a harddrive. :-) […] Show full quote Well... Moving on. And I found the perfect way to "patch" a harddrive. 😀 This is how you fix bad sectors on a hard drive 🤣

Transmeta was bout out by Novafora, but ironically (rather unfortunately), Novafora collapsed and went defunct in 2009, taking Transmeta with it. EDIT: Fixed typo

Those old caddy-loading ODDs aren't something you see anymore... Let along SCSI ones. Speaking of SCSI, I just scored a nice lot for 30 euros, included in it was : - Two SCSI HDDs (One IBM and one Hitachi, I'm planning to buy a Seagate Elite 47 to go with these two oddballs) - Some SCSI cables with …

Current systems, I have 4 in total (#2 and #3 are probably more like tools than actual PCs...) : System 01 (MSI GS70 2PC STEALTH) : CPU: Core i5 4200H RAM: 10Gb (8+2Gb) GPU: nVidia GeForce GTX860M HDD: HGST 1Tb (will be replaced by a 4Tb HDD and two mSATA 1To SSDs, 'cause this laptop has two mSATA …

Finally got my parcel, the two keyboards arrived safe and sound... IMG_20190118_174602.jpg The first one (not really visible in the background...) is a shitty Dacomex keyboard: it flat out doesn't work (all it does is wildly flash the lock LEDs and nothing else) I suspect it's a loose wire as it …

I know this might sound as a surprise to all of you but... ... One of my unicorns I would have loved to keep was my Indigo iMac G3, I regret having to part with it, because at the time, I was very unfamiliar with MacOS and didn't know how to use it (mind that, when I had it, I was 12 yrs old and had …

oeuvre wrote: Dell RT7D5JTW keyboard, said to be the best of the Dell Quietkeys. Now that you mention it, this one indeed looks like a Dell QuietKey from the outside but on the inside... Bah as long I have a AT DIN keyboard, I can't really complain 😜

Bought two keyboards recently, one in particular caught my eye as it has a AT DIN connector (!) and the seller said that it has buckling springs (!!) either way I'm snatching it, as I have a Socket 7 system (a good ole' Shuttle HOT-555A mobo :-D with a ceramic Pentium 133MHz) that has this …

Ah yes those Eizo monitors, they're built like tanks, heck I've got a L557 that has nearly clocked in 10k hours of runtime (IIRC) not a single dead pixel.

Hi! I'm sorta a new guy 'ere and, 'ere goes pictures of my 2003 LG 702S CRT that I've picked last wednesday (had to drive up 2 hours but it was worth it IMO, CRTs are getting tough to find in France) up for 15 euros. Even tho it's 15 years old (oh the irony, BTW manufactured on October 2003 as it …