Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-14, 17:09

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Very nice. I have a Yamaha MU50. I bought it before two years for 70 euros. After some months the msg appeared regarding the low battery but i didn't want to risk it and i sent it to a yamaha service store in order to change it. I payed 45 euros as i remember. Wow, 45 euros is not cheap at all. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-12, 21:49

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Buy a proper midi to gameport cable. Looking to some listings on amazon.de and I don't like what I see, about 35 euros for a better quality(??) cable :( At least the shipping is free within the EU. It's more then half of what I paid for the MU80, but hey, if this is the price of not risking to burn …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-12, 20:18

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Got this Yamaha MU80 locally for, what I would say, a fair price... about 65 Euros shipped. 20220112_214958.jpg I'm really happy I got it, because this was the 2nd listing in the last 2,5 - 3 years of a tone generator on the local classified sites. More then a year ago an SC-55 mkii slipped between …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-27, 12:11

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matze79 wrote on 2021-12-27, 11:15: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274825467551 Well you can grab K6-2E+ 3 Pieces for 69,45$ 😉 A Good Pricing around 23$ for each Piece. ... and they work @630 mhz, I grabbed a couple last year...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-19, 14:14

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OMORES wrote on 2021-12-19, 13:15: ... an unusual DVI to VGA implementation... The card works! Now, this is a first for me! But hey, if it works... 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-17, 15:34

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Got this nice CPU today, a first in my collection Filename 20211217_171316.jpg File size 500.91 KiB Views 999 views AMD K6-III /400AHX Now I need to find a K6-III+(at a decent price) to have at least one from the whole K6 family

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

Posted on 2021-12-17, 14:52

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Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Pro C5 (P200MMX) Siemens pcs from that era where very well built, high quality systems. I really like them alot! Last month I've got a similar one, Scenic Pro M5, with HX chipset mobo, P166, 128 MB EDO. Postcsome photos of the machines, if you can. PS: wellkome to vogons!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-16, 11:17

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Yes, back then you could find bluetooth and wifi adapters... I had a bluetooth adapter

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-16, 10:20

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Bought this Compaq N600C Pentium III lappy today https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rQEAAOSwZkhg6-Be/s-l1600.jpg Sellers Image Looks to be in amazing condition and already have a new battery lined up for it with a processor downgrade to a PIII 600 (Has 1ghz model) it should be a super nice little DOS/ …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-12-15, 11:57

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New to the forum here ! This is my first post. During covid lock down I really took a big interest into retro pc building. This was the first vintage rig I built early in 2020. Pentium 2 450 Asus p2b-s 256MB ram 13.6 gb seagate medalist Diamond viper v550 STB voodoo2 12mb turtle beach aureal vortex …

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2021-12-15, 11:46

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Are those really 95mhz bus? https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K6-2/AMD-Mobile%20K6-2+%20570%20-%20AMD-K6-2+-570ACZ.html I have read were these clock to 600MHz without breaking a sweat and gone as high as 620MHz. http://www.k6plus.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=1483 They are selling these chips for more …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-11, 21:45

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... 4. ASUS V7700/32 (TVR) - V7700/PURE/32/G - Geforce 2 GTS 32MB ... I've got a similar one today at the flea market... the DELUXE version(and it's working just fine). 6 euros, not bat, I said at the moment... :-) 20211211_125843.jpg ASUS V7700DELUXE/P/32M/G - Geforce2 GTS 32 MB ... and after a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-03, 11:34

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My recent purchases... 20211203_125648.jpg Philips branded, new looking 5.25" floppy disk storage box and a serial mouse 20211203_125528.jpg EVGA Geforce GTX285 - I don't have high hopes for this to work, it has e few missing screws... but it looks om 20211203_124724.jpg AMD K5 PR166ABR - my first …

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

Posted on 2021-12-02, 12:37

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Another old timer saved from the bad fire - finally got round to recapping my old Abit BE6 ( https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=84656&p=1017996&hilit=be6#p1017996 ). Only replaced the main Tayeh caps FTM with Panasonic FR series, but did get some others in just in case the rest start to …

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

Posted on 2021-11-11, 09:19

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Once in a while I'm helping out a friend of mine to disassemble computers for recycling, because he is getting more money for the parts then for the whole systems. For ex. he gets around 25 Euro cents per kg for an assembled PC(it is considered electronics waste), but only for the mainboards he …

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

Posted on 2021-11-09, 12:09

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So let's continue... 20211105_234945.jpg 34 CPUs - if I count the PowerPC 603e from the Mac, too A few of the interesting ones are: - 2 socket 7 Pentiums: 166 and 233MMX(not in the picture) - 2 slot 1 PIII @500 and @700 - slot 1 Celeron 300A - 3 socket 370: PIII @866, PIII @1GHz 133 bus, Tualatin …

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

Posted on 2021-11-09, 10:20

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Once in a while I'm helping out a friend of mine to disassemble computers for recycling, because he is getting more money for the parts then for the whole systems. For ex. he gets around 25 Euro cents per kg for an assembled PC(it is considered electronics waste), but only for the mainboards he gets …

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Re: Your Mothership PC Components

Posted on 2021-11-01, 07:04

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I don't know how some of you guys can remember what systems did you used 20+ years ago. You should tell me your secret... what do you eat or drink? :-) I'm just 41, and I have a difficulty to remember the system overall, not the specific parts... buy I'll give it a try because I loved reading this …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-22, 11:46

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Just came in today from a local site 20211022_133140~2.jpg They are in pretty bad shape; specially the Dell OEM VS440FX is very dirty, fortunately it doesn't seem to have any phisical damage. The Monster Sound MX300 it has at least 2 caps missing, C2 and C27. Hope I can get them back to life. You …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-22, 11:27

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Just came in today from a local site Filename 20211022_133140~2.jpg File size 1.9 MiB Views 1483 views They are in pretty bad shape; specially the Dell OEM VS440FX is very dirty, fortunately it doesn't seem to have any phisical damage. The Monster Sound MX300 it has at least 2 caps missing, C2 and …

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