Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-04, 15:56

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derSammler wrote: And the question is if the card is actually working. The chips were most likely removed without care because the card was dead. scrappers mostly do everything without care, they usually don't care (no pun intended) if it was actually working before or not.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-03, 19:55

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also this cute thing :3c hardware29_03.jpg it's astonishing what they crammed in there, even place for a 8bit ISA card :) hardware29_04.jpg unfortunately the PSU is missing, but that shouldn't be too hard to figure out... but it also seems like someone already had a go at this, the front had a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-03, 19:08

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nice, I almost got one of those too, but got a smaller one instead a few pages back... I'm really developing this weird affection for old/odd CD-Rom drives 😁

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Re: Off the grid

Posted on 2019-09-03, 11:45

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I didn't have a cellphone until 2004 and I probably wouldn't have had one for quire a bit longer if I didn't require one for university... every group project was like "exchange your cell phone numbers" ... and I was like "uuuuh... guess I'll have to get one". and I didn't have a smartphone until …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-03, 10:51

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...and a copy of the manual for the DEC version (has some better representations of the caddy / operation) DEC rrd40.pdf thank you, that helps a lot, now I understand the mechanism :) still going to be hard to reconstruct without detailed measurements. but I don't have a fitting controller right …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-02, 19:53

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Errrr...that's for the pictured Philips CDi players. There's nothing to suggest it is the model of caddy that is needed for your drive. if you look at the plastic "door" piece in the drive it looks exactly the same, and also has those same "notches" on one side of the drive and caddy, and seeing …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-02, 17:03

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oh yeah, well I'll try it anyways :) and if it doesn't work, I'll have a bunch of nice cd cases ^^ edit: ok I seem to now have found a picture of an actual caddy, that does look quite different though: http://www.freetimeweb.nl/home/picture/sub/electro/video/cdi/cdi_180_front.jpg it looks like …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-02, 16:56

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thank you! I totally feel like I've seen that before somewhere, in a video maybe, but not as a caddy but just as a CD case 😕 edit: 🤣 thank you so much, I just hopped on ebay and searched for "CD case" and found an auction right there immediately with 8 minutes left, 12 of them for 5€

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-02, 16:20

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thanks, I figured something like that, do you happen to have an image for such a caddy anywhere, what they look like? I can find several pictures of drives but not of the caddy used. if all else fails I could try to make one myself, I do have a 3D printer.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-02, 15:52

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oooooh it arrived... look what I found :) something special to add to my growing drive-collection hardware29_01.jpg hardware29_02.jpg manufactured 1988 ...it looks pristine :) ...unfortnately I don't think I have any card with LMSI interface to try it out... also, and excuse my ignorance, how do you …

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Re: The most RAM I have ever had in a computer

Posted on 2019-09-02, 13:40

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JonathonWyble wrote: I've never heard of that much memory for any computer. If that were to exist, it probably won't happen until about the beginning of the 22nd century 🤣 umm, you can quite easily buy 1TB ram kits ...today that is not unheard of in the server world ^^

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-02, 12:42

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I used a 38mm thicc vantec tornado 80mm fan on a swiftech MCX462 on my athlon XP as my daily driver... PCs were supposed to be loud back then ^^ I've been looking everywhere for that swiftech, I remember specifically keeping it but I can't seem to find it 😒

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Re: Anything worth keeping from this lot?

Posted on 2019-09-02, 11:21

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I thought that too at first, but at second glance it sure looks like a PC case, a very neat one at that ^^

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Re: Advantech PCM-9375 - how do you connect a floppy drive to this thing?!

Posted on 2019-08-31, 12:14

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regular PC/104 is just ISA on a pin header according to this: https://www.infinite-electronic.sk/datasheet/ … 75FZ2-J0A1E.pdf the part number listed above is most probably what you need.

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Re: The most RAM I have ever had in a computer

Posted on 2019-08-31, 10:14

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keenmaster486 wrote: Is 24 gigabytes. 24 freaking gigabytes of RAM. Let's take a moment to sit back and think about this. I don't need 24 GB of RAM. Not even by a long stretch. have you ever browsed the internet on a modern browser? you should probably get more ram 🤣 oh nvm, you wrote just that ^^

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Re: Advantech PCM-9375 - how do you connect a floppy drive to this thing?!

Posted on 2019-08-31, 09:44

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you could probably just get any PC/104 floppy controller maybe the mentioned floppy module is just that? can't find any picture of it: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/adv … 580E-ND/5638943

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-30, 20:42

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oh no... I mean it's still a nice sound card 😀

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-30, 20:31

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SONY doesn't get nearly enough credit when it comes to innovation in laptop design imo PCG-X9.jpg this was my first laptop, it was used and old when I bought it in 2004, I needed a laptop for university and this was decent enough, and I am glad I did, I was pretty impressed by the automatic cooling …

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Re: What is Mitsumi drive interface on Sound Blaster ?

Posted on 2019-08-30, 13:01

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the mitsumi drive interface is for early mitsumi drives that use the mitsumi drive interface 😀

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Re: Pentium II 450 Build

Posted on 2019-08-30, 10:47

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SB live is from 1998, but the SB0060 is a later model live 5.1 the first versions are CT4620 and CT4670 and the first live drive came with a platinum version in 1999 iirc. I was still rockin an AWE64 value back then ^^

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