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

Posted on 2023-08-20, 03:35

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What did you take that out of? It's always cool to find PC components in unexpected places. Its was a box with an integrated speaker and an external scanner to read letters and books to blind people. It was running Windows 98. The software on it was controlled by some buttons on the device (no …

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

Posted on 2023-08-20, 02:14

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I am taking apart some old medical equipment and I think I have found the cutest Pentium 3 Mainboard ever. It’s the size of 2 hands. My plan ist to make this board my PC104 test station. Filename 456AE217-A98E-421E-B596-403D4A208D57.jpeg File size 1.76 MiB Views 1511 views

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Re: What happens to the socketed 386DX?

Posted on 2023-08-20, 01:02

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PAGING RayeR! (I tagged you in the quote) Vogons is such a great resource. I was poking around and found that RayeR has a similar board and modded his with a socket. BTW I did the socket mod on this MB as mine has soldered Am386DX and I wanted also use PGA CPUs like my Tx486DLC that is supported in …

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Re: Finding Win95 drivers to this ethernet PCI card nad a USB PCI card?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 21:45

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by DerBaum

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Is there a specific reason you chose Windows 95? Windows 98 SE is basically the same but more polished with better USB support and so on...

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Re: What happens to the socketed 386DX?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 21:18

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http://www.amoretro.de/2013/01/kmc-a419-8-ace … otherboard.html This looks quite a lot like your board...

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Re: What is the max output of this old PSU?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 21:05

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lti wrote on 2023-08-19, 20:52: even Su'scon caps ... Sorry Filename badcap.png File size 168.71 KiB Views 336 views

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

Posted on 2023-08-19, 20:51

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Why I am reminded of people hanging up their laundry to dry? :laughing: That is a cool system for sorting / hanging motherboards. Any issues with stress on the corner joints? I'm assuming the PCB plastic should be tough enough to hold up. Thats exactly what the area was used before i took over... …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500 artifacts help!

Posted on 2023-08-19, 20:41

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I am not the best in searching failures online. Maybe somebody else has better understanding of the circuit. There are several things i dont know and i would find out by measuring. Pin3 of the fan should be the feedback of the RPM to the card. I cant see the trace (because its probably inside the …

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

Posted on 2023-08-19, 18:43

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by DerBaum

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Filename B1CB0115-7E7A-4692-A0D6-4970A4CD2FF5.jpeg File size 1.52 MiB Views 1294 views I have boxes of untested stuff and I thought it could look nice if I put some of this stuff on the… wall/roof/aka too lazy to properly insulate here … of my computing area …

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Re: Can your VGA card provide a hardware source for random numbers?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 17:14

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by DerBaum

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I have some noob questions: Is it ok if i test my cards an post the results here? Is there a range where it is most likely implemented? Only ISA ? Maybe VLB? Any specific chipset manufacturer? Is there a real usecase for this (not only at the moment but later on)?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-19, 15:40

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by DerBaum

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Yes they work fine, I've got a couple of those. Early WD Blue SSD. ;) Perfect! I already use some SanDisk and noname Industrial CF cards as HDD replacements and they make handling data transfer so much more easy. With CF cards, when I don't setup them correctly in BIOS, I get "no boot device" or " …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-19, 12:43

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Just took a gamble on 10 2GB and 1 8GB CF cards for 32 Euro shipped... I really hope they like to boot from IDE. Filename Screenshot 2023-08-19 143833.png File size 123.21 KiB Views 2409 views 2GB should be a nice size to work in most of my systems.

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Re: Using more modern PSU on Pentium II system

Posted on 2023-08-18, 09:52

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by DerBaum

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jaskamakkara wrote on 2023-08-18, 09:36: Interesting note about the "on" voltage. I am assuming he means pulling the voltage down to as close to ground as possible? I use ATX Power supplies as bench pwer supplies without any load at all... I just ground Pin 14 (Green, PS_ON) in the ATX plug and it …

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Re: Looking for MS-DOS drivers for crystal packard bell sound card

Posted on 2023-08-17, 13:16

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by DerBaum

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This ia a Aztech MMSN837 . This is a third generation card like Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16II (MMSN824). For reference a picture of my MMSN824: MMSN824Front.jpg There was a FTP from aztech where you could download all kinds of these old drivers... but i think its down. Vogons has some drivers : …

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

Posted on 2023-08-16, 21:53

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by DerBaum

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IMG_1706a.jpg Someone really went out and cut that small part where the S-Video port would have been? Most photos of both 2000 and 3000 have it. Looks like the PCB had break-out tabs and contour routing for it, though ... I have a ELSA Victory II-A16 wich has the same cut out... If i remember right …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-15, 14:14

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by DerBaum

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Took a bit of gamble with these rack mounted mystery boxes. I really love old servers and industrial PCs... They have often the most interesting Hardware. Its not really easy to find Servers with hardware that is somewhat standard... but if you do its awesome... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php …

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Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2023-08-15, 14:00

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AXLE MULTI MEDIA PRODUCTS AN X-TRA LIVING EVOLUTION Filename 2023-08-15 15.56.14.jpg File size 1.61 MiB Views 1160 views What it is ? .. nobody knows... Spoiler (Of course i know it... its a super cheap CMI8738pci soundcard... for those who really care 😁 )

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

Posted on 2023-08-13, 23:07

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2023-08-14 00.44.58.jpg Got this server from the trash some time ago. Today i had a look at it and got it working again. Battery mod for the dallas clock and one of the SCSI drives was stuck. I took it apart and after slight precussive maintanace its fully working again and makes all the right SCSI …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-13, 21:57

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4C23350B-D115-49A3-AC18-784001A18428.jpeg Industrial version of a Tseng ET4000. New in box. Just tested it and the picture is great. Ah! this is the first time i ser an expansion for an SBC computer card! awesome! I also have some dual CAN-BUS controllers for PC-104 industrial systems… not that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-13, 21:47

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Filename 4C23350B-D115-49A3-AC18-784001A18428.jpeg File size 1.67 MiB Views 1836 views Industrial version of a Tseng ET4000. New in box. Just tested it and the picture is great.

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