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Reply 32201 of 52820, by Horun

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Bought these last weekend for very little from a thrift store. A Panasonic LK-MC608S 8x SCSI external CDROM and a Datacomp DFK-777NA keyboard. The KB works great and has Alps Blue switches AND an AT/XT switch on the back (for a breakdown check this: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=14311), did not take much to clean it up. The Pana box is very dirty/corroded on the back connector area but inside is spotless but have not tested it yet.

edit: missed typed 🙁

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Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 32204 of 52820, by pewpewpew

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Horun wrote on 2020-01-30, 02:50:

A Panasonic LK-MC608S 8x SCSI external CDROM

Interesting. Nearly identical. (The lower SCSI is missing because it was removed. This has been a project box a few times.)

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Reply 32205 of 52820, by MAZter

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jaZz_KCS wrote on 2020-01-30, 14:10:

Does that adapter work without drivers in DOS out of the box? I cannot fathom it would.

No, some TSR "ng.exe" necessary. And not all games support it. Confirmed support games:

Doom
IndyCar I, II
Aces over Europe
Descent
Mig-29
Falcon 3.02
Fleet Defender
Tie Fighter
Flight Simulator
X-Wing
Wing Commander III, IV
Blake Stone
Fighter Duel
System Shock

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Reply 32206 of 52820, by appiah4

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I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession:

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Does anyone know the make/model of this? I will be removing the battery immediately tonight..

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Last week I got a Cx5x86, this week I got an Am5x86 - I never thought I would have these CPUs but now my CPU collection is basically complete I would say. If there is one thing I am short on it is more Cx6x86(MX) stuff, but I can live without them.

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Reply 32207 of 52820, by Cyrix200+

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appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:21:
I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession: […]
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I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession:

OPTi-495-SLC-Am386-DX-40.jpg
Does anyone know the make/model of this? I will be removing the battery immediately tonight..

AMD-Am5x86-P75.jpg
Last week I got a Cx5x86, this week I got an Am5x86 - I never thought I would have these CPUs but now my CPU collection is basically complete I would say. If there is one thing I am short on it is more Cx6x86(MX) stuff, but I can live without them.

Oooh a MRBIOS 😁

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Reply 32208 of 52820, by appiah4

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Cyrix200+ wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:38:
appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:21:
I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession: […]
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I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession:

OPTi-495-SLC-Am386-DX-40.jpg
Does anyone know the make/model of this? I will be removing the battery immediately tonight..

AMD-Am5x86-P75.jpg
Last week I got a Cx5x86, this week I got an Am5x86 - I never thought I would have these CPUs but now my CPU collection is basically complete I would say. If there is one thing I am short on it is more Cx6x86(MX) stuff, but I can live without them.

Oooh a MRBIOS 😁

My reaction exactly. Until someone corrected me and pointed out it's just a keyboard controller. It's an AWARD BIOS.

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Reply 32209 of 52820, by Cyrix200+

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appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:39:
Cyrix200+ wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:38:
appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:21:
I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession: […]
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I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession:

OPTi-495-SLC-Am386-DX-40.jpg
Does anyone know the make/model of this? I will be removing the battery immediately tonight..

AMD-Am5x86-P75.jpg
Last week I got a Cx5x86, this week I got an Am5x86 - I never thought I would have these CPUs but now my CPU collection is basically complete I would say. If there is one thing I am short on it is more Cx6x86(MX) stuff, but I can live without them.

Oooh a MRBIOS 😁

My reaction exactly. Until someone corrected me and pointed out it's just a keyboard controller. It's an AWARD BIOS.

I'm so dissapointed (in myself 😉)

1982 to 2001

Reply 32211 of 52820, by imi

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got these two today :3

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Dolch PAC 64

was sold "not working"... but I mainly wanted it for the case and keyboard anyways, thinking of putting a nice retro system inside.
the case seems to be in a more or less good shape, the drive bay cover is missing unfortunately and the spacebar is a bit "bent", if I can't fix it I should be able to find a Dolch spacebar as they make them specifically in this style and it is a nice MX blue keyboard.

and then there was this one:

imi wrote on 2020-01-25, 16:06:

I just played the lottery on ebay... bought a meh condition luggable computer for not even that cheap... but there was a picture of the bootscreen:

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wish me luck ^^

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this one is in a worse state, the back cover mounts are broken (though that was visible in the sellers pictures) but the keyboard is also missing it's folding feet and two keys broke off at the stem during shipping because the keyboard wasn't fixed to the machine, those poor ALPS double shot keycaps 🙁 there was no picture of the back of the keyboard so I didn't know about the missing feet.

fortunately though the boot screen did not lie... and it is in there indeed

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my first socket 8 board :3

but I'm really not lucky with shipping damage lately 😒

Reply 32212 of 52820, by Vynix

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A Pentium pro luggable? Holy crap, that's rad ! Though that sucks that it got damaged in shipping 🙁

Proud owner of a Shuttle HOT-555A 430VX motherboard and two wonderful retro laptops, namely a Compaq Armada 1700 [nonfunctional] and a HP Omnibook XE3-GC [fully working :p]

Reply 32213 of 52820, by iulianv

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appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:21:
I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession: […]
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I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession:

OPTi-495-SLC-Am386-DX-40.jpg
Does anyone know the make/model of this? I will be removing the battery immediately tonight..

Looks a lot like this one (although your BIOS is AWARD, not AMI):

http://www.uncreativelabs.de/th99/m/U-Z/32067.htm

Reply 32214 of 52820, by H3nrik V!

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appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:21:

now my CPU collection is basically complete I would say.

There's no such thing 🤣

Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀

Reply 32215 of 52820, by GigAHerZ

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2020-01-30, 19:33:
appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:21:

now my CPU collection is basically complete I would say.

There's no such thing 🤣

You can come very close to it. 😉

The necessary amount of CPUs in a collection to make it complete is N+1, where N is the amount of CPUs currently in the collection.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!

Reply 32216 of 52820, by imi

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just one more turn!

also got this for €1 ^^

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Reply 32217 of 52820, by jaZz_KCS

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MAZter wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:05:
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jaZz_KCS wrote on 2020-01-30, 14:10:

Does that adapter work without drivers in DOS out of the box? I cannot fathom it would.

No, some TSR "ng.exe" necessary. And not all games support it. Confirmed support games:

Doom
IndyCar I, II
Aces over Europe
Descent
Mig-29
Falcon 3.02
Fleet Defender
Tie Fighter
Flight Simulator
X-Wing
Wing Commander III, IV
Blake Stone
Fighter Duel
System Shock

Very nice, that list should go on. Nice adapter!

Reply 32218 of 52820, by SpectriaForce

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New old stock, zero hour CRT.

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You've got to love the beige & silver front 😀

I was lucky because 1) it was advertised as a LCD and I was the first one to contact, 2) it was cheap and 3) seller wanted to ship it.

Reply 32219 of 52820, by Intel486dx33

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Some classic DOS games.

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