Lukeno94 wrote:

My turn to rant: why is it so bloody hard to buy a laptop keyboard on eBay? Every one I order either seems to arrive damaged, never show up at all, be damaged by the seller prior to postage, or just sees the order cancelled with no explanation!!!! This is across multiple sellers and multiple laptops made by differing brands!

Seems like you need an apple wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

I buy laptop keyboards direct from the maker. They often have supplies of very out of date parts for really old machines. The problem is you're going to pay original retail price, but you ensure you get the right part in flawless condition.

Ticondrius wrote:

I buy laptop keyboards direct from the maker. They often have supplies of very out of date parts for really old machines. The problem is you're going to pay original retail price, but you ensure you get the right part in flawless condition.

It doesn't make financial sense for me to spend that much when I'm fixing up older laptops to sell on. This is assuming it's even possible to do so in the UK...

The last laptop keyboard I purchased was a few weeks back (for an iBook g3-500) and it came in a padded envelope with cardboard on both sides and one of the corners was best (easily bent back, 100% working). Considering it was $8 shipped I can't complain.

This arrived in the mail today. One of the things to watch out for on eBay is retail packaging with a non-matching card. After upgrading, the buyer just puts the old card into the new card's box. I figured that that was what was happening here: a CT1350B in a CT1730 box. Floppies go to the SB 2.0. Not a bad deal for about $20 shipped. This happens a lot with video cards too.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I don't have a hybrid 386DX/486 motherboard at the moment, but I do have an IBM 486SLC2 motherboard with VLB slots. I'm not sure if it would work, but I'm going to give it a try.

That SCSI controller looks to be the balls! Never knew such existed... the only slight downside I can say is the onboard bandwidth using an SX chipset instead of utilizing DX. Still, I do not think there will be a faster SCSI VLB controller out there.

btw... what like is your IBM VLB board? Anything like this; -

Just picked her up as she was local and going for a fair £14.

386_junkie wrote:

That SCSI controller looks to be the balls! Never knew such existed... the only slight downside I can say is the onboard bandwidth using an SX chipset instead of utilizing DX. Still, I do not think there will be a faster SCSI VLB controller out there.

Parallel SCSI is a 16-bit bus, so I doubt being an SX instead of an DX will hurt it THAT much. Btw, that card does look awesome!

alexanrs wrote:

386_junkie wrote:

That SCSI controller looks to be the balls! Never knew such existed... the only slight downside I can say is the onboard bandwidth using an SX chipset instead of utilizing DX. Still, I do not think there will be a faster SCSI VLB controller out there.

Parallel SCSI is a 16-bit bus, so I doubt being an SX instead of an DX will hurt it THAT much. Btw, that card does look awesome!

... and the controller itself was probably much more expensive than a complete 386 back in the day, so even if there was a serious performance impact, they would rather spend a little more on DX to stay on top.

alexanrs wrote:

Parallel SCSI is a 16-bit bus, so I doubt being an SX instead of an DX will hurt it THAT much. Btw, that card does look awesome!

You may be right, I know that VLB is a 32-bit interface... I just wrongfully assumed (w/ 386 hat on) that any controller itself was capable of addressing 32-bits, but it makes sense as other controllers i've seen and own have 186's and 286's.

See how spoilt we're getting these days! 🤣

Yet another 386 motherboard to add to the pile, yet this one is a little different... i've never owned before a Symphony chipset board, it was listed as untested (though it looks brand new) and I got it for £11. I just hope it works ok!

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kixs wrote:

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I do not know why... I have the correct syntax. Is it a compatibility problem with dropbox or something? Anyone know of a decent free filesharing service? is photobucket ok?

boxpressed wrote:

This arrived in the mail today. One of the things to watch out for on eBay is retail packaging with a non-matching card. After upgrading, the buyer just puts the old card into the new card's box. I figured that that was what was happening here: a CT1350B in a CT1730 box. Floppies go to the SB 2.0. Not a bad deal for about $20 shipped. This happens a lot with video cards too.
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Interesting. You can contact the seller and get a discount out of this situation...

386_junkie wrote:

kixs wrote:

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I do not know why... I have the correct syntax. Is it a compatibility problem with dropbox or something? Anyone know of a decent free filesharing service? is photobucket ok?

Could be some browser add-on. I had this problem too with some posts, the add-on causing this for me seemed to be Privacy Badger. After I disabled that I could see the images.

386_junkie wrote:

Anyone know of a decent free filesharing service?

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upload, then click "copy image url"

Tertz wrote:

386_junkie wrote:

Anyone know of a decent free filesharing service?

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upload, then click "copy image url"

Thanks Tertz

Imgur is a pretty good service as well.

Uploading to the "public" folder on Dropbox and "copy publich link" works as well.

Got these for $14. Status unknown but looks good, no visible damage. No time to test it right now.

Athlon 550 - 180nm (Model 2)

FIC SD11 - AMD-750 chipset

Kinda weird I/O layout

Google Drive works great as well IMO. No ads or other annoying things. 😀