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Reply 15960 of 52354, by Deksor

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I don't know if I'll use those EISA slots because this is a pentium and it has two PCI ports (one is taken by the video card). However if I find something cool for the EISA slot, unless I find another machine with EISA slots, this will definitely go in there ^^ (I have 0 EISA cards atm)

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Reply 15961 of 52354, by Lukeno94

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keenmaster486 wrote:
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the belt in the floppy drive has failed I believe (motor whirs but that's all)

Good luck trying to fix this.

I even bought a NOS drive trying to fix mine - I've tried everything under the sun and that model drive is just the most unreliable thing you ever saw. Everything has to be calibrated (including the belt length, tension, and pliability) to within a smaller resolution than my precision screwdriver is capable of exacting.

Maybe you'd be better off trying to replace it with some other drive the same size that wasn't designed by an orangutan.

Yeah, the one in my T4600 is also bad, sadly. Not sure if there are any other drives that would work in it! I'd bypass it and use a PCMCIA one (the one from my Libretto, where I'm guessing there's probably a 3.1 or DOS driver for it somewhere)... but Windows 3.1's Card Services are disabled for some reason, and I'm not sure how I can re-enable them without potentially needing a floppy drive.

Reply 15962 of 52354, by Skyscraper

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I got an envelope with stuff I won on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera.

In the envelope I found this, awesome packaging skills! For those who wonder it used to be bread in the small plastic bag, traces of it can still be seen.

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Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

Reply 15963 of 52354, by tabm0de

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Went to buy a pentium 200mhz and after asking for more I got my self a working 486 also, just needs a clean on the outside.

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naa, nothing yet...

Reply 15964 of 52354, by brassicGamer

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Untested for not many £ from eBay:

Hercules 3D Prophet 9000 PCI
Radeon X800 SE PCI-E
Radeon 9600XT AGP
2x Radeon 9700 Pro AGP (both with at least 2 SMD caps missing, 2 were in the box)
Asus M4A79T Deluxe

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Mostly I'm interested in the mobo, as it has quad CrossfireX support.

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Reply 15965 of 52354, by kva

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tabm0de wrote:

Went to buy a pentium 200mhz and after asking for more I got my self a working 486 also, just needs a clean on the outside.

Great find!

Celeron Tualatin vs Celeron Conroe at equal clocks
Pentium Pro 256k vs Pentium Pro 1M vs Pentium II Overdrive!
VIA C3 vs VIA C7

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Reply 15966 of 52354, by havli

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Untested for not many £ from eBay:

Nice pack. I have some untested GPU on the way as well, let's hope we find something working. 😀

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Reply 15968 of 52354, by Carlos S. M.

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Got some stuff days ago:

Tyan Tiger 230 S2507s (single socket variant)
Biostar P4TSE
Pentium III 933
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
nVidia Vanta LT 8 MB
ATI Radeon 7500 with some extra VGA bracket
Leadtek WinFast 4Xsound sondcard w/ optical bracket (C-Media CMI8738/PCI based card)
Realtek RTL8139 network card
VICOM DM9102AF network card
PINNACLE CALLISTO rev 7.0 card
2x 1 GB DDR 400 RAM sticks
128 MB PC133 RAM stick
S3 Trio64 videocard
Seagate Barracuda 80 and 120 GB IDE
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200 GB IDE

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Reply 15969 of 52354, by zerker

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Picked up a Dell AT101W (Black) mechanical keyboard at a local thrift store yesterday. Originally I was a bit worried, because most of the keys didn't register properly at first. Then after I mashed them a bunch and used the keyboard, they started behaving again. I guess there was dust to be worked out of the microswitches or something?

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Reply 15970 of 52354, by meljor

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Added even more boards to my Asus collection. This time a txp4x and a tx97-xe (both 430tx atx boards). Also scored another p5a-b rev. 1.04.

Also added: 2x geforce2 gts, geforce1 ddr, 3x p3-s 1400mhz tualatin cpu, ide controller ata66 pci card.

asus tx97-e, 233mmx, voodoo1, s3 virge ,sb16
asus p5a, k6-3+ @ 550mhz, voodoo2 12mb sli, gf2 gts, awe32
asus p3b-f, p3-700, voodoo3 3500TV agp, awe64
asus tusl2-c, p3-S 1,4ghz, voodoo5 5500, live!
asus a7n8x DL, barton cpu, 6800ultra, Voodoo3 pci, audigy1

Reply 15971 of 52354, by keenmaster486

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Lukeno94 wrote:

Yeah, the one in my T4600 is also bad, sadly. Not sure if there are any other drives that would work in it! I'd bypass it and use a PCMCIA one (the one from my Libretto, where I'm guessing there's probably a 3.1 or DOS driver for it somewhere)... but Windows 3.1's Card Services are disabled for some reason, and I'm not sure how I can re-enable them without potentially needing a floppy drive.

Well, I always use the Windows 3.1 terminal and a null modem cable to transfer files since it's pretty much the only option barring removing the hard drive and connecting it to an external cable 🤣

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Reply 15972 of 52354, by Skalabala

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meljor wrote:

Added even more boards to my Asus collection. This time a txp4x and a tx97-xe (both 430tx atx boards). Also scored another p5a-b rev. 1.04.

Also added: 2x geforce2 gts, geforce1 ddr, 3x p3-s 1400mhz tualatin cpu, ide controller ata66 pci card.

Dude give me some of those SS7 motherboards 😊

Reply 15973 of 52354, by keenerb

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Picked up a Tandy 1000 TL/2 on Ebay for what I felt was a pretty good price, $125.

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CM-11 monitor, keyboard, mouse, keyboard cover, monitor cover, DMP-133, original documentation and a few third-party books.

Seems to work with the exception of the TL hard disk.

Ironically, the monitor cover adhered to the top of the CM-11 and rather damaged it.

Now I need to figure out how to re-ink this DMP-133 ribbon and pick up some pin-feed printer paper...

Reply 15974 of 52354, by meljor

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Skalabala wrote:
meljor wrote:

Added even more boards to my Asus collection. This time a txp4x and a tx97-xe (both 430tx atx boards). Also scored another p5a-b rev. 1.04.

Also added: 2x geforce2 gts, geforce1 ddr, 3x p3-s 1400mhz tualatin cpu, ide controller ata66 pci card.

Dude give me some of those SS7 motherboards 😊

Yeah, i'm pretty lucky i found all these boards. Got 11 ss7 boards now, 7 are Asus p5a and p5a-b's. 😀

asus tx97-e, 233mmx, voodoo1, s3 virge ,sb16
asus p5a, k6-3+ @ 550mhz, voodoo2 12mb sli, gf2 gts, awe32
asus p3b-f, p3-700, voodoo3 3500TV agp, awe64
asus tusl2-c, p3-S 1,4ghz, voodoo5 5500, live!
asus a7n8x DL, barton cpu, 6800ultra, Voodoo3 pci, audigy1

Reply 15975 of 52354, by meljor

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Also had a pci card in the lot, didn't know what it was but it was pci and had vga/tv-out/dvi so i got it. You just don't see these more modern pci cards that often.

After testing it turns out it is a kyro II 64mb pci. Nice little card and works fine. Maybe i will test this in my 486 and see how that goes 🤣

asus tx97-e, 233mmx, voodoo1, s3 virge ,sb16
asus p5a, k6-3+ @ 550mhz, voodoo2 12mb sli, gf2 gts, awe32
asus p3b-f, p3-700, voodoo3 3500TV agp, awe64
asus tusl2-c, p3-S 1,4ghz, voodoo5 5500, live!
asus a7n8x DL, barton cpu, 6800ultra, Voodoo3 pci, audigy1

Reply 15976 of 52354, by Tommaso72

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keenerb wrote:
Picked up a Tandy 1000 TL/2 on Ebay for what I felt was a pretty good price, $125. […]
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Picked up a Tandy 1000 TL/2 on Ebay for what I felt was a pretty good price, $125.

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CM-11 monitor, keyboard, mouse, keyboard cover, monitor cover, DMP-133, original documentation and a few third-party books.

Seems to work with the exception of the TL hard disk.

Ironically, the monitor cover adhered to the top of the CM-11 and rather damaged it.

Now I need to figure out how to re-ink this DMP-133 ribbon and pick up some pin-feed printer paper...

I think you got a good deal. I had one of these when I was a kid and would love to find one like that. Just a word of advice, don't try to clean any gunk of any kind with Acetone. I made that mistake on my Apple IIGS Woz edition and the Acetone ate into the plastic. Not saying you would do something like that, but just a friendly warning. Goo begone works great for plasticky resins and stickers. Good luck!

Tommaso

Reply 15977 of 52354, by TheAbandonwareGuy

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Picked up a Dell AT101W (Black) mechanical keyboard at a local thrift store yesterday. Originally I was a bit worried, because m […]
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Picked up a Dell AT101W (Black) mechanical keyboard at a local thrift store yesterday. Originally I was a bit worried, because most of the keys didn't register properly at first. Then after I mashed them a bunch and used the keyboard, they started behaving again. I guess there was dust to be worked out of the microswitches or something?

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What's with all the AT101's showing up lately? I've had mine since Jan 2016 but like 3 members here have gotten one in the last 2 weeks. The last guy said it "reminded him of a model M".

No way those can be anywhere near a model Ms quality though right?

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Reply 15978 of 52354, by zerker

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Well, I haven't personally used a Model M since the 90s, so I can't provide my own comparisons. Better than any keyboard I've used recently, however. I recently picked up a Matias Quiet Pro keyboard, which I THOUGHT would be a great modern keyboard. One RMA later and I STILL have issues with duplicate key on that thing.

I'm debating between getting another RMA or just using it for spare keycaps and microswitches for this Dell one.

Reply 15979 of 52354, by schlang

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Model M is so overrated. just because it doesn't break doesn't mean it's the ultimate keyboard...

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PC#2: 486DX2-66 | 64MB | Riva128 | AWE64 | GUS PNP | PAS16
PC#3: 386DX-40 | 32MB | CL-GD5434 | SB Pro | GUS MAX | PAS16

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