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Re: in praise of low end budget hardware!

Posted on 2023-04-03, 12:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The first computer I built with new parts had a budget Mach Speed (Tiger Direct) VIA motherboard that was rock solid but when I upgraded to an Asus motherboard partially to get off of IDE I had read that the SATA was buggy and crossed my fingers it wouldn't be on mine... Worked fine for a while but …

Re: Question about modern Radeon GFX

Posted on 2023-04-03, 04:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

AMD cards aren't great on Linux, cause they gutted their driver team years ago and have only now begun rebuilding in the past few years. That's a bit unusual opinion. AMD GPU drivers are open source unlike Nvidia's drivers. Also, Nvidia hasn't been very actively developing their Linux drivers. Only …

Re: I forget there are those unlike us

Posted on 2019-08-28, 04:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wonder what those guys would think about my Teletypes?

Re: Looking for advice for my next build.

Posted on 2019-08-23, 00:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't bother with the first edition of 98, Second Edition with ME upgrades is what I always run.

Re: Gateway 2000 P5-90 Restoration

Posted on 2019-08-23, 00:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I believe it has 94 dates on it. Edit: Just checked, 07/01/1994 manufacturing date. It is still in the condition I received it in. I believe it's original, other than missing the HDD and memory.

Re: Anyone here using an MFM drive in an XT-class system?

Posted on 2019-08-23, 00:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My Vtech Laser XT Turbo has the famous ST225, though I have never gotten it to read. The motherboard has been in the repair pile for a while, been hacking away at it over the years. Doesn't need too much more.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-22, 06:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice, I use an M-Audio Delta 1010 (uses a PCI interface and rack unit connected with a DB-25 cable). It works with pretty much everything too. I'm using it with an Athlon X4 and Debian 10. It has 8 pairs of balanced 1/4" inputs, SPDIF, and MIDI. You probably won't find one for 5 bucks though.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-22, 04:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just received this guy today, going to cut my teeth networking with Linux. 4 port gigabit ethernet. The motherboard I'm using is a Tyan S2707, Socket 478 533Mhz bus with 133Mhz PCI-X, so a bit of an odd one. Just waiting on my 4GB of ECC DDR266 to come in the mail.

Re: Looking for software "TweakIt" for modifying Voodoo settings

Posted on 2019-08-22, 02:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No problem. Happens to the best of us. Although I realized I put 3dlabs instead of 3dfx. I guess brain farts can be helpful sometimes.

Re: Looking for software "TweakIt" for modifying Voodoo settings

Posted on 2019-08-22, 01:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually, I found that with a quick "let me google that for you" face: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=nupdXYaXGc2KtQXFqargBw&q=3dlabs+voodoo+tweakit&oq=3dlabs+voodoo+tweakit&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160.408.9171..9539...8.0..0.193.2779.20j9......0....1..gws-wiz.....6.. …

Re: Can my Amiga 3000 be saved from evil battery?

Posted on 2019-08-21, 22:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I agree with the above. Looks pretty good still. My worst patient was a Vtech Laser Turbo XT, had the battery on an expansion card. Leaked all over the cache sockets. At least they weren't populated.

Re: Looking for software "TweakIt" for modifying Voodoo settings

Posted on 2019-08-21, 22:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://ftp.mpoli.fi/pub/hardware/DISPLAY/OTHER/

Re: Gateway 2000 P5-90 Restoration

Posted on 2019-08-21, 21:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a P4D-66 that looks similar to this. Pretty plain in comparison though.

Re: Looking for advice for my next build.

Posted on 2019-08-21, 20:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Always thought it was peculiar these boards and many 440*X boards had 3 RAM slots. Indeed. It's even more peculiar that many folks over here want to max out the RAM of their 440*X motherboards, while all you're ever going to need for any W98 game is 128MB :happy: (I know that some later >2000 year …

Re: Hypothetical: Most coverage in a single system

Posted on 2019-08-21, 02:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Guess I have good luck? I have more working floppies than not. Most of my 5 1/4" disks are for the Apple II though.

Re: Hypothetical: Most coverage in a single system

Posted on 2019-08-21, 00:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do the floppy controllers on 775 boards still support dual disk drives? You didn't mention an FDD but if I wanted something for DOS games, I would want to be able to use the disk if I had stumbled upon one. Also, PCI-e wasn't common until 98 was dead and buried. Even ME was a distant memory. I …

Re: Looking for advice for my next build.

Posted on 2019-08-20, 21:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I really like my MSI MS-6112 board.It's an LX chipset though, so you won't be able to run the FSB @ 100mhz. 4 ISA slots is the main reason I'm using it, with a 333MHz PII (no fan on the heatsink either). I also like that there is no onboard sound or Ethernet, just the basics. I have USB 2.0, Gigabit …

Re: Compact KVM with VGA / PS/2 ports?

Posted on 2019-08-17, 03:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can't help you there, I'm using it with a pull out rackmount LCD/keyboard/touchpad combo

Re: Compact KVM with VGA / PS/2 ports?

Posted on 2019-08-15, 23:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have this: https://www.microcenter.com/product/219291/mi … built-in-cables Has 1/8" stereo jacks for switching sound too. Not sure how hard it would be to get in Europe though.

Re: 486 VLB Identification / Information

Posted on 2019-08-15, 22:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What's the voltage on your battery pack? Most of those require 3.6V

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