Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-09, 02:12

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by LHN91

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Bought some things that for me are starting to fit into a weird "twilight zone" era of retro-ish stuff that doesn't really feel retro but is actually over a decade old. Picked up two 2011 HP ProBooks - a 6360b and a 6560b and one matching dock. Sold as-is, no hard drives, no power cords, not much …

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Re: Northwood win98se project - need some input please

Posted on 2022-03-08, 17:46

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by LHN91

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Honestly most Intel-chipset P4 boards will do the job, as drivers are available and as long as there's not capacitor issues they're pretty stable. I've had a couple 800-series boards. Stick to boards with AGP, PCI-E isn't really supported in Win98 (although a few video cards will work, still, not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-25, 17:15

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by LHN91

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I'd use the PCI 6200's all day in my budget Retro-Lan setup. A bunch of P4/Athlon 64/Athlon XP/late P3 machines all running Windows ME, LucasArts Outlaws (which runs fine on these, and only works proper on 9x) and bunch of later-9x compatible games? Perfect, reliable, works in the otherwise …

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

Posted on 2022-02-04, 03:38

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by LHN91

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I had a response written but BitWrangler beat me to it and did a better job lol. Edit: about the only things I'll add is that they also usually have an electronics section year-round with mostly budget offerings, a pretty extensive tool section with a fairly well regarded in-house brand, and around …

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

Posted on 2022-02-04, 03:07

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by LHN91

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The early 21st century crop of 4 head VCRs with instant auto tracking and comb filters etc make tape look a lot better than they did in the 80s or 90s. Only Betamax looked that good back in the day! I have a mid 90s Sony 4 head - wonderful piece of tech. My wife won't let me set it up with the home …

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

Posted on 2022-02-03, 02:49

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by LHN91

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I mean this would have been recorded to tape around '92 or so, based on the commercials lol... But I am capturing all of the tapes from a relatively normal mid 2000's Sony 4-head machine, and this is the 7th tape out of the box, and it's still probably some of the cleanest footage so far. Edit: …

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

Posted on 2022-02-03, 02:39

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by LHN91

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Not retro computing, but retro... doing some VHS captures for family, and one of the tapes had a downright flashy, embossed, golden label. Honestly I've never seen anything like this on a VHS tape. IMG_20220202_181213.jpg I think that was when blanks were still $20 a pop and some upstarts started …

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

Posted on 2022-02-02, 23:31

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by LHN91

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Not retro computing, but retro... doing some VHS captures for family, and one of the tapes had a downright flashy, embossed, golden label. Honestly I've never seen anything like this on a VHS tape. Filename IMG_20220202_181213.jpg File size 1.69 MiB Views 461 views

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Re: What year did Dual Core become inadequate for PC Gaming?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 13:59

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by LHN91

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Honestly I feel like dual-core machines were still pretty viable for most gaming up until around the end of the Haswell era, 2014 or thereabouts. I remember the Pentium G3258 "20th Anniversary Edition" being kind of the last hurrah for affordable, unlocked, dual core gaming machines. Edit: Right …

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

Posted on 2022-01-22, 05:12

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by LHN91

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Over the last couple days, I've started pulling some machines off the shelf I haven't used in a while to make sure they're working still. After LGR's recent video about the box for the eMachines eOne, I pulled my unit off the shelf - still working properly, except the flat CMOS battery I wouldn't …

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Re: I need some help identifying and hopefully fixing old computer from the eighties

Posted on 2022-01-20, 13:58

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by LHN91

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I'm pretty confident that there's been some leaking, you can see the green corrosion on some of the items near the battery. Definitely want to get that cleaned up.

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

Posted on 2021-11-25, 20:30

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by LHN91

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Just been testing a bunch of PCs & associated hardware ready for this weekend - I've invited friends over for a retro PC LAN Party, so just making sure all 9 computers are going to be ready for use, as well as checking all peripherals are in good working order, ie. keyboards, mice, controllers etc. …

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Re: Any games a Pentium 4 PC can play that a modern PC can't?

Posted on 2021-09-22, 00:49

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by LHN91

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Oddly, the one computer I really "need" is the one I don't have. All of my computers are equally capable of playing dos and windows games with the appropriate slowdown utilities, but I don't have a computer with a proper CGA card and a 8088. But that is so outside my wheelhouse that there isn't any …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2021-09-08, 00:18

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by LHN91

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I feel like it looks a lot like certain old Dell chargers? I can take a look when I get home, pretty sure I have one. Thank you in advance! So, after some external charge battery got enough juice even to boot and work 20 minutes. Laptop booted in Win XP, now I know why someone in Germany changed …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2021-09-07, 15:31

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by LHN91

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I feel like it looks a lot like certain old Dell chargers? I can take a look when I get home, pretty sure I have one.

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-09-07, 03:01

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by LHN91

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Finally did a decent clean and organize of my Retro-Lan area. Still need to organize the cables under the desks (That's still quite the nightmare of wires) but I cleaned the desk tops, the KBs/Mice/Screens, and put the shelving up on the wall - and I put most of my joysticks up on top, which I …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-09-05, 21:56

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by LHN91

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Finally did a decent clean and organize of my Retro-Lan area. Still need to organize the cables under the desks (That's still quite the nightmare of wires) but I cleaned the desk tops, the KBs/Mice/Screens, and put the shelving up on the wall - and I put most of my joysticks up on top, which I think …

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Re: Too many old hard drives

Posted on 2021-08-19, 00:12

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by LHN91

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My softmodded PS2 has my largest IDE drive - it's got a 500 GB WD IDE drive in there. Pretty sure I still have at least one 160GB IDE drive and maybe a 250?

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

Posted on 2021-08-05, 03:24

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by LHN91

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By some miracle, the 12" Apple Monochrome monitor that matches the LC is still working fine. It's heavily yellowed and the plastics around the screen are a bit cracked in the screen corners, but the picture still looks pretty decent, actually. Filename IMG_20210804_231843.jpg File size 1.03 MiB …

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

Posted on 2021-08-05, 02:03

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by LHN91

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(Slowly) copying the files from the drive on the Quadra 950 to the G3 Desktop over LocalTalk - turns out I did have a compatible cable. 93-odd MB of data, the plan at this point is to StuffIt compress the files after copying so I can put a copy of the data somewhere else over Ethernet from the G3, …

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