Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-01, 23:39

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by Ozzuneoj

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I've just got a Sony Vaio PCV-RX402 for small money in absolute untinkered condition and I now want to run a clean setup with Windows XP. Luckily the drivers are still saved in a separate folder on the Harddrive but the original Sony Software is missing 🙁 ... and unfortunately Sony stopped to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-26, 05:51

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by Ozzuneoj

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Ran across this on the site people love to hate: PXL_20230525_231211763~2.jpg What's in the box? PXL_20230525_231351701~2.jpg PXL_20230525_231419521~2.jpg PXL_20230525_231633891~2.jpg PXL_20230525_231703427~2.jpg Is this really just a dtk serial port card with a custom board that plugs into the dip …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-17, 18:23

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by Ozzuneoj

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HanJammer wrote on 2023-05-17, 10:22: When I bough it I didn't realized what was hidden inside... I'm looking at the pics and I still don't realize what is hidden inside. Looks like all Tandon parts and a Hercules card. What am I missing? ... Nice system BTW! 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-13, 07:01

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by Ozzuneoj

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On my new items, I received yesterday this sweet Tseng Labs ET6100. Lucky to find it super cheap. It works perfectly. It will go directly in my late DOS/W95 system. IMG_20230513_064213.jpg Wow, what a goofy card! It is probably from no earlier than 1997/1998, and yet it has those really old school …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-11, 20:32

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This is a dumb thought, but seeing one of those bluetooth cassette adapters mentioned on a retro computing site immediately made me think of using bluetooth to playback or record data wirelessly between a vintage PC cassette drive and a modern PC or smart phone. :lol: Yes you might be able to load …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-11, 14:17

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by Ozzuneoj

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"Bin store" binge... $2 day. "Bin stores" are springing up all over Southern Ontario like mushrooms, and are stores with raised bins on legs into which are dumped Amazon and other warehouse, liquidation and closeout returns. Some have a fixed price like $5 to $7 an item on all days, and cherry pick …

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Re: Shipping from US to Europe why so expensive?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 05:56

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by Ozzuneoj

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Hah... International registered mail. That would run $50+ Registered mail is meant to be able to track every single step of the way... a signature is required at every handoff and at delivery. First class international should be fine. For continental USA packages, the limit is anything less than …

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Re: Shipping from US to Europe why so expensive?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 03:56

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by Ozzuneoj

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There is registered mail in the USA.... That requires signatures all along the way and is something like $10+. Have only used it like once or twice. USPS priority also comes with tracking. And if you ship through eBay, even first class has free tracking. Shipping overseas is quite expensive though. …

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Re: Shipping from US to Europe why so expensive?

Posted on 2023-05-06, 18:39

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Not sure if this is related, but just recently (early 2023 was when they contacted me about it) ebay started yet another new program to replace or enhance the "Global Shipping Program". I can't remember what they have labeled it, maybe Ebay International Shipping or something, but basically they …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-05-05, 19:43

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by Ozzuneoj

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Better pics per request. It's a good thing that this place exists, because good luck trying to explain to most people why this is such an epic score. LOL, I was just telling my wife that. She thinks I'm insane. Well, if we're being honest, a lot of us would have also felt this way 15 years ago. "Oh …

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Re: I remember a common windows 98/me troubleshooting step was to drag hw acceleration one notch below max. Why?

Posted on 2023-05-05, 18:04

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by Ozzuneoj

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I remember doing this for both audio and video acceleration, and in many cases it worked... though there were usually some compromises. Does anyone here actually know what these sliders do? I don't know how it works on Windows . But i worked on the Linux graphic stack in a previous job. I can risk …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-05-05, 04:14

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by Ozzuneoj

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CRAIGSLIST SCORE OF THE DECADE While technically I did give the guy 20 bucks to meet me halfway from his house, all of these items were essentially free. All boot up, all work perfectly, All WinME.... PC1: Asus P2B w/P2 350 Slot 1 768 MB RAM GeForce Ti4200 SB 16 PC2: Shuttle AV18E w/P3 633 …

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Re: I remember a common windows 98/me troubleshooting step was to drag hw acceleration one notch below max. Why?

Posted on 2023-05-05, 02:50

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by Ozzuneoj

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I remember doing this for both audio and video acceleration, and in many cases it worked... though there were usually some compromises. Does anyone here actually know what these sliders do?

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

Posted on 2023-05-05, 00:31

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by Ozzuneoj

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Well, this is a project i've been working on for quite a while now, a Slot-A to Socket-A adapter. This is currently revision 0.8 (the 7th major redesign) and i hope to be able to make the PCB order this weekend: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/attachments/open-drain_pr1_front-jpg.883715/ …

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

Posted on 2023-05-04, 20:29

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by Ozzuneoj

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Well, this is a project i've been working on for quite a while now, a Slot-A to Socket-A adapter. This is currently revision 0.8 (the 7th major redesign) and i hope to be able to make the PCB order this weekend: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/attachments/open-drain_pr1_front-jpg.883715/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-04, 18:27

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by Ozzuneoj

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Found on local auction site "Lenovo" Socket 7 motherboard. Sold as not tested. Fortunately it turned on and seems to be working without issues. Idea is to build compact competent DOS/Win 3.1 machine on P200MMX. There are reports that SIS530 on board AGP VGA supports Win 3.x I'm amazed that Socket 7 …

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

Posted on 2023-05-04, 04:42

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Uhg... I've got this "problem"... I have a hard time figuring out how many old floppy disks to keep. I have finally managed to figure out what I have, copy the contents of anything that has any chance of not being available online, putting the good disks in a box to get rid of and chucking the …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-05-04, 03:28

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by Ozzuneoj

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That just left the gold tops 60 and 66mhz wich i only seen in the computer history museum in CA So this thing is rare? pentium60.jpg It's rare not because it's a gold top, but because it says "processor". That was removed at some point. I also find it kind of hard to believe that the gold tops are …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-03, 20:36

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by Ozzuneoj

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My opinion I think is very skewed as a result of this testing I did in the past: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=83315 I later concluded that a lot of the driver instability was due pairing the newer drivers with older CPUs without newer SSE instructions. And since that 7600 GS is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-03, 20:13

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by Ozzuneoj

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Are you sure these won't work in Windows 9x? I have read some comments that they aren't perfect, but I've also seen discussions about 7xxx series being fine in 9x. Unless it's a specific issue with the 7600 cards because of the bridge chip? I have one identical to this, but I haven't tried in on 9x …

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