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

Posted on 2023-03-13, 04:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Spent the weekend working to get my HP Apollo 9000 735 Workstation functional again. Found out a relatively new Dell lcd P2018H accepted the 1280×1024@72Hz signal which meant I didn't have to drag the 70+lb CRT monitor out of storage. Moving the 45+lb workstation around is bad enough. RISC based …

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

Posted on 2023-03-02, 06:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally getting to a point in getting the house and storage room organized enough that I can start going through some equipment which I've acquired over the past year or so in more detail. Tonight I opened up a HP Vectra VL 6/350 to check out the internals, then fired it up to make sure it's still …

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

Posted on 2023-02-23, 11:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Started planning my 4 player doom lan party rigs. Want to build 4 identical machines to bring to the local lan party for 4 player multiplayer doom. Thinking Pentium 200 mmx cpu's. The hard part will be finding 4 identical motherboards, I'll probably end up with OEM boards like dell or gateway. They …

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

Posted on 2023-01-23, 08:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Re-housed my main Retro Rig (Via C3) into the Lian-Li today. Would like to maybe do some custom length wiring on the PSU. https://i.imgur.com/bpxFD2Eh.jpg ah the good old PC-A05b. I have one from back in the day. Use to house my 4200 x2 939 amd desktop. Was thinking of doing a P3 build in mine.

Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2023-01-12, 22:27

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Does anyone have the MrBIOS image for the SIS85c471 chipset?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-14, 08:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Saw this NOS Laplink cable for cheap and grabbed it, should give me another way to get files to and from old DOS based machines and laptops. Again if I can avoid having to tool around with coax networking or networking in general for DOS machines then I will. Laplink.jpg Any null modem cable and a …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-07, 07:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This cutie. It came in a very cheap mixed lot with other bunch of cd/dvd-rom drives, a Logitech Wingman Light and a HP 620LX pocket PC. It uses SCSI and it has an IBM sticker. Searching the FRU seems that it was sold with PC Server line of IBM's machines. Sadly I couldn't find a sort of adapter for …

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

Posted on 2022-11-16, 04:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was one of the lucky 500 people that got an invite code for Insignia (the Xbox Live revival project for the original Xbox) and played a bit of Midtown Madness 3 against random people from the internet. This was so much fun. I hope they'll make the service public for everyone soon. seeing setups …

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

Posted on 2022-11-10, 04:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently picked up a couple of thin clients to do some retrogaming on: a Wyse Cx0 and an HP T5710. Both were covered on Phil's Computer Lab, so many of you will be familiar with them. I picked up some cheap IDE cables off AliExpress, along with a couple of adapters to use with SD cards. I started …

Re: ATX to AT pico Adapter! + Fan Headers, -5v, and 3.3v (Released)

Posted on 2022-11-07, 05:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally got around to ordering parts to finish mine up. Now just need to find time

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-07, 04:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a nice X58 Asus Rampage III extreme and i7-990x Extreme Edition for a good price. It's finally time to set up a windows xp build despite having a bunch other projects... What cooler would you guys recommend for LGA1366? IMG_20221103_213407.jpg IMG_20221103_213342.jpg I have a Gigabyte GA-X58A- …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-11, 20:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally got the keyboard for my HP 9000 I needed.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-11, 19:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Picked up a couple systems at the VCF swap meet held in NJ this Saturday. There's still plenty of work to be done with these, and finding the hard drive caddy for the Unisys laptop is probably impossible, but I got some great stuff for not a ton of money! https://imgur.com/gallery/h5NNwLe I really …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-11, 10:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Zip100 arrived today after having to go on an extended trip due to being sent to the wrong person and .. its broken, looks like it took a hit and its snapped the front facia off the drive, no idea if it works as the 4 discs were not with it. Have contacted the seller so hopefully we can sort it out …

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

Posted on 2022-10-11, 04:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Swapped out the CPU on my 'ultimate' Windows XP machine going from an E8400 to an E8600 processor. Not a huge change, but faster is faster. :P Also did some cable management tidying up. I think I'm finally done tinkering with this computer and it's set up the way I want it. Looks good. I had an …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-11, 04:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Picked up a couple systems at the VCF swap meet held in NJ this Saturday. There's still plenty of work to be done with these, and finding the hard drive caddy for the Unisys laptop is probably impossible, but I got some great stuff for not a ton of money! https://imgur.com/gallery/h5NNwLe I really …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-11, 04:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Havent had a huge opportunity to trawl the vintage stuff on the bay of late but I did see a few nice things to throw at my retro rigs, one I cant find much about and the other is a nice Yamaha Xwave 744 sound card. STB Horizon64.png I cant find a lot about this card on the web other than it uses …

Re: 3.5 & 5.25 bay covers/plates

Posted on 2022-10-04, 22:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

got a 3d printer? you can find stl's for blanks on many sites.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-04, 05:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The other day, I bought a DataExpert EXP8551 ver 1.2 and a replacement Dallas RTC since the original might be flat. Screenshot_20221003-211454.png The board was sold as-is for parts/repairs and I got the board and replacement Dallas RTC today and I got some components out to give this a good …

Re: [Project] 386/486/SBC 3D Printed Retro Case

Posted on 2022-10-01, 09:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I'm running out of PLA. A 1kg spool of Inland Bone White is not quite enough to print all 3 pieces. I'm going to have to test the Pause/Resume feature of my Guide II until the new spool I ordered comes in tomorrow. how close is the bone white compared to an actual vintage case color wise? I'm …

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