Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-07-31, 11:17

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Join the club! My daily driver is an original Dutch '94 E280 AUT that I have known since 1999 when my parents bought the car. Mileage can be relative indeed... I've got 334.000KM on the clock so engine-wise no worries at all ;). However, rust is indeed the biggest enemy. Every once in a while I'll …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-07-31, 10:31

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I have a habit of liking a car, having a feeling that they will increase in value over the years, and then just watching them do it without having the balls to actually buy one! I wish I had bought / had the money to buy a BMW 8 series when they were around £10k! I haven't bought my Merc for that …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2021-07-31, 01:31

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Bought this a couple weeks ago: an original Dutch non imported, almost rust free '93 200D with relatively low mileage. IMG_E0125b.jpg It's a facelift version with among others a 5-speed gearbox that makes it usable as a daily driver. Contrary to popular belief this car is not too slow for daily use …

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Re: Do you dislike the British?

Posted on 2021-07-23, 13:15

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The Britons have their quirks like any other nation.

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Re: Looking for a Philips P2230

Posted on 2021-07-23, 13:11

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Do you have a photo of it? It may not be that hard to find where I live, because the Dutch are quite patriotic when it comes to Philips stuff.

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Re: HP Vectra QS/16S

Posted on 2021-07-16, 18:21

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I'm not an expert in this but I don't think that this pc has a BIOS on a ROM. Try booting from a DOS floppy and do the fdisk /mbr + fdisk + format /s sequence. You'll probably have to run the HP setup program thereafter to install the HP BIOS / setup program (or whatever it is called) on the hard …

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Re: Went to a vintage PC shop that also served as a museum!

Posted on 2021-07-16, 18:01

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Wow that's an amazing collection. It's rare to find a stack of same model x86 pc's these days.

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Re: Internet is slow on one computer yet fine on the other

Posted on 2021-03-24, 15:31

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What for category ethernet cables have you tried?

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-03-23, 13:43

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Ebay offers free advertising (listing of goods), so naturally it becomes a place with a lot of such sellers. Pardon my being out of trend with eBay, but can you confirm that eBay no longer charges low-volume sellers to keep relisting their items even if they do not sell? If so, this would likely …

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Re: Replacing electrolytic capacitors with polymers on my Motherboard, GPU, Soundcard. Is it a good idea?

Posted on 2021-03-22, 21:29

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Thinking about recapping my old motherboard with Polymer capacitors. Say for example it has a electrolytic 1000uf 50v cap. Can the Polymer cap also be 1000uf 50v? I’m not much of expert on capacitors but i hear polymer caps from a reputable brand are just better all around caps since they last …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-03-22, 21:02

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from a buyers point of view, as some of these are actually sold, I'd like to know why buy it just as one example; what does a Cyrix 5x86-120 do for $150 that any number of pentium 1's, 2's and early celerons dont do more of, for less? i cannot imagine it keeping its value, it has no other feature …

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Re: Anyone else into photography?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 23:35

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I'm not even an amateur, I have a basic DSLR and 18-55 lense. I just like composing and playing around with aperture and shutter speed. Then you probably already know a lot more about photography than most folks who can barely operate their phone camera haha. You don't really need an expensive …

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Re: How to identify this 486 motherboard techmedia UMC um8498F

Posted on 2021-03-21, 23:20

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This is silkscreened under a sticker: Markvision Flexboard socket 3 AT moederbord a.jpg I've tried to research it, but can't find any information. Luckily the jumper settings are also silkscreened on the board. Interestingly mine are from 1996. Imagine you bought this in 1996. It doesn't even have …

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Re: Do you enjoy PC restoration videos, have you done extensive restorations?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 23:09

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Usually a full restoration is not necessary to get an old pc to work and to make it look like something desirable again. I sometimes recap hardware (or pay an expert to do that in case of more recent hardware), replace parts like fans, clean stuff inside and outside, maybe lubricate something and …

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Re: Anyone else into photography?

Posted on 2021-03-18, 14:16

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Nice, didn't even know Pentax was still around. Yes, they 'still' are. Ricoh owns the brand and doesn't invest a lot of money in it. They currently don't have a mirrorless camera, in fact, they want to focus on DSLR with a pentaprism and make it better. Photography is my bread & butter (jam). I own …

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Re: How to identify this 486 motherboard techmedia UMC um8498F

Posted on 2021-02-25, 21:20

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by SpectriaForce

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This is silkscreened under a sticker: Markvision Flexboard socket 3 AT moederbord a.jpg I've tried to research it, but can't find any information. Luckily the jumper settings are also silkscreened on the board. Interestingly mine are from 1996. Imagine you bought this in 1996. It doesn't even have …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-19, 19:53

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I confess that when I moved from a house to a small apartment, I took no less than SIX functioning PowerMac G5's to the garbage dump's e-waste section. I tried selling them, I tried giving them away, and gave up out of both frustration and time constraints. I'm sorry, I know somebody out there …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-19, 19:41

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Some people are probably going to hate me, but I think Amiga's failure was well deserved. Commodore wanted to make the system cheaper to use for a home user and made some technical decisions that really hurt it in the long run (like sticking to NTSC and PAL video modes). The OS was impressive for …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-19, 19:31

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- I have (pretty much) all the old pc hardware that I want. I don't collect anymore. - I currently much rather assemble and configure an old x86 pc, than actually use it for gaming. - 3DFX card and Glide? Just give me a DirectX NVIDIA card (I do have a fully working Voodoo2 pc though, which I almost …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-19, 18:12

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Wait, that reminds me of the French language. They have some hard time there counting numbers! ^^ 1995: English: nineteenninetyfive Dutch: negentienvijfennegentig German: neunzehnhundertfünfundneunzig French: mille neuf cents quatre-vingts-quinze LOL Still, I like the French language so much more …

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