Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-30, 08:06

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Found this on a company liquidation last week: PG740.jpg A Siemens Simatic PG 740 Basically a Pentium portable used for programming S5 and S7 SPS systems. System comes up to BIOS but does not boot. The second one, a PG 740 PII does not boot, but seems to have only a powerbutton problem. An A3 …

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Re: compaq 4115 kvm switch firmware

Posted on 2021-07-26, 11:27

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I must have 2 or 3 of these KVMs. Does it matter for the ROM if its 4 or 8 ports? It will just take same until I find the time to connect it to read out the BIOS version.

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Re: Did a 486/50 Compaq Deskpro exist?

Posted on 2021-07-23, 09:19

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Deskpro L series is very very hard to find these days this one is based on single CPU board motherboard version of dual slot motherboard used in Compaq's Systempro. ... Cheers, This is correct for the Deskpro 486/33 L but not for the 486/50 L. The 50 L used a CPU mounted on the motherboad itself …

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Re: Old servers - what are they good for?

Posted on 2021-07-22, 11:20

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The usual Upgrade to the token Ring switches was ATM155. got one Olicom featuring this or Token Ring 100 availiable from Madge. I agree with some others here: Old servers are much cooler than usual PC boxes. Sometimes difficult up to sophisticated to configure zou are allways proud if you have one …

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Re: Worst tips from tech support

Posted on 2021-06-09, 11:43

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Brickpad wrote on 2021-06-07, 19:56: ... This is also a guy who likes to brag that he has a Bachelor's degree (in an unrelated field) and an MCSE certification. Ah, a Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert.

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Re: rails

Posted on 2021-06-08, 11:02

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3D print is easy for plastic rails, but for the pictured metallic ones it will be difficult. Definitely had something like this in my sticky hands before , but not sure if its integrated somewhere now or just gathering dust in a box. I will check my spares if there might be a matching pair an pm you …

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Re: HP 9000 C110

Posted on 2021-05-28, 07:20

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-05-27, 19:41: Which one uses LVD SCSI? Cheers, From https://www.openpa.net/scsi.html#chips B1000, C3000 seems to be the first with LVD SCSI.

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Re: Resurrecting a Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2021-05-05, 10:23

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If you ever want to restore your backuped data go for the DLT and not for the DAT. DAT drives tend to become WOMs (write only memory) especially if you swapped the drive due to a defect. The Deskpro 4000 is a really nice system, got some 2000/4000/6000 myself, but I prefer the minitower models.

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Re: AHA-1540B/1542B patched BIOS ROM to avoid conflict with MPU-401

Posted on 2021-04-19, 09:15

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I am pretty sure somethng like this BIOS existed allready. I need to check my archives, but I remember i downloaded something like this from an old Vobis BBS years ago. Is is not contained in the adptec ftp archives I archived as well. Standard io at 330h is known to cause problems with different …

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Re: Origin or Steam

Posted on 2021-03-18, 12:30

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I would recommend Steam due to poor localisation of Origin. It was not possible to play Origin games in a different language than the one supported in your download area. Namely Dragon Age which I started to play from the DVD in english but was only able to play it in german after Origin …

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Re: MCA card in VLB slot

Posted on 2020-12-01, 09:42

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If you do this with the pictured rare MCA sound board it is worse than just burning money. Every Microchannel enthusiast will hate you until your end of days.

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Re: What is the loudest hard drive you have???

Posted on 2020-11-26, 09:45

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My loudest is an HP C2490 2 GB SCSI drive followed by an IBM 18 GB SCSI Ultrastar. Both drives make noise you immediately want to leave the room. Both are still working fine, but you really do not want to operate any of these.

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Re: Pentium Pro VRM compatibility with Klamath VRM?.

Posted on 2020-11-03, 09:58

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2020-11-02, 21:46: According to the HP Vectra XU 6/XXX Service Handbook the part # is 5063-8794 The same number ist listed by partsurfer.hp.com.

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Re: Compaq/HP Restore Plus! Machine check

Posted on 2020-11-03, 09:26

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I once had the same Issue with a XW4600, Z400, Z600, Z800 Restore CD despite using the correct media for the machine. The box needed a BIOS update first to get detected correctly. It looks like the installer checks the machine type in BIOS so you will need the matching media for your machine. I …

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Re: Does anybody knows how to setup an old Seagate ST-296N scsi1 harddrive 5.25 inch?

Posted on 2020-10-27, 06:19

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The drive will work on any of the mentioned controllers (ST-01, AHA154xB/C). I run mine on a 1542B. One thing to consider about the ST-01 ist that this controller can only handle two drives, so a low SCSI like 0 or 1 might be necessary. Setup is different from MFM, RLL or IDE drive. The controller …

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Re: Compaq hard drives.

Posted on 2020-10-26, 09:57

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Compaq used different drives from all manufaturers, even IBM and HP their greatest competitors delivered drives for Compaq. While most desktop drives have only the Compaq Letters in their firmware drive identication string some server drives contained special firmware features like health data …

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Re: Huge Server / Full AT Case - what to use it for?

Posted on 2020-10-22, 06:31

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Interesting are the Slot covers on both sides of the Keyboard port, I only saw few motherboards with this config. Perfect match would be a 486 or early Pentium Server Board, eg. AMI Enterprise III or Asus T2P4D(S).

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Re: EISA Graphics / Video Cards

Posted on 2020-10-20, 12:28

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386_junkie wrote on 2016-01-28, 08:48: A new addition to the family; - Just found the exact same board in my stash. The manual lists !MER2151.cfg as the matching cfg-file

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Re: AGP Pro 110 cards

Posted on 2020-10-19, 10:52

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The hp visualize FX6+ might play in the same range, but I cannot find an figures on power consumption. ATI Fire GL 4 is pro 50 only.

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Re: Why do card manufacturers use each other's model numbers?

Posted on 2020-10-08, 09:59

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Reusing typenumbers is common even within the same manufacturer. Ever tried to gather any information on the intel i80860 RISC CPU? Most of your hits will relate to the intel i860 P4 Xeon Rambus chipset.

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