Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-14, 23:21

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by HanJammer

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That may have been the very mother of all AT tower cases with PSU, MHz display and all other bells and whistles and including transport, it's still a good deal. It was the case I presented in this threads around 2 or 3 weeks ago... It was very nice, but nothing special. And friend picked it up …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-14, 13:32

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by HanJammer

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I got this nice Terratec Maestro 16 along with Terratec Dream GS Wave 4MB wavetable from a friend in exchange for a big tower case. I think it was a good deal.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-08, 23:20

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by HanJammer

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they can also scale 320x200 perfectly ^^ unfortunately a lot of the 1600x1200 LCDs are really old by now and many of them suffer from deteriorating panels, but there's also 1920x1200 and some of them can do proper 4:3 scaling. Yes, although pixels won't be square if you want the picture to cover …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-08, 23:13

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by HanJammer

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LCDs outside their native resolution is a no-go for me. One reason why I don't bother using LCD monitors with old computers. :) 1600x1200 LCDs are pretty cool -> they scale down beautifully to 800x600 (1 pixel = 2x2 pixels) and 320x240 (1 pixel = 5x5 pixels). Super sharp and good for your eyes, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-06, 11:49

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by HanJammer

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In my case it's the plain ol' audio tapes I was referring to. I'm not sure how reliable these will be, I mean these are plain consumer products in the end and not professional material. But those that I tried last year were still working as intended :P Depends on tape quality. I have some old 8-bit …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-06, 11:34

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by HanJammer

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Storage on magnetic tapes is not made to last. The magnetic layers tend to slowly copy themselves onto each other. Just ask NASA about the Apollo data. So, the tapes may be fine physcially, but the information on them will at least fade away. AFAIK, you'd at least have to rewind them to the other …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-05, 12:02

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by HanJammer

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AUREAL Vortex 2 cards are starting to reach stupid prices. Diamond Monster MX300s, especially. speaking of, this arrived recently, I finally found one... can't complain really for $10 ...sometimes I'm allowed to have luck. hardware40_81.jpg Around last Christmas I got three of these thanks to a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-04, 10:56

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by HanJammer

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You mean online? Because here in The Netherlands sA and s370 have been pretty much extinct in the wild for at least since before covid even. Usually the oldest I find while thrifting is usually LGA775 (the non-core2 compatible one that is). And that is if I find anything at all since PC stuff isn't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-03, 21:08

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by HanJammer

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I think of anything from before 1 GHz was achieved as retro, but to call it interesting and vintage, I'd be looking at 486 and earlier. Sockets 370 and A are still extremely common (heck, even socket 7 is common as mud!) Well, there are some interesting Socket 7 CPUs (P233MMX which is great CPU to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-03, 20:57

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by HanJammer

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For the price of a pint of beer I bought these (seller's photo and description) Intel® Pentium® 4 220/512 Intel® Pentium® 3 1000/256/133 AMD Athlon XKDA3000# I have a pin straightening session ahead! :) And I have bought yet another ThinkPad (R50e) - looks like a Celeron/Pentium M but I have no …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-28, 16:59

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by HanJammer

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I wondered that about vintage music synthesizer hardware 10 years ago, and they've continued to climb in price. Synths are totally different animals as vintage synths - unlike computers they can actually be used not only by hobbysts/enthusiasts but also by professionals for making money. That can't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-28, 16:17

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by HanJammer

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You can understand losing someone dear, feeling overwhelmed while grieving and not wanting to deal with any of this, thus the wish to send everything to the dump. I say good on the OP for not only paying a fair price to the widow but also for salvaging all these vintage parts so they can find their …

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Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2022-04-26, 14:55

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by HanJammer

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That's interesting, but on retropc with msdos and windows98 would it be useful for anything? "retropc"? You meant vintage PC right? Under Win9x it's just a matter of drivers - manual for SuperTrax 6000SX states there is no support for Win9x because there are no drivers, although I found some …

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Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2022-04-26, 12:47

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by HanJammer

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Does someone actually reached 33 MB/s speed with these old boards and cpus to make UDMA66 more than paper trait? From my experience all disc operation heavily depends on cpu and they are slow.. I tried 1 Gbit network cards with SS7.. and with cpu limits i never reached speed of 100 Mbit.. There are …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-26, 00:02

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by HanJammer

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... Also, some games/apps will run better on a PPro 200 MHz 1MB cache than on low end PII (233, even 266). I know Quake 1 apparently runs slightly better on a PPro than on a Pentium MMX, but what other games are you referring to? To be honest - if playing old games is the goal, then building ANY …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-25, 00:10

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by HanJammer

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debs3759 wrote on 2022-04-24, 22:51: Any chance you could scan that ET1000 manual? I have the same model (it's made by DFI, not Addonics, they just put their branding on it). Yeah, I will.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-24, 22:35

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by HanJammer

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This time almost new TSENG ET1000 and interesting AST video card found in the heap of my usual 'trash' supplier...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-23, 21:29

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by HanJammer

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Also this screen filter... I hated them 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-23, 21:25

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by HanJammer

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A s**tload of NOS accessories for AT/XT clone cases and XT-class motherboards... Not really "bought" - more like I received them for free. Those are some left-overs from a company which build and serviced PCs in the late 80s/early 90s in Poland. I also got a NOS amber MDA/Hercules monitor in the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-22, 21:48

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by HanJammer

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That CD drive on the last photo is pretty cool. The entire drive bay pops out to feed the disk instead of a motorized tray. Yeah... they are pretty reliable too. Mitsumi 1x drive. One of these will be featured in my next video (hopefully ready in a few days). Yep, the full towers are a logistical …

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