Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:51

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by HanJammer

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... proceeds to agree on every point made? :] 1 pcpartner was a budget manufacturer 2 VT82C693A sucks, is unreliable, and its AGP implementation is broken 3 its ok it you only use some minimal subset of computer capabilities 1. It was. It was a very solid budget manufacturer though. On-par with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-31, 00:12

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by HanJammer

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This is VT82C693A on extreme budged (pcpartner was priding itself on making bottom of the barrel hardware, they even manufactured for/with pcchips at some point). Not only it is ~1/3 slower than any 440BX board, but it will regularly crash while gaming on graphic cards actually using AGP features. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-29, 21:56

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by HanJammer

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This build with NexGen motherboard and quite not interesting parts otherwise inside... I really like this case. It's as big as my modern LianLi Lancool III but I think It will be good suited for some ultimate mid-90s build. Maybe I will even leave the NexGen inside as it's board which apparently was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-25, 08:50

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by HanJammer

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Well, perhaps my question was not clear enough - but it was about case for the Tyan S1837 (hence Full ATX) Ah, that one would be EATX I think: https://www.pcinq.com/pc-motherboard-form-factors-explained/ Unfortunately I don't recall seeing vintage EATX cases that weren't huge towers... Yes, you are …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 23:24

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by HanJammer

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Anyway, any recommendations for a good vintage Full ATX case? Preferably not a big tower and not server case... For the Tucson, considering it's a very early ATX board, it would feel right at home in one of Intel's first ATX cases, as mentioned in this thread . Assuming you can find one, of course. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 22:24

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by HanJammer

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brostenen wrote on 2023-05-24, 21:44: I have seen those Socket7 ATX boards before. I believe there is even 486 ATX boards out there. Yeah, me too but those were usually MVP2 FIC boards and similar. Not HX motherboards. Anyway, any recommendations for a good vintage Full ATX case? Preferably not a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-24, 21:17

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by HanJammer

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Those two beauties - Intel TC430HX Tucson (interesting because it's Socket 7 HX motherboard but in ATX form factor - unfortunately it's version without integrated Virge) which came with Pentium 200MMX and Tyan Thunder S1837UANG which came with a single PIII 600MHz (Cu-mine). I negotiated a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-18, 10:03

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by HanJammer

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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! :) Well, I meant that original Hercules (well, actually it's GB102, and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-17, 10:22

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by HanJammer

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This Tandon 286. I have two of these now. They are way better build than the original IBM 5170 - much heavier, better quality materials... When I bough it I didn't realized what was hidden inside...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-26, 23:50

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by HanJammer

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This thing... I wonder if it will obey me and open the pod bay doors... well, in case it will go rebel I will have two reset buttons at my disposal... Anyway, I don't think I will stick to this machine, I have too many of these already so I will probably clean it and put it on sale...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-25, 11:05

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by HanJammer

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MediaVision PAS Plus (SCSI variant), Everex Tape Drive controller, MSI K7D Master Rev. 1 with two Athlons MP 2000+ (I have another one of this boards laying around which was recapped some time ago - this one has all original caps which are not buldging...). As for the Everex EV-833 controller I …

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

Posted on 2023-04-24, 09:13

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by HanJammer

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https://www.symphoniae.com/misc/vogons/bbund_s.jpg Recently patched a number of Brøderbund MPU and Ad Lib routines for RS-232 MIDI and OPL3LPT usage, respectively. Brøderbund heavily supported the Tandy DAC as well, making the 286/10Mhz-based Tandy 1000 RLX an excellent system for these titles. …

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

Posted on 2023-04-24, 09:10

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by HanJammer

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mrfusion92 wrote on 2023-04-21, 14:34: debs3759 wrote on 2023-04-21, 14:32: I thought VGA was DB15 😀 Not for Apple since they re-arranged the pins in only two rows! It's still DB15 😁

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Re: Suntac 80286 Mainboards

Posted on 2023-04-24, 08:43

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by HanJammer

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My collection of Suntac motherboards... all working perfectly fine. suntac1.jpg suntac2.jpg suntac3.jpg suntac4.jpg suntac5.jpg Hi : ) I have got a board with pretty much the same layout as yours but there is no DIP Switch, making it hard to right config the 4 sipp (1mb each) I am trying to install …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-19, 00:21

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by HanJammer

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And this socket 7 minitower...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-19, 00:19

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by HanJammer

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And this socket 3 Highscreen and this socket 7 minitower which also work fine...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-19, 00:15

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by HanJammer

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Also this big tower which seems to work just fine...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-19, 00:11

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by HanJammer

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This 386... Mobo needs some cleaning and fresh battery. Powers on and POSTs, HDD is dead, needs some more testing...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-14, 08:23

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by HanJammer

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Another big tower system... I try to avoid them (with mixed results) because I don't really have space for them, but I couldn't pass this originally black with dual-color MHz display. Internally it came with DFI MVP3 board, K6-2 500MHz and Creative Graphics Blaster TNT. Case also has the metal stand …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-06, 16:15

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by HanJammer

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appiah4 wrote on 2023-04-06, 13:27: I went from 880K Amiga floppies to a 213MB HDD overnight. My mind was blown. I went from 286 with 2 42MB HDDs to a K5 PR133 with 1,2GB HDD. I won't say my mind was blown but that was definitely an upgrade.

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