Echo Speech Corp Echo DSP Sound Card

Posted on 2021-05-15, 19:44

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Hi all, just rescued this card from a very sad waterlogged 486 tower. Aside from the tower at one point being the home of a squirrel or small rodent, the sound card was in good shape! Anyways, the card is a bit of an enigma. Analog Devices ECHO-based cards seem to be a bit uncommon as-is, with the …

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Guillemot Maxi Studio ISIS PCI sound card

Posted on 2020-12-13, 02:27

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Hi all, I recently acquired this sound card. I haven't gotten it up and running in my system yet, but I realized that drivers seem to be really really hard to track down online. The previous owner of this card included the original install media along with some later driver updates. Here's some …

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Re: Driver for MediaMagic Telemetry-32 OPTi 82C950

Posted on 2020-05-30, 23:51

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Thanks for the driver. I have this oddball card too. I unzipped the file and ran the AT&T software installer. I then did an Add New HW for non-PnP cards, and it found a Sound Blaster or compatible. But I got the yellow exclamation point in Device Manager. This is in 98SE. Not sure what to do next. …

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Re: Driver for MediaMagic Telemetry-32 OPTi 82C950

Posted on 2020-05-30, 20:46

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I have one of these cards as well (the one with only IDE). I have had an absolute hell of a time trying to get it working in win98se. I believe these were special cards made for specific NCR telephone systems, as I found my drivers from an old NCR support site. They are horrendously unstable in …

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Cyrix FasMath Demonstration Diskette

Posted on 2020-03-07, 02:18

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I found this in a box of floppy disks destined for the trash. Never seen one before, and they don't seem to be all that common. I don't have a system with a FasMath installed, but I did make an image of the disk (.IMA format). Filename Scan_20200306.jpg File size 348.2 KiB Views 252 views File …

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Re: Dead Adlib, is it genuine?

Posted on 2019-12-23, 23:00

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Thanks for all of the help. I'll get the tantalum caps on order and try to get them all replaced nicely. As for the values of the capacitors, I assume the modern Adlib kits are using the same values? If not, has anyone documented them?

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Re: Dead Adlib, is it genuine?

Posted on 2019-12-23, 04:13

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I am testing this card in a 16-bit ISA slot on a Pentium MMX 200MHz system. Would there be any sort of compatibility issues that I may have missed? I ran a Sound Blaster 1.5 perfectly fine in this system, so I figured the Adlib would be fine. It has an ATX power supply, so I assume it's not powering …

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Re: Dead Adlib, is it genuine?

Posted on 2019-12-23, 04:08

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maxtherabbit wrote: 16 KILO ohms? that's hardly a short I agree, but compared to the 12V and -12V lines, which are in the range MegaOhms, it is an outlier. I checked the same pins on a couple of other ISA cards I have lying around (SB16, etc) and their 5V lines have several megaohms resistance to …

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Dead Adlib, is it genuine?

Posted on 2019-12-23, 03:54

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Hey everyone, I got this Adlib sound card a few months back from a college that was liquidating a ton of old computer parts. I tried testing it in a machine and the computer wouldn't turn on with the card installed. I checked for continuity between the lines and there seems to be a ~16kOhm short to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-06, 17:41

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As promised, I got some more pictures of the IBM Industrial Computer. It's a neat computer. Pentium MMX 166 16MB RAM 2x IDE HDD, boots into PC-DOS 4x IBM Artic186 controller cards 1x IDE Fujitsu DynaMO magneto-optical drive. The case is a mix of extruded aluminum and steel. I don't have the space …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-30, 15:30

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oeuvre wrote: the perspective of the 2nd picture is pretty funky... almost looks like it's just the faceplate on the ground, not the entire machine Yeah sorry 'bout that. I assure you, the whole machine is there. I'll try to grab some better pictures this weekend.

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Re: How much do you pay for Old hardware Repairs ???

Posted on 2019-09-30, 14:47

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if you had some way to detect which is the bad one, then it would be much easy It's not a sure-fire way, but there are methods to determining failed components. When parts fail, they tend to heat up (or not heat up) differently than their working counterparts. The expensive way to figure this out …

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Re: How much do you pay for Old hardware Repairs ???

Posted on 2019-09-30, 14:29

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Most GPUs from the last ~20 years use BGA memory chips. You would need to find someone who is experienced in BGA rework (Laptop/Phone repair place would be your best bet.) Many of these places might turn you away though, as they probably would not guarantee a repair on such old hardware. For the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-30, 14:16

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Never seen one of these before. Boots up into PC-DOS. Complains that the controller cards aren't connected to anything (I'm assuming some piece of factory machinery). Pentium 166MHz, 2x IDE hard drives. Moves A LOT of air when running. Chassis is mostly aluminum.

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Re: Sound Blaster Pro CT1330A Stereo MIDI playback?

Posted on 2019-09-01, 19:57

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Man as soon as you finish beating the artists ass can you shorten the bodge wires a lil thanks lol It's working happily at the moment, so it's going to stay the "Spaghetti Blaster" until I need to change them out. It isn't pretty, but it gets a fun name and a story behind it. (They were also a huge …

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Sound Blaster Pro CT1330A Stereo MIDI playback?

Posted on 2019-09-01, 14:50

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So I recently rescued and repaired a Sound Blaster Pro which was mounted in an "Art display". It had a hole drilled in it, so I needed to replace some traces. SB_Pro.jpg Finding information on the original SB Pro has proven to be kind of difficult, as these cards seem to be pretty uncommon. Were …

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Philips Rhythmic Edge PSC703 - Is it supposed to sound THIS bad?

Posted on 2019-02-04, 02:07

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So I found this thing at work... and it's absolutely horrendous . Setting it to full master volume makes it clip like crazy. It gets tons of noise on the right audio channel, and the midi synth... good LORD the midi synth... I took a recording of onestop.mid as a benchmark of sorts... https://www. …

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Re: DUDE, show me your Dell!

Posted on 2018-11-10, 01:34

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And I'll stop with these two: m1710_m1730.jpg The one on the right doesn't have too much of a story behind it. One day at the recycling center I work at, it just kinda materialized on a pallet of towers one day. I got it for $20 AS-IS. It's a Dell XPS M1710. A little bit beat up, but works fine! The …

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Re: DUDE, show me your Dell!

Posted on 2018-11-10, 01:04

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Next up, my Dell XPS 730X (Formerly H2C) This machine was rescued from a computer shop's e-waste pile. When I got it, it was plastered in "vape nation" stickers and definitely smelled the part. After much goo-gone and a proper dusting, the machine looked great! It originally came with the H2Ceramic …

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Re: DUDE, show me your Dell!

Posted on 2018-11-10, 00:47

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Oh boy do I have a treat (or rather, a whole buffet) for you guys. It'll take me a bit to get decent pictures of the rest, but lets start with humble beginnings... xps410.jpg This is my XPS 410. It was one of the first machines I was able to play around with (throwaway from my aunt), and it's still …

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