Re: "Square peg in a round hole" Socket 370 heatsink
Posted on 2021-09-07, 20:45
That looks an awful lot like the heatsink in my Deskpro EN SFF - see Ancient Electronics' photos https://ancientelectronics.wordpress.com/2014 … ll-form-factor/
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-14, 21:51
Old_Jelly wrote on 2021-08-14, 08:01: Got the final piece for my Pentium 3 pc yesterday. I'm quiet happy with how everything came together. […] Show full quote Got the final piece for my Pentium 3 pc yesterday. I'm quiet happy with how everything came together. Antec PlusView 1000 AMG 1.jpg 2.jpg …
Re: Happy 40th IBM PC
Posted on 2021-08-14, 21:42
IBM's loss was everyone else's gain. I can confidently say you'll never see as open a platform ever again. None of our current corporate behemoths are likely to repeat the mistake we're celebrating.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-11, 21:41
It's too soon to call, so I'm hedging my bets on the HD video format war
Re: Tips to be a pro fleebay seller.
Posted on 2021-08-05, 17:49
On of the most irritating things about some sellers is that after I purchase an item or win an auction and then pay, they either cancel because "item damaged" or they come back and say it is no longer in stock... Yeah, I'm getting tired of that. Seller lists it with a starting price of £0.99 and I …
Re: Retro paradox?
Posted on 2021-08-04, 19:45
That was a shame really. A few times when I was in the UK, yet during internet era, when there was no connection available, I managed to find something useful on a teletext capable TV. Indeed, I recall checking Ceefax on September 11th 2001 because all the news sites were timing out. I have huge …
Re: Retro paradox?
Posted on 2021-08-03, 18:38
I don't think that's accurate. Outside of vogons and a rather small circle of enthusiasts, knowledge of the past is not increasing. I worry all the time about what we may have already forgotten. I think a lot about how this stuff will be remembered when the people who lived through it are all gone. …
Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)
Posted on 2021-07-22, 17:11
My younger brother misheard Rainbow Six as Rainbow Sex, which is the kind of party Oprah warned us about. Worse than Hot Coffee in every way.
Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)
Posted on 2021-07-20, 13:59
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater -> Tony Hawks' Pro Skater - You play as an English author who checks his e-mails every day to find kids have mistakenly written to him for advice about skateboarding.
Re: Is Vista now Retro
Posted on 2021-06-26, 23:37
When I first heard the term "retro" it refereed to newly made things such as the Kawasaki W650, Hinkly Triumph twins, the new mini and such with older styling. I know. I know. But semantic shift is an extant linguistic phenomenon to the point where a word can flip meaning in just a few centuries. …
Re: Is Vista now Retro
Posted on 2021-06-23, 22:00
I think Vista hovers on that line along with SATA and PCI Express. However, while everyone knows about the issues with SSDs under Windows 98, etc; Vista was built for the era of spinning platters too. Windows 7 may only be NT 6.1 to Vista's 6.0, but it supports SSDs out of the box. Vista is vintage …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-06-21, 18:55
brostenen wrote on 2021-06-21, 15:25: Recieved my Corsair Carbide 540 case. Looks quite nice. Brings to mind the Thinking Machines in the background of the control room in Jurassic Park.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-06-18, 16:27
chinny22 wrote on 2021-06-15, 08:55: rust = patina = character. All part of it's history. The 10 million subscribers retrobrighting special: the Statue of Liberty.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-06-10, 14:58
DundyTheCroc wrote on 2021-06-09, 18:13: All Celerons are Socket 370, from old Cisco PIX firewalls. Hmm, might just buy a cheap PIX 506E then. I'll add that to my sprawling list of bookmarked eBay searches 😁
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-06-09, 15:14
DundyTheCroc wrote on 2021-06-09, 11:38: Nothing special, only 17 Celeron 300A CPUs, they are common, but I love the way they work at 450MHz 😀 Slot or socket? Slot 1 seems to be common (on eBay, if that's an accurate measure of reality) but all the Socket 370 ones seem to be concentrated in Eastern …
Re: Is there any repair shop can fix IBM sticky laptop coating?
Posted on 2021-05-16, 18:13
I had the same problem with a ScrollPoint mouse. The stickiness came back after trying to clean it with alcohol, so I just opted to remove it with baking soda. Not as nice in the hand, but not a dirt magnet anymore.
Re: Strangest thing found on harddrives
Posted on 2021-05-05, 16:51
When I started work as a postman in 2007 I came across enough PCs tossed on the street that I started carrying a screwdriver with me so I could 'techraid'. In one rough area I stripped a low-end turn-of-the-century Dell system of what I could carry (CPU, RAM, HDD). Seems the local youth gang had …
Re: ever buy job lots of CPUs etc?
Posted on 2021-04-29, 19:03
What's behind that phenomenon? I'd really like to know how much profit someone makes after extracting gold from 15 AMD CPUs. There is no way that amateurs out there are making a profit on gold extraction unless they've been gifted: the tools and abundant chemicals required to process the material …
Re: Dual Slot 1/Socket 7
Posted on 2021-04-25, 01:08
I wondered the same thing as I received a Computer today where I thought that might be the case especially since the slot is marked with "slot 1" Are you sure that isn't just a slot labelled as 'slot 1' (primary slot) rather than proper noun 'Slot 1' (the CPU connector)? The key looks like it's …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-04-14, 21:00
Got this off the back of a Hong Kong speedboat. Paired with a Covington 266 and 1000W PSU... I reckon I'll have enough Bitty to retire by 4/20.
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