Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-01-12, 21:43

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Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-01-12, 21:00: [snip snip] About that platter drive thing, that's a SyQuest drive, seems like you've wound up with a 44mb drive, normally the drive type is written on the front.

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2024-11-14, 12:00

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Mine just arrived today, and honestly? It's even prettier in person than it looks on the photos. Now I just gotta reinstall Win98 on my Pentium PC, unless I can somehow make the Orpheus II coexist with the existing CT4180 I have in it at the moment. All of this IRQ juggling is a bit before my time 🤣 …

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Re: CPU MELTDOWN!! (show me!)

Posted on 2024-10-01, 23:46

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I used to take the hsf off my dual 333/433@83fsb Celerons while q3a timedemo was running just to watch the Athlon boys cringe. It eventually crashed, but never died. As a child, me and my brother brought death upon many a Socket 5/7 CPU(s) by running them without the heatsink and "feeling" the …

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Re: Winamp's source code is now open

Posted on 2024-09-29, 01:37

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They also included some files which were from Dolby and not allowed to be redistributed, and removed them after someone raised an issue, but if you know an old commit hash (or find it in an issue which is still available on GitHub) you can still find the content of those files. It seems that …

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Re: Dell 4100 for retro gaming

Posted on 2024-09-06, 21:31

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Regarding the Dell PSU proprietariness, as far as I know, Intel boards have footprints for both the Dell PSU connector and an ATX connector. But here's the trick, that so-called Dell PSU connector is just an ATX connector which is just ...shifted to the next row.. Now I'm not sure if this also …

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Re: Sony 5,25'' MO drive works mechanically but not recognizing media - suspected problems with SCSI, help required

Posted on 2024-08-09, 01:37

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If the BIOS of the card indeed is trashed, that could explain why. However, from what I can find there's two variations of the 2940/2940W, one that has a surface-mounted PLCC EEPROM and another (older?) with a DIP EEPROM. Sounds like you're going to have to use an EEPROM programmer to reflash the …

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Re: Sony 5,25'' MO drive works mechanically but not recognizing media - suspected problems with SCSI, help required

Posted on 2024-08-08, 00:19

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Yes, try with a jumper on A11/B11, as for the SCSI ID, you can set it to ID 1 for testing, it shouldn't hurt anything. As far as I can recall there was a DOS version of SCSISelect, although I'm not a hundred percent sure if it's gonna work with a card as new as the AHA-2940.

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Re: Sony 5,25'' MO drive works mechanically but not recognizing media - suspected problems with SCSI, help required

Posted on 2024-08-07, 19:22

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I've gone ahead and attached the manual for the drive. This drive indeed has an internal terminator that is enabled using a jumper, make sure it's enabled (unterminated SCSI buses can cause all sorts of funky issues, aka "SCSI voodoo" or "SCSI black magic") and that you have no other devices …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-11, 00:19

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Can anyone tell me if that varta battery is the type that releases acid? tnks No, it's not one of those NiCad barrels of doom, rather, that SBC has a lithium cell in it, might be rechargeable, I can't tell. Still, any battery this old is a liability at this point, so be sure to keep an eye on it or …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2024-06-30, 22:16

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Damn. I guess it's time for me to bite the bullet and nab one once the last batch goes up.. That will make a lovely replacement for the Vibra16 I have in my P233 MMX system. I just hope I didn't come too late for the last batch 🤣

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-06-24, 15:41

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I never really understood why you would want a 100Mb ISA NIC. If you only want to transfer a small file a bit faster, sure, but in an ISA only system you end up saturating the ISA bus and bringing the whole system to a halt. Overclock the ISA bus and it might be worth it. A cool piece of hardware …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-06-23, 17:16

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So this turned up a couple of days ago... This was for a project that never took off in the first place, although I think I can still put this card to good use. It didn't come with a bracket, but given how scarce these 10/100 ISA NICs are, I didn't think twice before buying it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-06-09, 16:45

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No picture yet (my phone seems to have issues uploading pictures to the forum) but for the small sum of 2 euros I came back home with: A Logitech Serial Mouse Some generic ("Promouse ZKN-98302") serial mouse Two parallel port cables Also last but not least, a gnarly sunburn that I got trying to fish …

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Re: 4 or 8 composite outputs

Posted on 2024-06-08, 10:07

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Is there another way to convert an output from a PC (HDMI) to composite video other than those cheap powered HDMI to composite video converters? They seem to be sizing the picture so its just a little bit wider than the screen is. Or an I doing something wrong with the screen? Datavideo TLM-404 …

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Re: Filco keyboards appreciation post

Posted on 2024-05-21, 16:00

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[...] I'm still looking at other options, sometimes I question why my country of all places decided to go with a different keyboard layout.. But it is what it is. This is so true! :-D I'm originally from Spain, having to switch to ANSI English keyboard has not being really a problem for me, I …

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Re: Filco keyboards appreciation post

Posted on 2024-05-15, 07:33

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Keyboard wise, I just picked whatever I could find (that meant crappy rubber dome 'boards that varied in mushyness), until I lucked out on a BNIB Dell AT102W.. One of those "Alps Bigfoot" keyboards with those SKCM Black switches (which honestly aren't too bad, I like the "detent" that they have when …

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Re: Multimeter recommendation

Posted on 2024-04-10, 21:19

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I personally use an old 90's ITT Métrix DMM, I believe it's the MX20. It may not be a Fluke with all the desirable bells and whistles, but back in the day this was a very well regarded model. It has autoranging but that can be overriden by the push of a button.

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Re: A Mystery, hoping someone can solve for me

Posted on 2024-04-01, 09:24

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Erm.. Now that you mention it.. I looked up and yes it's definitely the M6117.. Sorry, got the two part numbers swapped around.. To be fair, TRW lists this chip as "386SX/SLC single chip", and I misinterpreted that.. (note to self: read twice before posting)

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Re: A Mystery, hoping someone can solve for me

Posted on 2024-03-31, 22:40

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See that M1217 chip? It's actually the CPU. Well, not quite, rather, it's a 386SX core with the supporting chipset circuitry bolted on. It seems like this motherboard could either have a standalone chipset and a real 386SX, or this ALi M1217 386SX+Chipset package.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-31, 22:34

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In my head those things are indestructible enough that whatever airplane or truck was carrying it when it got bounced around bad enough to do that, is now a write off. That's what I thought too initially, but I guess I wound up being one of the 0.00001% in the "shit happens" camp. To be fair, the …

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