Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Today, 11:32
or you're both confusing something ^^ both the millenium and the mystique support 8MB I have a first gen millenium with 2MB + 6MB upgrade module.
Re: Intel Xe Gaming GPU
Posted on Today, 10:25
Re: How important is a PCI graphics card in a 486?
Posted on Yesterday, 23:51
pentiumspeed wrote on Yesterday, 18:34: Real reason for PCI is cost. VLB video cards is getting harder to find and expensive. Cheers, but even then 486 PCI boards are way more expensive than VLB ones :p
Re: The 286 IBM miniature build project
Posted on Yesterday, 19:09
awesome project :3 can't wait to see the case
Re: Coronavirus chatter
Posted on Yesterday, 12:05
liqmat wrote on Yesterday, 10:34: A sad and pathetic situation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/c … e=pocket-newtab that must be that famous free market controlling itself
Re: Need motherboard manual for Acorp 5VX2
Posted on Yesterday, 02:09
I have an old acorp board too and haven't found anything about it apart from a few scanned pages from the manual in the internet archive luckily... there seems to be little surviving documentation about these boards. it does seem to be the same as this one though: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/ …
Re: Coronavirus chatter
Posted on Yesterday, 01:02
it is wrong to assume that everything would be fine if we weren't dependent on trade... we simply would not have these things at all then. we as a globalized world went down this hole and you can't just get out of it again. sure we could go back to a world without "all of the things" but who wants …
Re: Coronavirus chatter
Posted on 2020-03-30, 23:53
it is absolutely impossible to bring PC part production back just like that... and even if they'd somehow manage to do it, nobody could afford them. the whole affordability is built on cheap labor in countries in asia etc. unless you absolutely need new PC parts right now it is just futile to stock …
Re: What was the SRP and street price of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics at launch?
Posted on 2020-03-30, 20:55
the original launch price was $299 apparently but quickly dropped after that. https://www.techspot.com/article/653-history- … the-gpu-part-2/
Re: Can you I.D. This motherboard ?
Posted on 2020-03-30, 20:44
PC Chips M590
Re: Need Help Ventilating / Cool Old AT/ATX Computer Case
Posted on 2020-03-30, 20:19
it looks like the PSU plate and the plate above that are removable and actually just screwed in at the back? if so you could easily manufacture (or let someone do it) a plate to go there instead :) and you wouldn't even have to sacrifice any original parts. edit: ah in the ad page you posted you …
Re: Need Help Ventilating / Cool Old AT/ATX Computer Case
Posted on 2020-03-30, 19:46
it looks like the PSU plate and the plate above that are removable and actually just screwed in at the back? if so you could easily manufacture (or let someone do it) a plate to go there instead :) and you wouldn't even have to sacrifice any original parts. edit: ah in the ad page you posted you can …
Re: Ultimate retro keyboard?
Posted on 2020-03-30, 19:35
Ah! it's a NTC KB-6251 ;) https://deskthority.net/wiki/NTC_KB-6251 according to deskthority the ZEOS branded version is rare apparently ;) also how did that DE keyboard end up in the US? x3 I got one of them too... I paid a lot more though ^^, it was worth it to me though because this is actually …
Re: Vogons members average motherboard collection size
Posted on 2020-03-30, 10:59
Nice collection ! You have a superb bunch of Soc7 and Slot1. Do all of those work ? I tested all my spare boards back in Oct 2019 thru Dec 2019. Have 7o-ish that work (will boot to DOS floppy or HD), 4 that have failed to boot at all and 3 that hang at boot so am not listing them. I also have 23 …
Re: How did people draw on their PCs in the 80s and the 90s?
Posted on 2020-03-30, 10:50
we had a nice 90s digitizer, some day my dad threw it out even though I urged him not to 🙁 I still have a serial port drawing tablet with a cabled pen somewhere ^^
Re: Vogons members average motherboard collection size
Posted on 2020-03-29, 23:03
phew... so this is the fruit of my labor from this weekend... went through a whole bunch of boards and started compiling a list of most of them... I left out obviously damaged boards apart from ones with slight corrosion, some boards I have multiples of and newer boards apart from a few interesting …
Re: Coronavirus chatter
Posted on 2020-03-29, 22:20
The ONLY people that would need something like that is those people who were dumb and didn't stock up of their own accord. dumb are the people who bought way more than they need and created artificial scarcity leaving others without things they need even though there is MORE THAN ENOUGH of …
Re: How did people draw on their PCs in the 80s and the 90s?
Posted on 2020-03-29, 22:18
I don't 100% remember but I used a DOS paint software in EGA on our 386... I believe it was PC PAINT? later used MS Paint until I started using Photoshop with Version 3.0 I believe. was stuck for a long time on Photoshop 4.0...
Re: Coronavirus chatter
Posted on 2020-03-29, 22:02
The ONLY people that would need something like that is those people who were dumb and didn't stock up of their own accord. dumb are the people who bought way more than they need and created artificial scarcity leaving others without things they need even though there is MORE THAN ENOUGH of …
Re: Vogons members average motherboard collection size
Posted on 2020-03-29, 17:59
for me one of the reasons for amassing so much hardware is also simply because I want to preserve it, and I hope whoever gets it when I'm dead will do the same.
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