Epson LT-286 Laptop ... luggable technology?

Posted on 2022-03-09, 19:54

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by RobDos

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I picked up a LT-286 today, the CMOS isn't holding a charge. the old battery was quite large, and had been replaced previously. I'm thinking a CR2032 would be too small? did it matter? I found on ebay ER14250 batteries (3.6v) ad holders that might fit but I want to make sure I don't put somethign …

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Re: SB Awe32 Upgrade Card - Goldfinch! CT1920

Posted on 2022-03-03, 12:23

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by RobDos

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badmojo wrote on 2022-03-03, 01:12: I soldered in a headphone jack for mine Could I ask the PN and where did you find the jack that fits? All the ones I see the pins are off set and don't seem to line up?

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Re: Pentium 166MMX tower of power

Posted on 2022-03-03, 01:34

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by RobDos

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What I think is hilarious, is I got it for $50.USD Figured they would be more rare and expensive. Do you know the head phone jack you used?

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Re: SB Awe32 Upgrade Card - Goldfinch! CT1920

Posted on 2022-03-02, 20:49

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by RobDos

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Nevermine, found it.

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SB Awe32 Upgrade Card - Goldfinch! CT1920

Posted on 2022-03-02, 20:26

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by RobDos

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So I just bought this card off ebay for my 486, I have a cT2910 in there. Looks like this card is a AWE32 MIDI portion of a AWE32 and can be paired with other cards, there are a few reference posts on here but they are > 10 years old. As I understand it the J1 connector is intended to go to a …

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Big Box - To keep or not to keep? That is the question.

Posted on 2022-02-27, 02:36

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by RobDos

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Big Box - To keep or not to keep? That is the question. Whether it is nobler to fight with my spouse over the large amount of space it will take up or just shrink down the disks in to slim CD cases that is the question. Also, some games come in odd cases. For instance, I have Command and Conquer box …

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Re: today I did a thing!

Posted on 2022-01-27, 20:25

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by RobDos

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Joakim wrote on 2022-01-27, 20:17: Interesting. […] Show full quote Interesting. What brand? VGA in? How is the input lag? Startech USB3HDCAP I'm playing wolf3d and haven't really noticed any keep in mind it's only doing a video conversion but i'm also old and slow now [*]

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today I did a thing!

Posted on 2022-01-27, 20:04

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by RobDos

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I pciked up a USB 3.0 Capture device, hooked it up to my PC and now I can use my main 27" 1440 screens to play wolf 3d. Looks pretty good to me!

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PhysX in XP to Ageia / dedicated GPU or just use the primary Video card?

Posted on 2022-01-13, 12:02

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by RobDos

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So I got this idea in my head to build a really fast Windows XP system. Got myself a XFI-Platinum, I7-4790 and a GTX 960 lying around. I figured this would give me a pretty good Windows XP system with supported drivers, but one of the things I was wondering nVIDIA's PhyX Is there any advantage to a …

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Audigy 2 ZS Drive Plate?

Posted on 2022-01-10, 23:19

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by RobDos

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Anyone have a spare Audigy 2 ZS drive cover they would be willing to donate (Canada)? If I recall, they would ship with both black and white then you decided which to use. I just got one in the mail but now it's cracked. Not bad enough for me to give up on it, but certainly not as good as I'd like. …

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Re: Best Windows XP Sound Card

Posted on 2022-01-06, 23:51

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by RobDos

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Sweet, Just got a XFI Platinum on Facebook! WOOP

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Best Windows XP Sound Card

Posted on 2022-01-01, 18:52

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by RobDos

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I'm planning on building a XP gaming system, for those games that just didn't quite make the jump to Win 7. So far I'm thinking based on research that I7-47XX processor, 4GB RAM and Geforce GTX 260 for my video card. GTX 260 does PhyX and the 47XX with the appropriate chipset will have Windows XP …

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Re: M915i / DX9200 / 80486VIP - Adding SRAM

Posted on 2021-12-22, 23:22

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by RobDos

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Thanks for the tips, I did try swapping around chips last night dropping it to 512K and was able to get different failures (blinking colors, goes to the next screen and stays blank or just reboots after the hdd detection) but never a full post. I suspect I've been dupped, filed a claim with ebay and …

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M915i / DX9200 / 80486VIP - Adding SRAM

Posted on 2021-12-22, 01:32

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by RobDos

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I purchased 1x UM61512AK-15 64x8 and 8x IS61C1024-15N 128x8 DIP-32 SRAM modules for my PC chips M915I board, after installing the system will start to post but hangs when it switches over after detecting the hard drive, disabling cache in the BIOS will let me boot the OS. According to the manual I …

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

Posted on 2021-12-21, 00:06

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by RobDos

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Picked up this today for $20.00, trying to decide what to do with it. Maybe look for another SL5LW chip to go with it and Matrox PCI64 video card? this one will sit on a shelf for a while, needs a new battery 😀

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disk wiper for DOS/bootable floppy

Posted on 2021-12-11, 16:05

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by RobDos

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I'm looking to refurb a couple old Win 9X systems, as is my habit I always do a full disk wipe. Win 7+ i use cipher, I need a bootable floppy (not cd bootable systems) to do a disk wipe.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2021-12-03, 07:57

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by RobDos

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Re-posting v6.1.5 to fix the ESCD crash: HWINF615.ZIP Good Morning, Now I go into BIOS information -> Plug-and-Play Support Displays PnP System Devices : 6 Nodes - can't enter this menu, not sure if I should be able to PnP ESCD Support : Not Present That's good, thanks. If I exit this menu and go …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2021-12-02, 19:44

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by RobDos

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same as the screenshots i posted above.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2021-12-02, 19:12

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by RobDos

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Confirmed, First Bug fixed thanks! Second bug, remains. Go to plug-and-play info then select PnP ESCD Support get not enough memory then command.com can't be loaded requiring reboot of PC.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2021-12-02, 13:41

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by RobDos

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Attempting to access PnP System Devices: does nothing. Entering PNP ESCD Support crashes dos. :) HWiNFO v6.1.4 Flushing disk caches ... Reading Data ... Reading Data ... DetectCPU - 586 CPUID=470 Get freq FreqCPU: 685-15 Cache 1K: 14.6 -> 14.6 Cache 2K: 28.0 -> 28.0 = 1.92x Cache 4K: 55.7 -> 55.7 = …

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