Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Many of these Chips & Tech F65545 on Ebay right now. Some under $60 USD. Labelled "advantech pca 6653". I got one because I was curious about the performance and of the third memory IC. Modern 1998-99 production year. BIOS (Post and setup) is in 640x480 square even on a widescreen LCD. Advantech …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-09-10, 15:34

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A pair of Craigslist freebies. I was hoping for an interesting Socket A motherboard in the Enlight since it had the Athlon badge, but it has an Asus AM2+ MATX board in it with a 5000+ and two gigs of DDR2. It POSTs and looks fine, so I should be able to flip it on Ebay for a few bucks. How that …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2024-09-05, 18:00

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Getting 450-500 miles per charge. Charges at 350kw. Battery on 4wt version is 216kwh Towing is rated at 10k lbs. but it could probably do a fair amount more if you were feeling squirrley. The truck has 225? Kw of regen, 8 lug wheels, 500 hp, weighs 8500 lbs. all wheel drive I'd love to see that …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2024-09-05, 12:48

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Anyhooooo, Toyota, Kia, Hyundai will sell you a hatchback on stilts and call it a compact SUV/CUV or something and they've got some all electrics near that price, but I guess they're only getting 300ish. I kinda worry less about range over a couple of hundred, but want something that would give you …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2024-09-04, 23:14

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Looks like I am buying a silverado EV tomorrow. Woot! Those have some impressive range IIRC. Getting 450-500 miles per charge. Charges at 350kw. Battery on 4wt version is 216kwh Towing is rated at 10k lbs. but it could probably do a fair amount more if you were feeling squirrley. The truck has 225? …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-04, 00:31

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I got two of these, both new in box, I can't find this model, "386OCT" anywhere. this you "Great packaging and the best seller I've ever bought from! (Lot-2) DFI, Expansion Board-Personal Computer Enhancement 386OCT/Q, D26650127"? that would mean your Ebay comment is the only mention of this …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-03, 22:30

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I got two of these shipped, both new in box, for about the cost to populate one with 16MB RAM by a stroke of luck I likely won't be able to replicate. Both batteries were leaking but the damage was nil on one, and one very thin damaged trace under the battery on the other. CPU speed can be changed …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2024-09-03, 22:06

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Sphere478 wrote on 2024-08-23, 01:46: Looks like I am buying a silverado EV tomorrow. Woot! Those have some impressive range IIRC.

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Re: JCS286/SCAT (82C235) Motherboard

Posted on 2024-09-03, 22:05

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Ok, I got the IBM OEM SIMM in. It works. So it seems like there's a compatibility issue with slightly later 8 bit parity SIMMS. Basically it seems to me if it's an 8 meg parity SIMM with 9 chips on either side (8 memory, 1 parity I think) then it may not be compatible with this board. If it has 12 …

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Re: JCS286/SCAT (82C235) Motherboard

Posted on 2024-08-15, 18:26

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anyone get their board working at 16Mhz or 20Mhz? anyone try the mr bios for 386sx scat or the generic 286 bios? In case anyone is still playing with these... I'm running mine with an 8MB SIMM & Harris CPU at 16MHz. C&T BIOS, XTIDE ROM on an SMC ethernet card and an 8GB Apacer CF in a no-name IDE- …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2024-06-25, 22:16

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Confession. I mostly play around with my retro computers for a while and grow tired after a while and leave them standing around. Maybe play a game on them once a year but it is getting more seldom. I think it has to do with my repair work is in the same room and i don't have time to finish it so I …

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Re: DOS utilities to read SMART parameters

Posted on 2024-06-25, 19:43

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SMARTUDM - small (37 kB) HDD S.M.A.R.T. Viewer for DOS. SMARTUDM supports drives using external UDMA/SATA/RAID controllers (HPT/Promise/FastTrack). http://www.sysinfolab.com/download.htm Going to also try this out. Anyone have a Wikipedia account they use to update entries? Looks like we have a few …

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Re: DOS utilities to read SMART parameters

Posted on 2024-06-25, 19:41

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keropi wrote on 2024-06-25, 12:26: I use Hard Disk Sentinel DOS version - it is also free: https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_dos.php This looks great too.

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Re: DOS utilities to read SMART parameters

Posted on 2024-06-25, 12:16

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MHDD does the job, thank you all! Trying this out reminded me of another that I had forgotten about, HDAT2.

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DOS utilities to read SMART parameters

Posted on 2024-06-25, 02:01

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Is there a DOS utility that will read S.M.A.R.T. parameters? The only one listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools is Spinrite, but the version 6 I have either isn't doing it, or the drive doesn't support it.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2024-06-23, 20:39

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The first retro computer I bought is one that I remember well in computer stores, but never owned, and didn't want because it was everything I hated. Almost everything is proprietary and it has no extra drive bays and few slots. But it seemed nobody wanted it on eBay and I remembered seeing them …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-06-14, 13:22

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Mandrew wrote on 2024-06-12, 19:44: Got an EIZO Flexscan T563-T with pincushion issue. It still has decent brightness so probably worth fixing, I can't say no to cheap CRT. Nice picture above the monitor.

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Re: FPM or EDO

Posted on 2024-06-03, 00:38

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jakethompson1 wrote on 2024-06-02, 17:09: 4 MB SIMMs would have been extremely expensive when 386 systems were current, and 16 MB is a lot of memory for a 386. Oh I know. I didn't get past 4MB until I got a 486. My computer teacher in high school got a very early Pentium with 16MB and I just …

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Re: FPM or EDO

Posted on 2024-06-03, 00:36

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kingcake wrote on 2024-06-02, 21:17: There exists a MR BIOS for this chipset: https://archive.org/details/3opr-001 I know. I'm excited.

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Re: FPM or EDO

Posted on 2024-06-03, 00:34

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I call bs on that. Just looked up "30 pin EDO SIMM" on eBay and got a pile of hits. But... The first five that had legible chip codes showed: "16MB 30pin SIMM RAM MEMORY 60ns EDO with non-Parirty 16x8 30p" HYB514100 4M x 1-Bit Dynamic RAM with Fast Page Mode "16MB 30pin RAM MEMORY SIMM 60ns EDO …

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