Re: CD/DVD backups

Posted on 2012-07-15, 12:18

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Free shipping! 🤣 (edit: only to US apparantly!) http://www.ebay.com/itm/310362860422 A single 1 of these bad boys should swallow a reasonable amount of DVDs or CD content... As for longevity or reliability, I have no idea though.... 😖

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Re: 2000 and newer PC's

Posted on 2012-06-29, 12:10

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Conspiracy it is then... 😖 http://www.green-blog.org/2011/06/13/the-ligh … ulb-conspiracy/

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Re: Pentium 2 AT Motherboard with EDO Ram and AGP slot?

Posted on 2012-06-27, 12:29

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http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/asus/P2B-B.htm BX-chipset ! 😲

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2012-06-03, 13:32

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That was an effing lot of Roland modules on those shelves....! 😅 (envious, obviously...!) And, what on earth have you packed inside that fluffy duvet !? 😳 Probably some very special Roland baby module that has to be kept extra warm.... 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Re: Celeron 366 successfully overclocked to 550 MHz

Posted on 2012-06-02, 13:09

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@kool kitty89: You're probably right. I no longer remember what options I tried during initial set-up (unchanged now for 12+ years!). Though I do seem to recall that it wouldn't work at that speed for my particular specimen, unless I upped the voltage some more. I THINK it is at 1.9v now. (either …

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Re: Celeron 366 successfully overclocked to 550 MHz

Posted on 2012-05-31, 11:25

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My s370 celery 566@850 (in slot1) has been running 'non-stop' now since 2000, with a rather high(max) voltage*. (*: don't remember what it actually is now, as I had to do some slotket/bios magic to get back the higher values, and bios value is not correct - it even believes it to be an Piii 803mhz …

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Re: Tool kit with long, thin screwdriver?

Posted on 2012-05-30, 08:22

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Would this one work perhaps ? (for the bronze 'bolts') Not sure how long you need ? http://www.amazon.com/Wiha-26591-Precision-Dr … pd_rhf_se_shvl2

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Re: Fair price for a Roland SC-55 and SCB-55

Posted on 2012-05-24, 23:12

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Heh... fun fact, that site is actually an 'ebay company'. (ebay classified group, or "Et ebay selskab" as they write themselves, mouseover tiny logo bottom left) I guess that is what you meant by local version (?). As for price, if you don't want to spend more than USD $45, I think you will have to …

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Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.

Posted on 2012-05-23, 13:09

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=%28%22m … 6.c0.m270.l1313

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Re: Playing the waiting game

Posted on 2012-05-23, 08:53

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... Oh, 512mb cards probably aren't worth paying a lot of extra money for. 256mb should be enough for most games from that time period. Paying twice as much for a brand new 512mb card isn't going to provide much benefit, if any, in a vintage rig playing period games that will never need that much …

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Re: File Planet being archived

Posted on 2012-05-22, 07:43

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perhaps related to this ? http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Fileplanet edit: This one is probably better 😎 : http://www.gamefront.com/breaking-ign-to-close-fileplanet/

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-05-20, 11:49

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I did, but the last known spot was Great Britain, and it has not changed since then (April 18th). It was ordered on April 3rd and now it's May 16th. :( I used the following site (which appears to be rather unstable) to track the package: http://intmail.183.com.cn/item/itemStatusQuery.do?lan=0 The …

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Re: Going to Copenhagen/København - any particular shops recommended for a Vogoner ?

Posted on 2012-05-14, 09:13

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I think you mean Norwegian Blue, or.... ? :lol: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/080523-oldest-parrot_big.jpg As the "Mopsitta Tanta" can only be seen if using a time machine.... And none of them plugs into my Slot1 mobo anyways, so not really on my shopping list this time …

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Re: connect a IBM model m keyboard

Posted on 2012-05-12, 18:27

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Unless you're really strapped for cash, there should be no need to make one ? 😉 http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ps2+din+a … op=10&_osacat=0

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Going to Copenhagen/København - any particular shops recommended for a Vogoner ?

Posted on 2012-05-12, 18:21

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As subject says: 1. Secondhand hardware, or new old stock stuff? 2. PC games, new/old (for an 'activation challenged' game player..) 3. PC mags, older issues... 4. Other..? I know there are at least a couple of Danes lurking these boards, so.... :happyhappy: Names, adresses, links, whathaveyou ! …

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Re: Archive.org CD collections

Posted on 2012-05-10, 14:40

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US.

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Re: external mpu401 and mt32: confused

Posted on 2012-04-12, 08:20

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I believe this one works fine : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120836689953 Myself, I just randomly went to visit my local music(instruments) store a few years ago, and lo and behold, they were able to order original Roland cables for me! Took a while, probably came from Japan, but they got here ! …

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Re: Another Shot: EP-8KTA3 Pro

Posted on 2012-04-10, 03:38

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... But there is a price to pay for this outrageous speed - I will see if I am willing to pay for it. For Wing Commander, I must still use "throttle" at 50% to hit the right speed. There also is a niche between 300MHz and 133 MHz, which the Athlon can not cover without a software break. I have so …

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Re: 7200+ RPM EIDE "smaller" HDDs

Posted on 2012-04-01, 14:45

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Well, I bought my current PC in late November 1998, and the IBM 9,1gb hdd 7200 rpm still works(obviously, or else I wouldn't be writing this, heh) after daily (ab)use since then. I'm not going to dismantle it to check the production date, but it surely must be somewhat earlier than November. Seems …

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Re: (Ebay)US International postage prices?

Posted on 2012-03-14, 10:42

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quick and easy answer is "tracking". They probably do this to protect themselves vs paypal and fraudulent customers etc. And often the only options that carry tracking are the very expensive ones. Or they just don't know of the (albeit only slightly) cheaper options. http://pe.usps.gov/text/imm/ab_ …

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