Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-08, 02:37

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by luckybob

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I bought a thing off Craigslist: http://i.imgur.com/EFHUGZfm.jpg Cost me $40 I didn't have, thankfully ramen noodles are cheap. This thing is CRUSTY AF. Seller told me it made the chime, but didn't display. So I am not surprised to get it at that price. He also was the original owner and bought it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-06, 23:07

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by luckybob

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boom: http://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html thats why i sent you that PM. 😀

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Re: How long until we have socketed GPUs?

Posted on 2017-08-06, 18:22

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by luckybob

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Jade Falcon wrote: This indeed can be done and has, most dev cards are socketed. but will never work how you want it to. Its like running two PCI voodoo5500 in sli, it can technically be done, but will be slower. I'm curious to know if you have ever actually done that. I'm genuinely curious.

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Re: How long until we have socketed GPUs?

Posted on 2017-08-06, 07:32

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by luckybob

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Have you seen the socket for the newest AMD chips? PCB is cheap. There is nothing on it to make it worthwhile.

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Re: Help Finding an Old Mac Game Text/Graphics based

Posted on 2017-08-06, 06:11

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by luckybob

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have fun looking here: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/games/?c=68&p=1

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-05, 05:59

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by luckybob

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fail, use imgur.com

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Re: What can I do with this? (RAID array motherboard)

Posted on 2017-08-05, 03:57

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by luckybob

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IDE RAID is always interesting to see. I assume this was for small businesses that couldn't afford SCSI gear. What would it have cost? https://books.google.com/books?id=yhsEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA10&ots=6oSzIxX_bM&dq=Dell%20PowerVault%20705N%20review&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q=Dell%20PowerVault%20705N%20review&f= …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-05, 01:26

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by luckybob

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dexvx wrote: Would mods be upset if we had a freebies thread on vogons? Sometimes I buy a ebay lot (or a system), and they come with random crap I don't want, but someone else may want. I'd give them away for shipping + packing costs. go here: http://marketplace.vintage-computer.com/ that's my …

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Re: Anyone know what CPU cooler this is? (LGA775)

Posted on 2017-08-04, 01:06

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by luckybob

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scythe ninja plus http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/scythe-n … u-cooler,1.html

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Re: What can I do with this? (RAID array motherboard)

Posted on 2017-08-03, 22:24

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by luckybob

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unless you have a need for a small slow nas, i dont see any real use here. still cool board though. i'd put it on a shelf for a bit and sleep on it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-03, 22:08

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by luckybob

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Well, today I bought a IBM IntelliStation M Pro Type 6868-5AG (Dual P3-800, 768MB in RDRAM, Broken 15GB IBM IDE HDD, 3xIBM 36GB SCSI HDD, Matrox G450 Dual Head, Adaptec SCSI Card, Firewire PCI Card and two BIG-ASS PCI cards for some non linear video editing Sony App). It came with original Manuals …

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Re: I tell ya dues.......

Posted on 2017-08-02, 05:06

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by luckybob

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LEILEILOL pretty much just ended the whole thing with one little image.

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

Posted on 2017-08-02, 02:51

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by luckybob

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Liqmat was so generous to send me the IBM model 80 knockoff case in this post: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=43144&start=1160#p599225 I got it in yesterday, and made a video opening it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv49zs4lO4Y Sorry for the poor audio, its been 90F+ lately (30C+) and …

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Re: AT Slot 1 build.

Posted on 2017-08-01, 02:12

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by luckybob

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Jade Falcon wrote: Running doom timedemo with the same settings in that link gave me Timed 5026 gametics in 1678 realtics Or what ever that means […] Show full quote luckybob wrote: Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison i was kust wondering how ot would do against those systems. Running doom …

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Re: AT Slot 1 build.

Posted on 2017-07-31, 20:19

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by luckybob

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Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison i was kust wondering how ot would do against those systems.

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Re: AT Slot 1 build.

Posted on 2017-07-31, 18:29

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by luckybob

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fps in doom on dos?

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

Posted on 2017-07-31, 04:43

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by luckybob

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I liked the IIcx. almost as much as my Quadra 700. 😀

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Re: Pentium II stock cooler vs a cheap Sanyo Denki

Posted on 2017-07-29, 08:21

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by luckybob

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These chips really didn't get that hot. quite a large percentage were actually cooled without dedicated fans up until the 450mhz era, but it was still common for OEMs to go fanless. as long as the fan works, don't worry about it.

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Re: Intel's dirty strategiJason's Macintosh Museumes

Posted on 2017-07-29, 08:11

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by luckybob

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Everebody is trying to fool us...))viewed a youtube video few month ago - a review of 1990's MacintosIIsi, (or maybe LC-I) as I remeber by Jason's Macintosh Museum - the author told a lot that macintosh advertisement contans a lot of understatement and that Apple usd to fool it's customers... that …

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Re: Intel's dirty strategies

Posted on 2017-07-29, 07:17

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by luckybob

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I'm only using intel right now because AMD boards (the 2 cpu ones based on the 4000 & 6000 series) are made of suck and ass.

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