Re: Read/Write speeds for floppy alternatives.

Posted on 2016-05-25, 10:21

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by Tetrium

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It was very common to format regular disks with optimized interleave (using e.g. VGACopy). So for the benches shown here, which type of formatting was used? Has anyone benched disks that were formatted with the DOS tool and compared them to disks with optimized interleave? Many eons ago, I was …

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Re: What's up with all those Setmul switches?

Posted on 2016-05-25, 10:13

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I'm wondering a bit here, but could such a program possibly be able to enable the motherboard cache in a s7 rig which is running a Tillamook?

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Re: My Pentium Pro machine

Posted on 2016-05-25, 08:40

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jheronimus wrote: Tetrium wrote: Yours came out of your PPro system? Yeah, it did. Don't know much about PSUs in old systems, so can't really tell you anything about it, sorry) NP 😀. Most important part is that the PPro is alive 😁.

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Re: My Pentium Pro machine

Posted on 2016-05-24, 14:42

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Here's the PSU: http://i.imgur.com/E8T7Zi7.jpg I don't even remember ever having seen an Astec PSU in the wild. Yours came out of your PPro system? I had once been gifted 2 dual-CPU s370 systems (also servers, based on one of those LSI chipsets I think?) and both also came with Astec PSUs. And …

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Re: Rubbing alcohol seems to remove the conformal coating off PCB boards

Posted on 2016-05-24, 14:37

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Sorry for yet another rez :blush: I've used rubbing alcohol extensively, but afaicr I've never (or perhaps a single time) used rubbing alcohol directly on PCBs, mostly because I don't think it's even needed. I always try to use as few 'chemicals' as possible and usually only resort to rubbing …

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2016-05-24, 10:23

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Sorry for the res, but I just had to add my €0,02 here. I'll not start quoting all of the replies which have similar good experiences with ME, but I've had virtually all of these experiences myself. I started out with a Pentium 2 with 98FE and it was almost impossible to actually do a lot of …

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Re: should i repair my 7600GS AGP

Posted on 2016-05-24, 09:33

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Its a 7600GS Passive, it works fine in 2d, its when it goes 3d it looks all terrible. It didn't a week ago so I'm guessing the caps failed and made the display go nuts. But it is a Gigabyte 7600GS AGP 256mb PAssive card. More intended for the HTPC back in 2006 but it's faster than a 6600GT I bet …

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Re: My "Work In Progress" Pentium III build

Posted on 2016-05-24, 08:56

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I think yours looks like a very nice first attempt at a build :) Your cable management is already on par (or in some cases even superior) with some of the other builds I've seen around here (including my own hehe :D) And I'd definitely replace the PSU with something better. And don't forget to add a …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2016-05-24, 08:48

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For those looking for the actual listing, it's here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/300704964847 For the above mentioned million dollar double-stamped pentiums. It's only $999,999.99 now! Bargain! :lol: I was just going to mention this, better go turn my sock upside down right now before the summer sale …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-23, 21:00

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I was in need of a 3-1/4" floppy drive, so I headed over to ebay a few days ago. I saw one that wasn't expensive, looked a bit odd and the pictures were at a weird angle, but you could see a part number in a label and I googled it to a real Sony FDD so I bought a couple. They arrived today. The …

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Re: The 100% via biuld? Thoughts/ideas?

Posted on 2016-05-23, 20:53

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You really ran 3.8v on that thing? :exclamation: And I suppose I could call your wording to be of better quality than your overclocking skillz :D So no worry, many people here aren't native English :) Personally I typically never bother with overclocking as I personally prefer stability over speed. …

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Re: Any thoughts on XGI Volari Z7?

Posted on 2016-05-23, 20:38

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So....these XGI Volari Z7 PCI cards don't work on any late 486 or early pentium systems i've tried. It does work on a Celeron 800 system I happened to have handy. I am guessing it has to do something with the PCI revision. The internet says it's 2.2 compliant which came out in 1998. So if I had to …

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Re: Has anyone tried mating V3 TV with DVI?

Posted on 2016-05-23, 20:12

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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I just recently purchased this adapter: http://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Male-HD-15-Female-Adapter/dp/B001TILQO6? ....only to find that the shielding/ground housing(?) would not fit over the connector on card. THEN I FOUND THIS THREAD :) I was able to bend out the …

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Re: How different is Windows 9x from NT? Are they not the same?

Posted on 2016-05-23, 14:34

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I do remember WinME getting a bad start almost right from the start, it also got quite a lot of bad press. At first I was reluctant to use it, but since I couldn't get a hold of 98SE and 98FE was unbearable, I decided to give it a shot and I can remember only 2 instances where ME gave trouble. One …

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Re: Read/Write speeds for floppy alternatives.

Posted on 2016-05-23, 14:30

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I've never encountered one in the wild, but there used to be "Floptical" drives that connected via SCSI and used special 21MB disks that were otherwise identical in physical format to standard floppies, in fact the drive could also read/write standard floppies. I can't seem to find any numbers …

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Re: Via c3 s370 1.4ghz

Posted on 2016-05-23, 14:14

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Perhaps the 1.4GHz s370 variant was vaporware? I noticed the same thing, fastest that seems to be available is the 1.2GHz model.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-23, 13:53

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Looks like a very early 486 system because of the apparent lack of local bus - ISA only it seems. Board says 1992 so it must be early '92 and therefore a DX33? My guess is a 486 DX2-66 because it has a heatsink and fan, and it seems that awesome front panel display says 67 MHz or am I reading it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-23, 13:42

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By pure chance, I bought a few more items today. I happened to be in the vicinity of a second hand shop and decided to go and try my luck. Usually this particular shop doesn't have anything worthwhile when it comes to old parts, but this time I had more luck. 3 boxes, 1 filled with untested …

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Re: The 100% via biuld? Thoughts/ideas?

Posted on 2016-05-23, 13:14

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I think these are interesting chips (and they look kinda cool too :D). If you're already running a VIA, then you are probably already aware that these chips are a bit taller (but not as tall as Tualatin iirc), which could make mounting certain HSFs a bit difficult (especially newer sA HSFs), because …

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Re: New Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2016-05-23, 08:49

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However i am having a minor issue, the hardware monitor keeps complaining that the -5V voltage is at -6.14V. Something I can do about that or is it safe to ignore? I didn't think your PSU has -5v? If it's misreading the (non-existing) -5v line, then you can ignore it. If it's another line, I …

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